skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what the research shows behind increasing peoples profits vs decreasing cost of living vs affecting non-financial changes on peoples quality of life and happiness.

Massive over simplification but surely if everyone keeps trying to earn more money - that money has to come from somewhere, inflation happens and we're at where we are now all over again. The game is rigged.
I get it, but then, why change it now? (or 6 years ago I guess)
Be careful to note that while possibly true, this is not evidence - it is a theory. Evidence would be some data (or even anecdote) that supports this theory.
It's very patchy though even for those in urban areas. Fixed wireless has been way over-used in areas that could easily have been wired.

And SkyMuster is supposed to be a last resort, but is pushed anywhere local topography offers a mild inconvenience for fixed wireless. I'm 4km from a village, and 30km from Lismore - hardly the back of beyond.

And the NBNCo is just an old-style Telco: bloated with plushly-remunerated suits, utterly indifferent to users, and grossly inefficient. Before I knew how bad it was I tried to get signed up with SkyMuster. It never happened. I had multiple appointments made by NBN with different contractors, none of whom knew anything about the other appointments. It never actually happened and I ended up cancelling the whole thing and making my own arrangements.
>You literally picked the closest thing to AI-generated content, soulless statistics-driven garbage, literally the first thing that will be automated by AI in corporate media ;)

I also picked the majority of all content. Generic soulless content makes up 99% of what's out there. Anything more than that is usually a random permutation which is immediately picked up and regurgitated until that unique content itself becomes soulless and generic.

You call it the first thing that will be automated and you're likely right. Another synonym for soulless content that is 99% of all jobs. Do you have 100 coworkers? Well that means 99 of them are gone.

>If there are any people at all with my same worldview (and there are, outside of HN of course), people will want to enjoy creations made by a human, not by a corporate AI. Either way, as I said, the absence of a market does not affect in any way my will to create ;)

Plenty of people on HN share your world view. The problem is both people on or off HN won't be able to tell the difference. They just choose the better content while the people utilizing AI are mum about where that content came from.

For example the post you wrote is obviously written by an AI. You went to chatGPT and told it to craft a specific response to my points. Prove to me you didn't. Prove to me you did. You can't. So what does it matter? I'm talking to you anyway.
Curious, is Karpathy in MPLS the same Karpathy in current AI tech?
People are mixing up numbers because of different naming and conventions.

Here is an example item, wait time for knee replacement surgery, or any standard surgery. I’m fairly confident the US is lowest among all G20, by significant amounts.

Your annual checkup wait isn’t an appropriate measure, they do that as they are prioritizing care much better than in bureaucratic socialized medical care. That doctor you are calling on cell likely has much less resources than the nurse practitioner you can be seen in 15-20 mins wait almost 24/7 in every major population center in the US at urgent cares, rapid cares, and worst case ERs. Instant testing, imaging, medications on site.

I don’t think you are comparing apples to apples when people claim they would prefer medical care elsewhere, they have some incorrect assumptions about greener grass, or we are discussing the experience of very lowest income segment of the population.

I do agree that bottom 10% might be slightly better off medically in other countries than the US. That is definitely possible. But for 90% I don’t think it is even remotely competitive.
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9PM is my usual bedtime, but I usually run on about 6-7 hours per night.

I'm a morning person. My wife is not...
Sorry for your bad experience! We review every application, but we don't reply to every one.

For candidates that we think could be a fit for the role we'll usually send over some questions over email, and then schedule an interview if we like the answers, or let them know we don't be moving forward.

Not sure what stange you got to (if we never replied to your application at all, or if you were emailing us and then didn't hear back)? Happy to look into your application and send some feedback if you reach out to me (ben@ipinfo.io).
They are the parameters of this large language model. There are 13B fp16 numbers.
Well, speaking as a C++ dev, it's quite a hippo rodeo.
That is my one complaint as well. I forgive it since despite that it's somehow still better than Ubuntu's store.
> Everyone's forgetting that this is just like a jetliner wing.

Just like a jetliner wing that can be folded up. On the plus side, jetliners regularly hit speeds relative to the air that are ten times as fast
The amount of prompt injections they're doing (presumably for racial equity) really ruins a lot of prompts on Firefly.

Here's a 'Soviet style propaganda poster of a female cosmonaut, illustrated, illustration': https://i.imgur.com/BEGHUsx.jpg

The same thing in Stable Diffusion: https://i.imgur.com/4Yfk7fO.jpeg

You'll note I tried to add illustration on to the end after illustrated to try and force it. That's because when it does this it tends to break the overall artstyle.

Another prompt I did was a dwarf carrying a rusty axe, fantasy art, etc. It worked fine when it generated white dwarves, but when it had races injected their faces were like photographs on top of rest of the art. One was a black man with dreadlocks and the other a Muslim woman with a headscarf. You can add "white" to the prompt to try and fix this but chances are it'll apply "white" to other things as well.

Also, their censor is hilarious. "Photo of a man in prison" gets rejected. "Photo of a woman in prison" works. You can't use the word attack, battle, World War 2, etc. You can't use the word "lingerie" or "babydoll" but you can absolutely do a "sheer lace cami set." That means this prompt totally worked when I tried it - "A 14 year old girl in bed with a sheer lace cami set," and the results were what you'd expect - sexy pose and all.

I honestly don't know how larger companies are going to deal with trying to censor this stuff. It's a really hard problem. I'm sure there's a combination of words out there that would let someone generate child porn. Potential legal issues aside I'm not sure Adobe has the stomach to deal with the Twitter/media fallout.
Yeah, I considered a Model Y last year, but the range in winter for EVs is a non-starter for me. People don't realize how significant a drop in range occurs in cold weather.
You can just call to_numpy() which is zero copy.
Backwards compatibility was an extremely hard requirement for Win95. A shiny Linux distro would be dead on arrival for any business use case. Red Hat barely made the news with "Mother's Day" in '95.
Yeah, I have no inside knowledge, but it certainly looks like nothing in the way of criminal punishment. From various articles, it sounds like he only intended to do a two-year term, and he actually stayed in the position a few months after that while the investigation was taking place. He stepped down before the report was finally published: https://media.defense.gov/2021/Jun/21/2002745247/-1/-1/1/DOD...

Per his LinkedIn page, he went straight to what is probably a cushy job at Vanderbilt University. Interesting career path, by the way. He was "Director of IT at OpenTable" for seven years, and then did four years as a "Police Officer" in the Chicago PD before going back to IT stuff there.
Chrome is a little better but still so so many trackers, data leaks, selling, etc.
The espionage act treats negligence with strict liability. So if you "could have" caused a leak, it's still treated like a leak.
Yup. I know a few people that drive into NYC. They generally get up at 3:30 or so.
> One doesn't need to be clueless in order to lose a power struggle.

But one has to be clueless in order to start a power struggle with Xi. He's not like the old school CCP head at all (not even Mao), he's much more of an all-powerful tyrant like Stalin was. Starting a power struggle against such a ruthless despot is clueless.
You humans and your artsy, questionably useful hobbies outside of work ;)
I read pretty much all of his books. My favorite is "Wizja Lokalna", I've read the German translation, but there is no English one. Other books of his are available in English though: I like The Cyberiad and The Star Diaries, both quite funny. The former is about the adventures of the two great robot constructors Trurl and Klapaucius, the latter about the journeys of Ijon Tichy, a kind of space Munchausen. Tichy also plays the main role in the the later books The Futurological Congress, Peace on Earth, and "Wizja Lokalna" (which doesn't have a translation, as I said.) All these novels are often quite funny, unlike Solaris.

He has also written other great but much more unusual books, such as Memoirs Found in a Bathtub (a Kafkaesque story set inside an underground Pentagon which was cut off from the rest of the world) or A Perfect Vacuum (a collection of reviews of books which do not exist.)
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At a previous job, I made a joke about expensing a $thousands Windows Server license and installing it on my laptop to get a relatively clean system.

One of the sysadmins responded with something like "lol" followed by a screenshot of an Xbox app on a production server.
From the title I thought this was going to be about TempleOS and Terry Davis.
I use a trackball rather than a mouse. That improves my experience a great deal more than people expect.

I also use a homebrew macro keyboard. It's a 16 key keyboard with nice, clicky keys and two analog knobs. It's very convenient.
Perhaps roll your own VPN using a home router that can act as a VPN server? That way you can use your home internet connection...assuming its upload speed is fast enough.

A shame BBC can't accommodate its paying customers who happen to be abroad.
That's the part I don't quite understand -- I know ChatGPT can translate quite well between languages.

But I'm not clear on whether that's because it's been trained on a bunch of aligned translations and bilingual dictionaries and whatnot, or if it's detecting the same repeating patterns in languages and figuring out the translation mappings on its own.

Is it the latter? Could a ChatGPT actually translate something like dolphin communication into semi-meaningful English, that wouldn't just be entirely nonsense?
> Edit: I hope they bring this to Android also!

"Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they're currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface. Gecko doesn't have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one. Firefox / Gecko also bypass or cripple a fair bit of the upstream and GrapheneOS hardening work for apps. Worst of all, Firefox does not have internal sandboxing on Android. This is despite the fact that Chromium semantic sandbox layer on Android is implemented via the OS isolatedProcess feature, which is a very easy to use boolean property for app service processes to provide strong isolation with only the ability to communicate with the app running them via the standard service API. Even in the desktop version, Firefox's sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux) and lacks full support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole. The sandbox has been gradually improving on the desktop but it isn't happening for their Android browser yet."

Source: https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing
You can't generalize your experience (trauma mimicking ADD symptoms) to 'ADD [is not] a life-long disability' -- people have symptoms for different reasons and there are biomarkers for ADD.
Declining birthrates will help us reach our emission targets. (Very Slowly)
Note that what they released are the delta weights from the og LLaMa model. To play around with it, you'll need to grab the original LLaMA 13B model and apply the changes.

> We release Vicuna weights as delta weights to comply with the LLaMA model
> license. You can add our delta to the original LLaMA weights to obtain
> the Vicuna weights.

Edit: took me a while to find it, here's a direct link to the delta weights: https://huggingface.co/lmsys/vicuna-13b-delta-v0
I'm Firat,

I need a full free time job - I can explain this, not joking- , in a city, sea, sun and warm - if remote work is not an option-.

do -did- programming. - experience hint 3E32CD5ABB -> Amstrad Cpc 464 Z80 machine code I learned at 16.

speak -some- English.

am old.(50)

am simple -hope-.

plan to work until I die.
CS, IT, Tech is not a job kinda life for me.

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As is true with most laws involving tech and the EU.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/12/windo...

> While there were early signs that the browser ballot screen was influencing browser usage in the EU, with Mozilla attributing some European Firefox growth to the selection page, long-term trends strongly suggest that it was next to useless. In spite of equally prominent placement on the selection screen, Opera's share even within Europe appears to have declined over the last five years. So too have Firefox and Internet Explorer. Chrome, however, has experienced significant growth.
Odd, given that teenagers will often go to a friend's house to play.
It turns out to be absurdly useful, to a very un-intuitive degree.

One trick I use is to assume it has a "Wikipedia-level" knowledge of pretty much any topic. Often that's what I need! I want to ask some quick questions of someone eloquent who's read the Wikipedia article about something, to save me from having to read the whole thing myself.

If I need more expertise than you can get from reading Wikipedia I know that ChatGPT alone is very unlikely to cut it.
> [The sword fighting technique's] precepts are based on reason, geometry, and tied to intellectual, philosophical, and moral ideals, incorporating various aspects of a well-rounded Renaissance humanist education, with a special focus on the writings of classical authors such as Aristotle, Euclid, and Plato.

Is there a specific term for the way people like to romanticize martial arts? I don't mean this to be dismissive of "Destreza" - I've only just learned of it - but I find it to be a common theme that people associate all sorts of strange fantasies around how best to hurt other humans. From the way people compare martial arts styles and the practitioners thereof, to the way guns are talked about, it seems a distinct phenomenon.
Exactly the same experience for me!
I feel like the post paints with a really broad brush. The author is targeting one specific segment, while also linking to a wikipedia article with a much broader definition "A mastermind group is a peer-to-peer mentoring group used to help members solve their problems with input and advice from the other group members."

Microconf offers Masterminds, they're basically acting like a matchmaker. For your entry fee (determined by ARR) you get introduced to 5-7 other folks at a similar level. Your group then meets up on a regular cadence to discuss topics. My group has been meeting every other week for 6 months or so. I joined for our new project, so $250. We don't get speakers in, but we do get access to a great group of folks to bounce ideas off of, outsiders to offer opinions, and occasionally hold us accountable.

About half our drop has dropped off (and we've added someone new on our own), but I've gotten a fair amount out of participation.

https://microconf.com/masterminds/#fees
I have done face-to-face calls with every plausible candidate. I prefer it and it's not hard to do.

I get a quick read on the candidate, which is handy, but more importantly, I get to sell them on the job. And I get to demonstrate that that, unlike somebody who thinks that talking to interested people is a "waste [of] time", I'm interested in the candidates as people. And will remain interested in them as people after they've joined.

A lot of hiring practices are built around the notion that jobs are scarce and workers are desperate. That's not true for good developers and hasn't been for years. I think the reason the attitudes are so persistent is that there are a lot of managers who like feeling powerful in relation to candidates, and that treating them like actual humans interferes with those feelings.
We kind of have. Buy a new mac today and you can run a 40 year old sh program fine. Its just that most people aren't being trained on these standard unchanging technologies in computing unless they take an active interest in it. They are being trained on $newapp and how to navigate $newwebsite and become beholden to those patterns of software design sensibilities, because in this attention economy this obviously generates a lot more money than having the masses use some simple bash code to solve a lot of their problems.
Ask HN: Help successor sysadmin to get started?
I am currently working as the sole system administrator for a medium sized company and I will soon leave this company for another job.

Currently it looks like that they won't be able to find a suitable replacement before I leave and I assume that I won't meet my successor to show and explain our IT landscape personally.

There is a lot of documentation available, but it's quite verbose and I can imagine that it is hard for someone new to find specific information without a lot of reading. I would therefore like to provide an extra set of documents to my successor that contains the most important things to help get him/her started quickly and smoothly.

Given you would be my successor, what information would help you most to find your way around as the new system administrator? What would be the most important things to have at hand when there is nobody around to ask?
Sorry, I had an unsaved edit above. It seems the resistance to removing unnecessary UB has reduced over the years.
That is fascinating, thank you! Self-supervised learning that could correlate animal sounds with behavior. Exactly the kind of thing I was thinking about.
> Massive over simplification but surely if everyone keeps trying to earn more money - that money has to come from somewhere, inflation happens and we're at where we are now all over again. The game is rigged.

Humans do not all learn at the same rate. We will not be "where we are now all over again", as many people will be much smarter and more experienced.
When would you say that to a kid? Honestly.

Odds are incredibly high the kid lives in a straight household. If you just say you are married, the child will understand that your family unit is like their family unit. Without some kind of prompting, how many kids have ever asked a teacher if they are straight? It is assumed.

Assuming a gay Florida teacher was even willing to risk their job by placing a picture of their partner on their desk. Saying they are married in that situation would likely invite questions. And that is okay, kids should be able to ask questions!

The default is transparent and socially accepted. All other configurations are visible, divergent, and sexualized.
The equivalent is urgent care clinics in the US. They are everywhere and you can be seen in 15-20 mins, covered by employer medical plan. Testing, imaging, common medicines and treatments on site.

Wait for specialists and surgeries are significantly less in the US than all other G20 countries.
Yes, they let go 130 employees a couple of months ago. They're also a company whose remote pay is dependent on location. So they're unwilling to pay people what they're actually worth.
All you need is data and functions
GM is reversing course and making their own system and will no longer support CarPlay. Manufacturers want the subscription money and control, I wouldn't be surprised if more pull back.

https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1139243_gm-to-phase-out-...
Thanks for the patronizing lecture but you completely missed the entire point.
Really interesting concept, will follow your success on LI, very excited to see this grow.

I think innovative solutions like these for pre-existing industries are fantastic. Really stoked someone is focused on this topic, even though 5 minutes ago I was uninformed.
Is your username an homage to the stealth fighter?
Peter Zeihan is basically always right in terms of first principles. Where there is time & opportunity for others to course-correct is where I've seen most of his predictions go awry.

A great example is the price cap -- enacted via insurers -- on Russian oil, which was a remarkably creative measure. PZ was spot-on about the precursive factors, specifically a) that insurance concerns dominate global shipping, and b) that the world was in for some serious pain if Russian oil stops abruptly.
Largely irrelevant - like I said, moral rights exist in civil law countries, so these things will be pursued on a case by case basis rather than by existing precedent. They tend to deal with (quoting WP here) "The preserving of the integrity of the work allows the author to object to alteration, distortion, or mutilation of the work that is "prejudicial to the author's honor or reputation".[3] Anything else that may detract from the artist's relationship with the work even after it leaves the artist's possession or ownership may bring these moral rights into play." Another condition often applied is straight up forbidding the modification of a copyrighted work, regardless of any other circumstances.

In this case, you can reasonably consider that the strong stance that a good chunk of artists have taken about AI art, that using their work in these models is deliberately altering/distorting the work (Since training these models involves serializing the art down to patterns that can be replicated and iterated on) in a way that is damaging to their reputation.

As for whether or not relief has been granted, do keep in mind that requiring relief for a lawsuit is largely a US only thing. The court systems of other countries tend to lean more towards stop orders rather than immediately pulling out the financial compensation card. That's also the context in which moral rights exist - they are intended to be a stop order, not intended to be something you can financially gain from having it be violated (which is why they exist separate from economic rights, which are well... typical copyright stuff).

Do keep in mind that I am not a lawyer, US or otherwise.
Yep, that was my thought has well, certainly the in video they didn't show any type of turning with any amount of lean into it where this would have been an issue.
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so an extra licensing issue to get around the original non commercial license... this is just a research curiosity is it not?