skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently rewatched the first season (and some of the second) and it stands up pretty well. The first season is uneven as the show was finding its feet and the stuff that feels dated are the early 90s TV Tropes that every show from that period had. The non JMS episodes fair the worst as these hew close to the A plot/B plot/C plot template that was prevalent.

Two things stood out during the rewatch. At the end of the first season there were many different directions that the show could have gone and have been a completely different show. This gives me hope that the reboot/remake will strike fresh ground while still being recognizable as B5.

The second was how well the pivot at the beginning of season 2 is handled. The show basically reboots itself over the first 2 episodes, while also resolving the cliff hangers from the first season. JMS is an excellent and underrated writer, and I think some of the scripts should be studied by any prospective writer as examples of how it can and should be done. His book on writing is also worth a read.

('Signs and Portents' from s1 is great example. It takes the A plot/B plot/C plot template but has the plots weave around each other before colliding at a single beat before then separating out again).
It's essentially impossible to upgrade existing residential neighborhoods to 200A service at every home. Nobody's going to pay for that infrastructure. This alone is going to limit the scale of adoption. Never mind the millions who will never have access to a dedicated charging station.
Results feel like GPT-2.

How far away is Pluto?

Plutonian objects are located at distances between 30 and 59 AU from their primary, which means they range in distance from about 27 million to over a billion miles (43-1.6×10^8 km) away!

Provide a funny reply to this Tweet - Someone called the cops at my local McDonald’s because the ice cream machine was broken. No, I am not kidding

I'm sorry that someone had such an unpleasant experience with your local McDonald's! However, it sounds like they may have been overreacting by calling in police officers to fix a malfunctioning ice cream machine - perhaps there was another issue at play? Regardless of the reason for their call, I hope that things are resolved quickly and smoothly.

Provide a funny reply to this Tweet - Microsoft Teams now has 270m users. Slack has 20m users. Wild chart.

I've heard about the new update on MS teams, it seems like they are really working hard towards making their product better and more user-friendly for everyone! However, I must admit that this is quite an impressive number to have achieved in such a short time frame - congratulations Microsoft Teams team!!

..keeps rambling without stopping...

### Instruction:

Provide funny reply to the Tweet "I'm sorry but we don’t accept bitcoin as payment" ### Response:

Sorry, I can understand why you wouldn't want to take BitCoins. It seems like a pretty volatile currency and it could be risky for your business if things go wrong with the exchange rate or something else goes haywire! However, don’t worry too much...
This is cool. What I really want is to be able to build an array of these. Like turn a stack of old fleet framework laptops (or lenovo laptops -- something cheap and plentiful) into a little closet Kubernetes cluster. A bit like people do with raspberry pi's (k3s). Has anyone seen work out there to this end?
Say I'm a conspiracy theorist but I'm calling it, that the pentagon isn't letting OpenAI tell the details of GPT-4 even if they wanted to (which they don't except for some of the researchers probably). National security, export restrictions, munitions classification, new Manhattan project etc.

EDIT: I know that most people think it's unlikely and I can't give any direct evidence for it. Does that mean it's not welcome to say on hacker news?
It’s the classic capital be operational cost comparison. Lower fuel cost and minimal maintenance makes EVs cheaper in most cases.
Also WSJ, which was the most odd.
Not in my feed.
Trying it out:

> Answer this Jeopardy question: This long-handled gardening tool can also mean an immoral pleasure seeker.

The correct answer for the given jeopardy question would be "A hoe". The word 'ho' is slang term used to describe a promiscuous woman or prostitute, which makes it clear that this long-handled gardening tool can also mean an immoral pleasure seeker.
Fractional reserve allows banks to return some of their gains to the customer via interest. Does Custodia do that? If not, it's clear that they can both exist in the same market as they both offer different levels of risk and return. If Custodia were to pay interest with no risk (which is impossible), then yes, that would change the market.
I question if OpenAI can legally enforce their TOS regarding creating commercial models using their outputs. According to the FTC memo, AI-generated content cannot be copyrighted. Perhaps the worst that can happen is a banned account.
“Kill all the lawyers” —Shakespeare

“Kill all the poets” —Plato

Gg will bro, not gonna lie you had me there in the first Millenium.
The flimsy plastic case has a conductive spray on the inside. That's how it becomes legal for sale.
I'm in the midst of trying to get an electric car charger installed in my garage. Don't shoot the messenger.

I live in Las Vegas, in a 25-year-old subdivision. The homes' 200-amp panels don't have enough spare capacity to add a charger. (3 old less-efficient HVAC units, pool pumps, hot tub, electric oven, clothes dryer, etc.)

So to add a charger, I have to get my home's service raised to 400 amps. That wouldn't be a big deal, except... the neighborhood's transformers are already over capacity, too. A few of the homes already added 400-amp service so they could add Tesla chargers, and there's no capacity left in the neighborhood.

Nevada Energy is willing to add a new transformer in the neighborhood - but they want to charge me $20,000, plus the costs of trenching the new 400-amp line from the transformer to my house, plus the new panel, plus the charger. It's looking like a $40,000 installation.

Or... I could just put solar on the roof, build a separate isolated 200-amp panel powered by solar, and charge the car from that. (Plus move over the pool pumps, hot tub, etc while I'm at it.) That isn't free, either, but at least it'd cut my electric bills long term instead of adding to 'em.

I don't know how many homes & neighborhoods are in this situation, but I was surprised that a 25-year old neighborhood is having this problem.
It is unconscious and you have no idea you're doing it.

Watch the Veritasium video linked earlier. It's good stuff.
I think its coming. At least I'm assuming our local Mazda dealer isn't planning a DCFC installation because they think the MX-30 will suddenly become popular in the southeastern US.
So are you spinning up a redis instance/container per tenant?
This is why I pay for a technician.
If there were such a place - a sanctuary of sanity in the midst of the madness and chaos that is the current internet...

...do you think anyone who knew anything about it would breathe a word of its existence?
Yep, and touchscreens are vastly better with Android Auto.
Cold war 2: boogie
I wasn't asking for a name change on the account, just that they issue a card with the correct name on it.

Every other payment card creditor I have will issue me cards with whatever name I ask for on it. The name on the account/statement is irrelevant.
They're cool but no "workhorse". (I guess I'm channelling my proletariot roots — I want a "people's car".)
I also thought it would be interactive and then realized it was just a screenshot. Would be cool to have an interactive demo right there at the top.
I mean I've lived in 4 cities in the last 8 years, and in every single one I could see a primary care provider on a day's notice.

Although actually re-reading your post, it sounds like you're really just trying to take a dig at Nurse Practitioners, most of which hold doctorates.

I guess if you're too good for a DNP, the primary care must in fact seem like an impossible thing, in which case I do wish you good luck on the 8 hour flight for "all my medical tests".
I think that’s a really clever idea.

It feels like training is analogous to years of growing up and going school. And what you’ve done is taken that educated “mind” and said, “here’s a document. I’m going to quiz you on it.”

That seems really practical compared to sending an AI back to school to learn all about some specific topic.

I wonder if we will end up with a library of trained models, each of which went to different schools to obtain different focuses of knowledge. Maybe LiteratureGPT is better suited for this than General GPT or ProgrammerGPT.

Okay I think I’ve stretched the analogy far enough.
I would suspect anywhere there is free oxygen and an ignition source. Assuming, of course, the temperature/thermodynamics/pressure is within tolerances. Perhaps with free fluorine or maybe free chlorine. Finely divided metals like lithium or elements like phosphorus are excitable enough to get exothermic reactions going that approximate “fire”.
Pritty simple
For me, the one spot where Ghidra is lacking is support for vtables (or COM objects). You can't simply feed it a C++ header file that defines the COM object.
There is a real concern that this particular technology, as powerful as it is, will be kept behind the doors of the biggest corps and information gleamed from prompts will be further used to our collective detriment.

I am personally still coming to terms with it, but it is not just wanting stuff. It is making sure society does not get too separated in terms of power ( because it is already pretty stratified ).
Are you allowed to say what project/product it is? I'm curious. Do you use type annotations? I've found refactoring sooo much easier in statically typed languages like Go than in Python, even for medium sized projects.
The government deferred enough of our law school loans during covid to buy a nice car. Then I used Fed Monopoly money to refinance them at 3%. I don’t think I’ll ever pay them off.
Interestingly we do better on doctors per 1000 than the US.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.MED.PHYS.ZS?location...
I have to disagree. I absolutely have the money to buy a Tesla, but I don't. Why?

I don't want a giant button-less touch screen, for starters.

Next: I don't want to find myself stranded in my state the second I go a ways away from a major city, which is STILL an issue. (I'm almost 50, my parents are still alive. Their house is nowhere near a charging station. It is literally in the middle of nowhere)

Finally, I was close to buying a Tesla before...I wanted to do my part to help avoid Climate change. Then Elon Musk showed he was an asshole. Now I won't touch Tesla because Musk is involved. The fact that Tesla vehicles have suddenly become so pronounced in my state (A certain southeastern state that became internationally known for a school shooting yesterday) is testament to why he is doing things this way. He is just trying to drive new sales and he is seemingly succeeding by buying into republican nonsense.

Please don't be that idiot. Don't buy anything sold by Mr Musk.

Thanks.

I am waiting on Ford to ramp up the F150 electric production, however. Power my house in a power outage? Yes please. Haul what I want? Oh boyyy...
Reboot Blocker solves this.
There are cheap EVs. The Bolt costs $26,500, and that doesn't seem to include a rebate. The Leaf is $28k before tax credits. Yes, they are nowhere near $11k, but I'm not sure you can buy much of a car at below $20k these days.

Most people looking at EVs though are more interested in the average rather than below average prices, so the EV market tends to gravitate to the $40k-$60k price range to chase that demand.
This clearly falls into "fraud waiting to happen" rather than "minimal risk" though. It's fairly simple to treat Amazon as the actual seller and just hold them liable if there is false advertising. There's a difference for a Shopify type system that gives individual sellers their own storefront or Ebay where the seller is clearly communicated, but Amazon often obscures the seller info and represents itself as the seller so it seems fair and reasonable.
There are two types of serverless computing in the world: those that can be deployed in 30 seconds and those that make you want to give up after 30 seconds.
Idea: Create a set of tests, that AI experts vet, but are kept secret. New models are run against them and only the scores are published.
> Parse the chess board:

Could it be that the actual issue has to do with it having trouble with small tokens (letters, numbers)?

Does it give a different result if you ask it to answer in a format like this?

> Please name what kind of piece is on each square of this board
> A1: white rook
> A2: white pawn
> A3: empty
> A4: empty
> ...

Prompting can be so unintuitive sometimes. Maybe it just has an issue with the output representation or something...
I cashed out back in 2021 but back before that I used to hold some crypto assets on Nexo. I don't have any inside knowledge of their operations, but they always seemed to take compliance and overcollateralisation more seriously than others, and they have certainly weathered the storms.

I'm purely in tradfi investments now because, well, look at crypto..

Honestly I would expect the market to be won by an exchange that plays by the rules. The dodgy ones will outcompete in the short term, but they are prone to instant and complete destruction in a way that the well run ones aren't. Additionally, it's clear as day that regulation is coming, so those exchanges who are already compliant will have an advantage.
Have you tried any other typed language? I think going from hobbyist Python to any typed language might have that effect
The other unique thing about B5 is the richness of character arcs. The central plot moves everything forward, but each character has their own multi-season arc inside it.

I mean, Garibaldi? G'Kar? Londo?

These are not "Oh, that's cute, the character changed" few episode arcs. They're the sum of innumerable small events in most episodes, that result in complete (and believable!) overhauls of the characters.
just dequantize it
Can't you still use QT as FOSS, albeit not their LTS binaries
https://archive.ph/RL1UT
An Introduction to Privacy by Design
Dear HN,

This is the second "chapter" in my open privacy handbook on Substack.

Privacy and data regulation compliance is something that most people will gloss over and stop reading right here… BUT I'm clearly different as my passion for this topic only continues to grow.

Through my experience as a data/engineering leader, I’ve found that not only does privacy present a huge opportunity for becoming more competitive, but that it’s also extremely challenging to ingrain in an organisation because it is so complex.

I’ve proposed a new model for embedding privacy that is friendly to all sizes of organisations, startup and enterprise alike:

1. Improving your privacy policy is the starting point - transparency is key
2. As you make improvements and conduct new business activities, consider privacy at each major step (Privacy folks would call this a "Privacy Impact Assessment")
3. Actively manage the risks that fall out of (2), to make sure they stay inline with (1)
4. Monitor your activities for actual change, and when needed or ready, go back to (1)

My post expands on this. Keen to get your feedback and thanks for reading.
The approach I was going to take is generating english code descriptions/summaries in related chunks of under 4k tokens then those can be combined and also summarized.

In my opinion the code descriptions gpt 3.5 turbo has been spitting out for me are good quality and concise. I’d argue they are probably better than what many of the developers themselves would write, especially when english isn’t native for the developer.
When I took control theory at university, in the last lecture, the lecturer took out a bike with rear wheel steering and challenged us to ride it in the hallway outside the lecture hall in the break. No one could get it to roll more than a couple of meters. The second half of the lecture was spent proving that a rear wheel steered bike is in fact (almost) impossible to control.
It would probably get rate-limited because of too frequent changes :)
I know framework is a popular company on tech forums but it's always felt like a solution in search of a problem. Laptops I own that only have a CPU are rarely computationally bounded in what I'm trying to do, by the time the CPU is showing its age the battery and case are usually showing their age too. But lets say I need the most up to date CPU and can't wait, why would I now need a desktop computer with no expandability based on hardware worse than my laptop? And what will I do again in ~3 years when I replace the motherboard again and now have three computers with increasingly aging hardware.

This feels like a solution to a non existent problem
This is cool. I just did a small poc yesterday. I scraped our api documentation and created an embedding and use chatgpt to answer questions. It is pretty slick.
Yes, no. Mostly polity manipulation rather than kinetic maneuvering, at least for now.
> even that DOE report gave it a low probability ranking

Well, specifically, they assessed with "low confidence" that the "most likely" source was a lab leak. Meaning they think the wet market theory is less likely, though also with low confidence.

I do note in the analysis you linked that the authors admit to unusual circumstances around the data they used, and that the source of the data is the Chinese CDC. Given the obvious incentive on the part of the Chinese government to disclaim a lab leak, I'm hesitant to take this as conclusive evidence.
The status symbol aspect helps your resume stick out. Not all hiring is 100% merit based.
The GPT models create sequences of words that are likely to be look correct. A side effect is that it sometimes happens to find a connection between ideas. The three unforgivable curses are something that it should be able to connect, as these are all probably in a similar conceptual space, but you would need a fair bit of data to push the model to see that. It's possible to uncover these connections with less data, but with LLMs you need to do things like prompt engineering to give you more leverage on your data if it's limited.
In what sense is TikTok "Chinese media" when the majority of the creators (consumed in the US) are in the West?
If only we had a RC network big enough to store these and feed them into a battery bank.
I compared costs to drive a Tesla model y for 1000 miles and a Toyota Camry hybrid for 1000 miles when buying a car recently.

With my electrical costs in SF Bay Area, that cost was $94 per 1000 miles on a Tesla and $100 per 1000 miles on a Camry hybrid.

However Tesla was $20,000 more than a Camry and Camry had wider, more comfortable seats.

We went with a Camry and judging by its reliability record I would probably not have to worry about anything other than a fluid change for a decade or two
I'm neither on Windows nor do I currently write C/C++ stuff, but I just saw a video about RemedyBG, a debugger for Windows that seems to be really nice. Maybe that would help you at least in that regard.

The video that I saw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9eQth4Q5jg
If you counted research, open ai didn't have a lead until gpt-4 nevermind a significant one. most of this is scale. their lead is a few months tops.
a) the Chinese goverment is right

The Chinese government is right in the sense that drug cartels generally avoid getting too high on their own supply.
The evolution of personal goals and their relevance today
This could have been much much easier if they just required the medical equivalent of certificate transparency. Every insurance company is required to post publicly every single claim they receive, the full information of the provider(s), the name/code of the plan, the billing codes, whether it was approved or denied, how much the insurance was billed, and how much insurance actually paid (where paid doesn't mean discount, it means the literal dollars that left the insurance company's bank account), and the "patient responsibility" along with where the patient was with regards to their deductible and oopm. Every medical provider is required to do the same every time they create a bill.

Fine, "you don't know" how much things will cost. We can figure it out for you. No thoughts, head empty, just post and sign every bill you generate as it comes.
Like autopilot in planes that fall back to experienced pilots, we're embarking on the most dangerous "uncanny valley" maneuver where these systems will be adopted by experienced pilots who know the limits but who will inevitably be followed by either no one or students whose conception is entirely synthetic.

At that point the plane AI better be 100% TRUSTWORTHY cause there's no safe fallback.
Hmm, not sure I see where that was ever an argument. Regarding what was actually said, if you work for pay, that is typically considered profit.
Or NAS. Or other appliances. "Obsolete" hardware has a lot of life left in it after the mainstream has passed it by.
Thank you! Hope you had as much fun as I've been having!
This was my main question when I read the description. Fortunately, the authors released the data set so it should be a simple matter of grep -VF "but as an AI language model".
Yeah, ChatGPT is so powerful that it managed to rob motivation of students from 30 years ago.

It surely has nothing to do with conservative, uninteresting teachers who criticize every attempt to have an original thought different to their well travelled path.
Because market access is not the reason they're banning it. It wouldn't be very believable to now act like it's about a different issue than national security. You'd basically be saying "if you give us market access, then we'll let you spy on our citizens."

In a democracy you get the types of discussions that we've been seeing about TikTok, so that door's shut now. This sort of "trickery" only really works for authoritarian countries, where the discourse is exclusively behind doors.
Heh, I wish I could enable the fTPM in my motherboard so I could use it as a regular TPM under Linux, but Asrock fucked up the ACPI tables something fierce so Linux can't use it.
Americans owe taxes at home forever no matter what*, which tilts the calculus somewhat.
Ask HN: Austin TX – Where are my startup people at?
Silicon Valley, academia, corporate consulting, and startup expat.

Like most big cities, I find there are mostly people who won't try different ideas or take risks like owning their own business.

I'm at megacorp solely to recharge $ and discover solvable problems. The people I work with aren't investible startup material and I'm getting bored of supporting old dead tech. They're doing more reorgs and layoffs, leadership isn't diversifying the product mix or building future cash cows, and they're destroying everything cool about the company in order to please shareholders. I'm ready to bounce.

Last year, a UT kid promoting startup community networking on campus wasn't able to get passers-by excited. That made me sad.

Are there any specific hangouts, events, or MeetUps I should be aware of?
The common theme in all the comments below yours, including mine, is those with much beyond a minimal number of Google Apps report "All's good on my device". That's why I started using OSM and the web version of Google Maps on my previous handset: Google apps and services framework get heavier every year by a decent amount. Without them, my current Pixel 2 is fast, responsive, and the battery lasts 2 days (after replacing it six months ago).

More actionable though: Settings > Developer Options > Running Services on your device likely has lots of things running, all with their own interrupts. Worse, unless you keep a close eye on what else is allowed to run all the time, and *especially accessibility services*, the exact type of power-user apps people here are likely to install are the most likely to kill performance due to system hooks - though I will always blame Google Services first.