skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My parents had a lot of old music and art books like this. It's where (along with strong influences from Don Martin & Antonio Prohías - MAD) I learned cartooning.

Also, from dmonitor:
>genuinely confused how the author/illustrator can include that sentence under their depiction of a black person. the lack of awareness is incredible.

It was 1937. I was born in the 60's and Song of the South regularly played on the Sunday night Disney show. Racism was blatent back in the day, but also considered normal.
Zero Day virus with undetectable exfiltration using only ChatGPT prompts
Congrats on the launch! Your GitHub Project board looks nice and clean. Do you have any posts or code for how your bot is managing issues there?
They actually have the new "experimental" dall-e model which is used in bing image creation tool. I don't know how it compares to recent midjourney/sd but it looks quite good I think.
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It’s going to be great. The internet will be a lifeless sack of shit full of bots and we’ll all have to meet up in person for true conversation.

We can have parties again and have friends instead of depression.
Sadly staying in everything is death by a thousand cuts. It is hard to have all the strategies at once.

Magic is finding out what of those can fly and it is not a manager but a leader quality to do well with new fields. Although sometimes managers feel the obvious moves for the short term sometimes better.
What's there to address? 1% stable funding is still 1% you can rely on, just because you receive additional funds from private sectors or alternative sources that are unreliable, doesn't negate this. You can literally see this in CPB funding, where private sources are incredibly variable, and that is what CPB gets, NPR is only allotted a portion.
Something I've always considered a curious decision about Bitcoin is the decision for halvings to occur as discrete events rather than as an exponential decay occurring on each block. Having them be discrete events is probably easier for someone to verify by eyeball, I guess, but it has the disadvantage that it creates moments in time where some large portion of the hardware in the market can suddenly no longer mine honestly and profitably.

This decision seems to greatly increase an attacker's chances at obtaining a huge supply of hardware that is too inefficient to mine profitably, but can be used profitably for a short time to attack the network.

I suppose Satoshi never imagined there would be specialty hardware used to mine, and that whatever commodity hardware mined bitcoin could find another use.
I have wished many times that I could just “mute the picture” but not the audio, especially when I am trying to fall asleep. Wish there was something like this for Roku.
Assuming you’re excluding laptops, tables, and phones I know quite a few people without any TV’s hooked up.

Watching YouTube on a tablet you can drag it around the house as you do stuff and easily use the interface or do web searchers etc. With a larger screen you’re just stuck in that room and remotes suck for navigation.

There’s been several attempts to be able to seamlessly swap content from one screen to another, but their clunky.
Shipping large ML models with electron
Like I said, they don't do secret stuff. People associate shame with having done something bad, and their in-the-open shamelessness is what breaks people's mental models of how to evaluate them.

There's a difference. I have a hard time thinking of anyone (other than Bernie) on the left who has followers in the same way as Trump or Elon. It's a very new (yet not new at all) type of cult of personality.
Generally those efforts are targeted at disease carrying mosquitoes. There are other species of mosquitoes in the same regions and there aren't any animals that only eat one kind of mosquito.
Stopping storms from creating dangerous urban geysers
So, what happened with that "anti-flashlight"?
Oh, yeah, I hear you on that as well. It's still a really cool tool! Probabilistic algorithms and other types of decision layering was mostly theory when I was in University. Seeing it go from a "niche class for smart math students" to breaking headlines all over the world is definitely pretty wild.

You are correct that nothing like this was even possible a couple decades ago. From a pure progress and innovation perspective, this is pretty incredible.

I can be skeptical, one of my favourite quotes is "they were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should". I like to protect innovation from pitfalls is all. Maybe that makes me too skeptical, sorry if that affected my wording.
This seems like a difference in perspective (which is reasonable and probably won’t be changed with discussion).

I interpret your opening statement here positively. I tend to think most people work towards the good of mankind, so a boost in productivity for everyone is a net positive.
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I think they should make it clear in the first paragraph when they are, in effect, writing about themselves or their employer. That's what I would have done.
By definition, SSPL is not an open-source license [1].

One could argue that the SSPL brings justice to open-source, as cloud providers will not be able to monetize a project without giving anything back. SSPL forces them to pay a license fee.

On the other hand, this also creates a vendor lock-in situation for the user, simply because not all service providers will be able to negotiate a deal with the developer of the SSPL-licensed product. This limits choice, limits competition between providers, among other things.

This license fee may also be increased at the sole discretion of the developer, and the increased fee will be paid by the user in the end. This all doesn't sound open-source to me at all.

[1]: https://blog.opensource.org/the-sspl-is-not-an-open-source-l...
I miss the days before 2008 when nobody was ever kidnapped, robbed or extorted.

I'm pretty sure it is faster to withdraw £500,000 in cash from your bank than to set up a crypto trading acccount and go through KYC etc.
The squeeze is getting tighter because mass data collection of the world population is perhaps a very questionable and ethically wrong business model for a private company and instead of developing the "Metaverse" which would make it even easier maybe Facebook should have looked at opportunities to turn their users into paying customers by providing valuable products and features that are worth paying for. The way you describe it is as if they have their hands tied together and because ad revenue was their initial model to success it means they cannot ever have any other profit model anymore, but I think that is wrong and that's where they've made a mistake.
Or she just made it up
On a similar note, there's a danger of comparing "the early colonial period in the Americas", a 300-400 year period containing many distinguishable catastrophes, to anything not of equal scale. It's kind of like comparing an apple and a whole apple tree.
> My brother is a contractor in the Bay Area and he told me that PG&E will not allow the installation of 220 volt EV charging infrastructure in new construction or a home remodel unless the homeowner can prove they already own an EV.

How can they do that? Could you just say you want to install an electric dryer in your garage (or even buy a used one off of CraigsList and literally do it for a week)?
Gold has been around a lot longer.
UULE Converter: A Ruby gem for encoding/decoding GPS to UULE parameter
The "state affiliated" label on Twitter was originally applied to sources that are not editorially independent from their states. Twitter put this label on NPR, then removed an explicit mention of NPR as non-state-affiliated from their public policy related to the label, then removed the mention of editorial independence from the policy entirely, then changed the label to "state funded."

I think it's easy to see why NPR objected to the initial "affiliated" labeling, and that they see the new one as just a quick wording change to try to bat back some criticism, but that it carries the same stigma.

In terms of the affiliation of the author, this is a story written by NPR itself: https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter...

The poster here on HN just happened to post the version from WBUR's website. Also, I don't know if it was edited later or not, but the piece both on NPR's site and WBUR's site has a disclosure at the end explicitly stating that it's NPR reporting on itself.
Yep. Should be labeled CEC unless the TV's UI hides that behind "user friendly" naming. I also have mine set to turn on/off the AV receiver with the TV, but it can be disabled. Only drawback is that you then need to remember to turn off the receiver.
This looks really good. Time to order one! My house is full of these little ESPs, most of them running ESPHome.
No prob! I turned 57 in February.
A large statistical model, likely run by some third-party attestation service, said so. It's mostly used to refuse service where governments require that (say, no service for North Korea), or to people known to repeatedly do fraud, etc. But false positives occur; sometimes an inspection by a human helps (send an ID).
I've read up a bit about this topic, but is there any books or recommendations that really cover the idea of what is popularized as the "mind-body connection + placebo effect"? There's obviously the best sellers / self-help crap in the world and even books on back pain being healed from this general "placebo" effect or at least the new awareness of it.

I've noticed this personal effect to be a constant theme in my life. I'm a chronic overthinker (OCD perhaps) and when I become aware enough of said "placebo effect", my problems go away and new ones take their place. Maybe that's just life, but there's such a strong power to placebo I'd love to learn more about.
What Are the Economic Impacts of Artificial Intelligence?
> shitty people scamming other people: Yes, everyone knows. It happens with normal money as well.

The thing is, governments don't want people to get scammed, and so they act to prevent scam avenues. But unlike, say, the trad-bank system the percentage of "scam" vs "legit" operations in cryptocurrencies is drastically skewed to the "scam" side, made easier by the anonymity that cryptocurrencies provide by design.
This will surely bring advertisers rushing through the doors!
what was the last thing you built for fun?
It's disingenuous to talk as if the relationship to NPR content to their funding is some simple linear relationship.

Every penny of their income is important. If they had less content to provide to member stations, those stations would have less content and would pull in fewer donations. It then becomes a death spiral since less content results in fewer donations.

While federally originated dollars are a small portion of NPR's total income they're not unimportant since they can't be replaced by other sources. A 1% reduction in income means they need to reduce expenses by 1%.

In your analogy, $1k/month goes into savings. Losing that wouldn't break you financially. You're not spending your all of your income. If you were you'd need to cut your expenses by the $1k/month. In that case you'd consider that 1% pretty important.
A distributed time-traveling debugger for Spritely Goblins
I feel that when every management book starts do bring up a company as an example, one should just sell the stocks in 2-3 years. Like Intel and its OKRs.
If it can run a replica set on an apple m1 which mongo can’t currently do then great!
"breaking even" on what? how much it costs to run? How about fact they are worth < 25% of what he paid for it 6 months ago.
I'm Danish and I may have a different take on this than many Americans, but I'm frankly a little appalled that our democratic institutions are still renting their digital homes on the turf of tech giants

They do this because our federal government is absolutely incapable of doing it themselves. Any tech project (hell, any massive project in general) they undertake goes massively over-budget/over-schedule and is loaded with subcontractor after subcontractor circling overhead like vultures trying to get their piece of the pie. It's why no government at any level is capable of delivering a public works project anymore. It's why so many have so little faith in our governments. No one cares about the end results, they just want to know how they can benefit personally from it and then fuck off
> GPIOs can be extended on them via USB

Again, I am designing a farming robot. We absolutely do not want to use USB for anything critical (which is pretty much everything). On our raspberry pi motherboard I’m using SPI to talk to CAN bus chips to do motor control. I’ve had so many weird control USB issues in my life I would absolutely not want to use USB for motor control!
who else would you blame it on? communist, centralised states are reknown for causing these kinds of problems - look at the ussr in the 1920s and 30s.
This change will likely advantage established institutions, no? It will be much harder for a whistleblower, random, etc to prove something that the powers-that-be would prefer be kept quiet.
If there were JOINs it may be a sign MongoDB was not the best DB for you. It means the model was relational and a relational DB would be a better fit. MongoDB lookups are discouraged in general, and especially in analytical workloads, which cover a lot of data. MongoDB is better for the scenario, where all you need is already in the document.
It's less helpful when those are the only news organizations that get a label. At least in the past newspapers would helpfully label themselves as the political party they supported. There's even still a Herald-Whig :) .
So what does this mean for RISC-V?
Do you think the US, China and Russia similar?

I have a lot of criticism for the US, but the US can at least punish its rulers at the ballot box. The US isn’t chucking journalists out the window or vanishing them on a regular basis. Objectively, it’s hard say the three are similar, as two of those countries deserve more criticism. They are not the same when you zoom out.

I am not an American.
It's extremely easy to use cash to pay for postage. Slap fake sender information on the package and you'll be very difficult to find.
I'm still on unpaid tenancy and oracle docs say that reclaim servers which are under or overutilized.

I use my oracle free servers (and one paid vps on hetzner) as automatic cloud fallbacks if my homelab is inaccessible over the internet for some reason. Which means I fall in the underutilized category as most of the time workload is under 2%. So I "fake" work to prevent reclaimation by oracle and its worked well so far.

```
# Oracle Cloud reclaims idle resources
# https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier...

- name: Create cronjob for minimum CPU utilization

ansible.builtin.cron:

name: fake work to prevent re-claimation

special_time: hourly

job: timeout 30s sha1sum /dev/zero

```
It should be under the same label as BBC, just govt-funded. Up to you what you think of that. State-affiliated means definite editorial control. Syria etc call those outlets education too.
I haven't played with the model just yet - but just eye balling it's performance it's significantly worse. I'm surprised they don't have Pythia on there as that's what they're based on from my understanding.

At their performance level it's the most important to compare to GPT-neoX, and I do appreciate they aren't making the "95% of GPT4" claims that some fine-tuned llama models are.

EDIT: For databricks people: I'd love to see this compared with Pythia, LLaMa, Alpaca, and vicuna/gpt4all if possible.
A criticism of NPR that I often see online is that NPR is leftists' propaganda machine (not government's, mind you, but democrat's). However, is this criticism true, though? To me, a propaganda machine would lie or weave facts to paint false pictures. I think it's perfectly okay if a media is either left leaning or right leaning. Heck, it's even okay if a media is extreme left biased or right biased, as long as the media reports facts (I assume opinions are their own rights). The only example I saw recently was that NPR blatantly rejected the legitimacy of the Hunter Biden's laptop story. I don't agree with NPR's decision, but I can definitely give them the benefit of doubt that they truly believed that the story was a distraction. So, are there any additional data points that show NPR is a propaganda machine to some extent?
Warts are an immune system that hasn't identified an intruder yet. There are plenty of folk remedies that are basically about tricking the brain into telling the body to get on with it. One involves tracing it and burning the paper.

The last wart I had (when I was younger) I got mad (and angrier) at it one day and started trying to cut it out. I'm certain there were bits of it I missed, but it was gone in a week. I decided I had finally had enough and my body got the message.
Yes, wholly agree. The special parts are in language. Both humans and AI are massively relying on language. No wonder AIs can spontaneously solve so many tasks. The secret is in that trillion training tokens, not in the neural architecture. Any neural net will work, even RNNs work (RWKV). People are still hung up on the "next token prediction" paradigm and completely forget the training corpus. It reflects a huge slice of our mental life.

People and LLMs are just fertile land where language can make a home and multiply. But it comes from far away and travels far beyond us. It is a self replicator and an evolutionary process.
The price disparity is getting worse. Cloud price reductions haven’t kept pace with the amazing pace of hardware performance improvements, especially in I/O and RAM quantity.

For $400 you can buy an SSD with 1.5 million sustained IoPS.

It is no big deal to build a 1TiB RAM box these days.
Personally, "open source" is very low on the list of things that would convince me to pay several thousands dollars extra per appliance. That's just way too much money for something like "avoid pushing the buttons or getting up without needing third party servers." I'll just push the buttons, thanks.

Even just paying multiple times more for reliability in the forms of quality components is a hard sale. What if I move? Do I want to have to bother trying to take it with me and potentially replacing it for the next buyers? What if a new dishwasher in a decade is as much better than this one as this one is compared to the one I had ten years ago (seems unlikely, but possible?)?
It's difficult to square urban vs rural interests without creating a tyranny of a majority/minority on either side. Dense urban areas already subsidize rural and even suburban infrastructure and use less resources. Proposing that urban areas tax themselves even more to limit pollution isn't very equitable either.

The fact of the matter is that current CO2 emissions are unsustainable, and we have no choice but to address the issue. That might mean that some may need to go to the grocery store more than bimonthly.
The only problem I have with PostgreSQL's JSONB type is it strictly implements the JSON standard, so things like nulls and integers aren't supported. Depending on your data, this could be a real problem.
Doxycycline can also reduce the effectiveness of certain forms of birth control.
Not to mention it is conveniently a non-profit so all those donations are tax write-offs. What better way to influence the voice of a media company?
Ultrasonic Acoustic Attack Targeting Microphones and Voice Assistants
Haha, I think he's already at that point with respect to humanity. All my childhood he impressed upon us that we're not special, that only hard work and dedication will get you somewhere in life.

It's a small leap to apply that to general intelligence, I would think.

You are right though, we are coming closer and closer to deciphering the machinations of our psyche's. One day we'll know fully what it is that makes us tick. When we do, it will seem obvious and boring, just like all the other profound developments of our time.
A social media company is a media company in the same way that a cyberspace company is a space company.
They aren’t even slightly balanced anymore, especially their radio stuff. They took a hard turn left after Trump was nominated. They refused to report on the Hunter Biden laptop story. I didn’t hear a single positive thing about anything the Trump administration did during his presidency, only after the last election. You can’t turn on your local station without hearing some identity politics within a few minutes - either from them or NPR itself. They often only have one “side” being interviewed for their reporting.

It just so happens that Republicans want to pull their funding and Democrats don’t. That’s a bit of a chicken or the egg type situation.

It’s sad because they used to be pretty good, and were probably the last bastion of somewhat balanced reporting in our country.
They're in basically every major airport, as well as most modern airplanes.
But it does directly say that. You just need to read for 30 seconds instead of 5. The 1st paragraph tells you the features of the app and paragraphs 3-6 tell you the motivation behind the app and the primary use case. That is a pretty good structure for this type of web page.
I think one could argue that there are probably easier ways to manipulate a market than a 51% attack on Bitcoin.
I'm not sure what you meant about the language to use -- but I do agree that I'd prefer to see disclosures upfront. I know that most NPR podcasts, for example, state the disclosure at the start of the podcast. Because honestly, I probably only finish about half of the articles I start -- I know, that's my fault.
If there were no microservices, a lot of companies would run their monoliths on a few VMs, with a small fraction of the cost ;)
New faculty-led organization at Harvard will defend academic freedom
> If they really wanted to cut, emissions bycicles and trains are the way to do it.

Exactly, what we really need to do is have a restrictive permitting system for cars like some cities have for guns. If you can't show good cause for needing a car, you shouldn't be able to get permit to buy one. Just use public transit or bike.
MongoDB really only makes sense when you have an extremely large set of documents and you don't need to do this kind of statistics.
> what does that have to do with Jesus being inconsistent?

The reality that The Bible is logically inconsistent provides opportunity for biblical followers to be themselves logically inconsistent.

If The Bible were logically consistent, then that opportunity would not be present; and biblical followers would share a homogenous set of moral ideology.

Christianity is well known for having many different denominations, each with their own take on biblical morality and dogma.
HDMI CEC is great if it works, but that is not always (although support got much better in the last 5 years from TV vendors)
Is Opening Up Amazon Sidewalk to Third-Party Developers Safe?
The biotech venture capital crunch
Transformer Deep Dive: Parameter Counting