skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is wavelets aka JPEG2K. The problem is that 1. they don't compress well, because they look blurry which is unpleasant 2. they are inefficient to decode because of poor memory locality. So that's why most codecs use macroblocks instead.

IIRC Ogg Vorbis also originally supported this for audio but nobody used it.
Sure, without making an entire Medium article for you, which I don't have the time to do, I can't prove they weren't all shitposters, although there are some notable names, but that would be a lot of them.

I'll also direct you to the moderator list of the /r/lexfridman sub. No real people, none of them ever comment, and his subreddit is one of the most [deleted] I have ever experienced. If you look at reveddit, also check the comments. Quite telling. https://www.reveddit.com/v/lexfridman/?localSort=num_comment...

If your response is "maybe he just likes a heavily curated subreddit" then all I can say is keep coming back.

For being so open minded, he sure does have an incredibly tight grip on information control. This is coming from someone that used to think Lex was the cream of the crop.
Doesn't always work. Sometimes you have to be more verbose or even repeat yourself in order to force the model to do something. This is one of those cases. Just adding "No explain" in the end of the prompt often doesn't stop it from adding an explanation anyways.

> write a function in JavaScript that turns a JavaScript array into JS DOM elements, like what Hiccup does in Clojure. No explain

Makes GPT-4 output text + code.

> write a function in JavaScript that turns a JavaScript array into JS DOM elements, like what Hiccup does in Clojure. Just show me the code, no extra words or explanation.

Makes GPT-4 output only code, nothing else.
> idk how you look at those maps and see anything but an obvious political correlation

Because I have eyes and a brain. In the first map (life expectancy), almost the entire north half of the US is marked as "high", and the "low" is almost entirely clustered in the south east. When I look at the political map, the blue parts are almost entirely on the coasts with some scattering in metros and a deep blue clump right in the middle of the south east again. In what universe would that be a political correlation? The maps are entirely different.

Also your stats are not very convincing, considering they are measuring something entirely different. Comparing the percent change in life expectancy from 1980 - 2014 to the 2020 election results seems pretty useless. Look at how vastly different the presidential voting map is since 1980: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/19...

A better correlation might be percent change in party voting vs percent change in life expectancy. And even then, how long does it take for policy to affect life expectancy numbers?
If you are interested in the country maintaining the status quo in terms of retirement benefits and quality of living, immigration is necessary.
> How is that true? I’m not following. They need dollars to buy imports and with strong dollar it’s harder to buy imports for same exports. Take Turkey as prime example currently.

On a net basis they are exporters. Meaning (again on a net basis) dollars flow into these countries and goods flow out. If the dollar is strong then companies exporting from the US are more expensive then comparable exports from other countries (which can sell for a lower dollar amount and still pay their staff, raw materials). If the dollar is weak then companies exporting from the US are comparably cheaper. The US is usually a net importer because due to a strong dollar (and high wages) it's just cheaper to import stuff from abroad.
I feel like there’s some unsaid intrinsic value to having text-based files versus a compiled format like parquet. Size and speed aren’t nearly as critical when size is small, and this seems like adding unneeded complexity for all but some specialized use cases.
That looks a lot like the trucks they use to transport nuclear materials by road. They do all sorts of terrible things like shoot rockets into them, hit them with trains, and set them on fire during exercises so they can ensure they have training for and mitigations in place for every worst case scenario.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguards_Transporter
The German 88mm, the most famous gun of WW2, was a "1940s anti-aircraft gun".

Nothing at all to sneeze at.
Robo-GPT is a simple and extensible program that helps you run GPT-4 model autonomously. It is designed to be easy to understand, so that anyone can use it and extend it.

The program was inspired by some of my earlier research and Auto-GPT.

I tried to make the code clean and dependencies simple. It currently doesn't have as many features as Auto-GPT, but is hopefully easier to understand, run and update.

Looking forward to your feedback. Also, feel free to run it yourself, make change and/or contribute.
I work in software A/B testing. We have similar problems.

The better filter and heuristics is using an algorithm that’s fit for anytime valid testing. The issue here is a high false positive rate. If you come up with all your treatment guidelines in an environment where you check every few hours and change it to every second, you’ve increased your samples by 3,600. Something like heart rate isn’t independent, but that’s still a lot.

You need to use a different algorithm (or algo at all) and/or relax the thresholds. Just random numbers, but if 45bpm was an alert before maybe it needs to be 50bpm.
A phone number is not hard to find online if the target individual has kept the same number for several years. There are dozens of so called people search sites setup by data brokers. You can start a search just based on a name and then narrow down by the address you have. Pay about $10-20 or less if doing bulk searches and most of these sites will reveal a lot of information about a person. I tried it on myself couple of years ago and it listed every phone number I had since college. (25 years ago). Including landlines. Not to mention names of close and extended family members, their names , ages, address etc.

What I'm curious about is how the scammer knew that the author was a Verizon subscriber and not a subscriber with ATT or T-Mobile or one of the dozen or so MVNOs.
> Institutional corruption will not be solved by losing trust in the institutions. When the institution dies because nobody trusts it you don't all of a sudden get good health care.

That's a fair point. "Burn it down" is not a good solution. The system, even while corrupted, still results in vastly improved outcomes relative to what people could expect 100-150 years ago.

> So if you believe that our medical institutions are corrupted, anger at the institution itself is misdirected. The corruptive force is billionaires and the measurement for the level of corruption is wealth disparity.

I'm not going to say greed has nothing to do with it, but this is just such a reductive take that I don't think really even begins to address the multitude of perverse incentives going on with our healthcare system.
I use Postman every single day and have very similar feelings towards it as you. Simple things that would make it exponentially more friendly to use just aren’t there, and I can’t believe they haven’t been added in the years it has existed. It updates itself occasionally but never gets any better!

All that said - know of any better alternatives?
Let's Encrypt is free right now, but it is still centralized. A court could order them to revoke certificates from specific websites and stop issuing new ones.
This is an issue that is by nature difficult to study in a rigorous, controlled manner. I can tell you that it is a real phenomenon but probably can't prove it in a way you would consider satisfactory. We see the highest levels of this internal body awareness among people who have spent many years using their bodies at peak performance levels. They do their normal daily training and something feels a little "off" before any obvious signs or symptoms appear. But if you only associate with sedentary office workers then you might be skeptical. A lot of people feel like crap so often that to them it begins to feel normal.
If an institution is a net negative and it dies then we are better off immediately. Even if it’s not a net-negative and it dies we might be better off in the long term because something better replaces it.
…do you really think that a bash script is the best interface for the masses to explore the Talmud?
The problem with having things like DRF inside of Django core is that it reduces their speed of iteration.

Django releases a new version every six months. Packages that aren't part of Django core are free to release on a different schedule, which really helps when you're trying to innovate on something new.

In DRF's case it's now mature and stable enough that maybe that wouldn't be so much of a problem... but it's still not clear to me that having it in Django core would be a net benefit (aside from as a marketing thing) than having it live independently as it does today.
I see the term vanilla being used.
This is sounding like OpenStack all over again. ;)
And Allah loves odd numbers

إِنَّ‭ ‬اللّٰه‭ ‬وِتْرٌ‭ ‬يُحِبُّ‭ ‬الْوِتْرَ

"Truly God is One and loves odd numbers" - hadith

Arguably it is natural that belief in chance ("luck") and a supreme being would be at odds (npi). Odd number do seem to have a greater claim to authenticity than even numbers. Even directly implies division and multiplicity, whereas odd numbers are the children of unity, thus the 'world' and its chance events fall under the even numbers, but the reality is all about 1 and its odd children.
It's the same way racing yachts can move significantly faster than the wind.

Think of it from the boats point of view. If the wind has a mass of 1 unit and is moving at 1unit/s 20 degrees from headwind in the boat's frame, then it has an x component of 0.34 units/s and a y component of 0.93 units/s. Redirecting it purely in the y direction moves it at 1 unit/s giving a momentum to the boat of 0.07 units. The 0.34 units in the x direction gets resisted by the water.

The theoretical perfect boat with perfect sails and no slip and no drag will always accelerate in its own frame as long as there is some cross wind (at an ever decreasing rate) as it is always accelerating air backwards by removing the x component and keeping energy constant.
I am definitely interested! I have some initial thoughts, and I'll post them on rocketchat as well later.

* It looks very competitive for people who use Nextcloud just for sync/share and don't want the cruft

* To be competitive in the homelab space, you really need a docker container!

* LDAP auth is a good start, but SSO would be even better; SAML is only available on enterprise, but not many selfhosters use that anyways

* I don't think there's much need for another OIDC provider in the selfhosting space; people are going to use Authelia, Authentik, or Keycloak anyways.

* Having an OIDC client that can use the above, which I already have set up, would be the best scenario

* Finding stuff on your website was not super intuitive; I wanted to see what's available in the community version (which I eventually found in pricing), and then I wasn't quite sure if that page is up to date for OCIS (ditto for the feature comparison page)

Oh and enjoy your vacation!
Postman was a huge success because it was lightweight and had just the right amount of features. When they took the success to their head and started taking VC investment, building a API testing client was no longer enough and that's when they started putting everything and their mother into it, and they lost their moat.

To date, Postman has accepted 433,000,000 USD in funding. For a API testing tool that slowly but surely expanded in scope.
Slightly different use case, because of structured vs unstructured query, but you can do that fast with duckdb: https://duckdb.org/2021/06/25/querying-parquet.html
uazo is doing a great job maintaining it but there is still an undecidedness to it:

See https://github.com/uazo/bromite-buildtools/issues/109#issuec... and https://github.com/uazo/bromite-buildtools/issues/76 and https://github.com/uazo/bromite-buildtools/issues/59
I don't expect the major browsers to drop HTTP for some practical reasons, namely logging into routers and captive portals.
The difference between someone with a high paying job who doesn't retire early, and one who does retire early, has nothing to do with eating out every night or buying coffee. That's the point.
Telegram allows you to auto-delete your account after a configurable number of months of inactivity. That neatly side steps the "how to prove someone is dead" problem.
Wait, does this mean it wasn't really my cloud?
Share your AI projects and blog on GPT Feed, a hub for AI news and innovation
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If you have an AI project you're proud of or want to share your knowledge on your AI blog, we'd love to feature them on GPT Feed. You can submit your projects here: https://gptfeed.co/submit-a-project and suggest your blog's RSS feed here: https://gptfeed.co/suggest-new-source

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I would include malloc in that list of regrets (or at least not having a lock free alternative).

I think historically it wasn't clear what role threads would take. If you look at Java they expected application programmers to be using threads haphazardly. Now we know that isn't a good idea.
Hmmm. As I type this reply on my device powered by a semi conductor that wouldn’t exist without our knowledge of quantum physics I’m gonna say science.
If they aren't copyrightable, couldn't they still be classes as a trade secret and still fall under IP law? Though I'm not sure if distributing the weights to people who sign a simple agreement to not redistribute would count as taking reasonable precautions in maintaining secrecy.
DF=Dwarf Fortress

Please type things out in full so other people don't have to use a search engine just to follow along.
I mostly ignored Parquet until I realized DuckDB could handle it - now I'm much more likely to poke around with a Parquet file because I've got a solid toolkit available in both the CLI and as a Python library.

A couple of notes I've made about that:

Using DuckDB in Python to access Parquet data: https://til.simonwillison.net/duckdb/parquet

Use DuckDB to convert parquet to JSON and then open it in Datasette Lite: https://til.simonwillison.net/duckdb/parquet-to-json
What Is Trust? According to Kundera, Hooks, Nietzsche, and Eisenstein (ChatGPT)
What is trust? What outward manifestations signify or prove it? What is the difference between trust in ourselves that lets us take risks, and trust in others that can send us into the same unfamiliar territory?

It was a fascinating way to query and explore perspectives.
CoffeeZilla does a great breakdown on these internet gurus and general scammers online and has been a great watch;

His take on Tai Lopez: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikuf02o6wJ0
Cursor: An editor made for programming with AI
All of the llama derivatives are tainted by Meta's license, which makes commercial use illegal and even personal use dubious.

Is all the training material used for Llama available as open source? Maybe lots of folks can pool their resources and create fully open clean models / weights instead.
Are you really going to leak your tax documents to ChatGPT? I had just joked about this in a comment above.
I would love to see a new term to replace "software development" that describes the sorts of task that Postman (Flows) are appropriate for. "Application development" is a bit of a throwback, but it's a good start.

This stuff has nothing to do with the majority of software development if measured by task type, even if it has everything to do with the majority of "software development" if narrowed down to browser/web-centric data presentation and editing domains.

This has nothing to offer embedded systems, creative software, operating systems, high performance computing, LLMs and so much more.
Damn useful, needing this right now.
Adding a user auth sounds like the next step for this tool. Also baving some sort of integration capability with CMS like WordPress sounds useful.

Also, unless you have developed your own database system (which i doubt :p), this tool may be able to widstand larger applications too. If not maybe have some automated migration option?

Kudos
Good point. I agree. Although you might not know everyone in the town square, you know for sure they are a real human, putting themselves out there, and interacting with you. That counts for something.
Sounds like an argument for liburing more. That also is supposed to let the kernel share buffers and reduce syscalls, but does come with a mechanism for handling errors without terminating the process
That's the only happy case.

I've had pharmacists deny me because I was paying for amphetamine without insurance. They said it was suspicious and refused to call my doctor to confirm that I wasn't some sort of criminal.

That's the kind of unreasonable power that they shouldn't have. Finding bad drug combos? I don't think anyone has an issue with that.

If you find a customer to be suspicious (I was wearing a black t-shirt, to be fair), you should be required to call the customer's doctor office and confirm the prescription.
Privilege Escalation in AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service
Finished watching it. So much great music that he was responsible for!

Now to see if I can get the owners to let me upload it to YouTube. They can keep all the ad money (if there is any).
That can't be his work, since he only picked up that hobby about 0.000625% of the universe's timespan ago.
Just applied to the Software Eng. I Role! Looking forward to hearing back. Seems like a great opportunity for a new dev.
> Suddenly, like the CEO of today, every one will be able to have a secretary.

I think something that was majorly lost in the past 60 years is the secretary. I agree with you that it’d be great if everyone had one - the working relationship between a secretary and the person they support can be amazingly productive.
Yeah, just like you pay same price for house, food, daycare, school, medical treatment and so on. If it is same square foot why does it matter if house is in Cleveland, Ohio or San Francisco, CA.
Accelerate Hyperparameter Tuning with fal-serverless
Was it the classic "up to 10% (or more)"?
this is bloomberg's marketing department trying to cash in on the ai hype. It isn't that deep. Also and LLM doesn't have goals, can't reason, etc. It just spits out tokens likely to come after the tokens you type in. So it can't "predict" the market.
Because

1. My homelab has a lot of crappy hardware with zero enterprise support. And when a server fails, I need to be able to easily swap it out. And I don't want to make it a full time job for myself to maintain it.

2. I did knock some control plane nodes down a few times. It was rare, but still not fun.

3. Also, because why not? HA control plane is not particularly challenging these days. I know exactly how to do it. I just don't have the bandwidth to learn how to do it in k3s, especially when it comes for free in some other distributions.
I'm seriously considering adding Django admin to my Node.js project.

Like, keep the Node.js code but use Django admin.

Are there any comparable projects to Djano admin? A database model that generates an optionally customizable admin UI?
I believe turning on Informed Delivery (a free service from USPS) would have helped

https://www.usps.com/manage/informed-delivery.htm

The initial problem was that her mail got stolen by the mail person. USPS Informed Delivery would have told showed her the letter that she should have gotten since it came to the processing center nearest her local post office.

Informed Delivery also shows you tax mail (like W2s) that get mailed and are commonly stolen with informed delivery you know when they are mailed to you.

>But there was one last twist to the mystery. Sue Brennan, a spokesperson for the Postal Service, explained that my credit card was scanned at the processing center nearest to my local post office. Which means that the thieves stole it in New York City on July 16 and took it all the way back to Ohio in time for its big day of spending at the mall on July 22.

>Two months after my hack, on September 29, federal prosecutors in New York announced that they had busted up a scheme that sounded familiar. Three postal workers were charged with stealing credit cards out of the mail and passing them on to five "shoppers," who used them to buy luxury clothes and bags at stores like Chanel and Hermès that they could resell online.
I do agree we are missing the mark on our messaging of how the revenue model works, particularly from the renter's point of view. The specifics of billing and charges are complex in the third party property management space (much more so than for owner-operators). I'm happy to discuss the specifics further via email if you'd like to get into that nuance.

Housing availability, pricing, and supply is hard to solve. Institutional buyers such as REITs do add more challenge to this difficult landscape. We don't target institutional clients and the vast majority of our customers are small mom-and-pop third party managers.
Media coverage of GPT-4, through the eyes of GPT
There are a lot of traditional paths to life cultivation that have a greater weight of evidence behind them than anything tested by 20th or 21st century science. Sure, it hard to know what of that evidence is real, but please let me know when modern-day science has solved that problem. Scientific processes today are far worse than one might realize.

Yes, I'm somewhat defending my own particular branch (which I doubt is innately superior to many others, fwiw). But it was the LARPing enlightenment comment that caught my eye: it is absolutely a thing, and it shows up plenty in both traditional and "science-based" methods.

But my personal experience is that once you get far enough into something to start to understand what enlightenment would actually require, it becomes a lot less appealing of a target. I'm sure it would be great, but boy howdy it requires a lot of uncomfortable work. I just want to live better and feel better, dammit.

You can often sort out the posers from the real life cultivators by enthusiastically bringing up enlightenment. The real people will be the ones who (figuratively) roll their eyes. If they're further along, it will be done in a very polite, understanding, and non-judgemental sort of way.

"I was once like you, grasshopper. And I still am."
> And nuclear waste in the US is still kept in “temporary” storage cooling ponds indefinitely

no, most of it is in dry storage casks, ambient air cooling

https://www.nrc.gov/waste/spent-fuel-storage/diagram-typical...
It's absolutely not. Waste is a solved problem, you bury it VERY deep using the same borehole technology currently used for fracking. And I think you grossly overestimate the amount of waste a nuclear plant generates.

Here's a source (also check the sourced on the video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU3kLBo_ruo

The problem is more likely PERCEPTION of nuclear waste.
My parrot will take a little nibble of you and then chuckle to himself cause he knows it strikes fear into you. And he’ll say “whatchya doin?” when he wants your attention.

I love these little tyrants.