skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a lighter note this reminds me of the Bobiverse comedy sci-fi series on Audible.

Premise of __ We Are Legion (We Are Bob): Bobiverse, Book 1 __

>> Bob Johansson has just sold his software company for a small fortune and is looking forward to a life of leisure. The first item on his to-do list: Spending his newfound windfall. On an urge to splurge, he signs up to have his head cryogenically preserved in case of death. Then he gets himself killed crossing the street. Waking up 117 years later, Bob discovers his mind has been uploaded into a sentient space probe with the ability to replicate itself. Bob and his clones are on a mission to find new homes for humanity and boldly go where no Bob has gone before.
If Google Docs was the only way most people wrote text then I think your analogy would indeed be apt. In this case, nearly all people using Large Language Models are doing so through a web page (ChatGPT) or an API.

That's the inspiration behind the name, open for something better. Considered "Edge" as well, but was concerned that would seem IoT/mobile specific.
Housing prices aren’t included in the inflation basket of goods.
There is an episode of Black Mirror about this called "Be Right Back". Well worth a watch.
If we're to believe the media, one of the myriad issues with housing at the moment is that landlords held onto their low-rate pre-pandemic mortgages, so there might broadly not be an increase to pass on.
> that a non religious oath is emptier gesture because you don’t expect the thing you’re swearing on to hold you accountable.

If you're of the mindset that the value of an oath is that an external force will hold you accountable to it, then I think the nonreligious oath is a more powerful one, because the people you're making the oath to will hold you accountable in the here and now, not some ephemeral being at some point after you die.
>I don't know if I'd call a currency "stable" when it's lost 80% of it's own value since being introduced and can have new liquidity created with little due process.

Something that depreciates can still be stable. The US dollar loses value at a relatively predictable rate. We can see what an unstable currency looks like right now by looking at Argentina, where the peso has lost 47% of its value in a year.

BitCoin is more like the peso than the dollar, hence why its called unstable.

> All currency is an illusion, it's just about which illusion makes you more comfortable.

Currency isn't an illusion, it's a social construct, and its a deeply embedded social construct.
That’s true to some extent but NPR and its people provide a ton of timely content which keeps users active. People like the “what’s going on” aspect and news organizations disproportionately help provide that.
I am a regular listener to at least Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and I can assure you their reporting is very biased to the Left.

The credulous reporting of politically left ideas, policies, and positions on news stories without even strawman explanations of competing ideas is very frequent.

I listen to podcasts for long form, fair discussions of issues, but NPR used to (seemed to?) hew to an objective ideal of reporting, and the new crew happily crusades for their team/goals.
(use \* to escape an * and prevent it being parsed as an italics marker.)
I’m currently setting up infrastructure for a startup and it’s been very interesting how the threat model of data loss and disaster recovery is no longer hardware failure: it’s account lock out.

I’ve got streaming replication of my core data going from one cloud company to other company as that way if one has some antifraud system go rogue on me I still have access.

As somebody who used to spend a lot of time thinking about drives breaking it’s an interesting shift.
My back agrees with you
Games (at least AAA) have been moving towards live services where there is an ongoing reliance on the operator at least for multiplayer games. While often the main payment is still upfront there are typically ongoing revenue streams like batttle passes and other microtransactions. Thankfully this model has not yet been accepted for single player games.
Ask HN: Demand for curated online marketplace of authentic Japanese goods?
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Are you interested in a reliable source to purchase authentic Japanese products? We want to hear from you!
We are currently exploring the possibility of creating a curated online marketplace for unique and genuine Japanese goods.

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And if so, what types of products would you be most interested in buying?
We'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback.

Thank you.
Consider playing with Pharo [1], it shows how it can still use Git to store sources in background.

There is LivelyKernel [2] but some versions are more file-oriented (like Lively 4 [3])

[1] https://pharo.org/

[2] https://lively-kernel.org/

[3] https://lively-kernel.org/lively4/lively4-jens/start.html
Don't have to. We already have rights for humans. Even unconscious humans (e.g. people in a coma on some hospital bed).

So we don't have to base it on consciousness, the existing basis (we're humans, so we favor ourselves with rights) is enough.
You don't need to have it rooted, you can request the information: https://faq.whatsapp.com/526463418847093/
The main benefit of virtual threads it that they release their carrier thread when they call (non native) blocking code, so that other virtual threads can be executed by the same carrier.

I don't think that it's the case for C# task, which also appear to be an higher level construct.
I don’t think it’s about the news horrifying us as much as too much consumption making us numb and hypnotised. I used to watch the news once a day on TV and read the newspaper two or three times a week and the experience of news to that cadence compared to what I’m gorging on now is night and day. That was habit, this is addiction.
To be fair Ampere Altra is old now too. Kinda a contemporary with Ice Lake and the tail end of Skylake.

Hetzner offering them right now is curious. Maybe its a pipecleaner for the next Ampere gen?
Sounds like the commercial for a robot friend I was sold as a child:

http://www.theoldrobots.com/MyPal.html

"My brain lights up when I talk. My baseball cap is removable. Watch my eyes, ears nose and mouth move as I talk. I'll play catch with you using my removable funnel. Store your favorite things in my futuristic backpack. Play three interactive games on my chest. I'll pitch to you. Pull out my hideaway electronic hoop so we can play basketball. Adjust my legs to make me sit or stand. Roll me backwards or forwards and I'll speak. 3 foam balls and durable bat included. Shake my hand and show me we're pals. Use my removable flashlight to see in the dark. Tickle me to make me laugh. Store my flashlight in my backpack."

What a great friend! More interesting and stimulating than any human.

> But it can’t drop acid with you at a deadhead concert

And yet it's constantly hallucinating. So maybe it's not that it can't drop acid, but that it's always on acid. Food for thought.
I think he just copy-pasted everything from the PDF to GPT4? He says:

> with the only tedious aspect being the cut-and-paste between the raw data, GPT4, and the spreadsheet
Consciousness is a reaction to stimuli. If we didn't have consciousness, we would not achieve our goals as effectively.
I've had the same experience with other games that went F2P. If they at least upgraded customers who previously paid for the game to some kind of legacy ad-free version or something I'd be much more okay with it.
Wait.... is it possible to tell chat gpt to grab data from a page?
Meh, Just Mock thoes in later.
I thought you were wrong about the original definition of "inflation", but this article agrees with you on that historical fact:

https://www.clevelandfed.org/-/media/project/clevelandfedten...

Not sure I share your worries though, tbh.
As opposed to currency being devalued by the latest scandal in the crypto space? Crypto prices swing wildly based on news, and news can be manipulated by a small number of actors. Just because the transactions are validated in a secure and distributed way doesn't mean that the underlying value is safe.
> because I just didn't see enough use for what it offered compared to a dumb phone and an iPod.

You weren't wrong for the iPhone v1. The UI was years ahead of everything else, but it was still quite limited.

v2 was the first to support apps. To me that was the differentiator that made it a truly revolutionary product.
Updates on Opstrace Integration into Gitlab
Ask HN: Forced buyout, what should I do?
So, the CEO of a company I worked for wants to buyout all ex-employees. I kinda wrote this company off, but today I got a surprising phone call. A lowball offer was forced upon me. I'm still waiting for all the documents, but from the phone call I somehow got the feeling that I don't have much of a choice here. Here is some more background info, since it is not a US-based company:

- Company based in the Netherlands

- Equity for employees is in a pool called STAK with a vesting scheme.

- Last year the company had another funding round. (Rather dissapointing from what I heard, and only one investor)

I have doubts about the current valuation and offer of the company. I also have my doubts on the forced buyout. What would be a wise course of action? I can lawyer up, but maybe that is just a waste of money?
I think this is what you get when material scientists have just a few hours to produce a video, and have no knowledge of video editing software.
Those aren't the prices I'm seeing when I try to create a new server. I'm getting:

CAX11 - 3.95eur/m
CAX21 - 7.19/m
CAX31 - 14.39/m
CAX41 - 28.79/m

1 ipv6 costs me 0.6/m
NB: I am not the author, but this approach closely aligns with my ideal method for handling package and configuration management for workstations.
> SO FUCKING WHAT. Maybe they're useless garbage now, maybe not, but either way that still doesn't make them a government mouthpiece.

Like I said, until they're critical of the administration like they were with Bush Jr, then they are nothing more than a mouthpiece of the current administration.
on the product page https://www.loewe.com/eur/en/women/womenswear/blouses-and-to... scroll down within the picture, next will come a vid showing the product from all sides, revealing the effect
You're begging the question.* Both cases rely on the network effects of the currency. I am not convinced that a government-backed piece of paper will still have value when "the current financial system stopped working." That financial system is part and parcel of the government.

*https://begthequestion.info/
Looks like I bundled that second inequality. Band pass is
X(w) = 0 for abs(w) < A or abs(w) > B
Then after some while someone ...disappears from ur life (to not be very dark with other suggestions), but you keep talking to her. Turns into business.
McDonalds, a state funded eatery,... (because they accept tax breaks)

Amazon, a state funded company,... (because they shopped around for the best tax breaks)

Or any single other company that does what a company does by making any deal they can to better their bottom lines by taking tax breaks or gov't funding in any form would need to be called state funded.

It sort of loses its stigma from that view point.
IMO the Fed is trying very hard to regain credibility after the overblown stimulus and terribly delayed response to the resulting inflation. These are two very public failures.

Everyone is expecting a quick pivot which is why I think that is exactly what will not happen.

Many people are making foolish purchases now at inflated asset prices and high interest rates because they expect that they will be able to refinance at lower rates in a year or so. What if they can't?

Once the general public starts to realize what "higher for longer" actually means we will (hopefully) have a huge sentiment shift to the downside with corresponding asset price corrections.
> And for the first time, some of those cuts could be in engineering groups, which would have been unthinkable before the trouble started last year, two employees said.

What? The November 2022 layoffs were already 50:50 engineering:biz. The communication around the April layoffs has been that they will cut less in engineering groups (or at least, software engineering roles).
This video was a great way to start my day!
Jailbreaking ChatGPT: How AI Chatbot Safeguards Can Be Bypassed
I'm not sure what connection there is between IQ and workplace.
Can you elaborate on this? What kind of phone? Android or iOS? Fully patched? What kind of infection? How did you discover it? How did you get rid of it?
It's not without precedent. Comcast's response to being the most hated brand in the US for multiple years running was to keep everything exactly the same but rebrand their consumer division as Xfinity.
After Stuxnet, I wouldn't discard that possibility.
> Besides I don't think that email and calendaring are technologies where a particular product makes a huge difference.

It might not be a huge difference, but slower email clients like Outlook and even GMail these days, increase the overhead of communications and make communication less likely. Maybe it's me, but when corporate email is fast, I'll at least open each mail for a quick scan once a day. When corporate email is slow, I'm only going to maybe scan titles.

Also, if Outlook still does things like drain my battery to death if I forget to quit before sleeping, and not work without a restart after a brief sleep with a network change, long startup time means it's unlikely to get started at all. Once that's common, corporate email is no longer a reliable communications method, and that's not great.

I could rant about email products that hide email addresses, as if nobody ever worked with two people with the same first name and last name before, or as if spams and scams didn't routinely use good sounding names when they send from someone's unintentional web to email gateway.
What's the deal with this low-effort flame bait? Have you volunteered for the FSF? Are you or have you been active on the FSF or GNU mailing lists?

Certainly there are countless opportunities for reform away from elitist pedantry that are not tantamount to "being about the newest Apple products", wouldn't you agree?
For all the fears of AGI, these are the more concrete nefarious uses we can actually reason about. It is a point I often make that we don't need AGI for AI to already become very disturbing in its potential use.

The other point, is that technically this AI is not "unaligned". It is doing exactly what is requested of the operator.

The implications are that humanity suffers in either scenario, either by our own agency in control of power we are not prepared to manage or we will be managed by power that we can not control.
> A lot of folks confuse NPR With PBS which is publicly funded

PBS gets a minority of its funding from government, and a minority of what it gets from government from the Federal government.

But it gets a bigger minority of its funding from government than NPR does.
I see that Nvidia are selling these again, but are they providing anything newer than Ubuntu 18.04 (now unsupported) to go with them? Are industrial customers just rolling their own distributions?
>Ah! So multimodality will convince you of consciousness?

It would be a necessary, but not necesarrily (no pun intended) sufficient prerequisite.
Show HN: I just built an AI personalized recipe generator and meal planner
you can write what you have in your fridge, select the type of cuisine style you want to cook, and count your macros if you want.
aifoodie creates recipes that are easy to use and take less than 30 minutes to cook.
That was one reason I liked Go as well, it's no longer the case though, you can produce native binaries with GraalVM.
Those don't technically come from the government, they come from other car manufacturers. Those car manufacturers could choose to make lower emission vehicles, but instead have chosen to pay Tesla to have Tesla's vehicles count towards their fleet average.
> Or if no one can define or agree on the definition those subjects should just be ignored by everyone?

Don't see why we can't have multiple mutually exclusive definitions, as long as they are clearly defined, then we can have different lines of argument - kind of like with geometry and the parallel postulate; and which one reality matches is a separate issue we can independently investigate.

> Maybe they can and maybe they can't, I guess that depends on the individual. But you ussually do need to think in certain ways which are likely to not be very familiar to some people whose only background is in exact sciences.

I'm curious as to exactly how the thinking is different. An example would be nice.
Thank you for making this!

I just found the botany of desire - next book I think.
Providing a benefit for a lifetime is something that companies do every day. The financial world calls such products a "perpetuity". (Or in some cases, an "annuity" because your life is not expected to last into perpetuity, but for a certain number of years.)

It is not difficult to calculate the net present value of such products so that you can charge the correct price. It is incompetent management that gets into these situations. The correct response from consumers is to file a small claims suit for a refund. And/Or apparently to blast to company loudly on social media :)
Mass tow dawn.
I buy electronics (minidisc) and anime stuff on Ebay and I’m not too concerned about fakes. (e.g. if I got a $250 anime PVC and it was a fake I’d be mad but if it is a $25 anime PVC who cares?)
I hate to go there but this could be used to have non-consensual cybersex. I guess? So many weird twists and turns these LLMs have exposed.
C has no problem dealing with a uint32_t. Not sure what you are getting at.

This is more of an issue with languages like java that abstract away integer widths and signs, which is convenient if you're only doing arithmetic but becomes a huge pain when dealing with binary data.
They didn't have to know that the iPhone would have been an explosive hit, but they should have seen that Smart Phone/PDA like device sales were increasing at 30-50% a year at that time, and there was a definite feeling that this was the future.

Even if the iPhone wasn't an explosive hit and the smartphone growth didn't explode, 10% of Blackberries market would have meant millions of processors sold to Apple in the first years and any other Blackberry competitor that was interested,
The BBBC is funded by TV license fees so their funding is more arms length, also they make money through BBC Worldwide and collaborations with external media companies like HBO. As such they commonly shit on the government of the day, no matter who it is
That's like saying Federal Express is state affiliated.
This is a moot question because 90% of the Python2 to Python3 conversions stalled due to dependencies and not language features.
In my experience, when it comes to inflation discussions, everyone dances around the subject because there is an R or D after a name that they don't/do like.

Hows about this: Both R's and D's have printed too much money over the last 40 years. They are equally responsible on average since 1972, some more than the other at times.

It sounds archaic, dumb, and antiquated but things got worse after we left the gold standard and no, a person is not crazy for saying shiny rock with a certain scarcity prevented politicians from printing too much money.
I think the Apple headset will be successful primarily because it's an Apple product. As a VR headset it'll probably be technically worse for higher prices than comparable non-Apple headsets (although it'll probably be better than competing AR headsets simply because there aren't any), the software will be top notch and it'll "just work", and most importantly devs will get excited about it and build apps for it.
There’s probably quite a few kindergartens that could benefit from having something like this installed.
> Could Google, or any other company out there, build a digital copy of you that answers questions exactly the way you would? "Hey, we're going to cancel the interview- we found that you aren't a good culture fit here in 72% of our simulations and we don't think that's an acceptable risk."

To fix this, you can train your personal LLM on the “FAANG Appropriate Banter” dataset, and then have it send messages to your friends daily for several months in the lead up to your interview.
> Apple Silicon for training via PyTorch recently

This is just allowing PyTorch to make use of the Apple GPU, assuming the models you want to train aren't written with hard-coded CUDA calls (I've seen many that are like that, since for a long time that was the only game in town)

PyTorch can't use the Neural Engine at all currently

AFAIK Neural Engine is only usable for inference, and only via CoreML (coremltools in Python)
If it's well thought out, sure, why not. But the examples in the HTMX docs for me are mostly not as simple as common HTML attributes.

E.g. these are examples for what I meant by "DSL in HTML attributes":

<input type="text" name="q"
hx-get="/trigger_delay"
hx-trigger="keyup changed delay:500ms"
hx-target="#search-results"
placeholder="Search..."
>
<div id="search-results"></div>

In the end, of course, standardized HTML has DSLs in attributes too (e.g. srcset, sizes...).

Using the word "magic" might have been a bit snarky, that's always a question of definition.

I meant that the behavior is neither standardized nor simple code that can be read as such.
With Alpine it's the same, it's code in HTML attributes, but not all regular JS rules apply.

The first example for the transition from the release notes is another one:

<div class="sample-transition">
<h1>Initial Content</h1>
<button hx-get="/new-content"
hx-swap="innerHTML transition:true"
hx-target="closest div">
Swap It!
</button>
</div>

Strings like "innerHTML transition:true" or "closest div" and the whole thing in combination are just not too much my taste, and I find that this is not really simpler than just writing JS.

But I can see how it fills a niche and I don't want to argue against this idea as such.

Just the presentation I can't understand.

HTMX is not an "extension of HTML" for my understanding, it's a JS lib that parses non-standard attributes using a DSL. Doesn't need to be bad.

Regarding the "download" attribute: I love it too, and I always love when I find out I can do something easily in HTML and CSS without using JS.
Similar example, maybe not useful so often: the form attribute.
>Except we can't tell 1 ms of time passing from 2 ms.

So? We can still tell 1 munute from 1 second.

>An LLM's temporal resolution is certainly worse, on the order of minutes to months, but not fundamentally different.

At the moment it's not just slower, it's zero, cause they don't keep state of what they do as part of their training iirc.
Looks like the author posted it over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35540566
It is almost impossible to drain my iPhone to 0 unless I am doing something really unhealthy, like staring at it for 10 hours. I take a charger with me on trips so I can charge over night, but otherwise.. it's literally not possible in my reasonable life to run my phone out of juice.

Back when I used android, it was much more common that runaway apps would drain my phone in 2 hours. But now? Doing a anker battery would be lugging around a bunch of dead weight.
presumably that's prices with the appropriate-to-your-location VAT applied?
Chess Without Turns
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation#Origins