skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've asked multiple times to all the brave sympathizers about "why not fork firefox, put your shnazzy customization and call it a day. By lapping up to chromium, you are only helping Google regardless of what search engine you use"

And more often than not the response has been "well we did investigate Firefox but working with it was pita so we went with easiest option"

Shit dude. You want to start a business so at least do the right thing.

If there are more Firefox forks, like there are chromium forks today, that would normalize Firefox because currently chromium is the de facto web standard.
>ostensibly straight

Why is their straightness "ostensible" but the sexiness in question is not? That comes off as pretty judgy, in terms of what people do and do not find sexy. Regardless, what did She-Hulk bring that other superhero media hasn't (I haven't seen it - surely you're not saying that "good looking strong people" are not sexy and "booty-shaking" is? I assume there's something else in She-Hulk that's qualitatively different from those two examples of shallow sexuality?)

Also, I really did not expect on HN to see the "what are you, gay?" deflection to somebody's dislike of something in media just because it involves a person/character of the opposite sex.

Further, what's wrong with an "ewww" response in the first place, in this case? You're implying there's something wrong with a person having that reaction, but haven't explained why.

Overall, this is a surprisingly un-generous post.
> Checking recently I can’t find any major currency that is up against the dollar over last 10 years.

CHF, but not by much.
Fear of stranger danger I would guess. The news is relentless about peddling fear.
I'm not sure what you've misunderstood, but that's not at all how this works.

There is room in space for near infinite number of Starlink satellites.
> I've talked to others in my area who use Starlink, and since January, we've experienced frequent downtime

This is depressing. I thought Starlink would be at least consistently available in the areas that they are providing service. We don't need another unreliable internet option. Especially if it's also overpriced.
I live near a major university that has as many as 4 fablabs listed. All of them is reserved to students. If you are an outside "thinkerer", you need to pay something like 400€/month to show up and use a soldering iron. Sometimes there is only a "contact us" form where you can ask for a quote! These efforts are completly sterile. Students have free access, but nobody from the outside world of the university to learn from.

I had access to a local hackerspace during my studies that was 100% run by volonteers, without any university involvment. It was glorious. I sat next to software and hardware professional doing amazing projects on their free time.

I guess I still have to tinker on my own instead of sharing it with people eager to learn in a common space. I think that somehow big universities actually prevent such spaces from emerging by creating their own sterile initiatives.
Most fluids are pretty resistant to compression. That's what makes them so good for hydraulics, for example brake lines, etc.... by putting fluid in a tube, you can apply pressure at one end and bend it around all kinds of crazy corners and curves and get the same pressure applied on the other end.
This is pretty well made. I love that you can interrupt it and add context while it's responding.
No, and I frequently encounter this analogy about AI, but it's completely absurd. AI is not a nuke. I don't see the point of even entertaining the idea of it.
I don't think it was as simple as "Booty shaking? Ewww.", it's just that the booty shaking scene serves as an excellent proxy for "this show isn't what we expected, wanted, or like".

By all means, write different shows for different people, there are plenty of shows that aren't for me and that's fine. You just have to be careful when you're counting on an existing audience to be your fans while also trying to write something that's not at all for them. Write a Star Trek spinoff crossed with The Bachelor if you want, but my TNG-loving self certainly isn't going to watch it, and I will be mad if you try and trick me into thinking it's more of something I love.

It's just that we don't communicate with any nuance anymore, maybe because it doesn't fit into our 140-character attention spans? So "ewww, booty shaking" is about the best we get.
I have a $700 Asus that started with windows 7 or 8, from 2014. It does everything except AI, it can play every game I throw at it(1080p) at high or ultra high.

I did just replace the battery last year. I think it was $35 dollars.

This is my main computer, I want to upgrade, but it keeps living.

This is 8 or 9 years so far.
All true! It's too easy to focus on the downsides, but there are significant upsides as this comment points out. There's an excellent discussion by Geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan here [1]; he talks about China vis a vis the US with respect the geographic, demographic, and economic advantages/disadvantages. Worth a watch in this context.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS4Vw6cuW4M
I'm not sure what you mean by "forbidden". It's not illegal. Is it forbidden by Jewish law? Yes. But this only applies to whoever decides to keep it. Most of the Israeli population doesn't keep Shabbat, so they have no problem driving their car around.

(Similarly Jews and Muslims may decide to keep Kosher while living in the States, that's a personal choice.)
Solve problems and you will never be out of work nor money.
I wish people could understand this.
If AI causes problems, solve that problem.

Do you really think that AI is going to be smooth sailing?
I see why you're saying what you are about the "facts," but I'm not at all convinced that it's so clear-cut that the plaintiffs are all that wrong.

Which is to say, compare these models to e.g. simple image compression. If compressed images can violate, the argument that "this is merely VERY GOOD and VERSATILE image compression" probably has enough legal legs to do something with.
I downloaded the Llama model using a torrent. That is, I think, enough of a counterexample to show that lawsuits will not stop this. Raw economics are at play here and the legal system usually loses to economic realities.

1) We just need 1 jurisdiction that allows model training.

2) There is no mechanism to stop model distribution short of banning general purpose computing and the internet. That would cause more harm than good.

3) It is already hard and going to get harder to prove these models were trained on any particular piece of art.
> This makes zero sense. Please elaborate.

I did in another comment under this one. Would you elaborate on why the opposite would be true?
have you tried inpainting ?
Some examples of config files that are not KEY=VALUE: Apache, X11, resolv.conf, sudoers, syslog.conf, mtab, inittab/gettytab, ntp.conf, passwd/group/shadow, ldap.conf, PAM, openssh, CUPS... just a few on my desktop.

These files support a wide variety of functionality beyond what a data-serialization format like YAML support. The functionality is designed for humans to input data germain to the configuration of the application in an easy way. That is to say, it both makes the admin's job easier, and tells the program what it wants to know.

Data serialization formats (JSON, YAML) are particularly poorly suited for configuration. JSON doesn't even support comments. YAML does, but then forces you to correctly format the document in a non-human-intuitive way, making the admin's job harder, and not necessarily telling the program what it wants to know. It has been well established how many problems humans encounter editing YAML files, to the point that people just take out features to make it less problematic, though of course some problems remain. They could eliminate these problems by using an established robust configuration format, or even making up their own, but modern programmers have a poor education in software design and avoid anything that isn't trendy or popular.

.INI is a decent enough format, with the caveat that it was never a standard, so parsing is always application-specific. At that point you might as well just make your own configuration format that serves the admin and programmer better than trying to force complex configuration into simple KEY=VALUE pairs.

XML is sometimes actually useful, but time has shown that it is not human friendly, and often not even program friendly.
Isn't that because wrestling producers have tried to maintain the illusion that it's "real?"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe
Quite. And that, too, is only business ;-)
For reference, a single Apache Cassandra node does about 150k inserts/second or also 150k selects/second on my laptop. All that from a single client thread using a very similar approach (also in Rust with async).
I like this take from Carlos Slim on charity: https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-WHB-3852

Basically, the best way to do charity is to first accumulate a lot of wealth. Only then will you be able to move the important pointers. Obviously controversial, but still refreshing to see a different take.
> Please don't say safety because things are much much safer now than they were in the 70's, 80's and 90's.

All those statistics that show kids are safer today are at least partially the result of the changes in behavior we're talking about.
_new_ theory??
Non of those comments strike me as hostile. Looks like common casual talk. I was in the same boat, don't actually find WWE super entertaining, but respect the athletes. I do enjoy amateur wrestling and been to a lot of events.

All that Rogan said is not untrue.
Why, does the Russian military buy US weapons?
While I can't say whether ChatGPT or others are actually doing this, it's entirely possible to use a PRNG in that spot with no loss of effectiveness. PRNGs are specifically designed to create the appearance of randomness out of a process that is in fact wholly deterministic.
Demand for American currency abroad brought stability to the currency. If that demand should diminish significantly, future American financial excesses will become a lot more dangerous. This might speed along decline or motivate a return to more disciplined economic policies. Time will tell.
the fcc is allowed to take their money back if your service is going in a downward trend. I'm not even sure what you're saying for. they showed that Starlink speeds were degrading significantly over a year. this data is also exactly what ookla and others showed. the only possible way it's going to increase before that, given the demand, is starship. that will not likely happen before 2024, so they were completely correct to take the money back.

ajit pai is the one you should be blaming for giving it to them in the first place when it was obvious to anyone with satellite knowledge that they could not offer that service to the amount of people they said in the time they claimed.
Nice. I recently saw a somewhat similar video: "8MB Voodoo 1 enables higher resolutions in Quake?" — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4rIDNDQUpU. Fun stuff to watch. When I started gaming Voodoo no longer existed, so I appreciate all of this historic info.
This might be seen as heresy by many but: if you're not a fan of the glacial pace of very old films, you may enjoy Clooney's remake more.

This takes nothing away from the original film, which inspired so much of modern scifi. But if you were raised on modern sci fi, Tarkovsky's original is a hard watch. You might feel the same in the nineties listening to Sonic Youth's 80s grunge, or reading Lord of the Rings after you've read the Song of Ice and Fire / Game of Thrones books, or playing System Shock 1 after growing up on Bioshock and Prey.
> but the fact that they can also spew such complete illogical nonsense shows that they are not "reasoning" about things

Have you ever seen the proof that 2=1 ? It looks convincing, but it's illogical because it has a subtle flaw. Are the people who can't spot the flaw just "looking like they are reasoning", but really they just lack the ability to reason? Are witnesses who unintentionally make up memories in court cases lacking reasoning? Are children lacking reasoning when you ask them why they drew all over the walls and they make up BS?

You can't just spout that an LLM lacks reasoning without first strictly defining what it means to reason. Everybody keeps going on and on about how an LLM can't possibly be intelligent/reasoning/thinking/sentient etc. All of these are extremely vague and fuzzy words that have no unambiguous definition. Until we can come up with hard metrics that define these terms, nobody is correct when they spout their own nonsense that somehow proves the LLM doesn't fit into their specific definition of fill in the blank.
> I am yet to meet competent developers who have ever given two hoots about “super fastest browser #1!!” blog posts over feature completed-ness / spec-compliance.

I'd like to think I'm a competent dev.

I use Safari as my daily driver because the difference in performance/battery life on Apple silicon is worth whatever small incompatibilities I run into. It just doesn't ever impact me on a day-to-day basis in the way that performance and battery life do.

Good engineering is all about trade-offs and this is one that doesn't even require a second thought for me.
ChatGPT Is What You Make It: Using Metaphors to Improve AI Collaboration
> In a non metro area your options as a teen to go somewhere are to beg your parents to drive you somewhere or to walk for hours to a bus stop.

I had a bike as a kid, and got my driver's license as soon as I turned 16. The bike isn't the fastest option, but it was just fine for getting to school, to friend's houses and to the local Walmart. And once I had a driver's license, I could and did borrow the family car, and many of my peers had a car that was specifically designated for the kids. Being able to drive a car used to be a symbol of independence for us, but today fewer and fewer teens are even getting a driver's license.

Yes, not every family has a car that's available to borrow, but most in suburbia do.
They should gear it towards rural only.. If it's profitable at the moment?

That's what is frustrating me about T-Mobile 5g home internet. I'm rural, work from home, and maintain 3 ISPs (with the proper load balancing network gear to support all of this) to deal with it. People in town are installing directional antennas, pointing towards my rural tower, and using 5G home internet, affecting my speeds, when they have cable/fiber options in town to choose from.

Also, I mean, sure, I'd love fiber ran out this way. Would you like to run fiber about 12 miles to service less than 50 people, with about 20 offshoots to homes off the main road.. increasing the overall distance and trenching by who-knows-how-far?! It's not exactly a thrilling business plan.
Well who wouldn't want to be in position to dictate that your bugs have to be other peoples' specs?
I believe you've touched on the crux of the matter. Corporations can not only censor, but also train AI models utilizing biased data, granting them significant influence over shaping the AI discourse among the general populace. This warrants serious contemplation and discussion.
Everyone here is missing the obvious. OPEC+ just cut. Japan is a massive energy consumer. They need to shore up their supply.

This also gives Russia a good will gesture.

The agreement to buy Russian oil was Ok'd by the US. This isn't a break, is coordination.
Exactly. I'm betting if you asked GPT to create a windows clone, for sure MS would not let you distribute. This will go like every other law/license, big corp can sue little guy into the ground. When big corp uses your code it will be 'thats just a model generated code not yours'. But in other direction, if little guys creates windows clone, 'sorry, its off to jail for you maytee'.
yes. this is easily verified. they have done many rounds of funding.
The same as Turkey would expect of Sweden if, say, Russia invades.

Please stop thinking that Turkey (or any other country) is doing a favor to Sweden (or to Finland) by accepting their NATO application. It benefits all parties - Russians included.
It's been proven that yeah it does. I suspect they've been retraining Copilot in the past months to have not made this initial training mistake.
Which side are you on in the Liancourt Rocks/Takeshima/Dokdo dispute?

Remember, there's no remaining neutral in politics, so I expect a well-reasoned answer on this fundamental territorial rights dispute.
Sustainable Thermal Energy Batteries from Fully Bio-Based Transparent Wood
What an absurdly high bar that 99% of the sites on HN certainly don’t reach.
I just want to make it clear that you're talking about a very very specific thing, which has nothing to do with the daily existence of most non-Jewish-religious Israelis. I mention this cause you make it sound like this is something more than it is.

The vast majority of the Israeli population drives their car on Saturday.
The premise is rejected reductio ad absurdum, since it inescapably also implies that artists shouldn’t study art.
A more relaxed solution to the zip issue would be simply to patch zip.js to not use the Compression Streams API in Safari. After 16.4 came out you could check if it worked, and remove the patch at your own pace.

Re: The release timing/schedule problem, I agree that more transparency on the release date would be nice, but since it is tied to an entire OS release, they probably can't do that. The way to go is to keep an eye out for the beta release cycle of iOS. They will typically release 5 or more betas, and then one or more RCs, and then a GM, and then will start rolling out the update to users. There are several websites like Mac Rumors, Apple Insider, 9to5Mac where you can get a good temperature of where in the cycle Apple currently is.
Aggressive war is inexcusable and I condemn all nations that engage in it including Russia and the United States. Ukraine has a right to its sovereignty just as all other nations do, but what you posted is shallow thinking.

Look at a map of Europe, put yourself in the mind of a highly suspicious and pessimistic person and ask yourself "how would I invade Russia?" "how do I get an SRBM or MRBM within striking range of Moscow?" "how do I increase my ability to have Russian speaking agents plausibly cross into and out of Russia?"

Now put yourself in the mind of someone else seeking power and look at the map and, keeping an eye to history, ask yourself "what is the most effective way to destabilize Russia without involving US forces?"

Both parties are playing a very dangerous game that has a non-zero chance of ending with a nuclear exchange, limited or not. If peace was the goal then both sides need to agree to an immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of both military and political forces. A new agreement needs to be reached that places Ukraine as a neutral, sovereign country and both sides should pay for reconstruction efforts and restitution to survivors. Of course, peace is never the goal.
it’s a suspension bridge

Yet it is one! Consider, how it defies classification by society, and instead, prefers to be classified as it choses. As it needs to be!

Thus, the tomato can be a bridge of understanding, to those who identify differently than their birth.

And beyond this, the tomato is a 'new world' plant. Its plucky ability to waltz in, and disrupt local cuisine, to supplant old world recipes, is a perfect bridge to understand the goal of most startups.

And religiously, the tomato, when first discovered, was thought by some to be the devil's food. The X markings inside a tomato, were thought to be warnings from god, for they resembled a cross.

So the tomato can be an example of rational vs religious thought, a way to bridge an understanding as to how our ancestors thought.

A physical bridge only takes you to physical places, but the tomato is a bridge to enlightenment.

It is more a bridge, than a bridge!!
Starlink actually seems underpriced to me. If the choice is Starlink, Hughes, maybe an equally barely-viable cellular hotspot, not everyone could afford $200-$300/month but a lot would.
The Productivity System for Knowledge Workers: 2023 Edition
That's simply not true. You should learn about conflicts not from CNN news.

1. Russia hasn't stated a wish to reclaim other countries, even former parts of USSR.
2. Both military conflicts with neighbors Russia participated in: Georgia and Ukraine had very serious reasons and it was not Russia, that initiated both.
Long overdue, but better late than never. Although the circumstances are grim due to the war in Ukraine, I’m happy we can be in alliance with our European and Northern American kin (and hopefully Sweden will follow suit soon once the wrinkles in relations with the countries stalling get process get sorted out, so we can get on with further integrating our defences both within Nordics and the Baltian countries). Thank you for our new allies for the trust.
The creator remains without a creation. The notion that most schools of thought have is, the creator is unborn and born at the same time and has always existed. Creator does not have a point of creation, not even death because those rules only apply to the materialistic universe.
>Building cutting-edge generative AI would require getting licenses from thousands—perhaps even millions—of copyright holders. The process would likely be so slow and expensive that only a handful of large companies could afford to do it. Even then, the resulting models likely wouldn’t be as good. And smaller companies might be locked out of the industry altogether.

Isn't this what Adobe has done? The results are actually really good.
>Finland is one of the few countries that successfully resisted a Russian invasion.

While the Finns absolutely kicked the Soviets' asses in the Winter War, they actually did lose the war a ceded territory to the USSR.
Probably because all the frontend people are using Chrome, so those bugs were already fixed.
> There is no "staying out of" politics or just "remaining neutral" on topics.

How would one determine if this statement is true or not? If true, is the truth universal or contextual?
Lawyers just need to keep pounding on the fact there is no artist for a given generated picture - closer than the training set.
Okay, let's calculate.

At 20 Mbps, 40GB takes a bit over 4 hours to download. Supposing you have an idle power draw of 60W, that's 0.240 KWh. I think that's reasonable. Downloading is almost effortless for a modern computer, and I'll assume that you're not getting any more use of it, so the monitor turned itself off.

Now compare that to a CPU easily having a TDP of 100W, plus a GPU drawing 180W, plus the rest of the computer, plus a monitor, etc, you can easily reach 400W. That'll blow through the power you consumed to download in half an hour.

Also I don't think anyone releases 40GB patches on a daily basis, so if you game for say, 3 hours a day for a week, the costs of the download is already down to 3%.

Which again is what I was getting at: you should optimize the biggest sources of waste first. Anything that makes your actual gameplay more efficient and consume less CPU or CPU resources will decrease your consumption far more noticeably than almost any optimization you can do to downloading stuff.
there were several data loss inducing bugs in postgres with fsync/close