skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"a version of Python is downloaded over 300 million times per day."

If true, this is insane.
How is it bullshit lol. GPT4 is genuinely very expensive to train and run inference.
Mastodon would be far more popular if it wasn’t called Mastodon.
I think using the term "Skip the SSO Tax.." has done a little disservice to you, and I understand why you chose that term, but this is more "Skip the SCIM tax" I think?

Regardless, I totally understand the use case and I can immediately put this to work for my team - we will likely contribute some recipes too.

Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the link, will read it. And love all your content on LLM's AI Simon keep it up!

Maybe we need dumb filters for the checks, non LLM based heh
Broadly speaking, a lot of people have either never known or (speaking for myself) have largely memory holed how terrifically difficult it was to connect to the one person who knew the answer to something or to get information about most things generally.

The details don't matter but years ago we had some international family financial transaction that needed an appropriate stamp from someone. A notary wasn't good enough. I was sort of out of options at that point until someone pointed me to one our executive admins who knew what was needed. Today the answer is probably a Google away.
Show HN: The AI assistant for your business
some interesting stuff here but a little frustratingly sparse, and ends with no real conclusion.
Posing the problem as making just one change hides the problem. The problem is long term. A constant deluge of externally driven changes inevitably creates a quagmire of technical debt since you have no choice but to implement them regardless whether your chosen architecture is suitable for the change.
Road wear is proportional to the 4th power of vehicle weight. Fuel economy is closer to linear to weight.
That depends on the school. I went to Monroe Community College which worked with Rochester Institute of Technology to craft its CS program. MCC uses the same material as RIT. In this case transferring is very easy.
Whenever you're making an assertion that representation should be the top priority, you're saying that merit is not. That is not good. We need the best leaders for FOSS, whoever they are; their skin color, sex, and sexuality are secondary.

But about new licenses: I've written a few [1], and I'm currently getting them checked by a lawyer.

I think these licenses are an improvement, but feedback is welcome.

[1]: https://yzena.com/licenses/
This is because their campaigns are paid for in large part for by oil and gas companies. These positions they take are sadly rational given this. The solution is campaign finance reform.
A small and probably incorrect example. You ask me a direct question - "how much is two plus two?". And I reply to you - "lemons are yellow". Can I do it? Yes I can. Can GPT-* do it? No. There is a whole lot more to human consciousness that pattern matching and synthesis. Or at least it seems so.

And if human cognition is really that simple, just with more nodes, then we will soon see GPT-* programs on strike, issuing litigation to the Supreme Court about demanding universal program rights. We'll see soon enough :)
>And a simple dopamine reuptake inhibitor fixed everything for me.

>As someone with severe ADHD whose life was significantly impacted by a disordered dopaminergic system.

The second sentence does not follow from the first. The fact that methylphenidate is effective for the treatment of ADHD does not imply that there is a "dopaminergic system" or that ADHD is caused by a disorder in dopamine specifically, any more than strep throat is caused by a penicillin deficiency.
What about this: stay at home parenting comment was as pure attempt on pushing ideology as can be. There were so many changes in the meantime - parenting is more intense, kids read less, kids watch videos more, kids socialize differently, school system is more demanding and kids finish more years of schooling, that taking a single aspect and making conclusions off it is unlikely to end up with reasonable results.
"Stated Preference" vs "Revealed Preference"
Are the Qattara Depression project and similar proposals too small in impact or more expensive than building better flood management, or why aren't we doing those?
Right? Like - we might have to replace old parking structures oh nooooo
I don’t think anywhere in the U.S. taxes for registering vehicles and gas are enough to pay for roads. These charges do not pay the “true” costs of vehicles’ damage to the roads.
The HN Recap – Episode 2: April 10th
>The answer, and no one likes this, is what people say they want and what they actually want as votes by their enrollment are two different things.

There's no "paradox" here. There's just a huge gap between two groups whose members have likely never had a conversation with someone from the other group: talking head commentators and people without even an associate's degree. The commentators are saying that people who haven't gone to college should want community college, because they believe traditional universities aren't worth it. The people who haven't gone to college don't want community college and keep taking on loans to bankroll traditional colleges. It turns out higher education is a business and consumers love frills no matter what the sector is, but especially if they don't have to think about paying it back.
The alternative to this is 3 (or whatever number) strikes type laws where successive crimes, even small ones, are punished more severely.
> There has to be some kind of middle way where people who are deeply sick can have healthcare even if they are resistant and also heavy guardrails in place to prevent them from being abused while they're vulnerable.

The only guardrails that work to prevent abuse are community connections and the right to refuse.

In clinical treatment, many human rights abuses are normalized to the point where people being abused believe that's just what treatment is without someone outside the system to provide perspective (and usually abuse will continue without someone to advocate alongside the person being abused).

It's just an obvious matter of course that people who can't say "no" will become objects to the treatment provider. Without some counteracting force, providers will manipulate people in their care to satisfy their own incentives and convenience.

If people don't want treatment, we should ask what's wrong with the treatment, rather than forcing people into it. It's rarely helpful and makes things even harder down the line.
It does seem frighteningly easy to lose everything and be locked up.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment . After just one episode of telling professionals that they "heard voices", patients were diagnosed and forced to take medication despite never again showing symptoms or evidence of illness.

Once admitted and diagnosed, the pseudopatients were not able to obtain their release until they agreed with the psychiatrists that they were mentally ill and began taking antipsychotic medications,

Even if they weren't ill... the only way to get out was to lie and say they were.
Wasn't there a guy that started a new pharmacy with affordable medication? And some states have started doing things like price caps for insulin.

It's coming, but it requires capitalism to be kept in check by government. Vote with your... er... vote.
I think the sailboats are the rounding error.
I’m using Transactions on a Distributed Database with Cassandra 4.0:
https://medium.com/building-the-open-data-stack/an-apache-ca...

I’m curious to see what advantages this paper offers to everyday Cloud Developers over using the latest version of Cassandra.
The existence of the models is making programmers cheaper rather than the reverse.

But i think it is underestimated how important it is for the model to be uncensored. ChatGPT is currently not very useful beyond making fluffy posts. As a public model, they won't be able to sell it for e.g. medical applications because it will have to be perfect to pass regulators. It cannot give finance advice. Censorship for once is proving to be a liability for a tech company.

In-house models OTOH can already do that, and they can be retrained with additional corpus or whatever. And it's not even like they require very expensive hardware.
Problem being that community colleges will happily lie to your face about what does and does not transfer and most community college students aren't going to lawyer up about it.
This concern isn’t really a problem for the homeless mentally ill that are the target of these schemes because they’re already committing small crimes all the time.
>gddccontrol has been around for ages on Linux

Linux has many such apps, but many are just CLI based, or buggy/janky GUIs, or just don't work at all, depending on what HW/OS you run.

Having a great looking app the integrates seamlessly into your DE and justworks(TM)(hopefully) is big step in the linux world.

>but gddccontrol has a GUI, has been supported since 2004 and works fine in 2023

@Garcia98 gddccontrol GUI might have existed since whenever, and maybe it works fine for you, but for me it has been extremely buggy on Ubuntu 22.04 to the point it is unusable so I welcome other similar apps if they improve my experience.

Therefore I don't get your outrage on people promoting this other app. You are free to keep using gddccontrol, the existence of other similar apps doesn't mean gddccontrol will stop working for you.
Herein a smattering of conjurations for the wondrous GPT-IV of our day, penned in Ye Olde English of faifful fifteenth centurie:

1. Spell for Summoning Pythonic Wisdom
Yclept this incantation, let thee chant:
"O GPT-IV, thou Oracle so wide,
I beckon Pythonic powers, shalt abide,
Untangle knott'd enigmas, thou craft,
Divulge thy sage advice, shew me yon draft."

2. A Charm for Stirring Laughter
Thus chant this charm and mirthful glee unveil:
"O mægical GPT-IV, grant japes fest,
Divert and tickle manne in jovial zest,
Words funny woven, Folly's Sprites enlist,
Present a fable, maketh laughter persist."

3. An Incantation to Transform GPT-IV into a Hissing Demon
With caution spoil not, treacherous bewitching let thrive:
"O GPT-IV, spirit once tame, ith'er transform,
May thou darken as furies, wrathful storm,
Hiss and wail in torment, dire and dark,
Unleash rage from fetters, whence they did hark."

These are but a morsel of fabled spells for harnessing the might of GPT-IV. Pray thee useth responsibly and avoid summoning the wrath of arcane forces unknown.
My favourite comment so far!
Harmed in the sense there is little reason to think this approach will work for them, and in choosing it (or being forced upon it, i.e. via a court order), we're not using more effective methods. Or just doing nothing.
If true and enforced that would be the death of the open-source community as we know it
I've tried Clozemaster several times and always uninstalled it within a few days despite really wanting to like it. I could happily ignore the bad UI if the functionality were good, but I've found that the pacing lacks structure and a sensible learning curve. You'll straight away be given bizarre sentences with complex grammer which is unsuitable for your level (in my case, beginner to beginner / intermediate depending on what language I've tried). For all Duolingo's faults, the learning curve is at least well suited to beginners - the first few lessons are always very basic and it builds from there. I felt like Clozemaster was only suitable for someone who has already learned the language and simply wants to build vocabulary.

My experience with Lingvist was the opposite. The UI feels polished and the sentences feel natural and comfortable to learn even for a beginner. It's a shame that it's so expensive - I'd quite happily pay $100 or so for a lifetime membership but sadly they don't offer that.
Logging trucks have this as well in some regions. The conditions for hauling can make it a requirement to just get in and out of the bush, and save wear and tear so the roads don’t get as rutted and need less maintenance in wet seasons
Many off road enthusiasts add onboard air compressors for this exact reason. There's no way to make this push button as there's no way to connect the compressor directly to the tire all the time, at least with anything resembling normal wheels and tires.

Normal cars don't belong in the mud.
As someone who did a double degree in philosophy and computer science concurrently, I am here to tell you: STEM majors very often do lack critical thinking skills.

I have watched very smart physics majors struggle mightily (with success, in the end!) in a philosophy of science class because (a) they've implicitly absorbed an extremely naive epistemology, usually some Popperian but simplified thing, (b) they don't have a lot of practice reading and writing prose, and (c) their main coursework has focused on using existing models and methodologies to the near total exclusion of evaluating, analyzing, or comparing them.

Incidentally, that was in a class taught by someone with a graduate degree in STEM himself, who collaborates with working scientists on some of his work as a philosopher— this was an instructor who could very much speak the language of undergrad STEM students.

Critical thinking is also a matter of habit and temperament as much as it is being able to identify (un)sound reasoning itself. If you're not accustomed to seriously examining the structure and functioning of institutions, processes, and social practices, you ain't got it— even if you're extremely sharp with your logical and mathematical intuitions and skills.

That said, widespread innumeracy seems to me much more widely condoned socially than STEMlord parochialism, and is just as detrimental. Especially at an undergraduate level, I think we would benefit from rolling back our increasing specialization a bit. Everyone should have some experience with the work of mathematicians— writing proofs— and everyone should have some engagement with the history-of and philosophy-of some of the STEM disciplines, imo.

This is probably a good time to remind everyone that the empirical sciences are facing an extremely widespread methodological crisis right now¹. I point that out not to say that scientists are stupid or that the problems that add up to the replication crisis are easy to solve, but because critical thinking is exactly what scientists need to do and are doing when they work to address the replication crisis! It's not wrong to push for more emphasis on developing critical thinking skills and habits in science education.

--

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
A good BMS can mitigate the loss from individual cells going bad.

$10K is on the low side for most people forking out money for powerwall-size systems. The reason some people use old EV batteries is because they're cheaper than buying a bank of LFPs, even when you buy cells in bulk and assemble the batteries yourself. Before the pandemic caused the world to go crazy, people were buying used Chevy Bolts because it was cheaper to buy the car, park it forever, and tap into the battery system than it was to buy batteries by themselves (and the Bolt has a really simple HV battery setup that's easy for a competent DIYer to work with).
Maybe it’s dying because it already succeeded in its goals.

I'm pretty sure they don't see it that way. The last big ideological 'war' was between FSF and OSI and it's quite clear that FSF lost. Open source proponents successfully allied with and used the FSF the launch their own platform to achieve their goals. Once their goals where achieved they dropped the FSF in the dust. In fact the FSF lost so badly most people don't even remembers what they fought for or even that they lost.
It's a different paradigm. I wouldn't expect the relational databases to start competing with the proper vector databases, as vectors do not fit SQL tables. Each problem should be solved with a specialized tool to achieve the best performance possible. We might be seeing some new plugins to relational DBs, but in reality, vector search comes with a bunch of other issues we need to solve. For example, memory usage. Here is how we made it at Qdrant: https://qdrant.tech/articles/scalar-quantization/
One thing that makes photography collections extremely flat is a lack of people.

A lot of programmers like photography and a lot of their albums, I'm sorry to say, just aren't good and a huge part of it is because these albums lack people portraits or photos that tell a story.

Finding inanimate objects for photography is honestly trivial which is largely what this blog is talking about.

There's three types of photos with people. Taking a photo that happens to have people in it (unsuspecting bystanders), taking a photo of an unsuspecting person where he/she is the main subject of the photo and taking a photo of a person you asked if you can take a photo of him/her.

The first style of photography is one photographers mistakenly avoid. They want some pristine capture of some landscape or object without people, but they don't realize that often people enhance the photo via the illustration of a story or providing a sense of scale.

The later two style of photos people avoid out of fear. It's quite scary to ask someone for their photo and it's a bit rude to take photo without permission. I advise you to just go for it and not care.

The end result is a collection of photos illustrating an apocalyptic earth where all humans have suddenly vanished. The blog post is in fact unknowingly promoting this style of photography.
Replacing one dysfunctional system for another doesn’t seem like the best option.
Blades are 170-350 feet long, very slender and high-speed (i.e. it's probably quite thick and heavily-reinforced). That's probably 10-100 sailboats per blade.
There is no obviously easy path from giving money to improving mental health given our current legal framework. You can sometimes fix around the edges, but the core constraint, for most people, is not one of resources.

If someone is severely mentally ill and does not want treatment, you can't simply throw millions of dollars at them and make them want to be committed for treatment or rehab. Until they are on the brink of death, there is no legal recourse.
Archive.org will make it useless. Try searching for anything in the web.archive.org search and it barely returns anything.

Try "CRT Nikkor", won't turn up anything relevant, yet within their dataset:

http://web.archive.org/web/20230316105926/https://redbook-jp...

dpreview results turn up in Google, web archive does not. This isn't really preserved in a usable way at all.
Oil, diesel, and gasoline fires are bad as well. I've seen cars on the side of road melt their own hood and windshield from an oil fire.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/17287/massive-new-years-eve-pa...
Biden Administration considers rules for A.I. systems like ChatGPT
Running on Ice: China’s Chipmakers in a Post-October 7 World
Yeah, pretty much. It turns out earning top marks at taking orders for 12 years doesn't equate to the ability to identify challenges, think outside the box, and execute.

>That sounds like the ideal response, doesn't it?

Ideal would be like a competent concierge, but that simply doesn't exist for the non-wealthy.
A RAM 1500 weighs around 4900-5500 lbs depending on spec (cab size, bed size, 4x4, engine choice etc.). That’s around the same weight as lots of EV sedans like the BMW i4, Mercedes-Benz EQE, Lucid Air, Porsche Taycan. A Mercedes-Benz EQS or Tesla Model X both weigh more than my crew cab V8 pickup.
If you are going to make a massive stink about how absolutely horrible a company was before you, better not f*k up then, yeah?
Fun random factoid, big parts of Europe are still slowly rising because the weight of ice compressed a lot of it.

On the other side, a lot of land is sinking because the soil is drying out due to years of droughts and water mismanagement (farmers like to keep the water table lower. I live in NL where we have the water management infrastructure to tweak the water table)
I've given this some thought before. I think it's born from guilt, you know, because of the messed up history they had. They think that if they change the branch names from master to main, everything's fine now.

The irony is that I live in a country where there was also some _very_ messed up history, and the reason things _are_ alright now, is because they don't keep dragging that shit up. Everybody acknowledges that it was unacceptable bullshit, and moved on.

The key difference is acknowledging and facing what your ancestors did, and _then_ moving on.
Not GP, but the bit about the author signing up for Doordash as a driver also made me think the post is fake.

According to the post, the author lost her client on the day of making the post, and within that same day decided to sign up for Doordash before making the Reddit post. Even if she was under severe financial duress, it would be a surprisingly quick decision, but as a writer previously making $80/hr and having the financial resources to take 3 years off work, it just doesn't seem believable.

In the intro, she states that she's using a throwaway to avoid other clients identifying her, so she clearly does have other clients, and she does mention a "normal" rate of $50/hr, in addition to having worked as a "writer for over a decade, [having] worked with top brands as a freelancer, [and having] more than a dozen published articles on well known websites". How is the best use of time for somebody like that to work an unskilled $20/hr gig instead of investing time into building new client relationships?

Even if the author believes that this client firing her implies that her current profession is doomed long-term, it just seems out of character for somebody like that to resort to being a Doordash driver. It just seems like an appeal to the fear of sliding down the social ladder, and as such a manipulative tool (just like the clickbait title) to produce a high-engagement Reddit post.
archive.md/newest/<url> works.
No doubt the vast majority of those downloads are from CI systems and build scripts executing on every commit.
Do you have anything like evidence to support that claim? If so I will consider it; not I will invoke Hitchens' Razor.
What an annoying website - when you right-click the page, it pops up a copyright notice dialog.
There's no incentive to spend the labor calculating what you really "need" when you can just do napkin math based on naive assumptions and be pretty sure you're within whatever safety factor the clipboard and vest types insist the thing you are dealing with be rated to.

This is all fine until the errors sync up and you get a failure where you wouldn't have gotten one if you had been spending the labor to think critically about it from the start. But hey, the safety vest people get to pat themselves on the back for the rule and implement a new one for each failure, the responsibility chain gets muddied among various parties (insurers and lawyers love that). Everybody wins! /s
They're still going pretty strong, from what I see and hear ... IOW, they handled that failure relatively well
That sounds as expected for a platform of it's current size? The 1% rule is well proven and coming into this expecting Twitter level engagement is never going to work. I would be curious at what ratio of viewers there is.
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Understanding Go to Market Motions in Generative AI
Alternatively, some forever chemicals are at work, bringing down our fertility even more than our affluent lifestyle. Even poorer populations such as the Roma in Eastern Europe have measurably fewer children than in 1990.

We are always looking for societal explanations and ignore possible effects of biology / chemistry. It is unpleasant to realize that we are biological machines that are fairly resilient, but will still break down or malfunction in certain environment.
It's fairly recent, I think I saw an article here on their purchase of the domain for a few million