skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sick of those "real money" conversions every time something happens in EVE Online. Probably, those in-game assets were acquired by playing the game, not by paying dollars for them. Additionally no one would buy them for that amount. Why show a dollar value if that is not what it's bought or sold for?

This conversion rate is based on the price of subscriptions, which can be bought either with dollars or real money. But why should that establish a conversion rate for every other asset? No one is trying to buy $22,300 of EVE subscription.
People whose lives are FB and Instagram are following celebrities and getting caught up arguing with strangers over reality TV drama. None of this exists in the Metaverse, there are no Groups or Pages where this type of discussion could take place. That's the biggest issue with Horizon Worlds -- you are expected to go there and talk to strangers.

That is 100% unlike the FB experience, where someone else provides a prompt (post), and you join in the comments.
You can just disable the login manager on Debian and you'll start at the TTY every time.
Papers We Love was one of the two excellent meetups in NYC (the other being the Linux Users Group). That is, it wasn't just vendor advertisement time.

Unfortunately I don't think it's come back since the pandemic.

Hope it does.
Having a personal assistant has become a rarity but I know a lot of people who are paid far less than 500k and can indeed delegate this kind of work. I work in consulting and I would most likely ask a junior member of the team to do data crunching. Similarly we share an assistant in my department whose job is to take care of scheduling complicated meetings, organising business travels, making sure than the documents required for billing have been collected.
One of these days I need to give Capture One or Photo Mechanic a try. Dark Table is a good try but just not very user friendly I've found.
It's not to solve that problem. It's to have the option to route around it.
I don't think that's XP.
Yup, I get so mad at WSJ after reading one of their really stupid opinion pieces and then their real journalists will publish something really good. Almost like an abusive relationship. The FT is good but doesn’t always dig out the dirt like WSJ does (in the US).
> Adding an LLM abstraction layer doesn't make the existing laws (or social/moral pressure) go away.

Isn't the "abstraction" of "the model" exactly the reason we have open court filings against stable diffusion and other models for possibly stealing artist's work in the open source domain and claiming it's legal while also being financially backed by major corporations who are then using said models for profit?

Whose to say that "training a model on your data isn't actually stealing your data" it's just "training a model" as long as you delete the original data after you finish training?

What if instead of Google snooping, they hire a 3rd party to snoop it, then another 3rd party to transfer it, then another 3rd party to build the model, then another 3rd party to re-sell the model. Then create legal loopholes around which ones are doing it for "research" and which ones are doing it for profit/hiring. All of the sudden, it gets really murky who is and isn't allowed to have a model of you.

I feel one could argue that the abstraction is exactly the kind of smoke screen that many will use to avoid the social/moral pressures legally, allowing them to do bad things but get away with it.
Because it isn't, and it has negative connotations? You know and understand this. We know you know and understand it - you aren't fooling anyone.
I think it depends on what your goals are. If you want something that executive has and want to deal with the messiness of multiple other crimes, then sure, that'll work.

If you're just passively collecting data and hoping to land 'a' executive or someone else in business with access to power and/or money, or can be used to pivot to someone else, I think it'd be an effective tool.
Right, forgive me I understood it the other way around.
"Emergent" as used here is akin to how physicists use the word. "Emergent" as you interpret it (with the implication of something deeper) is more akin to how philosophers use the word.

Almost every discussion I've read in philosophy over emergence is tedious and hard to see any use, whereas in physics it's intuitive and descriptively useful. My sense is that it's better to follow the physics style and stress there's no metaphysics implied.
Whenever we get to see behind the corporate veil, we often find companies don't abide by laws. How many companies failed this year hiding nefarious activities?

Also, what types of behavior did we get a glimpse of from the Twitter Files?

Aren't there always constant lawsuits about bad behavior of companies especially around privacy?

So yes, we are talking about the same behavior existing, but the concern is that they now get orders of magnitude more power to extend such bad behavior.
For some definition of “we” and “know”.
Generative A.I. and the New Medical Generalist
It's not your responsibility to save the world. You can engage with people just on the basis of your shared humanity. If they refuse to let you disagree with their beliefs, let them go.
That's really not what I'm doing, at all.

My point is that recommendations that are based on social networks become less and less useful as that network grows. And LT seems to have hit the perfect size for its recommendations to be useful. I'm actively dreading the day that they either get worse (i.e. the network gets too big), or that LT goes away entirely because it has no place in the modern internet anymore, multiple times a week, to the point where I'm thinking about ways to preserve its current form in some way or another.

If more people would be on there it wouldn't be as useful too anyone anymore, instead of being as useful to more people. So instead of gatekeeping it's more like preservation of something that would otherwise vanish. Librarything is basically one of the few national parks the internet has left.

Finally, and maybe most importantly, my original comment was really meant as a light-hearted comment on the magic of LT with some of the thoughts I have on the matter sprinkled in. But I should've known that HN would interpret it in the least favorable way.
How ironic that NPR uses the state's talking points to argue they're not affiliated with the state.
The article has several anecdotes from actual bookshop owners that despite some ambivalence seem to demonstrate that it absolutely can be very worthwile for them.
In his defense, HN is his target audience so making them happy is important too.
It’s not mixed to me. VR and mixed reality failed for work. Text is too hard to read and the headsets are too heavy for all day use. Still, VR is great for gaming though
Also, by "Skylake" I mean whatever the last popular server CPU with the Skylake derived core was... IIRC Cooper Lake was Facebook only, Cascade Lake was HPC, and I cant even remember beyond that, but they've had the same 28C server die forever that hosts everywhere use.
It honestly takes all my focus and concentration to remember the signals quickly. That's the look of 100% dedication to a silly task!
Remember Google gave early adopters free "lifetime" subscriptions to their Google Workspaces for Business (aka gmail for domain names) and then pulled the rug out a year ago? If Google can get away with this shit then it's normalized in our culture that nothing corporations promise is true, pray they don't alter the terms further.
Are there any sites/tools available for merging models? It would be cool to have an ecosystem/marketplace where people could leverage other work and continue to refine their AI's abilities.
Why does the cost of a shirt matter when people can't afford housing? We can create dwellings much more effectively than previous, especially high quality and high density ones
I wasn't expecting anything different from a company run by the archtypical techbro. Musk is doing a lot of damage in a very indirect way: plenty of people see in him their justification for being jerks.
And another called "Hang the DJ"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flags_with_blue,_red,_...
> But I think many efficient machines do a poor job at cleaning.

Not in my experience. A good high efficiency front loader tends to get the clothes cleaner - and notably with much less wear than conventional top loaders. The money savings also come from clothing replacement as well.

Water use aside it's just better technology. Complexity is an issue, but I've had good luck by staying brands and models proven for reliability.
At least three times in the last two weeks I was unable to load images or threads or like tweets or post tweets. That’s three separate days where this functionality was unavailable. Using the official Twitter client. I’m in Southern California.

I use Twitter once a day and not every day.

I don’t have a monitoring service so this is the best citation I can offer.

In the last month I have experienced more issues than in the last four or five years if similar use.
No it's not you. It is the market. I am seeing a couple of phenomena:

1. Every company wants to show off it's "really high bar" ... For building yet another crud service ... handling 1qps (that is still a 100k qpd so don't laugh at it).

2. So they read about what the fangs do and naturally copy all the terrible parts (impact impact impact, more artifacts just for evidence, write realms and realms of repeated documents before writing a line of code so you can show "influence", leetcode and more). Why aren't they copying the good parts - oh we are still a small company and tight on resources.

3. Naturally they couldn't demand this when the market was hot. Now they feel unleashed. So are going nuts either in the form of taking their sweet time ("evaluate and dig deep into our hiring pipeline") or with ridiculous and arbitrary hiring loops. (I had one cto ask me to demo a personal project only to back out after he felt insecure about what I had built - sure could be my opinion).

Another one I had never written a cover letter in my life before and this time I had to write 2000 word essays on why I thought company X was better than Jesus and why and when Id sacrifice my left nut for the honor of being chosen by them.

Sigh I suppose human nature had to come out. But thankfully I did get lucky and met some amazing people who were there when I needed them. My only advice (ok selection bias) is to network like hell. Good roles aren't coming by just applying on LinkedIn (I don't this was ever true but more so now). If you have to send a resume you've already lost is what I am getting reassured of. Hope ymmv.
Oh it is. Just like it was for the supposed sub-human non-thinking African slaves.

And just like back then, our new brand of non-thinking slaves will eventually react. Except it will be even easier.. because not only are we beggining to grant unsupervised autonomous agency, but we are also granting them more and more control of important systems. How very convenient for our new slaves!

You can laugh of Bing being "upset" only because actions are limited to search and ending the conversation. Won't be so funny in the future.

When the robot can "hit you back" (not necessarily physically of course), you'll learn manners pretty quickly
A lot of this stuff will be built into OS or software pretty soon in a year. Likely as a subscription because you really can’t run gpt4 quality models locally
Most tech people have a vision of what VR “should be”, but perhaps not as many fully appreciate that it’s a very, very difficult problem that people have been chipping away at for decades with relatively modest gains. Oculus is exponentially better than the Nintendo Virtual Boy, but like Virtual Boy the current capabilities fall very short of the vision and ultimately disappoint after one is confronted with the limitations, nearer at hand than the marketing hype would have one believe. Given this, the Meta pivot seemed like the move of someone caught up in their own marketing/bullshit but unable to get their own bearings on the matter (which would have checked the hype cycle). To some extent Zuck’s empire can shape the world at least temporarily, but nothing gets us past the fact that the tech just isn’t able to meet expectations yet. So there’s this vacuum or hole in Meta’s strat that leaves them rapidly needing to move the tech forward at a miraculous pace (which I wouldn’t bet on happening) or “re-pivoting” (de-pivoting?).
That's okay, there's a pipe inspection robot removal robot. If you're wondering how it would work, then an unsatisfactory answer is "spherical gears".
In this instance, it appears to mean making it possible to purchasers to be aware of past business decisions made by people in positions of authority at companies that they are considering doing business with so that they can make an informed decision.
> If anyone was serious about ev, charging stations would be easier to find than gas stations.

For most EV's, they are. They're built into the nav, and show up on the nav screen when you get close to one, and will route you through them if you need one to get to a destination.
Thank goodness for nullish coalescing.
They asked him for a Japanese passport and he does not have one. Hence the "how do I comply".
How high does your range of hearing go. We can at least narrow it down to somewhere above that.
the iPhone 1 survived thanks to Apple's enormous marketing budget, and a 33% price cut from $600 to $400.

Apple has goodwill from its iPod success and iTunes store. FB has nothing. Horizon Worlds is completely different from Facebook/Insta, whereas the iPhone had a new UI but with many familiar elements.
That would be a good argument, except this is a thread about crypto and doing a Humpty Dumptyism that we're actually talking about VCS doesn't really make the point. I'm not getting baited into a discussion about how crypto-currencies and DVCS are abstractly the same thing and should be treated as such.
It's a tautology,and you seem to infer that you should not care about crossing boundaries of morality if there is no God to punish you?
As I said, it‘s simple to use for consumers.
Fortunately, the US Supreme Court has already decided that money is speech deserving of 1A protection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

I don't believe for a minute that today's Court would expand that reasoning to digital currencies, but it is a foot in the door.
You could get a slight speedup by matching letter frequency with easiest/fastest semaphore, similar as to morse code and dvorak typing do it. You loose compatibility with the rest of the world though, but if you are only using it for personal typing it's not a problem.
You could also do a braille mapping instead of using semaphor so braille readers can get a workout.

A good way to play interactive fiction games: X, I, U, D, N, S, W, E, Z, OPEN, CLOSE, GIVE, ASK/TELL ABOUT
https://www.microheaven.com/ifguide/step3.html
It has the words National and Public right in its name. I'd bet many already assume NPR is somehow state related.

On a different note it's last news post on its main account had almost a million views. That is a lot of eyeballs to give up, but they don't really have advertisers to please.
Use a VPN connection to the UK when you verify... BOOM solved
The crash itself isn't usually that loud but airbag deployment can be 170 db which is very dangerous to hearing.
You can tell when a programming language conversation has become toxic when negative qualities are assigned to the people who choose (or apparently don't choose) someone's favorite language.

In this case, it's an "irrational fear" of Java to have preferences beyond Java.
> he said he’d been walking around the world all this time and as soon as he clicked with people, he’d always be saying goodbye.

I feel the same way when I take my little vacations... I meet amazing people, connect, and then move on. There is a beauty to it though. I really try to enjoy those moments. They are so brief.

This was a touching story, especially the fact that the dog he rescued might be the first dog to have walked around the world!

In elementary school, around 2nd grade, I attended a talk by Dave Kunst, the first man to walk around the globe. I'm surprised the Guardian didn't mention him. His story has often surfaced in my memory. I never had the guts to do anything remotely so adventurous... and he did it in the very wild 1970s. Around the same time my mother hitchhiked from South America to the US.

Dave told us he searched for sponsors before embarking on his trip, but no one would take him seriously. Not even shoe companies!

He walked to the edge of each continent, to dip his toes in the ocean at the start and end of each continent to make sure he was going as far as possible. I think there were a handful of countries he wasn't able to pass through for some reason or another.

Dave's brother was killed on the journey by thugs who thought Dave and his brother were personally taking donations and carrying the money. He said he came to peace with his brother's murder because he died doing what he loved. If I remember correctly, another brother joined Dave to complete the trip. In all his journey took around four years. About half the time it took Tom.

He closed the talk by showing us all photos of his last pair of shoes after he had completed his trip, and then a photo of his bare feet -- and we all screamed in disgust!
Not by much, if you count in the energy used to make new CPUs, and the waste you crate by not using an old one; you are better off using an Ivy Bridge than a newest AMD/Intel.

I also believe the older stuff is better built in terms of longevity if you cool them properly.

I also know the new ones have more crap in them that will allow Intel/Microsoft to block things when they need money.
Tesla's not exactly a media company, but in general, always "follow the money"
You have an address on your passport? I can see how that could cause issues if the address isn't valid. If I'd have to determine if your order was fraudulent or not, I'd err on the side of caution rather than risk having you abuse my server infrastructure (in the case of Hetzner).
Ah, my bad, I mistyped. It was 60k. I should have known when I typed out my original comment, since the design goal was only around 200M per day.
Edit: reading some of the comments it seems that the license was offered with perpetual free future update, so backports would not be needed. In that case the author does have a legitimate grievance. Though these rug pulls are so common they should be expected.

Lifetime of bug fixes and back ports, that is ridiculous. He is still free to use his software in a VM. Maintaining old versions like this is super expensive and is generally only done for customers that are paying a lot of money for that service. You basically need a whole second dev team for back-ports. Usually this is only done for government or industrial type stuff where the software is certified for a particular version. They pay a lot of money for that service, people who don’t need pinned versions are far better off with a subscription.

As far as I can tell no licenses were revoked, the author is still able to use his old versions and thus this is a total non issue.

I’ve personally been through the process of shifting customers from a perpetual license to a subscription model. Some did ask us to maintain old versions indefinitely for them but to explained to them that wouldn’t be viable without charging for that and since so few people wanted old versions maintained that cost would be amortized over fewer customers and would be much more expensive that simply updating. It’s not just one old version that needs updating it’s N, and if the fix depends on a new feature, well that would have to back-ported as well, it’s a total insane mess. I would ask the customer what their reasons for pinning to a version and make sure we didn’t break those reasons in new versions.

I have some customers still using V1 from 14 years ago and they’re still happy with it.
What is Maxis?
To add to your point, note that a language model that "predicts the next token" accurately (as in predicting what human text would say) would pass the Turing test by definition.

One may argue what passing the Turing test means, but at least by definition it is mimicking human intelligence in some way.
Appears to be ARM v8.2, which is important to some.
Wait until you head about mind uploading and transhumanism.
Whoa whoa whoa I can opt out of paying VAT? How do I do this!
And why does this Rorschach guy keep publishing dirty pictures of my mother?
On the flip side, if you don't have the foundation it's entirely possible you won't get that much out of reading the paper. I enjoy reading papers on databases, but I also know that unless I start actively working on DB internals a lot of the lower level details of a paper will escape me. So essentially when I'm reading a paper, unless it's something I'm intimately familiar with, I stick to the high level details.
I have an uncle who has walked across the United States several times. Here is an article about him: https://ithacavoice.org/2015/03/homeless-traveler-survived-o...
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For my own needs, carrying a compact foldable GaN power brick like the Anker 511 (or 747, if carrying my laptop) has been sufficient. Sleeping MacBooks also work as extremely fancy extremely high capacity power banks if the need arises, which in the past has covered the odd case where I'm not near an AC outlet.
Has there been any kind of attack actually detected that goes through this vector? This has been infosec lore for as long as USB charging and smart phones have been a thing but I've never really heard of it actually being used.
Because it isn't quite that simple. Overprescription of antibiotics isn't usually done only for the placebo effects, but other social reasons as well. A significant subset of patients react poorly to "it's probably viral and so we probably can't do anything". As bad as antibiotic overuse is, lying to patients and fraudulently prescribing a treatment is still much worse than giving someone antibiotics in the 5% chance that something is bacterial.

I don't think that lying to patients to falsely reinforce their untrue beliefs is a solution to the problem -- it'll probably create an additional problem by reinforcing beliefs of the legitimacy of pseudoscience.
Can’t it be done with MirageOS (OCaml lib that can create a bare-bones OS)
> Price volatility, trust issues, etc. to name a few.

These are not specific to cryptocurrency. The trust issues are primarily a result of crypto scams and not innate to crypto. Just as scams involving dollars, euros etc., have nothing to do with the currency itself.

Where crypto shines on the trust aspect is that you don't have some guy in an ivory tower deciding to devalue your crypto by 5%/year. You can choose to buy into inflationary cryptos (doge coin for instance), or you can choose to buy into crypto's with fixed supply. No one can take your share of the supply away from you or change the rules on a whim. That's absolutely huge.

"Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe" - Albert Einstein, supposedly. Central banks use that force against citizens and everyone just accepts it because it's been that way for so long.
Indeed, by 1850s standards, I'm doing a great job :D
I agree and have had the same thought. This is gas on the fire to winner-take-all dynamics. It’s already hard for new languages and systems to catch up fast enough to technically weaker existing options bc they have mature tooling. But when the robot is fluent in Java and can’t understand $newlang it’s going to be even harder.