skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started using Ubuntu back in Hardy Heron days (8.04). I remember attending an Ubuntu user's group meeting in Denver back then and the System76 guys were there. I was impressed by their knowledge and willingness to help others.

I strayed to Mint for the last 10 years or so and only recently gave Pop_OS a try. I was delighted to see the "Welcome to Colorado" wallpaper on there right after installation. Now Pop_OS is the only distro I use. Hats off to System76 for their contribution.

I recently inherited an HP All-In-One desktop that was extremely sluggish with Windows. I have yet to find anything seriously wrong with Pop_OS and feel it really strikes a good balance. Yes the Pop!_Shop is definitely the weak point. It worked great for many applications, but when it didn't I was able to install fairly painless using other options (apt-get...).
I didn't say it prevents tracking, I was offering a litmus test for a VPN to the question of red flags. If it doesn't pass the litmus test, preventing tracking is the least of your concerns.
Good. This just means that one body doesn't have a monopoly on what are considered facts again. Arguably should have never happened in the first place.
Too bad it's not true, government funded science is still very much the norm.
If anything, the article you referenced is a perfect example of someone doing their own research and diagnostics. Most people do not get this level of care, nor have the intellect to work the diagnostics the way he did.

The risk/value proposition is likely much different for people just deferring to doctors, especially for those doctors that are on the lower end of the performance spectrum.
In Paris Referendum, 89% of Voters Back a Ban on Electric Scooters
Right. That's the author's responsibility, whether he or she is using ChatGPT, a human colleague, an old-school tool like Grammarly or classic Google Translate, or even older-school tools like paper dictionaries.

In all those cases, mistakes can be made and unintended meanings can creep in. The author has to check the output, definitely, but that doesn't mean those tools shouldn't be used at all.
Thanks! https://huggingface.co/lmsys/vicuna-13b-delta-v0

Edit, later: I found some instructive pages on how to use the vicuna weights with llama.cpp (https://lmsysvicuna.miraheze.org/wiki/How_to_use_Vicuna#Use_...) and pre-made ggml format compatible 4-bit quantized vicuna weights,
https://huggingface.co/eachadea/ggml-vicuna-13b-4bit/tree/ma... (8GB ready to go, no 60+GB RAM steps needed)
Ironically, the webcam always seems to be the last thing to be supported on MacBooks.

Currently I’m looking forward to being able to do gaming through wine on my MacBook with Asahi.
>aggressively for-profit healthcare system

Not just for-profit, but aggressively separating the payor and costs (government, insurance) from the treatment and patient, thereby reducing accountability in the system
> facts and objectiveness do not matter when it comes to any topic related to China

Replace "China" with pretty much every topic, they do this with everything to draw attention from viewers.
3D-printable glass is made from proteins and biodegrades
VisionFive 2 (same SoC, has been available for months) has a NVMe slot instead of the PCIe slot.

It's still possible (with an adapter) to use PCIe cards.

It is already possible (with current u-boot patchset) to boot from NVMe. It has been possible for months to have root on NVMe.

It is indeed much faster than your average SD card.
Nuclear is fundamentally cheaper than nearly any other energy source. However our laws are backwards: regulators are required to increase safety standards for nuclear so long as it is cheaper, until the costs are brought up to par with other energy sources. As a result, nuclear is orders of magnitude safer than anything else, and burdens costs that other energy sources don't have to account for, yet it is perpetually no cheaper than coal or natural gas. It's blatant regulatory capture by fossil fuel in the name of "environmentalism."
Maybe that only matters for playing tennis. These look almost like the design of any other airless tire, only instead of a rubber tire with holes in it they are holding together the tennis balls to form this sort of shape. I think it only matters that they are able to hold their shape up, not that they remain springy or anything.
Read it as "hardware bug that cannot be fully compensated for in microcode".
Yeah, this is the classic "regulations are written in blood" logic. If the cost is invisible and the benefit is visible we do not price as we would if it were made apparent.

Presumably our internal model clamps some kinds of things to zero and other things to infinity.

When thinking about it, I would prefer to take a test and detect cancer even if the test gives me a near equal risk of cancer. It's strange to my rational self, so I must struggle to reconcile it.
Have to read it yourself to decide if the reasoning appeals to you.
Linux Vendor Firmware Service Documentation
A pity the c++ compiler has no way to recognise calls to the c++ library in order to do rewrites like that automatically. It's CSE at the stdlib level, should definitely be possible to do that.
I want one that runs on solar power and uses a lower latency local large language model (LLLLLM?) and has robot tentacles for rudimentary locomotion, grasping, and actuation.
Yah, I purchased one of the automatic monitoring machines at home after having a couple slightly elevated readings at dentist/etc offices.

And what I learned is that I can swing my blood pressure from slightly low to slightly elevated simply by how I sit, how relaxed I am, and untold other variables that result in being able to consciously swing it 20+ mmHg, and other times it can swing that much (or more) just between multiple consecutive readings where I don't move/etc between them.

I've also had Nurses swap the Cuff size and drop that much, or just do two in a row in the Dr's office and get massively different results.

So, for me, I don't know how to determine an actual bp if the noise is greater than the signal. Taking the average over multiple times a day, for a few weeks is probably reasonable. But then, I'm pretty sure the amount of exercise and what I eat day to day could swing it one way or the other depending on the time of the year (aka I sweat a lot more during the summer and drop weight, etc).
one for each hand, it takes getting used to and i have hunch it changes you, neurologically
I've been playing serf city with two mouses (some work was needed to set drivers right under dos) and mouse and joystick. it was awesome.
There is a reason why https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/ exists.

Ive seen plenty of people buy a current Mac just for Apple to relesase something new 2 weeks later.

Also, for phones atleast, Samsung Galaxy has been pretty consistent in quality.
In my experience, helm is the worst offender. Somehow, every second chart update has a breaking change preventing the update, defaults that don't mind wiping the persistent volume and a discontinued somewhat consistent 'stable' central repo make me seriously regret using helm charts for anything that is not ephemeral.
>"hierarchical Z"

isnt that one called compression just for marketing purposes? Afaik its a caching technique aimed at lowering latency cost of touching Zbuffer. It actually takes more ram than just raw non duplicated data.
ChatGPT Plus upgrades “temporarily paused” due to “high demand”
For how long you being doing this? How is the experience so far, do you have a quota of writing or just send emails organically when you feel that you want to?
Yes, many miles
Exactly! Surprised I had to read this far down for anyone to realize that little detail. To be fair, the balls kind of spread the covering tire out beyond the rings...
> Astound your friends! Confuse your enemies!

... more like your friends will curse you and your enemies will watch with glee that you are using C++
As someone who's applied before, you really need to know C. The first phase of the process is essentially a code comprehension exercise followed by a simple programming exercise. I think they're looking primarily for candidates with kernel/wine programming experience.
Location: Greater Portland, Oregon Area

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I think it should be okay, even a mitzvah, to preserve the program since preserving knowledge of the Torah is hefsed merubeh when it's in real danger of being lost. but I'd definitely want to heck with the rabbi he was working with first. but even if the copyright status is murky there's enough sofek and it's for a good purpose.

(disclaimer: not actually Jewish)
I challenge the assertion excluding a context that supports it (i.e. trauma, influence from others, other things of the sort) that you actually have agency to alter your behavior even in small incremental ways if you weren't already doing so as part of a larger motivation that is strong enough to override your existing behavioral patterns. I just don't think people actually have that control. In every case where I see someone change there's so many factors that went into it that just obviously would lead you to understand how it's intuitive that they would have done so.
Cool, thank you for the info!
Why not just absorb DRF? Which as I understand is the leading choice for many, so I wonder if some effort should be dedicated to reducing fragmentation.
Plural of popo, which is a French (and Spanish) term for doodoo. By which I mean a childish term for excrement.
I had several emails back and forth with you.
I have a mandate from the business side that "there is no such thing as the cloud, only other people's hard drives", which I can't really argue against in good conscious, so we need to self-host just about everything we want to use. It would be really nice to be able to let the users run things like collabora online, or easily give them something that looks like Dropbox for certain kinds of files.

By correctly functioning, I mean that I can trust that it operates correctly (per the specs) and securely, or at the very least that any major issues are taken seriously by the team. (And getting it FIPS validated would push it over the line to _so_ much money.)
the author can "proofread" it as written in another language with which they're arguably unqualified to work
I don’t know what your comparison is. Here solar is about half that. I even managed to install solar on my roof for about 35EUR/MWh.
Researchers’ tool to provide new insight into biological processes
In the Pop!_Shop you can often find both the deb version or the flatpak, so you can avoid them quite easily. For things that only appear with a flatpak option you can usually find other ways to install, after a little searching on the web.

It's very clear in the Pop!_Shop whether it's a flatpak or not, which is nice ....
I wouldn't have thought they were lesser-known, but I've been surprised how many people don't know about today's cheap portable external monitors. They're essentially laptop panels with a USB-C+HDMI board. $100-$150-ish and easily found in 15.6" and 13-14", 1080p or 2K. All the ones I've tried have 2 USB-C ports, mini-HDMI, and speakers. This all depends on what USB-C ports your machine actually has and the right USB-C cables, but a single cable can do power and display from the laptop. Or plug the monitor into USB-C PD source and the same cable will charge the laptop and run the monitor. Mine even has a third USB-C "OTG" port for USB 2.0 speed devices. Good for a second screen on the go or debugging single board computers.
> You’re much more likely to die in a car accident.

Maybe so, but I believe you are also more likely to die of a car accident in the US. There's no getting around the fact that amongst western nations, the US has certain aspects to its culture that make it a more dangerous place to live in many ways.
The wannabe kidfluencers struggling for stardom
German, but kinda fun: https://youtu.be/zPMHVZL7y9Q

(Join the Whatsapp group!!!)
I didn't realize this was finally ready! Thanks! Definitely going to check it out.
In late 2021 we had EKS nodes shit the bed for no apparent reason. Max out CPU and couldn't SSH in. They'd get recreated eventually by EC2 (multiple hours) despite being tainted in k8s pretty quickly. We ran with N+2 nodes to deal with it.

After dutifully updating EKS releases and AMIs it seems to have fixed itself last year.

EKS seems to be fine generally, but it would be nice if they didn't release new AMIs with missing commits?? [1] and especially [2]

[1] https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/issues/319

[2] https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-eks-ami/issues/278#issueco...
Things really are stagnating if reality's ripping off season 11.
Nobody at Facebook approved it? Given the attention it has received, hard to imagine it has slipped through the cracks, but a deliberate decision to not address.
What an amazing jump to go from software that is clearly desirable enough that people are paying for it to "skimming money" and "corrupt leadership". To take issues THAT STILL EXIST in 80%+ of software and call them "trivial".

Yes, the tools to build this product and make it function obviously exist. If you can do it cheaper, then do it and undercut him!

I don't think you want to handle billing, support (for VERY non-tech savvy groups) and build and customize the software fulltime for <300k revenue (not profit!). Especially not at the "$1k a client project" price. Anyone can crank out a webform, very few people can integrate software into a client and have the client continue to want to pay them!

Accusing someone, without merit, of skimming and corruption is bordering in the libel territory. Doing it in this case is also rude and shows a lack of experience.
How to discover cancer early without screening though?

I understand that's a rare occurrence, but you still wished for that early screening if you are the one with it
I like the slime inner tubes. They've saved me a few times. Only on lowish pressure tyres though, I can't imagine they work well on a road bike.
> it’s harder to come up with things that would make them want to have more

"Ability to buy a house or similar" and "affordable daycare" are probably enough to have a huge impact. We don't need a long list of possible answers.
GTFOArgs
Cloudflare DNS Must Block Pirate Sites, Italian Court Confirms
True, but it can still host a handful of beefy VMs.
People do get annoyed with tubeless to be honest. Its a mixed bag of people who like it because the rolling resistance is 1 watt lower, and people who hate it because its a lot more maintenance keeping up with sealant and hard to patch sometimes compared to just throwing in a new tube (which a lot of tubeless users end up doing when they get a puncture flat anyhow).
Okay, how is that different from them using a (whatever)->English dictionary?
I don’t think there are any banks in the Us that use Authenticators to enforce 2FA. Although I have seen Robinhood does app based 2FA.
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> The user’s first and last name, email address, payment address, the last four digits (only) of a credit card number, and credit card expiration date. Full credit card numbers were not exposed at any time,

So, the last four digits, which is also on most receipts I've thrown in the trash [1].

I'm much more annoyed at the email address and home address relation.

1. https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/145070/how-many...
Options 1 and 3 are implemented.
Watching the final product I agree, they balanced it well.
The origins of the Latin alphabet are interesting too: miners in Egypt who didn't want to learn all the hieroglyphics decided to start using some of them phonetically, creating an alphabet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Sinaitic_script
It's in the name of the model - "Vicuna-13B" implies there are 13 billion parameters.
Saving it for another post. It is actually just as controversial as there was a lot of work to improve convergence times in standard IP routing at the same time.
And this is why I buy Apple products. No need to worry about these garbage.
Please. There are no insurance issues, no proliferation issues, no clean up issues. Everything fails gracefully. Nuclear, outside of edge cases, is a scam compared to battery firmed renewables.
IBM is hiring OpenPages Consultant Engineers

https://ibm.biz/BdP8cY
Parrots can't talk
> but with a way more elaborate model?

Simple: I know that humans have intentionality and agency. They want things, they have goals both immediate and long term. Their replies are based not just on the context of their experiences and the conversation but their emotional and physical state, and the applicability of their reply to their goals.

And they are capable of coming up with reasoning about topics for which they have no prior information, by applying reasonable similarities. Example: Even if someone never heard the phrase "walking a mile in someone elses shoes", most humans (provided they speak english) have no difficulty in figuring out what this means. They also have no trouble figuring out that this is a figure of speech, and not a literal action.
Ask HN: Any reason for security researchers to use Open/FreeBSD?
I once read from a blog of a top notch professional security researcher in 360 that some prefer to use BSD. I know that BSD is known for this but I'm wondering, for any security professional here, what's your opinion?
Until the US ceases to be a desirable destination for many immigrants, which could take quite a while.
That would result in a $1 increase per dollar spent, which is 1% of the ROI they're aiming for.
Your machine dies early and you want to give the same manufacturer more money to fix the problem? Not the first time I've seen this where manufacturer=Apple, either. The brand loyalty Apple inspires really is incredible.
Well, sure it's related (and MacinTalk is still builtin to modern macOS and iOS - you can use them for the system TTS voice). But DECTalk and MacinTalk weren't the only speech synthesizers available in 1999 by a long shot.

I had to chuckle about the genius of being able to program C and Lua as if typing English - I mean that's pretty much any reasonably proficient dev.
Ask HN: Is it common to have inferiority comp. attacks as a junior developer?
I've been programming for a long time (+8 years) and professionally for a year now. I've recently switched to an awesome job, really aligned with my ideals, skills with good pay and I'm doing a great job. But regularly—once a month, I'm struck with a depressing inferiority complex. It stays for 2–3 days and then goes away, after I convinced myself that I'm doing a great job. Does everyone get these kinds of feelings?
- I feel like I'm not a good fit as a programmer
- I don't want to do anything but to lay down and wander
- I get unsociable and absent
Got it, so looking ahead to building hardware that is useful for inference would you agree with these considerations:

- max PCI lanes for more GPUs. AMD cpus and boards probably better

- PCIe 5 nvme. ideally enough to saturate bus

- max GPUs with max memory. memory more important than FLOPs probably.

for a given budget one tries to get as much as possible of above.

How long before a consumer component machine for less than $10K can do inference for a gpt 3.5 turbo quality model?
They are encouraged not to refer out. That's problematic.
Another one to add to that collection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_hussars Polish heavy cavalry with wings making loud buzzing noise during charge.
Then why hasn't it been done?
Parrots parrot parrots?
In order for an AI to reason it doesn’t mean it has to be able to reason about everything at any level - most humans cant rediscover fundamental mathematical theorems from basic axioms, particularly if you keep removing them until they fail, but I don’t think that means most humans are unable to reason.

Take this problem instead which certainly requires some reasoning to answer:

“Consider a theoretical world where people who are shorter always have bigger feet. Ben is taller than Paul, and Paul is taller than Andrew. Steve is shorter than Andrew. Everyone walks the same number of steps each day. All other things being equal, who would step on the most bugs and why?”

I think it’s a logical error to say “AI can’t reason about this, so that proves that it can’t reason about anything at all” (particularly if that example is something most humans can’t do!). The LLMs reasoning is limited compared to human reasoning right now, although it is still definitely demonstrating reasoning.
GPT4All and LLaMa.cpp Python Bindings Are Here
The major difference is that nuclear waste ends up in rich countries' backyards, whereas heavy metals from construction and disposal of solar panels contaminate communities thousands of miles away. Out of sight, out of mind.
ChatGPT Got an F
As a first test, at Microsoft's Bing feature Chat I gave two questions:

(1) My first question asked for a solution to

y'(t) = k y(t) (b - y(t))

Right away Chat noticed that this was calculus and would involve exponential growth. Then it gave me links to references with examples of exponential growth and differential equations.

But the response was nothing like a solution, e.g., in TeX:

y(t) = { y(0) b e^{bkt} \over y(0) \big ( e^{bkt} - 1 \big ) + b }

So, Chat can respond with content about differential equations but can't actually solve an exercise in first calculus.

(2) I gave Chat the question:

Given triangle ABC, construct D on side AB and E on side BC so that the lengths AD = DE = EC.

Chat had no answer, not even a hint or clue, how to do that.

But it did present some materials on triangles, all either irrelevant or not better than trivially relevant.

My Response: For some queries Chat may be a little better than Bing or Google.
ok - if it tells the owner what it is doing, and what is inside right? oh and the owner can turn it off too ?
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-07-14/california...

https://resource-recycling.com/recycling/2022/04/05/feds-wan...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turb...

There are unaccounted for external costs in renewables, which are not accounted for in those numbers. Nuclear is the only energy source with all-in, full-lifecycle accounting.
Oh ntohsense!
It's actually very impressive. I gave it the task of converting a query and an OpenAPI spec into an API call, and it worked! I've not been succesful in getting GPT-3.5 to do this without rambling on about the reasoning for its decision.
Show HN: Startup uses store inventory to compete with Amazon
Ok, I do respect that chain of logic. I've never really associated rationalism with organised religion, maybe I've been looking at it wrong!
Guess it depends on what you mean exactly with "talk". They can articulate phrases, isn't that enough?
Essentially a computer neural network is just a lot of addition (and matrix multiplication) of floating point numbers. The parameters are the "strength" or "weights" of the connections between neurons on different layers and the "bias" of each neuron. If neuron Alice is connected to neuron Bob and Alice has a value of 0.7, and the weight of Alice's connection to bob is 0.5, then the value sent from Alice to Bob is 0.35. This value (and the values from all the other incoming connections) are summed at added to the neuron's negative bias.

I highly recommend checking out 3blue1brown series on how neural nets, gradient descent, and the dot product (implemented as a matrix multiplication) all tie together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk
Salt changes how things cook. It's not a matter of just adding the right amount at the end.
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