skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Longtime resident here (15 years). It's easy to become frustrated with the complex and persistent issues of homelessness and mental illness in San Francisco. However, it's important to acknowledge that there are numerous groups and individuals who are passionately working to create positive change in the lives of those affected. They're offering essential services, advocating for policy changes, and developing programs to tackle the systemic issues that contribute to homelessness and mental health challenges. It's simply not true that homeless advocates and organizations just want to maintain the status quo.

Second, it is not a question of punishing those who follow the law, but rather addressing the systemic issues that contribute to homelessness and mental illness. By focusing on parking tickets and zoning violations, you're missing the bigger picture of societal inequality, lack of affordable housing, and inadequate mental health care. This isn't about passing a "progressive acid test", it's about practical solutions that work and are politically feasible.

Lastly, your comment oozes contempt for people who are struggling with addiction and mental health issues. Labeling them as "people covered in filth and perpetually addicted to drugs and violence" is not only dehumanizing but also incredibly counterproductive. We must work together to find compassionate and effective solutions, rather than resorting to name-calling and finger-pointing."
He’s always stated plainly that he loves those “everything” apps.

He’s planning to integrate financial services into the app. Probably even some form of crypto support.
How are they escaping scrutiny? They hardly seem interested in hiding what they believe seeing as how they are both very active on Twitter. And whose scrutiny do you consider them anxious to avoid? Their opponents know very well what they are saying. This whole framing reeks of the kind of censoriousness which they both spend a lot of time railing against.
As a matter of interest, what are good, reliable, actively developed AMQP clients? Asking because I've had problems with several.
It's more that I'm building a gaming pc this summer, and I can either target 1440p (4070) for 2k or 4k for 5k (4090). If I can do a lot more with a 4090 over a 4070 it might make sense, but I know a lot of cs students use google colab these days, so I may just rely on that.
I’m fascinated by what automated posting is going to do to these “communities” based on nothing but a desire to type and be seen typing. Was there ever anything worth anything on a Reddit thread, besides advertising that was supposed to look like Reddit? Knowledge, information, learning, wisdom, comedy, tragedy, humanity? Anything that a mindless chat bot combined with targeted marketing couldn’t have generated?
I just laughed in their face and said that their product wasn't good enough for me to not just spend one week implementing the parts I cared about, and I did.
Thank you, I was wondering why it stopped working, but never took the time to investigate... :D
Twitter Inc. 'No Longer Exists' as Elon Musk Inches Closer to X 'Everything App'
Tabletop games are quite popular in the military according to my veteran brother. I'm even told they are played in prison, with a bag full of numbered paper scraps to simulate dice.
Show HN: GPT–LLM native macOS app with time travel, versioning, search
Hey everyone!

I made a Mac app for exploring large language models.

It’s fast, small, has a tiny memory footprint. It’s immutable by design with both immediate time travel and automatic versioning as foundational elements. The app is written in Swift and a bit of Rust for the tokenizer. I used SwiftUI for structure and animations and Cocoa for advanced behavior. All storage is SQLite and local-only. You can go through the database as needed and backup it as well.

The app has support for variants, which is the `n` parameter in the OpenAI chat completion API—equivalent to the drafts feature in Bard. It shows model- and ChatML-aware tokens and cost, and it dynamically adjusts response length in function of prompt length and context length. It supports hiding runs that are not useful, marking the ones that are notable, and going through the ancestry of the current run. It also has support for examples, as specified in ChatML, conversation names and personal and local-only notes. The full-text search works across all stored text and it has support for `all`, `any`, `prefix` and `phrase` matching; the results are time-ordered rather than ranked for the time being. There are several shortcuts and more are coming so that the app can be used entirely by keyboard. You can export to JSON and all data is exported. The app is sandboxed and notarized. The API keys are stored securely in the Keychain.

Next I plan to implement combinatorial runs (mixing multiple values of the same parameter and multiple models as well) and full Markdown support.

Currently only OpenAI’s conversational models are supported (GPT 3.5, GPT 4 8K, GPT 4 32K), but I’ll be adding support for local models and custom ChatML endpoints as soon as possible.

Give it a try. Any and all feedback welcome! Thoughts and questions as well!

William
I was just listing things that could affect the structure of the core. The real question about nuclear disasters isn't whether or not humanity can respond to them given functioning society, it's what happens when a society collapses (extended power outage, etc.) and then something affects the fissile material. Fukushima took a lot of people to clean up.
IMO only, but it seemed obvious to me that he bought Twitter because he signed a contract in a mixture of arrogance and bad faith entirely expecting to find be able to use the process to embarrass Twitter on the way to wriggling out of his commitment and then found himself trapped by it while Twitter’s now-former management and owners laughed all the way to the bank.
> that they may terminate immediately as soon as you give them notice.

Which is nonsense, because it’s the employee that chooses when to tell the employer. If I want to exfiltrate confidential data, I’ll do it first, then I resign.

It’s different on layoffs, where disgruntled employees could break havoc.
Almost like these are videos coming straight out of the Dead Internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
All of this deduction you just did requires prior knowledge of the existence of logic tests and that written tests work like that, which is purely modern cultural knowledge. No one is born knowing that a “written test” is a thing. There was a time period in history where this was NOT obvious, even though it is obvious to anyone now.
It's pretty disgusting how little jail time she's receiving for the scope of her crimes.
> Careful man! You're on the verge of becoming a climate denier with research like that! Sea level rise is indeed not due to CO2 or industrialization. Here's a graph of what's claimed to be long term sea levels:

> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Post-Glacial_Sea_Lev...

Not super helpful to post a graph where the era we're talking about is like 7 pixels wide using a line of about the same thickness.
Is that any different than being on drugs? Added effect of stealing.

Not being in control of yourself is no different than be on drugs, but one adds a layer of support providing we can implement a system to aid and clean a person.

The problem with criminalizing comes with the negative connotation of being unemployable. The benefit is that it obligates that the drug abuser to be processed through our system.

Fundamentally it is the no flexibility in our legal system.
It's a good joke, but isn't that accurate? If I'm driving at the proper speed, anyone driving faster or slower is wrong.
> astroturfed to hell and back

...which is still less astroturfed than news (of any kind), google results, review sites, and so on. It's one of the only places left on the entire internet where you can find real users talking about real problems with real products.

It's really easy to complain if you don't force yourself to identify a better alternative.
What is more important, the mission of Free Software, or making him President for life?
+1

Additionally, they come in a number of colors, all of which are quite rich. Big fan!
30B Alpaca is better. Not anywhere near ChatGPT level, but better than the 13B models.
is it that aggressively shaped molecules can cause blood clots?
No, the banner shows up either way and the size of the banner doesn't change based on whether the app is installed or not. So there's no way to determine whether or not the app is installed using this method.
> and Ukraine possibly even joining at some point

That wasn't possible, and as far as I'm aware it remains impossible for now. I believe it is a prerequisite for joining NATO, that you should be in control of your internationally-recognized borders. Otherwise, at the moment of joining, the whole of NATO would instantly be at war with Russia, because NATO's supposedly a mutual defence treaty organisation.

Same goes for Georgia, as far as I can see; Georgia's internationally-recognized borders place South Ossettia inside Georgia. But South Ossettia remains occupied by Russia.

[Edit] FWIW, I don't think NATO is in shape to go to war in Eastern Europe. Western countries took advantage of the end of the Cold War and the "peace dividend" to hollow-out their armed forces and ammunition reserves. As a Brit, I'm particularly ashamed of Britain's conduct, which has involved committing huge amounts of money to two spiffy aircraft carriers, which still don't carry a full complement of F35s, and which can't operate without a fleet of destroyers and frigates, not to mention supply ships. And a new generation of strategic nuclear missile submarines. Having a stockpile of 122mm artillery shells would be massively cheaper, and a better use of money.
Yes, just like you might get fired for transacting sensitive company business on a personal gmail account, even if that company uses enterprise gmail.

Saying that cloud models will win over local models is not the same as saying it will be a free-for-all where workers can just use whatever cloud offering they want. It will take time to enterprisify cloud LLM offerings to satisfy business/government data security needs, but I'm sure it will happen.
"Inches" – give some people an inch, and they take a mile
I enjoy nice-looking UIs with smooth animations too, but first they have to cover the basics. That's why I like HN's UI a lot - it's not fancy but it has the rare property of being usable, which already places it in the favorites of UIs in my personal ranking.

I don't think it's meant as a "filter", just built for its target audience of people with high enough standards to dislike blinking notification icons, cookie popups and website loading screens.

> with the idea that somehow, technical brilliance and design chops are inversely correlated and can’t co-exist.

I don't think I've ever witnessed someone expressing this opinion. It just seems to be a rarity that a budget covers both function and form. And if I have to choose then I prefer to not throw my PC out the window.
I didn't say it was difficult, I just said it was the biggest concern. That looks correct.
Postgres is probably the best solution for every type of data store for 95-99% of projects. The operational complexity of maintaining other attached resources far exceed the benefit they realise over just using Postgres.

You don’t need a queue, a database, a blob store, and a cache. You just need Postgres for all of these use cases. Once your project scales past what Postgres can handle along one of these dimensions, replace it (but most of the time this will never happen)

It also does wonders for your uptime and SLO.
Fukushima was cleaned up by a massive task force using globalized technology. What I'm wondering about is if nuclear power is scaled to have hundreds or thousands of plants across the world, and something happens to humanity's ability to mount a globalized cleanup effort (using diesel, electricity, etc.), are the remaining societies safe from the effects of the decaying plants?
Satellite data isn't that good unfortunately. Tide gauges say 1.5mm/year of rise, satellites say 3mm/yr, and they estimate satellite error to be +/- 0.5mm year, so the error bars are a significant fraction of the size of the overall change.

Also that assumes the scientists are completely accurate and don't make any mistakes. As recently as 5 years ago they discovered that the measured rise for almost all of the 90s was wrong and revised it by 3mm/year +- 1.7mm/year - the error was the same amount as the imputed level of rise!

This is no knock on the scientists, because measuring the height of a moving ocean from orbit to a level of accuracy that lets you see mm level changes is inevitably going to be very hard. But we should bear in mind that they're heavily biased towards wanting to believe the data is accurate. Their decade long inability to get the measurements correct didn't seem to have any impact on their confidence that they're currently getting it right, and why would it? Those who seize the data, seize the day.
They are getting a bunch of negative press for rescinding job offers. This doesn't seem any better. Better would be just not hiring people you don't need and not chasing growth like an unmonitored heroin addict.
On one hand I agree with you on the "protocol not platform" ideal (and thanks for linking nostr, hadn't seen it before), but on the other I guess I still don't understand why so many are committed to the best way to go about that involving "relays" / federation.

RSS solved the "you fully own the content, everyone else can discover it via a well-known protocol" problem decades ago! Is it just that stuff like comments and reactions would be harder with just RSS?
>How's that supposed to work, when the process dictates that onboarding begins on your start date?

You remind them that they better finish their background check and sign the final documents fast if they want you on that date.

Whatever is the minimum notice period you have to give your current job (eg. 2 weeks), the countdown starts after you get the real signed offer from the future job.

you shouldn't risk fucking up your career over loyalty for a job that has not even hired you yet. If they want that loyalty, they need to first sign the papers that makes you an official part of their team.
The current pipeline expects PCM audio blobs and, if data is coming from a microphone in the browser, you can do the initial processing and conversion in the browser (see the JS in this single file Phoenix app speech to text example [0]).

On the other hand, if you expect a variety of formats (mp3, wav, etc), then shelling out or embedding ffmpeg is probably the quickest path to achieve something. The Membrane Framework[1] is an option here too which includes streaming. I believe Lars is going to do a cool demo with Membrane and ML at ElixirConf EU next week.

[0]: https://github.com/elixir-nx/bumblebee/blob/main/examples/ph...

[1]: https://membrane.stream/
2021, 500k e-bikes sold in the US vs 15+ million cars. That's to a population that is already saturated with cars. Even looking at 2-3x growth of e-bikes over the next decade, that still doesn't sound like your assessment is accurate. Cars are still much more popular in the US and going to be in the near term future.

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/e-bikes-are-gaining...

https://www.marklines.com/en/statistics/flash_sales/automoti...

https://www.precedenceresearch.com/e-bike-market
I should generalize the argument with more nuance. Not that a "photo" must have "people".

More accurately an "album" must have "living things". So a collection of photos must contain photos (not all) that have some living thing in it. There are some cases where this rule of thumb doesn't apply but, in general, a good album follows this rule.
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they've self-selected for you: they applied :)
Who else is going to lend you money to buy a house or start a business? Who else will keep your money safe from fire and theft and pay you for the privilege?
a well-tuned bare metal box in a master-slave config should easily handle (being conservative here) 10k/s... I assume a purpose-built box could handle 100k/s without breaking a sweat
> If aerospace engineers built airplanes the way you (or me) code, they'd be in prison.

Really? I don't recall anyone going to prison for the 737 MAX. Not even the engineers reviewing the code written by the offshored 9$/h programmers Boeing hired...

> the HTTP standard has flaws allowing Request Smuggling

As if the building code didn't too change over time.
If anyone is working on LLM models or projects that could benefit from this, I'd love to collaborate with you on this. Post here or email me (email is at the end of my GitHub README.md).
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This is very similar to my experience. Most of the students who actually tried were international students.

I was always dumbfounded when I saw how people just couldn’t care less. Its as if they already predetermined this is isn’t worth it or they’re not good enough idk.

Advisors were also awful, they would actually encourage you to not finish ur degree in 2 years and take longer.
Like Teddy from A.I. the movie?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRsICbxDEiI
11 years is quite a long time and seems suitable for scamming some idiots out of their money.

IMO the reason it seems low is that people get such unreasonably long sentences for doing far less.
it seems to depend on the pen for me. some deposit substantial ink in the cap and some don't (except flying, that's always gonna be a mess unless you prepare).
Right, but Holmes didn't steal $5k more than three times. She stole millions of dollars but only did it once. So your statute doesn't apply.
It's interesting how you're calling out foreign astroturfing, when I see reddit as full of utterly banal, uninteresting, and embarrassingly nationalistic domestic propaganda that often lacks even a shred of self-awareness and self-reflection (and would be downvoted to hell if posted by the 'other' side).

Perhaps that's what the 'marketplace of ideas' is supposed to produce. It's supposed to be a global site for global users to talk to each other, not an echo chamber for us to clap each other on the back[1] as we regurgitate our propaganda.

[1] Top two threads on Reddit right now are about a negative-to-China political cartoon, but I don't imagine that you call people upvoting that out as trolls and astroturfers... Because it aligns with your world view.

The other side doing it is outrageous and tasteless and propaganda, our side doing it is, well, normal. To our sensibilities.
> We were comfortably supporting millions of jobs per day as a Postgres queue (using select for update skip locked semantics) at a previous role.

That's very refreshing to hear. In a previous role I was in a similar situation than yours, but I pushed for RabbitMQ instead of postgres due to scaling concerns, with hypothetical seilings smaller than the ones you faced. My team had to make a call without having hard numbers to support any decision and no time to put together a proof of concept. The design pressures were the simplicity of postgres vs paying for the assurance of getting a working message broker with complexity. In the end I pushed for the most conservative approach and we went with RabbitMQ, because I didn't wanted to be the one having to explain why we had problems getting a RDBMS to act as a message broker when we get a real message broker for free with a docker pull.

I was always left wondering if that was the right call, and apparently it wasn't, because RabbitMQ also put up a fight.

If there were articles out there showcasing case studies of real world applications of implementing message brokers over RDBMS then people like me would have an easier time pushing for saner choices.
Your Apple ID country has a lot of implications if changed (certain app access will be available/restricted, payment methods, etc). You aren't going to be able to identify a user specifically, but you could detect if a user is currently traveling internationally or may be a frequent VPN user.
>Electric cars have something that previous "green" vehicles never had: rapid acceleration.

If people really cared about acceleration, why would they buy standard versions of the Model 3/Y (which outsell performance versions)? It's quick, but there are cheaper vehicles that outperform it 0-60.
Not in my experience. Though ink seepage definitely seems to be related to how it's stored (and probably shaken). I've had one seep when stored point down, and dozens not seep when stored horizontally or point up.

That said, I don't travel with them, practically speaking.
It shows that the claim that sea level rise is caused by CO2 isn't correct, which is relevant.
Useful niche sites still exist (like HN, I would argue).

But if you can't find the niche you are looking for... yeah, you are doomed.
I did find it strange that in most of the footage the pipes seemed to be tightly sealed with screws, adhesive, and in some cases what looked to be foam. It makes me wonder if there was some sort of vacuum required for this demo.
I believe you, but Substack is clearly trying to appeal to that same base[1]. I'm sure there's fine content on there somewhere, but Substack's brand is so unappealing to me I'm just not interested in supporting the company.

[1] https://twitter.com/lulumeservey/status/1511376638487019524
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At this stage we're only using AWS for our infra. I wish we could lower the costs, but would be expensive for us to cover the AWS egress charges for all of our customers.

> but the egress fee is just way too much for any serious project

I assume you're not hosting your serious projects on AWS? Do you host them in another cloud provider?
Yes, I was pointing out the irony.