skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Of course they can't accept that.

Companies accept that all the time. It's far more profitable to slash investment and turn something into a cash cow over the next 10-15 years than bet the farm and lose. It's actually in shareholders' interest -- which is why so many shareholders have been upset about the VR pivot.
That would make probably almost all businesses in the US federally funded, as the US government is the single largest employer of people, and those people spend their money at private businesses. The US government purchases things from private businesses.

Come on.
Indeed. Meanwhile, the message has had its intended effect and NPR is now seen as 'tainted' by the people who would do a lot better to listen more to NPR than to various other far more biased news sources. It's the same old playbook, and Musk getting away with this is highly annoying.
I'm genuinely curious if anyone reads things thoroughly or just sees no use for it in their workflows or life and immediately thinks everyone else is just like them and has no use for it either...
Clothing line for popular streamers I guess
That’s ok, the US is only the biggest economy in the world. Of course we can’t do it on our own but we can lead the way - or we can get lapped by China who has already begun and made significant progress in all the areas we should also be doing: solar installments, EVs, fast mass transit.

It’s no surprise the rest of the world is starting to look to China for leadership instead of us.
yea that comment is so out of touch. What % of US adults have enough savings to live 2-4 years on their current lifestyle? I'd bet it's very low. Maybe not as low as the subset making a FAANG income, but probably still low.
What do you think about Al Jazeera's funding and level of control?
Yes, the branding was the thing I was not accounting for.
But if we were able to collectively realize these things, and take them seriously, don't you think it might be possible to clean up more than a few of the many gong shows humanity has had going on for centuries?
Or in CSS: https://www.bryanbraun.com/after-dark-css/all/flying-toaster...
Twitter is funny in this regard, why is Musk so keen on Russia and China?
Heck, Voice of America also did the same and they are definitely state affiliated.
AFAIK current models can run even with 64GB, but I would assume that we will very likely have bigger models very soon so I guess the answer is as much as you can afford
It practically writes itself!
This is the real reason to buy a soundbar IMO.
> NPR has exactly the same conflict of interest in regards to funding that RT has.

Sorry, but that is factually incorrect.
It's on Mastodon though, the automatic linking wouldn't add mailto: at the front, think it's worth the cost of a few people not being able to post their email address without a mailto:
> I mean, off the bat you might use it to replace Google, like bing is already doing.

That's not for me. I gave it a try for a couple of days, but using ChatGPT as a search engine is much, much less useful to me than the old-fashioned method.
> I find it rather harsh

Yes, that's the "tough" part of "tough love."

> How much due diligence do you perform on the decrepit man sitting on the sidewalk, holding out a cup of change, before you decide to throw some his way?

People on the sidewalk are typically not soliciting fifty to five thousand dollars. And if I meet someone on the sidewalk I can see their face and have a conversation with them which helps me assess whether or not they are trying to scam me.

> I'm somewhat like the psychologist, from your film, who had a practice, and now can't get a job at Burger King, but not for lack of trying.

The psychologist's name is (or was -- he died recently) Michael. And it's pretty clear that you haven't actually seen the film because if you had you would know that Michael was very much the author of his own fate.

> Preferring anonymity is not a crime, nor should it be a handicap.

It's not a crime, but it's not an entitlement either. Anonymity has a price.

> that first post ... received no replies

And did you stop to consider why it got no replies? And what you might do differently to change that?

> If I had the little bit of financial support that I requested, I could (and would) produce polished public output.

I sincerely wish you the best of luck. But if you fail to get the "little bit of financial support that you requested", you might want to consider the possibility that this is the result of choices you have made, and if you make different choices you might get different outcomes.
That they're blocking tracking is still privacy-focused. There are unsubstantiated claims that they exempt themselves from the same tracking, but reports of their advertising revenue doesn't contribute anything to those claims.

At Apple's scale, it's relatively easy for them to deliver $20B in ad revenue without any privacy-invading means.

People seem to have forgotten, but ads used to be based on context, so people looking at apps related to fitness might see ads related to fitness, but that wouldn't follow them around when they looked at other things. Apple still seems to be doing that; I haven't seen fitness ads on games, or game ads on fitness apps.
Sony Bravia also allows this.
Many bioinformatics programming tasks can be automated with ChatGPT
MAUI is just another workload of the dotnet ecosystem. There is no technical reason for it not to work on Linux outside of someone actually doing so. This has nothing to do with C# at all.
It's wild the type of rudimentary software than sometimes ends up on the front page.
The metaverse and crypto were entirely about some kind of future industry and society-changing application. "You don't see anything _now,_ but the future will be unrecognizable, trust me!"

Gen AI definitely has utility right now, and for some it's a lot of utility. But the hype around it is exactly the same, the hype is all around how "the future will be unrecognizable, trust me!"

So I agree that practically, Gen AI is utterly different from crypto/metaverse, it's a real thing with real value. But it's also attracting the exact same hucksters and they're kind of sucking all the air out of the room.
That would indicate many high-quality news outlets.

Many European countries have state-funded but independent media.
Switzerland, Germany, Great Britain, France, et al, all have state-funded and independent media.

The idea is that state-funding makes them less dependent since they do not have to only report what people want to read for ad-revenue but can focus on honest reporting (including reporting critical of the government).

Whether you buy that argument or not is a different discussion. The point is that "state funded" has nothing to do with "state controlled" or even "state affiliated"; just another dumb move by Elon Musk.

I quit Twitter a long time ago. Good riddance, I have not missed anything!
It's waaaaay better for those of us without an account. It loads every time, rather than failing about 2/3 of the time (at least on mobile—always figured that was some weird dark pattern to try to get me to use the app, did it to me consistently for years across multiple devices), and doesn't block me with a loginwall if I scroll too far before hitting "more replies" anymore.

All the drama around Twitter's also flat-out hilarious if one doesn't care whether Twitter lives or dies, and lots of that drama's on Twitter, so I'd call that an improvement, too.
Fish don't know they're in water.

If you've been ingesting a narrative since middle school, and the BBC reinforces it, well that's just good neutral unbiased reporting.
How many media companies got PPP loans? Probably all of them, right?
Yeah, that is the hypocrisy.

The argument is that its fair to label NPR as govt funded, because they technically are, but Twitter is not exactly in a hurry to apply this rule anywhere else.
A few, not enough to be profitable though.
Someone ought to start a charity to hire personal assistants for people like Terence Tao. Or get some government tech grant working on that. That would be probably one of the most efficient investments in progress you can get
But they can’t turn blocking calls to non-blocking which is the whole point, that requires runtime support.
While it's early days yet AI is proving itself much more readily. If you're in the right networks you've heard that several companies who've rolled out AI features are on track to generate >100MM ARR charging for them.

One feature I'm quite confident in: translation services for i18n in websites using GPT-4 + a much smaller number of human translators to check the work of low confidence translations and high value surfaces. I can confirm the end result for French is better than existing human translation services and much cheaper.

Certainly businesses will need to walk back some AI features but it really seems like there's business value now, let alone in 2 years when publicly available LLMs are even better.
Do people hire for (non-PR) jobs based on tweets?
The assistant's job would be to take low-hanging fruit non-research administrative tasks off his hands - pretty much like the tasks here.
The parent comment isn’t referring to Twitter surely?
Oded Galor: Unified Growth Theory [pdf]
The EV charger breaking is not even something I had remotely considered - having to wait 3 weeks for a replacement charger could make the vehicle basically useless; even if you have a "regular plugin charger" extra those are much slower.

If I go EV I may have to consider convincing a neighbor to get the same type as me. I wonder if you can charge at a dealership, which may help for some.
Twitter is a publisher. Just like newspapers publish AP stories, Twitter publishes the latest memes from users.
Take it as you will, but the example they give is:

> For example, NPR joined with other media organizations to press the Obama administration for access to closed hearings involving detainees held by U.S. authorities at Guantanamo Bay
Since when did Tesla start producing media? Specifically, media funded by the government? Can you provide proof of this funding and links to what they produced?

This comment is edging pretty close to that cartoon about people who can't help but try to find reasons to dislike Elon, because NPR told them to do so.
Note that you can represent much more complex spreadsheets using Sheet Markup, and while in the above example it might be clear what SUM(COST) would mean, in a more complex spreadsheet, with multiple different tables, it might be ambiguous.

As for why one would possibly ever want to use Sheet Markup for mode complex spreadsheets, one use is as a way to interact with an LLM. We've started to see some interesting results using GPT-4 to analyze various kinds of spreadsheets that have been encoded in Sheet Markup.
I had a coworker write a little app to vibrate with Morse code at incoming messages, and turn the entire screen into a single button that he could tap out replies.

It worked well enough.
I literally have a Linux machine that I’m ready to rig up were it not for Comcast being my internet provider. Maddening to live in “Silicon Valley” and be dealing with dog shit data caps and speeds.
This looks great. I had been using Document Layer for FoundationDB but Apple has abandoned the Document Layer for the FoundationDB ; so this looks promising .
It's very obvious he would blow up the TSMC rather than deliver the much coveted chips to the world.
> In the third section I analyze its security model, specifically the cost of mounting a 51% attack on the assumption that hash power is available for rent and doesn't need to be purchased by the attacker.

Bitcoin mining requires special devices (ASICs). These ASICs would lose their value if Bitcoin lost its value. Given this fact, why would anyone rent them out, or rent out the hash power?
For years (decades, actually), I've been a believer in the idea that deliberately and systematically harnessing the placebo effect will be the biggest medical development of the first half of the 21st century.

However, I've become aware of studies and claims that actually the placebo effect itself is an illusion caused by poor statistical understanding and poor study design (sometimes necessitated by the study matter).

At this point I am deeply unsure what to make of things.
> Mastedons never going to go mainstream. It's too convoluted and complicated to explain how it works to someone with a moderate level of skill in IT, let alone your average every day person.

Email's never going to go mainstream. It's too convoluted and complicated to explain how it works to someone with a moderate level of skill in IT, let alone your average every day person.

"It's a decentralized communication platform where you sign up to individual..."
What's the most cost-effective alternative to Paperspace? I had a nightmarish experience with them last week after my account got locked up twice when I was training a model with a 1.5 GB dataset that somewhere contained the string "Minecraft Server".
Scaleway and OVH are two other European companies who provide things like managed databases and blob storage, in addition to very competitively priced dedicated hardware and services.

One thing I personally like with OVH is that they have fixed prices for things like bandwidth, not pay-per-GB like most others.
It seems to me like it'd be extraordinarily difficult at a company whose product is supposed to "connect people" and bring people together, while even from the outside it's transparently built to extract the most data and dollars it possibly can from its users, often at their great expense (see teen suicide numbers and depression being linked to social media usage). While internally, they don't even pretend to care.

For a while this was probably easy for "metamates" to ignore due to the astoundingly inflated salaries compared to the rest of the non-FAANG tech sector, but when you start wantonly laying off massive chunks of the company based on poor decisions you made pursuing this "goal," I mean, it would seem to be that nearly anyone with a soul would be feeling demoralized by now.
> So far we have concentrated on the JS/Dart libs because that makes up a large portion of our users.

I once had a computer magazine publisher tell me they only published Windows content because none of their readers used Mac or Linux.
There's a difference between free will as a philosophical debate compared to a question of biology/chemistry/physics.

It matters as a point of principle to the physicists who are asking questions about whether true randomness exists - if the physical world can be influenced by something outside of the natural forces they know about, they want to measure that force, even if measurement and computing equipment to model the universe down to the Planck scale cannot exist.

Where it really matters is when you get to computer simulations: Without access to a source of non-determinism, an AI can hardly be said to have free will. Give the same pattern of bytes running on the same instruction set the same inputs, and it will deterministically generate the same outputs.
> Of course they can't accept that.

If that's true, then they're doomed.

Their real problem is that their entire business model is in danger. What they should be throwing their money at is changing their business model, not trying to invent a new field to apply it in.
Zhong was caught because he made basic operational security errors, like address reuse (which is how he was caught by linking fraud wallet to exchange wallet) , static IP, using a KYC exchange in 2017 to convert BCH into BTC, etc. Not because Bitcoin was cracked. After being caught, Zhong voluntarily relinquished his passwords to encrypted wallets and other bitcoin, not that the crypto was cracked.

I wonder how the feds bypassed the statute of limitations on this. He was not identified until almost a decade after the theft. I am guessing his attempts at laundering the money and spending, reset the clock.
Trustworthy when it is about non-local affairs, hopelessly biased when it is about local affairs. But Al Jazeera doesn't really pretend to be unbiased. Sometimes I'm positively surprised by the quality of their reporting. But them being Qatar based the amount of local news that would affect me is nil. They definitely offer an interesting perspective on the world as seen from the Arabic perspective, meanwhile I'm well aware of the fact that their English language news isn't always a 1:1 with their coverage of the same subject in languages that I can not read unaided.
There's also this..

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/12fiwaf/chat_gpt_w...
ChatGPT Ban: Real Reason Behind This
Software doesn’t have to be complex to be useful. Rudimentary-ness isn’t really a good barometer for “interesting-ness to the sorts of people that browse HN”
huge computation
train on red, blue, and yellow colors
and generate shape
I wonder what would come out in 100B parameter
training data and then 2 steps
require a lot of computation not efficient (IF it would work at all? )
Okay, by the same label, I mean "state affiliated"

I think the "state affiliated media" could be applied to Twitter by the same standards, but for Tesla & SpaceX, just "state affiliated"
Aside from Satoshi's hoard.. there's also just regular destruction. Units can be mined and then permanently lost. The system has a limited number of units that can be generated in total and no mechanism to replace the lost units.

Why is this not a long term problem for bitcoin?
I read somewhere that most moderators use that version, so hopefully that's sufficient reason for Reddit to not disable it.
A Man on the Operating Table (2015)
It's a parrot that a growing number of people have said made them unemployed.
It's a massive overcorrection against the ten guys on twitter (now mastodon probably) saying that the singularity is two weeks away.
> that doesn’t die because of low/high temperatures or humidity or the like. The Raspberry Pi is engineered to a higher standard

This can't be overstated. I've continuously run a few fanless Pi Zero W cameras w/motioneye in the Mojave desert for years now, none have failed.
I don’t know that this is terribly off base.

The cloud almost always ends up costing a lot more at scale and increasingly at the beginning.

In some part this is because the cloud is someone else’s computers that you have to help pay for.

The current incarnation of cloud was designed in part to work around scaling issues with Linux networking, which have long since been solved. What a $5 Linode/VPS can do today vs 10 years ago is much different from a linux standpoint alone before additional horsepower.

At the same time tooling to host (docker, ansible, terraform) is making traditional devops heavier at times.
How common is it to not own a TV?

I had a contractor over the other day for an estimate and in our living room he said, "wow, no TV"

I hadn't really considered it would be a surprise. We consume lots of media, just on laptops and tablets instead.
> Things I do for fun: play sports, video games and drink.

Video game NPCs will very quickly be replaced by LLms. No more boring scripted dialogue. This allows for a truly open world where the inhabitants can dynamically respond to your actions. Video games will become cheaper to create with generative AI that can quickly create a layout of a game world that can then be built on.
genuinely confused how the author/illustrator can include that sentence under their depiction of a black person. the lack of awareness is incredible.
This is called the nocebo effect, and it is well-studied. Example: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle.... When you think of an interesting idea like this, please don't assume you've discovered something new that the entire public health field is unaware of. A drug or treatment that had worse nocebo effects than medical benefits would not be approved.
Im not an expert, and I don't have nvidia, but I assume you need to setup CUDA and install the CUDA pytorch stuff?

Most docs Ive read on setting up finetuners and inference require some extra stuff. Taking some LORA fine tuners, they include instructions like this:

conda create -n llm-finetuner python=3.10
conda activate llm-finetuner
conda install -y cuda -c nvidia/label/cuda-11.7.0
conda install -y pytorch=2 pytorch-cuda=11.7 -c pytorch

When I experimented with Stable Diffusion and ROCM (amd card), i had to do similar but with pythorch-rocm. and when I was doing a CPU only, did `pytorch-cpu`. So maybe your attempt didn't use the GPUs at all, because 12 mins is about what I had on a CPU for inference on other models of similar size.
Oh thank god. At least I’ve got that going for me.
Even if you accept that anything innovative looks like a bad idea to almost anyone[1] that doesn't mean that anything that looks like a bad idea is per se innovative and just misunderstood. There are things that are just terrible ideas. Lead swimming trunks. Asbestos baby clothes. etc I could come up with thousands of things that the vast majority of people would think are a bad idea because _they are_.

[1] which I totally don't buy. If you think about the early internet as an example - the vast majority of people I knew didn't _understand_ it, and/or didn't _care_ and certainly didn't have any sense of its future, but no one that I knew thought it was a bad idea. If they thought about it all they thought it was irrelevant to them until they absolutely got it and couldn't get on board fast enough.
Wouldn't really agree with the "drove people away" statement

https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...
I've taken to calling these things "language golems" because they seem to be able to animate language itself and unlock all these hidden qualities that we seem to know are there, take for granted, and never seemed to ask ourselves how they worked on a fundamental level.

Even if they are "stochastic parrots" that are no more effective at elucidating truth than Ouija boards, they are still better than the autocorrect on my phone right now.
> If the current financial system stopped working and for some reason we needed to actually use Bitcoin to pay stuff, it would not be possible.

This is... not true [1]. We'd need to use something like the Lightning Network. The traditional financial system also has layers build on top of it, so it makes sense that you wouldn't only use the Bitcoin base layer.

[1] https://voltage.cloud/blog/bitcoin-education/how-many-transa...
For sure. average human is just the lower bound of intelligence on a few tasks. On most, it's well above average. On others, it's in the top %
What I’m suggesting is that the “data” is not accurate because a large amount of crime, property or violent, is not reported. Things like theft and property damage is not reported unless it’s thousands of dollars or if insurance requires it. Things like damage to your garage door because someone tried to break in, stolen catalytic converters, stolen Amazon packages etc rarely get reported. Retail theft also gets underreported. Violent crime like someone spitting on you, throwing things at you, pushing you to the ground and running away etc. doesn’t get reported unless there is a big injury or a weapon was involved.
Yeah I totally missed that at first haha, tiny text when it’s a screenshot of a big TV viewed on my tiny phone!
SpaceX and Tesla are not newspapers/publishers.

Twitter is a media company, a publisher with an editorial voice that we have to assume is independent from the Saudi government or any government funding the owner's other businesses.
If your hash power typically translates to $X per day and someone offers you 2X $ to rent the hash power for a day, I suspect most people would rent them out
This is a great example of how bad the UX has gotten for at-home music playback.