skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “The DMV worked with Oxhead Alpha and Tezos to create a private instance of the Tezos blockchain […]”

Given the amount of money California spends with AWS, and the fact that “private blockchain” is literally a turn-key AWS offering…why?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30442059/

"Cannabis use doubles the risk of developing psychosis in vulnerable people."
Saga: AI-Powered Text RPG
Hey HN community, I'd like to share my project - Saga.

It's an AI-driven text-based roleplaying game where you can interact with your favorite characters and explore their worlds.

In Saga, you can chat, fight, and adventure alongside your favourite(known or custom) characters in an immersive and natural way.

It's like those text rpgs that some of us played on forums, back in the day.

All feedback is welcome!

Play Saga at:
https://saga3.vercel.app

@saga3rpg on Twitter
Not really, they could be exposed to risk and it's typical to just pay you for the 2 weeks and cut off access so the risk is mitigated
Clubby helps parents find after-school activities for their kids
A web platform that allows busy parents to find clubs and academies easily, searching by proximity, type of after-school sport or activity, reviews, price, and availability, scheduling lessons for their kids, and paying with one click.
My understanding is that researchers could ask for access to weights, but then also they were leaked so that anyone could get them without asking. There is another layer, where Facebook seems to accept it on some level (I mean they don't have a choice anymore anyway); they put a cheeky comment in the open pull request instead of closing it.
Many CEOs have their preferences but their preferences may not be shared by their customers (e.g. metaverse). In my view, Steve Jobs was different in that a) his "taste" was deeply shared by targeted customers and more importantly b) he knew how to materialize his taste. Many people only like a product when they see/use it. Jobs was among the few who could make that product by instinct.
What happens if the battery dies or other technical issue is what I want to know
Yes, but for the same reason blockchain doesn't

Those are problems coordinating people --- not nodes holding duplicate and adversarial copies of datasets

The whole blockchain sales pitch is lie or fallacy of ambiguity.

Ie., the 'consensus' of a blockchain isn't social and indeed makes social consensus much harder

since it aims for immutability and so on
70% of Americans feel financially stressed
> From a technical POV, I disagree with the bet.

The energy requirements for the kind of full and rapid electrification being pushed (cars, trucks, boats, ships, aircraft, homes) seems daunting to me. Yes, Tesla's Master Plan Part 3 lays it out, and yet the scale of the thing is like nothing the US has done, well, I think I can say, ever.

I mean, we have to build brand-new grid-scale clean energy generation at a scale of almost five times currently installed power generation capacity. That also means the grid capacity to carry it.

My fear is that the haste could create some really serious power problems as the infrastructure lags vehicle deployment.

On the other hand, if things get ugly people won't buy them. This is also a problem. I firmly believe electric cars are the future. We are simply putting fantasy before reality. Reality means that power generation expansion must come first and cars follow based on quotas established to maintain generation/grid integrity.
I’ve been working my way through Kawecos, started with a Brass Sport with F nib which I’ve still got, then I bought a stainless steel Sport with BB nib that I ended up selling. Next I tried a copper Liliput with B nib and a plastic sport with M nib. I love the Liliput more than any of the sports so I think I’m going to buy the fireblue one with a M nib and I might end up selling all the rest.
Agreed! Lots of people overengineer.

I’d venture to guess that the median RabbitMQ-using app in production could not easily be replaced with postgres though. The main reasons this one could are very low volume and not really using any of RMQ’s features.

I love postgres! But RMQ and co fulfill a different need.
One misconception that many make regarding the Nyquist frequency is thinking that the sampling rate needs to be twice the highest frequency.

Your sampling should really really be twice the bandwidth.

e.g. your bandwidth is 100 MHz centered at 1 GHz (it needs to actually be bandlimited to 100 MHz**). You do not need to sample at 2.2 GHz. You sample at 200 MSPS (really, you should sample a little more than that, say 210 MSPS, so that the bandwidth of interest doesn't butt up against the Nyquist zone edges.)
Other forums/social media aren't any better for this; why would HN be?
> The problem with a queue on SQLite is that every successful read implies a write.

SQLite also supports in-memory databases with shared cache.

https://www.sqlite.org/inmemorydb.html

If a message queue does not require any form of persistence, writes don't sound like an issue.
I think his motivations changed drastically after the market drop.

Before, he mostly wanted to "liberate" Twitter (whatever that means) and spread his brand. Money was a lesser factor.

But the massive financial loss changed the calculus. I dont think he would have so desperately tried to cut costs otherwise.
Amsterdam at war over 'erotic centre' plan
Where can I find Goon City now? The website is dead, archive doesn't load it either.
(A) is very use case depending. Even with some of the bad smaller models now, I can see devs making use of them to enhance their app (e.g. local search, summaries, sentiments, translations)

(B) llama.cpp supports gpt4all, which states that its working on fixing your concern. This is from their README:

Roadmap
Short Term

- Train a GPT4All model based on GPTJ to alleviate llama distribution issues.
> He pulled me into a separate call at the end of the rounds and asked some weird questions, which in hindsight were documentation.

Would you mind elaborating?

Really hope you were able to find something better. Sounds like that’s not a place you’d want to be at anyways.
Twitter's freedom to do something doesn't prevent other people's freedom to react to those actions.

They can block whomever they want and I can say it highlights how fragile they view their own business position as.
I quit a place that had the opposite, you were required to work your last two weeks, no vacation. It was frustrating because I had mapped out using up my vacation before the job change, unaware of the policy.
Wouldn’t Captcha prevent this, just as it always has?
The address of null is zero, obviously
ctrl-F "Postal Banking". Sigh.

I'd love to read a good comparison of the different ways to bring the money flows savers, investors, borrowers, and businesses into harmony, and the question of how to allocate risk and losses. But this comes across like Ackerman has never heard of postal banking, or any of the other institutions that might fill this role like trusts, credit unions, churches, fraternal orders, etc. Oh, Jacobin.
This is only true if the language does not employ static analysis.
HTTP Response Header Field: Carbon-Emissions-Scope-2
I’m the context of a conversation or something sure I might challenge the premise directly. If someone is expecting me to write a number on a sheet of paper it seems obvious I’m not being invited to challenge the premise and I’m writing 0.
we're currently using gpt-3.5 and gpt-4 for the LLMs. We'll be adding support for more models under the hood in the future depending on the prompt / use cases.

We’re experimenting and trying to do everything with the cheapest, smallest models we can, because ultimately we want to do it all on device
The method de-anonymises to the “Apple ID region”. At most it gets your country. By design Apple’s own iCloud Private Relay¹ anonymises at best to the country level, so I doubt they’ll see this method as a problem.

Though important to note:

> this information remains constant across various networks and VPN usage.

¹ https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212614
I didn't even know Postgres had a queue last year. I used it just for fun and it is GREAT. People using Kafka are kidding themselves.
What did Steve Jobs actually make other than hype? He wasn't an engineer and wasn't an inventor. He was a salesman (a great one!) but a salesman at the end of the day.
They blocked any retweet or like of a tweet containing a substack link.

E.g. an author writes content, people who are not affiliated with substack try to like/share.

That is not advertising, and this from the apparent free speech absolutist Elon.
You may be able to incorporate the [Membrane Framework](https://membrane.stream/) to do that. Built in Elixir, deals in those types of multimedia problems.

I'm not an expert here, but I'd expect that capturing a sample using Membrane and piping it into Whisper should be doable.
New NASA Official Took Her Oath of Office on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’
Apple has two values in conflict with each other, I think. On the one hand, they want to deliver best-in-class solutions. On the other hand, they have a commitment to user privacy[0] as perhaps only a gay man growing up in the south might value.

Siri should be better! It lost features post-acquisition by Apple, and it seems like user privacy is why.

Home automation is arguable. If you consider a single point of failure on a server somewhere to be bad, Apple's solution is pretty great. Their commitment to zigging where others zagged put them behind, since hardware vendors didn't want to put in powerful (expensive) enough chips to handle the cryptography, but while other companies go out of business, or transmit images and video to external parties, Apple's works reliably and securely.

Still, as with most of my complaints about Apple, it's a trade-off between privacy and functionality, and Apple will seemingly always choose privacy over functionality, even as Google consistently chooses functionality over privacy.

[0] Yes, there are examples of edge cases that suggest a less-than-perfect record. Contrast that with their competitors, for which invading privacy is foundational to the business model.
> we can't eliminate the risk of such a massive decision

Lol we literally can, or at least mitigate. It’s easy to pass a law (if the particular legislature works for its people and not the corporate interests) that makes job offers binding and getting out of them requires making the other party at least partially whole.
Yeah, it seems like a more natural evolution into specialization and scale rather than a step "backwards" to PG which I suspect will be the subject of a future blogpost about replacing their pq queue with another solution...
Thank you I came here to post exactly this. Suggestion, you might want to correct the wikipedia page
Actually React Native is supported with the JS libs. While we don't have React Native docs, here is one for Expo which should be easy enough to convert: https://supabase.com/docs/guides/getting-started/tutorials/w...

We also support swift: https://supabase.com/docs/reference/swift/introduction

One more thing - we will have some more announcements for mobile (specifically auth) tomorrow.
"I think we’re going to eventually see a demo showing an open source model running on an iPhone as well"

I have Kevin Kwok's SheepyT running on my iPhone right now - it uses GPT-J, which is an openly licensed LLM by EleutherAI.

https://twitter.com/antimatter15/status/1644456371121954817
How about a whole book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mismeasure_of_Man

How about a video essay which summarizes other critiques:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBc7qBS1Ujo

What if you look at the numerous false predictions of IQ research:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations

Or a peer reviewed summary which got published in an academic journal with over a 100 citations:

http://www.swisswuff.ch/files/richardson2002whatiqteststest.... (PDF)

Overall I’d recommend regularly reviewing the literature to assess where the scientific consensus is around a theory is. To date, the literature does not support any consensus around the theory of general intelligence nor the efficacy of IQ as a theory for intelligence.
No thanks. Social networks are non essential. Twitter and Substack Notes can go away tomorrow and no one will bat an eyelid. In these cases, people just want to go to a website or a mobile app, click around and have some foolish fun for sometime. Banking networks need protocols, not social media, which is intrinsically about dumb fun. That is why Mastodon and these things will never be as popular.
content producer is probably not native speaker of the language? also, isn't this a trendy thing to do on TikTok?
> I'll go ahead and blame 'process philosophy', the rejection of the absolute, the rejection of the spiritual, the obsession with a mechanistic existence, and the blind faith that -- somehow -- humanity is getting better all the time.

This is a lump of mostly unrelated things, to the point where people who are likely to religiously embrace some of them would be just as likely to be horrified by the others. And don't even get me started on the "rejection of the divine" - what passes for rigor in religious apologetics can easily rival the worst of modern social studies.

Indeed, isn't it very much the opposite - that, after a period of rationalism promoted as a virtue, we have entered a period of new dogmatic spiritualism?
I get that the HN crowd is sensitive to FAANG layoffs. That being said, it's hard to take seriously an anonymous comment claiming they know better than Google's executive board about whether or not they needed layoffs. Unless you were in those discussions, your ideas probably come from the same blog posts posted to HN in the last 6 months.

I don't stand to gain anything from defending them, but can we drop the hubris that almost any of us knows how these decisions are made at that level? I'm sure there's a C-suite or two skimming HN every once in a while, but most of us are regular old tech employees slinging code and talking to customers.

That doesn't make it any less awful for the people involved, and I feel for their situations.
Bank of America did this for outside US contractors.
Being able to summarize is one thing, conveying any information is another. There are definitely jobs where giving even a remote sense of what you do takes more than a pithy statement. People either come up with a technically correct bromide like you suggest or some silly pithy "I help teams collaborate better" thing that sounds silly. Unless you're like a doctor or a fireman, it's not so easy to convey real information.
Reddit has become absolutely garbage. I gave up my account from ~2008 and not looked back.

- Clearly astroturfed to hell and back by CCP, Iranian trolls, Russian trolls.

- Clearly bloated with viral marketing for various corporations "Look at how quirky my Coke Bottle(tm) is!", "Look at how weirdly my boyfriend eats his Jimmy John's(c) Sandwich!"

- The UX is garbage - you need to use Apollo for iOS or old.reddit.com to make it even halfway viewable without the ad spam, UX antipatterns, hard login required locks, etc.

- Unpaid mods with massive egos either struggling to maintain the quality of their sub (watch r/art become a porn sub) or completely power tripping (try to complain about homelessness in SF in that sub)

- Out of touch management looking to bleed as much money as they can out of the stone, shilling NFTs, Awards, live streaming nonsense, etc while neglecting core features of the site.

- The userbase is at a really annoying intersection of smug and ignorant. Everyone is an armchair general, everyone "well actually"s each other, everyone's an expert. To paraphrase someone... you read people's comments, get irate, argue with them, discuss, etc, then you look at their post history and realize you've been arguing with someone who drinks their own piss.

And to the point in this article:

- Unrestricted use of bots, which makes some whole subreddits just noise, or reposted comments from the last time XYZ was posted.
The ‘safe’ tuning of the models is becoming a nuisance. As indicated in the paper, the agents are overly cooperative and pleasant due to the LLM’s training.

Pity they can’t get access to an untuned LLM. This isn’t the first example I’ve read it where research is being hampered by the PC nonsense and related filters crammed into the model.
>I'm not sure why we are all of a sudden rewriting history.

Because history was being re-written in real-time, so people stopped being compliant.

People started the pandemic voluntarily washing products they brought into their homes for crying out loud. Your facts agree: 81% got the initial vaccine, because people thought it would mean something.
> I live in a 5 year old apt building in seattle.

I could see this in new apartment buildings (at least the more expensive ones), but most apartment buildings aren't so new. With most of the existing ones I see around, adding chargers would be crazy expensive because you'd have to do a lot of concrete/asphalt work in order to install them. I don't see that happening except in the swankier buildings who have a budget.
ShellGPT – Run cmds, pipe I/O, Q&A from terminal
Have been using this constantly while developing, noticing a huge productivity boost.

I'm sure there's 1001 tools like this in existence or coming soon, but I was surprised to find nothing that felt as natural as I'd hoped.

For example, this has some nifty features like I/O piping, smooth character-by-character output, and flexible configuration.

Example use cases:

• Debug crashes: 𝚌𝚊𝚝 𝚖𝚢-𝚌𝚛𝚊𝚜𝚑.𝚕𝚘𝚐 | 𝚐𝚙𝚝 -

• Quickly look up & run a command: 𝚐𝚙𝚝 -𝚡 "𝙳𝚘𝚠𝚗𝚕𝚘𝚊𝚍 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝙳𝚊 𝚅𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚒'𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚔𝚒𝚙𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚊 𝚙𝚊𝚐𝚎"

• Generate files, docs, tests: 𝚌𝚊𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚡.𝚝𝚜 | 𝚐𝚙𝚝 - "𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚊 𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳𝙼𝙴.𝚖𝚍" > 𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳𝙼𝙴.𝚖𝚍

All open-source, xplat, powered by GPT-4 (or 3.5), and Deno JS.
If you're interested in learning more about various DSP topics, I run a blog on over at https://signalprocessingjobs.com/ - a signal processing job board and blog!

One of the more popular series is the Journal2Matlab blog about translating academic journal papers into easy to read matlab.
glad you're finding it useful! How can we make it even better for you?
In the math problems they give to children there’s probably no Juanita with five apples either but children seem to be able to work with that premise.
Second Google result for me is the GitHub repository with clear information. You're making a mountain out of a molehill.
Not paying out the 2 weeks would be sort of a jerk move. But simply cutting a check and saying "It's been good having you" as they show you the door is perfectly reasonable in some circumstances.
Yes, but for a different reason. From the document's section on User Groups

>The main focus of the group is discussion of and education about Rust software;

It's a programming language, not a lifestyle brand. Not everything needs to be dragged down into US-centric culture wars. It's good that they don't want to dilute the brand and are keeping it focused on the software. If you want to go to the range with a group there are tons of meetups for that. I don't know why you would want to make one based around a programming language.
PG really needs GLOBAL TEMP tables...
the microscope blanks when the arc is fired
It’s hard to say that anti-virus isn’t worse than the virus.
The source cited for "it's worth looking up whose blog this is" is almost entirely dedicated to the proposition that he's a bad person with nothing whatsoever about his argument about the Flynn effect.

You're just kinda digging the hole deeper at this point, man. It's not even about time management, which is what people usually cite for this sort of epistemic learned helplessness, because you could've just saved your time by not even replying if that was what you were after.
Elon has demonstrated publicly that he doesn't understand some pretty basic shit.
> Developers in the EU would be blocked from PyPi, GitHub, NPM, Stack Overflow

Being blocked from PyPi and npm would probably catapult EU software quality ahead of America... and without them hosting it on GitHub to feed into our LLMs to circumvent their IP? Oof we'd be in trouble...
That is not symmetric.
> it's kind of a funny return to where I started ~20 years or so ago with web development

It's a journey I've been going on too.

All the new platforms and paradigms that have emerged have had an initial shallow aura of helpfulness that has drawn me in, but almost exclusively when digging in I've realised that they create more issues than they solve, and/or introduce limitations that aren't worth it and force me to write janky, overly complicated code to work around that isn't comprehensible even a few weeks hence.

Maybe the most notable exception to this is containers. But in a sense they're an abstraction over the very same VPS paradigm. So that makes sense. It's not something new or different, just the same thing but with some advantages (and disadvantages too, obviously).
> de-anonymize

Where by "de-anonymize" they actually mean "detect what region the user's Apple ID is set to". The fingerprinting value of this is pretty weak, especially since, in most cases, it'll be the same as the country inferred from the user's IP.

It's also trivial for Apple to mitigate if they consider it to be an issue -- they can make the banner appear regardless of whether the app is available to the user.
There is nothing Reddit loves more than hating itself. You would fit right in.
Good find. I’m mostly surprised that Safari allows you to show a banner for any app. I would have thought that Apple would validate that the domain of the site matches what is registered in App Store Connect before it shows the banner, but apparently not.

Not a huge deal, you’re not fully de-anonymizing the user, but it’s an information leakage regardless.
The only people driving F-150s around job sites are management with a stipend. Half ton trucks are a lot less capable then most people think, and are primarily targeted to the former of the two groups you mention
This appears to be correct based on my extremely limited experience thus far. It's pretty confusing. However, apparently the emails can be disabled: https://substack.com/profile/364398-judd-legum/note/c-144726...

> 1. Go to Settings on the web version of substack.com

> 2. Scroll down to you publications

> 3. Click into any publication you don’t want to get emails.

> 4. Deselect “Receive emails for new posts”

Hoping they improve the experience.
Presumably that will be happening here too, no? And everywhere else that allows anonymous-ish comments.
FerretDB: Open-source MongoDB alternative, built on Postgres
Everyone be like ChatGPT is everything. I am like it won't be the last or the first.
I've generally seen short(ish) leases as the solution to this problem. The queue has an owner and expiration column and workers update the lease and NOW()+N when getting work, and when selecting for work get anything that has expired or has no lease.

This assumes the processing is idempotent in the rest of the system and is only committed transactionally when it's done. Some workers might do wasted work, but you can tune the expiration future time for throughput or latency.
I've tried a few fancy pens, but still prefer my Pilot G2 07s.
There's also a "Marxist-Leninist society" where it is a transitional one to socialism and communism like the USSR and China.
Their own target for 2026 production capacity is 2 million EVs, actual production at that capacity will then be 2027. Tesla's current 2023 capacity is about 2 million EVs per year.
I’m not sure what you mean. Not being able to reason effectively is basically the definition of severe mental illness.