skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hate crypto for no apparent reason? There are so many reasons to hate it! Fraud and waste are the main problems for me personally. The entire enterprise is rotten.
And if you need some money and have a few features, release version 3 - even if it doesn't feel like enough to really cut a new version for.

Your cash flow for the software now becomes a big bang with then drawing on it until you run out and need some more.

Subscriptions offer a more measured approach. "I have 10,000 people with subscriptions of $10/month - each month I'll bring in $100k which is then used for these expenses."

There's no push to release a build because AWS changed their pricing or that you want to hire a new developer.
Idea: use a power bank that allows in/out at the same time. It should charge both at high speed while also acting as a firewall.

This is also assuming that your powerbank can’t be hacked. In which case, god save us all.
Are Tesla or SpaceX media companies? I thought they were in manufacturing.

You are comparing apples to oranges.
> Is NPR state funded?

Yes, in part. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR?useskin=vector#Funding :

"According to CPB, in 2009 11.3% of the aggregate revenues of all public radio broadcasting stations were funded from federal sources, principally through CPB; in 2012 10.9% of the revenues for Public Radio came from federal sources."

"about 50% of NPR revenues come from the fees it charges member stations"

"In 2009, member stations derived 6% of their revenue from federal, state and local government funding, 10% of their revenue from CPB grants, and 14% of their revenue from universities."
"My glutes were burning from having had to file my taxes earlier."

Definitely a brand new sentence.
Right?

> Twitter's communications shop now simply responds to reporters' emails with poop emojis.

Like, does Musk realize the market of trolls, clowns, and morons who enjoy his adolescent antics is... not worth $44 B?
This! I am doing a similar thing with only Home Assistant, i.e. without Node RED. No need for „smart“ appliances and reverse engineering their protocols if all you want is to be notified when the washing cycle is over.
Network effect is literally the only thing holding non-federated social networks together
That’s a different topic, I think. So you can consider my definition of “good” idiosyncratic, or to substitute it with “highly paid” or something.

The point is that amongst people that I know who are making 500k, the majority of them aren’t having assistants. And I do think it extrapolate to the population of people with 500k income too (no proof here, just a hunch).
Companies that acquire lifetime users should have a budget set aside for refunding these users.
> He was already an optimist when he set off, but by the time he returned he had even more faith in humankind, if less in some of the systems we live under.

That's been my experience. When I turn off the news and just get outside and in the company of strangers, I get a much more uplifted view of humanity. I would love to walk/bike on a long journey like this guy did, but it may remain a fantasy the rest of my life. I do road-trip every chance I can.
> Most of the engineers I've encountered can and do critically evaluate work in social science and the humanities, correctly conclude it's built on a very flimsy foundation of scientism, has little value

"correctly conclude", huh. You're basically saying "people with similar backgrounds as mine reject the theories proposed by people with very different backgrounds, and I think they're quite right".

I probably have a similar background as you do compared with a professor in social science, so I might agree with your conclusion (that a lot of theories in humanities are flimsy), but I see nothing to indicate (except your assertion) that those engineers you know actually evaluate work in social sciences and the humanities critically. Maybe they reject them because they sound so alien and unfamiliar?

If you mean they're "critical" because they don't easily buy into those crackpot theories, perhaps consider the crackpot theories in the software engineering profession -- Agile methodology? Test driven development? Best way to interview programmers? Benefits of using $fad_framework? These are actually questions that could in theory be answered using social science methodologies. Yet what we do as a profession is simply cargo cult what the big names do. IMHO a tech CEO being sold on useless "Agile" methodologies is basically the equivalent of "a non-technical CEO has been talked into buying some worthless overpriced piece of enterprise software".
I'd say it's dishonest in the sense that a company knows the probabilities are such that they can't actually ever truly support a lifetime license, so it's a lie from the start.

At the end of the day, companies usually go out of business or else sell themselves to another company within a certain number of years. And a new company (like in this case) may change their mind about lifetime licenses, because it's a totally different set of owners with different priorities. "Everybody" knows this, but company management knows it even more than consumers, hence the dishonesty.

As a rule of thumb for consumers, anything supposedly perpeutal or "lifetime" for consumers in the business world is probably not even going to last 10 years. It's effectively always a lie.
I run Mastodon on a $5 VM. If I hit HN homepage, my site will probably be slow as well. I don’t see how that reflects on Mastodon though.
It feels like you’re attempting to make excuses for bad faith behavior through contortions of criteria. That is a choice, but not one I think that would stand up to scrutiny (based on the facts of the matter, Elon’s very public history of how he exists, operates, and “lashes out” whenever feeling challenged or sleighted).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law
The law deals with what is reasonable and 'reasonable expectations' a whole lot. From my IANAL perspective it is not a reasonable expectation that the average end user is proficient enough in the law to understand the implications of the legalese in the EULA. EULAs are thrust upon us, rarely read, and rarer still read by those with enough legal expertise to fully understand the implications of the text and to 'know what they don't know'
Since databricks has employees all around the world, I expect to see that the data is not biased. But for sure there must be considerable man hours lost. However it shows, how much they are dedicated towards open source contributions.
An incrementing number stamp sounds handy: faster than writing the numbers manually, which is what I do now.

For me, rounded outer corners are also essential. Hard to do with copier paper.
I'm surprised not to see Raft on the list. I'm pretty new to the world, but it seems like it's become the replicated state-machine of choice.
Don't forget college. The [very good] public university I got my degree from in the 80s charged me about $180 per semester for tuition. The price now is $7500. That doesn't include books, housing, food, etc.
Your reference is generic enough to confuse someone who doesn't watch a lot of football podcasts, and your copy/pasted critique is not unique to the article. What a "dunk!" Notice the more interesting comments are critical of specific content if the article.
What happened last week on JRE (Apr 3-9)
Can I get your thoughts on https://shepherd.com/? Working on it and going to add genres and filters soon.
Here's someone that did something similar.

Paul Salopek on Walking the World
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2osIQvsdKn9LQEhHktXz1V
I had the same experience with Remarkable Tablet. Since i got the tablet as a early adopter, they gave me unlimited cloud connectivity to the tablet.

I don't understand why someone buying a high end e-reader like this one should be charged for basic cloud connectivity, so I'm really happy to have it for free.
I don’t want anything to do with the Bible, thanks.
Depends on what you do. I had some Pandas code that I wanted to be slightly faster. I pasted it in and asked it to optimize the code. It did exactly that, with an explanation at the bottom of why it was doing each particular thing. It was correct, the code was faster. I’ve used it for a bunch of things like that.
a few years ago i bought a bluestar platinum range. that's probably the closest you're going to get these days. it's all gas + mechanical, all stainless and iron, works during a power outage, etc. i looked around and didn't see any PCB's, just wiring for the lights, igniters, and convection fans. the broiler is a gas salamander style top grill.

... it was $6000 for a 30" range but it's more powerful than anything other than commercial gear. you really do have to pay up for simplicity. iirc it was more expensive than the equivalent wolf, viking, etc. and weird european brands like la cornue don't make 30".

most people say they're willing to pay more for this kind of thing, but very, very few people actually do. it's also made in the US, another thing people claim they will pay for, but usually don't.
Steve Jobs did that. He hired A+ players. See here: https://talentrust.com/blog/how-steve-jobs-got-the-a-players...

You need to have a vision that top talent believes in, in order to retain them.
I believe feature updates are for 3 years or 2 generations.
> Because the bulk of NPRs funding comes from the dues of member stations most of which are non-profits and receive funding from a myriad of sources.

From wikipedia:

Although NPR receives less than 1% of its direct funding from the federal government, member stations (which pay dues amounting to approximately one third of NPR's revenue), tend to receive far larger portions of their budgets from state governments, and also the US government through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
The OP writes, "ManyCam is a software that does several things, I needed it to be able to use a webcam in two applications at the same time.". I believe the free and open source OBS studio does this. I understand this is not the main point of the article.
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State funded is not the same as state affiliated. The government doesn't have any editorial control of NPR.
> BEVs almost never need new brakes.

Prius owners would like to have a talk. Their brakes got rusted and seized because they were using regen braking instead. All BEVs using brake discs will have this problem. Also the reason why VW used drum brakes in their ID.3
If the device didn't incorporate zigbee, which has been around for years and years now, why would it incorporate Thread/Matter?
> Why was the data so disjoint to begin with?

Because real life is messy.

> Why is Latex so hard to work with?

Because people that use latex want to be able to brag they use latex

(just joking for the second one.... unless ?)
I've not done any real benchmarking but the OpenAssistant fine tuning from LAION has been done on it. It worked reasonably well for something local but definitely felt like it wasn't nearly as complete/advanced as any of the ChatGPT stuff. I imagine this Databricks setup is more complete there but I personally wouldn't expect too much more than GPT-3 level performance. That said if this dataset is open (I haven't really looked too much at the article yet) then you could quite easily use it to tune LLaMA just like the stanford alpaca models, which might be a better combo. Though that wouldn't be licensed for commercial use then given the underlying license.
Same with Android, the various fast charging protocols use the data pins to negotiate the voltage setting and how much current the phone is allowed to draw. I suppose in theory you could make an active dongle which MITMs the data pins and strips anything it doesn't recognise as a valid fast charging command, but I don't know if such a product exists.
AI only has to be as reliable as a human. The task is ultimately trivial and clearly in the capability of GPT-4. It is easy to statistically verify if GPT-4 has higher or equal correctness than a human. Of course Tao did not do this here, but it will be done.
NPR is one of several providers to individual public radio stations. The government supports those individual stations; they use some of that support to purchase programs from NPR, American Public Media, PRX, etc.
That was my point (in agreement with you): I have no shot, and I'm well into the 99th percentile for this test.
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The EULA may or may not be enforceable, but even if it is they're still liable for the real damages incurred by the false advertising causing people to make that purchase.

It's kind of like if you buy a car as-is but the seller goes out of their way to knowingly lie about the condition of the car -- saying it's fit to drive when the brake lines have a leak or something. If there's any evidence then the courts will usually side with the buyer.
Graphs That Sum Up the State of AI in 2023
Not really true.

...but the .NET runtime has a higher memory floor. It's a lot easier to write very small apps in Go. New versions are working on stripping in AOT builds but it's still very much a work in progress
Well, there is an interesting history here. E.g. in 2000 NPR (and CNN) allowed the US Army's Psychological Operations division to place military members in the newsroom as interns as part of a media training program:

https://fair.org/home/psyops-in-the-newsroom/

> "PSYOPS is a division of the U.S. Army mandated to “develop and disseminate propaganda designed to lower the morale” of “enemy forces,” and to “build support among the civil population” in other countries for U.S. objectives (U.S. Army Field Manual No. 100-15)."

I'm fairly certain that if a Russian media company had a history of hosting Russian military psyops people in its newsroom, or if hired ex-military and ex-intelligence officers as commentators, it'd get the 'state-affiliated' label on platforms like Youtube, Facebook, Twitter etc. without any controversy.
I have no interest in your idea of a just society, nor in my compulsory participation in it.
What is the data source under this and what makes it AI?
Silicon Valley totalitarians such as yourself will fail. The end.
My hunch is that OpenAI's window of supremacy will be short. Even if they keep being SOTA, the open sourced models will eat away market underneath them. By the next year they will only be able to sell GPT-4 or 5. At some point the open models will be good enough for 99% of use cases.
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I read/listen to NPR daily. Twitter is blocked at my router. My very tech savvy family hasn't even mentioned the block once. Making good choices Mom...
Yeah the Tig will certainly be less costly vs the laser setup which will run about 20-30K.
Would prefer to disable the robot's hearing. Why anyone likes speaking to machines or thinks the privacy tradeoff is worth it is beyond me.
Thats not necessarily true if its the weather service, post office or whatever. I am no Twitter fan/user, but its a decent format for circulating government announcements that people will actually see.
With the additional advantage that you can run adhoc queries against the SQL database which isn't an option with RMQ.
I think the main point is that the Bible can have some good messages. Whether or not the Christians were the inventors of those messages does not change that fact.
The numbers I am last aware of, while ten years old now, were that Federal funding was roughly 10% of their operating budget, with 90% coming from other sources.

This came more or less directly from our NPR station in DC as they talked about fund raising in their many, many drives. And this wasn't for the station itself, I believe this was for NPR, since they then went on to talk about how many stations, mostly in rural areas, had a funding inverse of that.

Basically, if you are listening to NPR outside a major population center, then its almost certainly because Federal dollars make that possible. And if you listen and contribute to a major station, then you are one of the few that pay the 90% or so of the budget for the content on NPR.
Games still do it correctly. If you buy Spacewars you'll get patches and updates for a while, but you won't get Spacewars 2.

Unfortunately, it is evident that the pay-once monetization model has been corrupted too. Many AAA game companies sell pre-orders and otherwise bet on people buying their games mostly on marketing and promises. Over the last decade in the AAA industry, marketing has steadily pushed out quality game production as means to make money. The games are hyped beyond what publishers know will be delivered, and in some cases, far beyond what's possible to deliver within the release schedule.

Now it's common for AAA publishers to mostly show "pre-alpha" footage (often this is a lie and at least beta footage is shown) or "not in-engine" cinematics before release. Demos are a thing of the past and gameplay from reviewers is embargoed until just before release. Sometimes embargo terms don't allow showing bugs.

So, overall, everything related to monetization of software seems to be corrupted by psychological manipulation and greed. And not just in games or sold software packages, also with SaaS subscriptions and social media. It's not impossible that more and more consumers will give up dealing with this nonsense in the future. We already see large numbers of people choosing not to engage in social media due to the emotional manipulation and echo chambering to squeeze out more advertising revenue out of them. And because I am in the games industry, I see signs of players simply abandoning AAA games for these manipulative practices and returning to indies. Time will come for SaaS and manipulative software licenses.

If consumer trust is further tarnished, the future will either involve returning to where we've been — clear and simple one time software fees and clear trial/demo periods, or it will involve something more insidious than what we have. In either case, the pricing models we have now are starting to tire consumers out.
My understanding was it also bypassed the BMS but I may have confused what they were saying it's been a minute.
> Do you actually need much starting capital for those?

More about the rubes who see some new NFT advertised, and think, "Oh, that's going to go to the Moon!" and plunk down some actual money for it. I guess I'm surprised we haven't run out of rubes yet. Yes, I know human foolishness is a renewable resource, but at some point I'd think most of the easily accessible rubes have been used up (i.e. had their wallets drained), and it would be a while before a new crop of rubes is available in sufficient quantity for exploitation.
Your thesis is:

a) people didn't join metaverse because there's nobody else there

b) generative AI like GPT and Stable Diffusion enable the creation of real-looking and real-sounding bots for a VR world

c) metaverse is now interesting again because you're not there alone

I don't know that a sparsely populated metaverse is THE reason to be skeptical about Meta's metaverse.
Court fees: $70
Is "National Car Rental" state-affiliated? "National Geographic"?

Do you think the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a democracy, too?
The conventional analysis is that this is the worst possible way to look for love.

(1) Eva Illouz in

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Love-Hurts-Sociological-Explanati...

and many other modern authors will say that the longer of a list of lovers you have to choose from the less likely you will choose any of them. Whether you are evaluating a large number of prospects with a large list of criteria (Date me) or evaluating a large number of prospects based on photos (Tinder) the key thing is that the more people you look at the more choices you imagine you have, the more you believe you’ll find somebody better if you look a little longer and the less likely you are to pick any of them.

(2) Stendhal in his classic “On Love”

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/53720/53720-h/53720-h.htm

describes how falling in love involves a process of “crystallization” in which your love object appears to be singular and absolutely unique. The process of evaluating a long list is the opposite of this. Even if you are polyamorous and believe you can maintain multiple love relationships over time, that part of it where you are head over heels over someone (e.g. “new relationship energy”) is something you feel for one person at a time.
34% of their budget comes from CPB, which is federal funding for local radio stations, and which NPR gets the money through local stations. They downplay this funding source and only mention the 1-4% that they get directly from local/state/federal government sources but clearly NPR would be dead without federal funding.

[1] https://gigafact.org/fact-briefs/does-npr-receive-less-1-its...
If you don't call out the hypocrites, how would they ever know they are wrong? Did I cast them in a negative light? Yes. Do they ever read that book of theirs? No.

Once in a while you see a shining example of compassion and generosity born from church activities like this one: https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1645867657697153046

That's the true Christian faith at work. Sadly it's the exception.
In general, you can be unconvinced that various things are actually a meaningful real-world danger, but you choose to mitigate against them anyway if you can do so easily.
Also true, but "use the decades old thread api" shouldn't count as a simplification, right?
Because every penny counts. What business would turn around and say : "We don't need that 1%, you can have it back".

It's state affiliated. Like Tesla. Like any company who received covid relief. Tax breaks etc.

Less than 1 percentage is simply not influential. It's disingenuous to say it's owned by the government.
Semi-hard agree! I think both the "Neo-Chomskiites" and the "Humans Are Machines" crowd have it wrong: what we're seeing is something different, an unknown mechanism producing emergent qualities that resemble some biological cognition. I'm reminded of performing cognitive work on octopiii, as their cognition is separated by half a billion years. But dig this: compared to machine cognition, octopii are kissing cousins to our minds, coming from shared biology and chemistry. And look how weird they are. LLMs are different - not conscious, but not calculators, either, and we don't know why.
Your video is a work of art.

You could probably combine semaphore keyboard with some sort of stenography software for faster input (e.g. Plover https://youtu.be/KZGuBV1xe64)
It's not about feature / promise return types. Consider:

int someFunc() {
doA();
doB();
byte data[] = readFromSocket();
return doC(data);
}

int callerFunc() {
doX();
System.out.println(someFunc());
doY();
}

when we invoke the callerFunc() in a virtual thread, it executes till the potentially blocking socket reading, creates a callback or future -like object containing doC(), System.out.println(), doY() - such object is called a "continuation", see "continuation passing style". Then the socket reading is iniitated in an async way, with continuation registered as a callback to be invoked upon completion. Then the native OS thread is freed to do any other work.

In javascript approach we would need to manually mark some places `async` and use `await`.

@async
int someFunc() {
doA();
doB();
byte[] data = await readFromSocket();
return doC(data);
}

@async
int callerFunc() {
doX();
System.out.println(await someFunc());
doY();
}

So async / await is a poor man's continuation passing style.
The need to differentiate between 'async' and non 'async' code makes it more difficult to refactor or mix code between 'async' and non 'async' domains.

Some people argue that it's better to have the explicit distinction. I personally don't see benefits of this.
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