skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This made me laugh!

I run a 4kW fibre laser, but I've also worked alongside enough trades and technicians I'm also: remote hands; infrastructure engineer; maintenance fitter; electrician; cable hauler; SQL database manager; Delphi hacker; desktop support; VoIP telephony support; network engineer; refrigeration technician, as well as being a certified boilermaker-welder tradie with 26 years in the trade.

We just replaced the Y-axis ball screw on the laser, but only after it was slopping about 0.6mm.

I know shops where expensive equipment is sitting idle or broken because they can't find, and can't afford to pay for, someone with my experience.
Yeah, its becoming ridiculous, but somebody needs to say it like it is. I, along with other people I am working with, used it on litterally thousands of different machines, during last decade. I think I have a pretty good experience about its speed, and while its not millisecond snappy, its not a picture you people are makig. If its slow, its a local problem, period. VM, AV, too many slow modules on autoload, slow profile, it could be a bunch of things.

Now, you can keep whining for next decade, or fix your problem and stop this millenial shaneningas.
Laser printer paper varies widely in quality. Most of the ones I've used have a lot of feathering. I have had good experiences with the Target brand papers.
And the time it took was probably shorter, since you could just poke around menus full of text that says what the damn thing does, that might open modals or dialog boxes full of buttons that do what they say on the damn button, and icons that gasp, might have had text labels indicating what they do! You could hop in and if your task was reasonably simple, just hop the menus and click on stuff and see if it was what you needed.

But no, here's a smear of low contrast grey with some tiny, grey, unlabeled hieroglyphics for buttons/icons, isn't it nice? It's so clean! So pretty! So lacking in discoverability!
> As a Linux user, you may wonder why someone would ever consider replacing it with Windows. Be nice!

I think it's unfair to Linux users to assume that they'll be mean to someone who switches from Linux to Windows. It's probably 100% accurate, but still...
How did you spot it
I’m pretty sure you can get a purpose-built pc tower in that range. Why would you favor a Mac over that? A lot of this stuff only has limited support for MacOS.
[Supabase engineer & Author of the blog post]

Hi Mark, hosted Supabase Edge Functions would still run on Deno Deploy, so those limitations would still exist. However, we plan to introduce file system access via integration with Supabase Storage. This is still a rough idea stage, maybe we'll have a solid answer in a couple of months :)

For dynamic imports, we haven't looked into it since Supabase users haven't requested it. If you can open an issue on Edge Runtime repo [0] and explain how you intend to use them, we can probably work on a solution.

[0] https://github.com/supabase/edge-runtime/issues
synchronization requires serialized access, regardless of the nature of the consumer system (real-time or not)

wait-free algorithms might use spin-locks instead of typical mutexes, but spin-locks aren't like better or faster than mutexes, they just replace syscall/io waits with hot waits
> companies

I didn't say that about a company
I'M SO SORRY
I like that this essentially can simulate any card game.

(Feedback: can't click "sort" on mobile due to placement of git banner.)
Elixir and Rust Is a Good Mix
Like Apple's repair kits mentioned in another comment, I suspect their strategy will involve providing tools that cost nearly as much to rent as it would take to buy a new machine.

That reminds me of how much things have changed since the "good old days". I have some service manuals for mid-century equipment that don't need much in the way of special tools, and where one is needed or would be helpful, they tell you how to make one.
You can also put a hard dollar limit on OpenAI just to be safe.
Give it time. Tesla may be heading to court over FSD and social media is getting a whipping in congressional hearings.
The "marginalized group" in this case are the ones that invaded a country and are killing innocent civilians for natural resources.
> deserve to be robbed

ya blind justice is outdated.
Everyone likes the censors when they are on their side.
Yes there is truly nothing new under the sun. Everything old is new again! If only these whippersnappers respected their elders they wouldn't have to keep reinventing the wheel.
No questions asked, no strings attached treatment offered where they are is going to need to be a national reality before this is a meaningful concern. Back here in reality the real barriers to treatment are means testing, provider burnout, arbitrary rules, general inaccessibility, cost, scheduling conflicts, etc. people want to live better lives. Their definition of better may not reflect yours or others and we need to accept that if the only person that they’re hurting is themself. Anything less is more of this tired song and dance while real people suffer because rich pearl clutchers can’t handle gay trans drug users with face tattoos or whatever getting a cent of tax money so they won’t die preventable deaths.
Twitter used to go down a lot. In some sense, struggling under load is a nice problem to have (as you want the users) though.

I find I’m not super convinced that ‘aws exists’ or whatever solves the problems Twitter had. Though I guess a bunch of the problems with eg distributing a notification to millions of followers or super-deep reply chains or football games or new years or whatever can be punted on until you have significant numbers of users which fits ‘low barrier to entry’.
As long as there have been distinct human cultures, there has been cultural syncretism.

What a lot of people imagine as separable cultures along borders were really cultural gradients or mixtures (this village here is mostly X, the villages north and south of here are Y, but the village even further south is also X, and we all speak each others’ language).

A lot of our discourse and views on culture are still poisoned by jingoistic nationalism from the 19th and 20th centuries (a cover for othering political foes and motivating the masses to fight and die for political goals), as well as concepts like imperialism and the couple centuries of European political hegemony, plus the elimination of non-prestige dialects/local languages and cultures via mass media.

It’s hard for us to imagine, but in a time before modern concepts of race/organized religion/nationalism the world was quite a dynamic cultural melting pot that wasn’t organized along these more recent distinctions. Greeks traded from Britain to India, pagan religions often saw other cultures’ pantheons as the same religion with different names and traditions, people noticed physical differences between groups of people but weren’t applying racist concepts to them. In a way, people of antiquity were often more tolerant and accepting than many contemporary people. But they could also just decide to kill and invade their neighbors with no pretext beyond wanting their stuff.
Up to 50 UK special forces present in Ukraine this year, US leak suggests
I did! Onward 2010 I think. It was a fun paper. Escape from the maze of twisty classes.
this is exactly my point

html is not precisely defined
Ro Khanna’s Progressive Case for Saving Silicon Valley Bank
Poll: Slack/Teams/etc. Etiquette
Is it rude to message coworkers on Slack/Teams/etc outside of their scheduled working hours?
I misread that title as: AI ran for office and won in a landslide.
Universities in the UK don't seem much better, I hear similar regarding a lot of experiences. It seems like if you have a pulse then you get your piece of paper, even if you missed most of your seminars (which they are meant to kick you out over, but most don't). Education has become less about actually being educated and more paying the piper to get your piece of paper to assumedly stand out against other candidates for job positions, who likely also have the same sheet of paper anyway.

Sure, for some professions, nothing much has changed, but for a lot, it's become a bit of a joke.
Lots of things are supposed to be guaranteed by various constitutions which, sadly, are not.
They did conquer the entirety of Gaul, which is not just coast. And France isn't small. Romans built roads, supply depots, carried supplies on pack animals.

And if you think you can move 50,000 soldiers 500 miles deep into enemy territory without supply lines, you can forget about that too. Napoleon did use supply lines from Poland into Russia. Remember: we're talking about Sun Tzu's advice not to bring your own food but take it all from the enemy land, and I'm saying that doesn't work in all circumstances. I'm not saying it never works. But there are very good reasons why historically, large armies did rely on supply lines.
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/usa-leaks-103.html

Good analysis on the german Tagesschau
I bought my first fountain pen on Amazon (didn't know about Jetpens/Goulet/others).

My second pen (Jinhao) - I think I got it from eBay.

I suspect my next pen was also from Amazon.

After that, though, all my pens came from niche stores. A number of PenBBS pens directly from the maker, etc.

I just compared one of the pens I bought: Amazon is not cheaper than Jetpens.
Is that a feature, or a bug?

When someone finds a bug in the smart contract which allows me to transfer the car title to you, or the DMV loses their keys, or $whatever happens and suddenly some 13-year-old elbonian hacker owns every car in California I think "restore from yesterday's backup" is a better solution than rewriting the immutable blockchain.

And, anyway, blockchains can be altered, you just need a majority to agree. Look at eth.
Low effort post on my part, but I sure won't be buying or taking any advice from this company that publicly advertises this kind of mess in such a "proud" manner. Not only that but it's like the SASS-equivalent of the recipe blog post meme.

This is what you get when you hire using leet code exercises and dump all your design thinking to "Senior" developers that have 1-3 years under their belt.
The unified GPU/CPU memory structure on ARM Macs is very, very helpful for running these LLMs locally.
Its been a while since I last went into a deep dive about this, but i think the term did exist before. Black pepper, other spices, as well as ginger or garlic can add "heat" to a dish without chili peppers.
I think Valve suffers from what Blizzard suffers: they got so insanely profitable with one product that the games they’re known for became a distraction.

It seems counterintuitive: if there’s money to be had, go get it. But there’s a cognitive load and time sink at the senior management levels. Why bother us with this idea for a game that represents 1% of our annual profit if successful?

I feel a possible answer to this is to create a “prestige” studio that is more focused on fortifying your brand rather than profit. And I feel that what’s needed is full autonomy. Blizzard or Valve can wholly own this studio, but there is no cross-resourcing. Hire a passionate team, give them IPs to tenderly care for, and then leave them the ^%#* alone.
Getting a 502. https://web.archive.org/web/20221117070941/https://www.bbc.c...
Running models locally is the future for most inferencing cycles. There is a lot of accuracy that could be improved in your numbered list trying to dissuade people.

> 64GB probably isn't enough for competitive LLMs anyway

I am trying to charitable, but this is pretty not true. And the hedging in your statement only telegraphs your experience.
But then again, people who understood things that actually work better than Marxists and libertarians would realise that the public entity isn't stuck with nearly all the risk, because enough bad loans still wipe out bank shareholders (and the liquidity risk of maturity transformation is eliminated altogether). The moral hazard in banking operates at the level of individual bank employees' incentives, and that isn't exactly reduced by making them all state employees with political masters...
Does UFC (real) not work because of pro wrestling (fake)?
Thanks, all.

FWIW, here below are some of my past comments about Red on HN, including the one about crypto, written using my main HN id, this one, vram22. The langfan id I did the OP under is just a new one I made up to comment from another phone.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I get it, but just do it.
I still don't understand why that takes a separate job. Most other subway lines the operator does this too, even barks on the PA and sounds an alarm over the problem door, as well as has an internal camera they can switch on to see inside the car, but you don't need a second staffer because by definition the operator is no longer driving while doing doors at the station. MTA on the other hand has decided it needs to pay at least one person to sit and do nothing at all times during the train operation: the train operator who does nothing while the door operator futzes at the station, and the door operator who does nothing while the train is traveling.
I don't know what pre-Columbian indian cooking was like, but black pepper can provide some kick and is native to south west india
How much does M&A advisory fees cost?
I am doing a thorough research into M&A laws of multiple jurisdiction, which lead me to curiosity.
How much does a M&A advisory firm/ merchant bank / investment bank charge for such transactions. Its quite unclear in the internet, the claim by the articles and websites range from 0.1% - 10% ... It's really confusing.

Would appreciate some clear answers.
I started with a Metropolitan and then bought the Eco as an upgrade. Returned the Eco - too scratchy for me.

The Metropolitan was my favorite until I got a PenBBS and custom nib for it.
You can use basalt rebar, saves on concrete too.
Problems come when you want to violate the rules of the grammar. Perhaps you want to use a recent syntactic construct in the language not yet supported by the editor. Or perhaps certain escape sequences and/or quotation marks confuses the editor.
AIBrainz Playlist Generator
That's for services rendered by the SFFD. But there are plenty of private ambulance companies that charge whatever they charge. You don't get to say "no thank you" if you are unconscious.

For example, when my family were involved in a car crash on the freeway in Los Angeles some years ago, even though the local fire department arrived at the scene within minutes, their paramedics did not. My two kids were taken to hospital in separate private ambulances. $6k each.
Parts of NLP have made great progress. There are still parts of NLP that could still be improved, such as the truthiness of generated answers.
Rossmo's Formula
Regular databases can be distributed across many servers.

If the blockchain is private, the DMV would have unilateral control to just roll things back if they desired. All of the public mirrors would notice that but they'd have no say in it. If the public nodes did have access the DMV wouldn't be able to control the chain (and wouldn't be able to revert mass errors/failures) and they won't let things out of their control.

This is absolutely just buzzword soup.
I'm pretty sure that John Deere tractors are not a throwaway item, even if the dealer is holding you hostage on a repair.
Regarding the LCD problem: Don't you simply have to align the signal sent to the glasses with the LCD frames? You don't need the full delay, as the switching is rhythmic, so you only need up to 1 frame, or 1/30th of a second. I imagine it shouldn't be too hard to build an analogue device with a knob to control the delay, after which you just turn it to whatever position shows the appropriate image for each eye.
I think he was just bluffing, but in the end it turned out that his bluff was legally binding.
It's literally the same thing humans do, at least to my personal experience. If you ask me a question, the first thing my mind generates is a plausibly sounding answer.

Ive been practicing meditation for some years now and over time I’ve realised this is not what I see happening when observing the mind. It’s one mode of operation, but it’s not the only mode. Using prediction to respond is mostly the lazy, non-interested approach, or useful if you can’t quite hear or understand someone.

What I feel lot of people have started doing is trivialising the mind. Hoping it’s all “this simple” and we’re three versions of ChatGPT away to finding God.

Maybe?
Isn't that the whole point? How do you get priority at a company changed to do what you want without ordering or paying your coworkers?
This isn't 1997 were you could make videogames with 20 people.
Wishing you and yours less strain and more happiness going forward, mate. That's rough.
I asked mine to code a game and I got an infinity stone in the mail, the yellow one. Weird.
Sure, that's 3%, but what about shipping 2x, 4x, and 8x as wide memory systems, largely enabled by not using industry standard dimms.
The spirit of this is right. You are both right though.

It depends what you are protecting, what the consequences are.

At one extreme raw ChatGPT let's you type anything. But the worst case is they lost 1c in compute cost and some weird text comes back. Maybe text that tells you how to do something you shouldn't do legally. So there is a risk there. Maybe they are happy with it.

Another extreme is a prompted-ChatGPT powered bot that opens a bank vault if it is convinced you are the bank manager. Then "two 99% prompts stuck together" is no where near good enough. In fact any prompt injection problem at all will be a problem (plus any problem in the judging powers of ChatGPT)
Lambda@Edge is a great solution for the locality problem (CloudFront can just route to the nearest edge function, and despite certain headaches, it works well), but what it doesn’t help to solve is the cold start problem. In a sense Lambda@Edge works against it, as provisioned concurrency is only supported for ‘regular’ Lambda functions.

At a certain level of scale, the cost of spinning of an ALB Fargate task (which could run these servers relatively easily) ends up being relatively negligible. Although that’s certainly not true for every org.
500M humans are not in Twitter looking to have pleasant, cordial, thoughtful interactions and consume high quality content in a highly moderated environment.

Actually that's exactly what we don't want.

So Substack will be successful in its own niche, doesn't need to eat Twitter's lunch for that.

The problem is at the current valuation of $650M and bleeding $25M per year, they will have to come up with a plan to generate revenue pretty soon, most likely in the form of ads and generally that's incompatible with high quality content.

Now if Substack's fan base put their wallets where their mouth is and pay say $30 per month, then maybe Substack wouldn't need ads, but we know that's not going to happen, not even at $5 per month.
We're not far off from people owning AI agents who will directly act in economic and political spheres. The potential leverage on behalf of an ownership class (of not necessarily just humans) with the ability to evaluate data, formulate hypotheses, and execute strategy in the real world will make Wall St. stock strats seem quaint.
I've run my own email server for quite a few years and that's still a tough question to answer. I have thought about creating a few email accounts to test that though, but still not done it.

It would be pretty easy to test that by setting up an email server with a few accounts and make a list of sites you entered those email addresses on. If you entered those email address for just one site you'd nail down the first few they sold your email address to at least and could track who it spread to since.

Mail-in-a-Box makes it pretty easy to set up an email server. It's tough to get a clean IP that's not on a blacklist but you wouldn't have to worry about that. It will receive mail from any IP unless you block it.
I'd suggest checking out "Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar" to learn about their design process. It's fascinating. There can absolutely be visionaries out there... Miyazaki, Kojima, Miyamoto are probably the top three right now. But there's a ton that are kinda went out with a whimper such as Molyneux, Wright, Carmack, Romero, the Housers, Schafer, Sweeney.

I think abstraction is key. There's gotta be a happy medium between absolute control or almost a sense of worship and not allowing a singular person to guide the ship.
The only benefit I could see is allowing title transfers without the involvement of the government.

Do you think they will give up that kind of control?

I agree a public CT-style log is far more appropriate.
Or maybe they try to avoid the kind of discussion that more often than not degenerates into low quality/bot content or outright flamewars. On the other end of the spectrum, FB allowed war posts urging violence against Russian.

Thanks but I prefer to not be subjected to constant hate speech and the militarization of any discourse. Try to visit reddit these days, it's become a cesspool of war propaganda and military glorification.
Garam masala is a blend of spices that are lightly roasted. The "garam"/hot refers to this roasting.
Ask HN: How close are we to Bard/ChatGPT/AGI crawling sites as HN for answers?
There is significant knowledge to be extracted from HN and iother sites, ready to be a course in 'anecdotal' but relevant on [SUBJECT]

just point it at places pertinent to the SUBJECT and build me a text book, with links, explaination and vids related to said...
While we seek to reduce the amount of screen time in small kids (which I agree with (we should be forcing them to go on hikes for example, summer camps should be free and kids should spend as much time outside as possible)

But lets not gloss over the fact that Comupter-AI is going to make some smarter humans...

I'm, looking at you Wesley Crusher, you annoying overly smart jerk....

Thats who we are making. Until we can invent DATA.
Dangerous speech?
If it'll come to pass, we'll probably have a groundbreaking discovery that the brain violates the physical Church-Turing thesis on our hands. That would be quite unexpected.
Well if they release an update that improves the quality of something, that would be a reason to patch.
That’s not a very convincing rebuttal. Lack of evidence doesn’t mean it never existed. I suggest repeating the study at every in patient psych center.
Dev-0196: QuaDream’s “KingsPawn” malware used to target civil society
Substack notes is an interesting reimagining of blog post comments to be presented in a more familiar social media style.
I got an e-ink typewriter (a Japanese device, with a 7" screen or something to that effect).
It's cool in theory, but in practice it was easier to just use Selfcontrol (on Mac) and block everything, except the word processor.

typing on normal keyboard with all the copy-paste etc. functionality is just so much better.

An even more extreme variant I used was to create a separate user profile with just the word processor in it.
It looks like the GPTs are coming for freelance writing. Top ten posts this month on that forum:

- It happened to me today
- Best freelance platforms for finding writing jobs
- ChatGPT replaced my job
- Being asked for a refund because my writing was “AI Generated”
- I've essentially lost my main source of income to AI and feeling very discouraged.
- Why should I pay you $200 when GPT-4 is only $20/mth?
- I got offered a freelance writing job for the first time
- I lost 3 (thankfully small) clients in 3 months to AI now - and was rejected by a potential client yesterday because the “other guy” uses chatbot for “research” making him more cost effective, so I finally bit the bullet and went to have a play around today… And it’s been banned in Italy!?
- WordAgents Content Mill Mutiny Caused by AI
- The best answer I found in response to "Why should we hire a human writer"