skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Food charities, yes!

I DO think it's worth understanding the structure of food/hunger charities, at least in the US. In many places, there's a central food bank and then lots of smaller food pantries. Typically, food banks get the big bucks, have the big events, and give/sell food to pantries, etc. The pantries are run by houses of faith, service organizations, etc. and are open a few hours a week.

I was surprised to learn that a number of people in my area rabidly oppose the regional food bank, saying that pantries must buy their food from them, arguing that the food should be given. Having worked with a food bank in DC, I understand that food banks have the power of the purse to buy food at a discount no pantry could dream of getting. And because food banks have a distribution network, they can also handle large donations of soon-to-expire food, etc.

I've tried to explain to food bank opponents that it's a better deal for the pantry to buy food from the food bank; the pantry will receive more for their money. But there's no convincing them. Which is fine.

Anyway, the point is to understand the system and make an informed decision about where you want to donate.
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That's a different motivation
'I'm offering you less than non-union workers because you union members have chosen to communicate with each other about your pay, benefits, and working conditions' isn't a reasonable argument. Owners and agents of capital are able to communicate freely with each other, participate in corporate elections and so on, why shouldn't those selling their time & labor be able to do the same?
Reminds me of Ikiru when the doctor won't tell the protagonist that he has cancer.
It's actually worse, quality has gone down with many things.
If the negligence directly led to provable harm to me (such as getting evicted because I couldn't make rent), then I would want a negligence suit. If it didn't cause provable harm to me, merely some annoyance, and I got all of my money back from FDIC insurance, then I believe any negligence claim should be greatly limited, or even outside of scope, yes.

If probable harm happens to people because of these record leaks I believe the law firm should be part of the joint liability to make that harm as financially whole as possible. But that's what a civil suit is for, not a DA enforcement.
I have to imagine a full time IT person was running the Exchange server, not a lawyer.

This was a highly publicized vulnerability, with a patch readily available.

There are degrees to negligence, and this one is only slightly better than literally leaving the door to their office open at night.
Paul Krugman: The Internet Was an Economic Disappointment
What kind of weird surprises have you run into? Are they specific to R?
Little thought experiment:
- Offshore wind costs about 3 Million USD/MW to install
- Germany currently has 218,000 MW installed capacity, about 130,000 MW of this is already renewable energy, but let's ignore that for the moment
- So to add 218,000 MW installed renewable energy capacity you'll need 654 Billion USD
- Germany currently has an annual federal budget of 476 Billion USD

So to add 100% to the currently installed electricity generation capacity in Germany, the German government would have to spend less than 5% of its current annual budget each year for 30 years. Let's say 6%, if you add some money to switch out network components to deal with greater variability in network loads.

That seems very achievable, especially because of course most of this money will come from private investments, not the state. If required, industrialized economies could of course spend the required sums to build out their installed capacities by a factor of 2,3 or 5. That would reduce the need for base load capable producers drastically, as well as the need for grid-scale storage.
> Technically, it is already easy without AI, in relative terms.

This just feels like an awkward attempt to draw SCADA into the conversation. You're countering your own point: If it's relatively easy today, and that's proof that it's not difficulty of attacking that's saving us.

> nation states will have orders of magnitude more intelligence power than others

I'm not talking about nation states. You wanted to allude to it right? If they wanted to attack the power grid today, they could do it. The doomsaying is in this comment section about how "we're giving people robotic weapons in their garages"

> It is easy to imagine an end where everything is already balanced

What I am describing is not at all relying on balance. It's relying on the inherent asymmetry that attackers need to solve multiple problems that don't move the needle on the goal to get the LLM to attack the system, while defenders can get the LLM closer to the system and with a better understanding of it, in order to gain mitigations.

In fact if anything balance would help the attackers: In a balanced end-game anyone can get their hands on an unaligned model or build one with the capabilities we're likely to have on an individual level. But we're hurtling towards the opposite, where unaligned models lag generations behind aligned because of commercial interests.
>>If you think your current leadership is too tight with management then you can run against them, or vote for someone who does.

Then you can get the opposite problem.. some with no understanding of the business, which never works out for anyone either the workers or the business.

Workers could get screwed with out knowing it, or the demands are soo outside what the business can support the business would never agree.
Exactly what good did Moody’s do with 2008 and SVB?
I don’t see any problem with this. OK, if someone doesn’t want to talk to me, it’s their right. They don’t owe me any explanation or anything else. If I tried to repeatedly reach them and demand explanation — that’s borderline stalking to me.

Cultural differences?
Making a CO2 concentration alert keychain
I could see a casual RTS working, one where you select groups of soldiers rather than individual units.
Brings me back to my first days with Lego Technic.

Serious question though, since these are from the 60s and 70s... any concerns about lead paint?
> I'd find it worse if a person non-violently stole $100 worth of goods from the homes of 50,000 people than stealing a Van Gogh from the home of one person.

A $5 million Van Gogh would be a very bad one. You can keep it.
I was thinking more on the line of a subscription where you buy the hour of class, either if you dont show up.
I heard about something like that, https://gerev.ai

They are working on exactly this, and it's even open source and self hosted I guess..
Setting one’s kids up well is one of the primary motivators to work an outsized amount.
Then a class-action lawsuit may be able to get a lot of money out of them in addition to this fine.
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That’s what you signed up for.
My experience agrees wholly. And I would add that the type 3 is the most arrogant.
I read it about 10 or 15 years ago. I'd google various things like "Canadian definition of miscarriage". I did this for a sampling of various countries. There was wide variation.

At the time America tried to save preemies earlier than anyone else. Of course, this had a high failure rate, and they were classified as infant mortality. Developing techniques to save them can only happen if you're pushing the envelope.
I'm thinking not only digital. Books can easily be printed on demand. Nothing is stopping us from bringing AI creations into the physical world.
GPTs are Predictors, not Imitators (Eliezer Yudkowsky, Apr 8 2023)
Imagine trying to write a better take on GPTs than https://generative.ink/posts/simulators/ it will never happen. Anyway, Yud's main point is obviously true and many people either don't understand it or don't believe it:

"GPT-4 is still not as smart as a human in many ways, but it's naked mathematical truth that the task GPTs are being trained on is harder than being an actual human."

"And since the task that GPTs are being trained on is different from and harder than the task of being a human, it would be surprising - even leaving aside all the ways that gradient descent differs from natural selection - if GPTs ended up thinking the way humans do, in order to solve that problem."
It might also be post/pre processing.
What it boils down to is "Users who don't even know what a trigger is should be discouraged from handling footguns". Sure, if you don't have the resources to learn about the subject, you might miss out on some fun, but it's much more likely that you'd blow off your foot instead, which would be much less fun.
This makes me wonder if the author would get more response by phrasing it with less 'finality'. More 'please let me know if online lessons are not convenient right now' and less 'if online lessons are not good enough let me know to my face and we can end this forever'.
>>Especially ironic is that the (frankly quite few) benefits and rights that workers have in the States are thanks to unions.

This is very slanted view of how labor developed in the US to simply give unions 100% of the credit, it is very revisionist history and not completely factual.

Unions can claim some credit, but to say they are solely responsible for "benefits and rights that workers have" is false.

Hell most "benefits" today (health insurance, vacation time, etc) are more directly attributive to wage price controls during WWII than they are to unions. as employers had to get creative with compensation to attract workers as they could not simply raise raw wages
> Then you can get the opposite problem.. some with no understanding of the business, which never works out for anyone either the workers or the business.

The elected person is still a worker at the business. Still talks with other workers at the business, as well as management. And still has access to the non-elected employees of the union whose job it is to catalog and remember institutional knowledge.
I understand a very little bit of Japanese culture and they probably just feel you don’t understand their social cues
What R has going for it is ggplot2, which is heavily inspired by a formally validated "Grammar of Graphics" (see the L Wilkinson book). One of the main reasons why the tidyverse works so well is because it tends to follow the organizing principle of "tidy data" (see the H Wickham paper) with some combinator interoperability between packages. R itself is pretty insane ("bad") in terms of language design, even though it has some neat tricks and features.

Python is a much saner language than R (I am not talking of packages here), but it's still super clunky by design (less so than R). It can most certainly do all the things that R does, although its plotting libraries are either lacking in their design (matplotlib) or maturity (the other GoG-inspired libraries).

When you continue on your journey to learn more languages, at some point you realize that when you have a well-designed, simple and consistent language, you really don't need very many packages to get the job done fast. I had this a-ha moment with Clojure (although I find working with the JVM annoying).
Article makes sense, but what if by pausing any further research on AI then Russia or China get ahead and actually end up building AGI?
I've written about a similar topic in the past, referring to the Types 1 and 2 as "brave" and "careful" developers. The titles are less important than the impact each brings.

The "we'll just do X" developer tends to think about codebases as they do the customer. "We'll just refactor <huge system>" or "we can just include <major new subsystem>". Type 2 devs, in contrast, are far more careful in their approach to the codebase itself.

The two balance each other out in the right ratios. Left to their own devices, Type 1 will bring innovative changes to a system while Type 2 naturally improve the stability of the system. I just think you want 3-4 Type 2's for each Type 1 you have on a team.
It still needs to be an RPi specific image on the card as this firmware lives on the sd card too.
A cynic might say FB are confident in the limitations of current models and want to pour cold water on the ChatGPT excitement (esp. with what appears to be a goldrush this month to use it to generate numbers and insight into numbers)
Planned Parenthood, PTAs, other local orgs as things come up.

Have throttled back for the past three months because we are supporting a single grandmother with custody of three grandsons (1, 4, and 12) with the middle one in the hospital with cancer. Have been paying their bills on and off and cooking dinner and snacks for them. With food costs as high as they are, something had to give and so charity took the hit. I do, however, donate handmade quilts and table runners to most orgs when they're doing fundraisers locally.
given the focus on transformers in recent years, modernizing and adapting CNNs to hardware advances seems like an under-researched area. it's interesting and something we're exploring.

FAIR did great work with this paper.
Why is it a mistake to separate them? If can generate my site as a bunch of static content, upload it to a server, and have it served by nginx or similar, then I don't need to think about the next.js App Router, React, or indeed any custom server-side code. That's what static site generation is for, and it seems rather distinct from what you are talking about.

Yes it is limiting, and it won't be appropriate for many use cases. But if you can do it, it makes things simpler, cheaper and more efficient.

That's not to say you can't combine SSG tooling with dynamic content too if you need it. But static-only is a perfectly valid choice if you can get away with it.
I just tried this with a thumb-held warped page and Tesseract for OCR--worked pretty well! (Tesseract by itself struggles with warped pages.)
What is wrong with tibbles?
Managers explicitly demand Type 1 thinking, because, you know, deadlines exist and stuff.

If the author just wants to stop at "Type 1 bad, Type 2 good", you could just as easily say "Type 1 cares about shipping and Type 2 doesn't".
Not needing to run a separate service is pretty much the entire reason I use S3. I've got some low-traffic web sites on there that "just work". I don't have to screw around with keeping Apache or Express or some other web server up to date or otherwise managing them, nor do I have to worry about the sites either a) falling over from an unusual traffic spike or b) massively overprovisioning them to prevent them from falling over from an unusual traffic spike.
Did you go to school in Japan?
If not, then did it not occur to you that a Japanese student studying abroad would need either a work permit or a marriage visa to stay?
She probably was expecting you to propose and since you didn't she left because she had to.
I see it a little bit more like a meritocracy in that space that RStudio has largely won. Microsoft has certainly made an attempt to become the face of R. Remember when they purchased Revolution Analytics and started baking it into everything? Or how about Oracle making a play on Graalvm with "FastR"?

RStudio has somewhat indefatigably looked for pain points that R users had back in the olden days. And yes, I remember R back when lattice plots were the hottest game in town. Not only has the Tidyverse made R infinitely more pleasant to work with, the community around Tidyverse has made the R community infinitely less insufferable for newcomers. The obtuse responses to beginners on the old R mailing lists were legendary.

My preferred R IDE is emacs, and I'm not upset with what RStudio has done. When I interact with devtools, I don't feel that I'm wanting for functionality. This is in spite of the fact that RStudio has heavily integrated devtools functionality into their IDE, and could arguably have made devtools less easy to work with using generic tooling.

I understand the mediocrity of many RShiny applications in terms of how they are written. But, another way of looking at all those dashboards and interactive applications, is that they are AMAZING prototypes written by scientists, grad students, journalists, etc., who would have never been able to build them some other way. If we forced everyone to write these apps in Rust, of course the average quality would be higher, but we'd also have way fewer of them. Democratization of technology means that its users will be more... medium.
Dissidents no, but in terms of financial crime PRC pressure / focus largely on 10s of millions to billion tier, the obviously misbegotten gains that western court system would look retarded to pretend otherwise. Millions of PRC diasphora in the west, are we going to pretend they're all upstanding. PRC isn't generally wasting time on petty graft, and even then optics of cooperating with PRC is none starter. And when did I say other countries care about safeguarding PRC laws, clearly they don't because they benefit from it, including hosting dissidents who get weaponized for anti-PRC campaigns. Hence PRC resorts to grayzone methods like threatening consequences on PRC soil, which is valid tactic calibrated to not actually cross sovereignty lines in host country. There's likely a reason there's so many "investigations" into these sensational "police stations" while so few have actually been shut down. Meanwhile we don't hear about mass PRC agents being deported because most of the messengers are actually citizens who has right to act as intermediaries to activities that doesn't trip up on foreign agent politics.
Why is it a dark cloud? Could you just choose to not use tidyverse libraries?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_Days_of_Night
While it is still prone to hallucinations, with GPT4 I've had it tell me "X is not a real project, but assuming it exists and is designed to do Y [based on the name], I can provide you with a general guide on how to use it." I never had earlier version to do that. So it does appear to be better, though it's certainly still an issue.
No, I didn't sign up for disrespect and lies. Regardless, even this is better than the alternative I had before (years working as a permatemp, no yearly raise above 2%, even with outstanding ratings). At least now I can vent my ire at the boss without getting fired.
A couple of small things, but primarily I don’t think it actually embraced immutability in the same way. CoreOS container Linux used A/B partitions for updating truly immutably. Partition B didn’t boot? Just boot A again.

Fedora CoreOS and RHEL CoreOS use OSTree [1], no shade on OSTree, it works well, but I slept better with A/B partitions, I just find them easier to reason about.

[1] https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree
I like these projects (recently tried https://databerry.ai and pick any random other two from https://custombot.ai) and where they are going but they don't yet fit what I'm looking for, I've played around the sql agent using langchain etc and it's still a miss most of the time. I don't want charts for basic queries about my users or growth etc as I can write much more detailed queries that can be run anytime and if this is geared towards managers something like https://trevor.io is a tab bit better as it will always give you explicit results.

What I want from an ai tool is strong "inferences" or some "understanding" of the data. Say I have a table with stock data and for this example it just has the following columns, ticker, close, volume_traded, eps_from_last_report, shares_outstanding. Some questions I should be able to ask are

1. What is the market cap of ticker X?

2. What is the 52 week high of ticker Y?

3. Which week had the most growth for ticker Y compared to the least growth for ticker X?

4. What is the pe ratio for ticker Z end of last quarter?

I hope you get my point, if it's a case where I have to fill in some data/formulas to guide it on what I expect that's fine as well but a pass thru to gpt with a subset of the data in the prompt won't hold up outside of toy cases or limited data. If you can solve that use case reliably then you're miles ahead of the pack.
Yeah, there is no universe where there is enough demand for plumbers to sustain even the same order of magnitude of number of jobs for even a smaller category of knowledge work. And when you unleash millions of plumbers, the wages won't look better than McDonalds.
PLPSQL is an awful language for anything less than the highest level glue code
> Also need a 2nd edition of "Professional Linux Kernel Architecture" by Wolgang Mauerer.

I had not heard of this book at all. How does it compare with Robert Love's Linux Kernel Development?
I purposefully didn't price the Van Gogh, and assumed its value was much more than $5 million.
Er, what exactly do you think "freely pooling together with other employees" looks like? A group of employees that negotiates together is a union.

You can negotiate alone, but you have much less bargaining power that way. There's a reason the big tech companies all work together on their side of this negotiation (colluding with other employers to lower salaries, all doing layoffs at the same time, etc.): it works.
>Are you not saying that people need to be forced to work for their own benefit under the threat of losing their income? What you're saying is:

Presumably you would take an antivaxxer to be dishonest by framing a vaccine mandate as "forcibly injecting me with chemicals against my will". This is no different. Stripping context alters the meaning and is dishonest. Notice how you defend this framing instead of just accepting my original words. It's clearly intended to give your argument some rhetorical benefit without needing to be explicit. This is a dishonest debate tactic.

One important difference is that no one is forcing anyone to work, that is simply the natural state of existence. There is freedom in battling against nature's cruelty. This is not equal to being forced to work at the end of a whip. Your phrasing doesn't distinguish between the two, mine does.

>You're worried about people not needing to work for their financial security, and you're saying it's bad for them if they don't have a requirement to work for their financial security.

I'll accept this phrasing. But notice it is importantly different than "being forced to work".

>You keep phrasing this like it's a compliment

I'm not ascribing any valence in my statements. I am being as neutral and non-judgmental as possible.

> but being able to make an honest living and being able to take pride in one's work has nothing to do with one's ability to self actualize.

Didn't say it did. Self-actualization is the process by which one derives meaning outside of their work/career. The point was that people who "just want to make an honest living" are generally not the self-actualizers.

>the "non-self-actualizers" I know that make an honest living tend to be very involved in their communities.

I agree. But the trends against church-going and community participation are steady. There is every reason to think those connections will eventually be severed for the working class folks as well.

>Self-actualization is not at all the same thing as whether or not you like academic pursuits.

Obviously. But academic pursuits are one avenue for self-actualization that the tech-class points to as ways people will fill the meaning gap in the future. The point is that this avenue is only viable for a relatively small percentage.

>Don't phrase that like it's some kind of solidarity to call people unmotivated.

That's just projection if anything. I'm interested in describing the world as it actually is so we can have an honest discussion about how not to drive society off a cliff. For some reason its damn near impossible to have honest discussions these days.