skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I posted questions related to recent tax changes to real estates, capital gains, and retirements. All were answered accurately. Great job!
How strange, I met Larry about two decades ago at a research conference and we stayed in touch by email for a little while. I had no idea he was this prominent or influential, and he never mentioned anything other than his current work. Super good guy, very kind to a grad student who was a nobody in the world.
And literally predicted by South Park

https://youtu.be/jCkL_zuXcY8

https://youtu.be/dCDIgoSlNXg

https://youtu.be/vtOgzVD_zDI

https://youtu.be/kklek8cNDIQ
Phoenix, AZ is not small donky town. Driverless cabs come to you and drive around OK.

At what point will the skeptics just give in? This shit is already working. It’s a lawyer’s and a businessman’s problem not a technical.

You truly think we need 27 years to support “rural roads” because of technical issue?
I'm not the kind of person to question down votes, but really? Am I getting down voted for suggesting the two most read books of all time to be included?
A huge drawback to changing this is all of our computing resources are based on a 100+ year old concept of a file cabinet with folders and files. It has a lot of historical traction which you would be attempting to go up against with a different concept.

As long as the code is easy to find and doesn't have similar naming as other code you should be good to organize however you want. If you work on a team then make some decisions as a team on how to organize files. I work with Rails which has an opinionated view on folder/file structure which is great because I don't have to spend time thinking about it and can focus on getting things done.
IIRC it was the PS3 that advertised Linux on the box (of the launch model at least) and supported the "Other OS" feature until Sony disabled it with a firmware update. ;-(
And the mobile browser part.
> I don't want to be running a bunch of h100s, I just want my requests processed.

Assuming you don't have sensitive data and that you never try anything outside the rules.
Part of the reason why the United States had both a Senate and a House is to make sure that more rural states had adequate representation of their interests, which differ substantially from urban areas. Rural areas don't have pedestrians because the distances are too big.

Cities and heavily urban states could fix their pedestrian safety problems easily by creating massive local registration taxes on large vehicles, without a federal tax penalizing rural areas. The distance I travel to get groceries would be a net waste (financial, environmental, etc) if I had to make multiple trips rather than packing two weeks of food in one trip.

More broadly, I really wish activists / reformers (of any stripe) would recognize the limits of their own knowledge and experience and realize that the world has more diversity than dreamed of in their philosophy.
That's a very perceptive comment. It happens again and again and it's much harder to control for that, as compared to say making sure you are running in different amazon availability zones or something. If you wanted to destroy someone's service, probably getting them banned like you describe could even be easier than a DOS now. I worry about the day that google kills my gmail account for some random and never to be explained reason.
I got this model working on a GPU instance, notes here: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/dolly-2

Anyone managed to run it on an M1/M2 Mac yet?
If they have a web presence that they regularly update it doesn't really matter what the label is, it can likely be used to infer a whole bunch of stuff.

My 90s-era internet paranoia has never steered me wrong. I don't put out my real name or picture anywhere. When I mention personal details as part of a story or argument, I randomize the details, brother becoming uncle, gay becoming straight, etc. We are not far from powerful AIs being able to link every online account you've ever had together by just your unique writing style, but they can't manufacture information that simply doesn't exist. There isn't enough emphasis these days on keeping your real and electronic identities separate.
Car travel innately has a lot of regulation and concerns around them, and that ship has long sailed. Would you consider the arguments:

Who decides the owner can't drive the vehicle? Why not leave that decision to the driver?

or

Who decides vehicles must have lights? Shouldn't we leave that decision to the owner?

As equally valid?
Okay, so when big media corps get cut deals by government, are they now state-affiliated? Is Disney state-affiliated, with no editorial independence, because Florida had granted them their own little kingdom? Your post might as well say: "I don't care what the facts are, my minds made up that NPR is a mouthpiece for the state." It's just not at all true. Stations pay for NPR content, and stations are member driven, despite subsidy. The federal government has no more say in NPRs content than anyone else's.
> So much of the problem in SF comes down to the progressive politician types who only want to things that "impact the root causes of crime" and its extremely frustrating and frequently just plain wrong.

It's getting bad in LA as well. I've lived in Westwood (UCLA) and now Santa Monica since I went to school here around 2012. You'd always see homeless people every now and then, but they were mostly isolated to encampments and the "bad areas." Not anymore. I walk around a lot and work in coffee shops and hotel lobbies, and in the past year, I've witnessed people shooting up literally next to a kid's playground, I've been offered meth in the middle of the street (at like 10am in the morning, mind you), I hear people screaming/yelling at the top of their lungs outside of my apartment at midnight, had to dodge human poop in the middle of a sidewalk, a homeless person used my garage (the door was stuck open for a few weeks until someone came out to fix it) as a drug den, etc.

I'm literally considering running for city council to try to fix this. We changed the city government a few years ago, but it's gotten worse, not better. It's honestly insane. I have a few friends that just had babies and I have no idea how you could raise a child in a city like this. When I get married/have kids, I'm not sure I would stay here.
I lived in nyc from the early oughts. Things got better and better and then started getting worse. Should I be overjoyed about that because they were even worse yet in the 70s and 80s? Is that what your oh so objective statistics tell me to think?

How about we try to make things better instead of trying to sound smart by explaining that axtually this is not nearly as bad as the bubonic plague?
This is starting to happen when you engage with the state (small "s" in the US). Things like pictures of your drivers license and 180degree videos of your face further coupled with a quick facetime video with a real person reviewing the data.

It feels horrible, invasive and like the state has outsourced it to a third party you dont know and have no control/direct engagement with.

Every single time historically that we've had this level of authentication, there is a 'strong man' type that uses this information against the population. Whether its simple strong societal shame in smaller communities or its a massive program to track and/or persecute a group of people.
> We are approaching a world where people will not want to invest their time, energy, and emotion engaging with other supposed humans remotely unless they have verified their personhood / identity.

We were past it years ago in some domains.

I used to do a lot of language exchanges, and there is/was a need to screen for people who are solely using machine translation. It's pointless correcting someone using machine-generated output.
BBC clearly meets certain definitions of "state controlled" and NPR does not meet any. BBC itself cannot sack its chairman. Only the government can appoint and remove them.
SpaceX streams their launches. Using Musk's definitions, they are therefore a media company and must be labeled as "state affiliated media"
You're using ones bought half a century ago and wondering why they're going broke.
My experience was bad. A lot of servers my friends used didn't take new sign ups so I was forced to pick my own which went offline a few weeks later and I haven't tried using it since because there's no indicator of server quality that I know of and all the servers with a lot of active users are not taking signups. Recommendations from HN would be appreciated.
and the AP was created by the Supreme Court, the AP is not a government entity.
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mastodon as an open source project is wildly successful what are you even talking about?
We don't expect this to be as good as the latest OpenAI GPT release. This is just to demonstrate that developing a conversation agent using an existing foundation model is not as hard as some may assume. Take a foundation model that is not capable of Q&A and tune it with a fairly small Q&A data and you get your in-house ChatGPT.

Disclaimer: I work at Databricks.
It could be that her daughter has no social media her parents are aware of.
GPT-4 Fails Economics
Since only about 25% of the US population pays any attention to Twitter, I think that you're correct -- the average person won't notice NPR's tweets are missing.
Where did anyone claim that? That's a pretty big rewriting (in my view) of history, so please back it up!
> Irrational Fear of Java is one of the most confusing things among startup stage companies.

This so much. It's exhausting to experience startups shoooting themselves in the foot by not using Java where it's best simply because it's not hip.

Golden rule for startups, spend your innovation capital on your product not on trendy (unproven, immatue) implementation technologies. Use boring (aka mature, high performance, best tooling) technology.
> The standard of human interaction will either be meeting IRL or signing communications biometrically.

From a convenience standpoint, it seems like we've gotten so technologically advanced that we are starting to move backwards. Is there a name for this type of phenomenon?
JPMorgan orders senior bankers to work 5 days a week in the office
I disagree that it has nothing to do with it. All of this technology was being developed at the same time, and the most important part of the technology for both purposes is criticality.
Show HN: Like Google Analytics Realtime, but for Podcast episodes
I guess time will really tell.

We might as well hit the problem Google Translate hit, where the training set started to contain more and more data created from GT itself. Similar thing may happen with your NN. At some point there may be so much AI-generated content (by different AIs) that it may be difficult to compose a trustworthy training set.
that's not a finger lol
You get a good range of options at a low cost with Hetzner but need to identify yourself. Many hosting companies have different levels and types of verification these days. If you want to avoid any KYC, checkout https://kycnot.me/services#VPS.
Ask HN: What Start up banks are you using post SVB?
We're looking for a low friction basic business account and decent support. Mobile is great to have but web portal is fine. What banks are small companies using these days?
This is going to shortcircuit some lightswitch brains. Coin bad. Biometric surveillance bad. Coin and biometric surveillance good??
What you need to know about Dominion’s $1.6B defamation trial against Fox
I cannot really comment on this because its A) a multi-dimensional problem (Hosters like Oracle have slightly longer mean removal time than Hetzner but less of their IPs end up in our aggregated blocklist, so does that make them worse or better idk) and B) we're trying to coax at least some of these hosters into using our service to support their fraud team so its probably best not to call out potential customers ;)
The grandparent asked about nuclear weapons, not specifically thermonuclear weapons.
You hit the nail on the head.

Most twitter account followers are nothing but bots. Millions of 'followers' but likes and retweets only in the dozens.

It also makes for huge egos. Like, they know they bought all their followers, but they wake up one day and forget, and start to believe their own bullshit.

To be fair it is everywhere, youtube accounts will millions of followers do the same. Never more than 200 comments or likes on them.

Seems to me the only organic accounts are the ones with only a few K.

I assume anything with 100k-1 million followers is 95% bots.

No one ever thought it was odd that these accounts all got their million followers in the first few days of acct creation, then literally didnt gain any more ever?

Or how odd it is that every celebrity or business just happened to hit 1mil+?
> Like he honestly believed people weren't buying American-made because they actually favored stuff from China.

Perhaps he imagined American-made carried a 30% price premium over Chinese-made, but instead found it was more of a 300% price premium.
> It may be in your nature to question everything you see, hear or read. I'm pretty sure that's not the case for the vast majority of population.

But we have been here before. When radio first came out, it had an almost magical sway on people. People attribute the newness of radio as a significant factor in hitler's rise to power. Eventually we adapted to it though, and it lost its magic sway.
VOA is also labelled as "government funded", which implies less editorial control but personally sounds worse than affliated. The labelling is all over place.
Migrating to DuckDB to support millions of queries a day
I'd love to see this used to play QWOP
"Following the widely publicized prosecution of Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes, the Outcome Health trial was another example of the government taking on what prosecutors in the trial called the technology world's "fake-it-till-you-make-it" culture."

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/former-outcome-health-execu...
German Passports have the City/Region you life in on them. The ID cards have your full address. So if the address of your ID card doesn't match your passport something is definitely fishy as you would have to get them updated when you move.
No dopamine hit with twitter anymore.
This is still wrong though. From your source:

> NPR relies on the local stations' payments for 34% of its budget.

Local stations are not 100% government funded.

> CPB estimates its support provided 8.2% of the average station's budget in 2017, but it's more important to affiliates in smaller, rural markets.

If I do the math. An average station's budget is 8.2% from CPB, and 34% of the funding for NPR comes from local stations, taking that 8.2% of government money, and saying 8.2% of the 34% funding from local station it is 2.7% of NPR's budget from local stations. And 0.6% directly, so from _your source_ NPR is funded by 3.1% from CPB.
Mine was.
Doesn't make sense to me - google/the internet already has more facts/jokes/interesting stuff than my friends could ever produce. It still can't replace my friends because my friends have agency and are invested in my life.
What conflict of interest do you perceive? Would you rather the article was by Rush Limbaugh or do you see any items in the article that you feel misrepresent reality and that this was done because of the reporters' bias?
What about death penalty for drug dealers ? Would massively reduce drug use over 10 years.
I think it has more to do with preserving the fiction that they're significantly more independent from commercial interests than other news media. Losing dedicated public funding would make them a commercial network that also begs for donations a few times a year, probably harming donation and removing some of the halo-effect that advertisers are looking for by "sponsoring" them (paying for ads).

In short, it'd push them farther out of the ad niche they've carved for themselves, which could have serious revenue consequences beyond that 1%.
There was a famous study where the patients were told they were receiving a "pill with no medicine in it." It still resulted in measurable improvement.

The short version is that we do use it in some cases where there's a lack of other options. E.g. I can walk into the major pharmacy down the street and buy "earache medicine", which is (almost literally) just water. My insurance won't pay for something like acupuncture right now, but if I were undergoing cancer treatment, suddenly things like that would be partially covered in the name of "pain relief".
Interestingly NOAA isn't listed as state media:

https://twitter.com/NOAA
This is very concerning, but I think my bigger, more immediate worry - and one I suspect will happen at a much larger scale in the US, if not the world - is the use of these tools in bullying, particularly among school-aged kids. The detrimental effects on kids (and thus, eventual adults) due to the misuse of these tools could be cataclysmic.
>Coincides with the release of Dolly 2.0, which is trained exclusively on this dataset and demonstrates high quality (but not state-of-the-art) instruction-following behavior.

This is not correct. It was fine-tuned with this data set, but the model itself is the 12B Eleuther AI pythia model.
The UK’s Worst Places to Live for Digital Nomads
Doesn't this remind you of ender's game? The two siblings manipulating social discourse by creating and then whipping up opposing sides?

We know that this already happens, but now its in the grasp of many people and thus much harder to pin down where its coming from and what that party's motive is. How can you 'follow the money' when
- it requires almost no money to spam every social media channel
- then get picked up by news bc they turn to social media for fast/new/relevant information
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>No public social media accounts combined with the timing of the fraud happening during a ski trip implies that somebody close to the family was in on it.

I recommend against this type of baseless speculation.

We should all do well to remember that time Reddit caught the boston bomber.
Strange that labelling medias with their true funding diminishes their credibility so much that they’d flee to any place where this information is not disclosed.
$150/hr is $300k TC, and the vast majority of people don't make that. (I don't.) Let's say the average farmer makes $45k/yr or $22.50/hr. $22.50*32-hours of labor = $720. So $250 for the part and $720 for the labor = $920 vs $5,000. Still up by $4,080, but then we also have to add in the increase in knowledge and skills that came from performing the work yourself. Let's say automotive school costs $1,000, and that the hands-on work was instructive and counts for a quarter of that, so that's $250 from doing it yourself so that works out to be $4,330. Which is a pretty good deal!

Homesteading is a dream of mine, but I may be too rooted in the comforts of working in tech for it. Maybe if I win the startup lottery.
On the other hand, airlines have had major trouble with lifelong tickets sold in the eighties.
I already set up the family's secret "not a robot" password
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Thanks for the reminder. FOr some reason I had to put that down a couple episodes in. May re-watch it again from the beginning. Hope I haven't shelved it due to woke cringiness as I still don't tolerate that.
The perf results I was referring to was the ability to run an llm locally (like llama.cpp) that uses a giant amount of ram in the gpu, like 40gig. Without this uniform memory model, you end up paging endlessly, so it's actually much faster for this application in this scenario. Unlike on a pc with a graphics card, you can use your entire ram for gpu. This isn't possible on the xbox because it doesn't have uniform memory as far as I know. So having incredible throughput still won't match not having to page.

Edit - I found an example from h.n. user anentropic, pointing at https://github.com/remixer-dec/llama-mps . "The goal of this fork is to use GPU acceleration on Apple M1/M2 devices.... After the model is loaded, inference for max_gen_len=20 takes about 3 seconds on a 24-core M1 Max vs 12+ minutes on a CPU (running on a single core). "
Why I Built Zp?
I have been learning rust for some time now and very recently I published my very first crate. Obviously, I wrote a blog about it, as all devs do. If you're someone who is learning rust and haven't yet have a crate to your name but wish to, this blog is definitely going to help you. And if you're someone who is an experienced rust developer, do give it a read anyway!
The wireless charging port is an specialized one. That's why it's more secure. The wireless data transfer options vary from "it's broken, forget about it" to actually quite secure, but the charging isn't done through them.

When people decided to use USB for everything, well, they had to make USB support every use case.
Yes. West Coast cities (San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Vancouver Canada) consistently get talked about with this even more disproportionately because the citizens there confuse crime with visible poverty.

People hear "Someone was randomly stabbed", then they go on the streets, see someone homeless and on opiates passed out in the street, or get screamed at by someone on meth, feel unsafe, and correlate the two. Then they look around at the state of certain parts of the cities and scream the city is dying, and demand superficial solutions like impeaching the DA, or cleaning up a homeless encampment.

But the cities don't have a crime problem (more than other cities in North America). They have a VISIBLE POVERTY problem. They have a houselessness problem. And they have a drug addiction problem (which almost certainly is an outcome of poverty and houselessness.

The root cause for these is complex, from wealth imbalance, to insufficient social services, but the reason why THOSE CITIES specifically have them is that the west coast provinces and states are 1/ Progressive, 2/ Mild-climated in the Winter.

There is no other province or state that is both consistently progressive (and as a result offers SOME social services for homeless, mentally ill, or drug addicted people) AND you can survive a winter in the street. The east coast has the former, but not the latter. The southwest has the latter but not the former.

The combination of the above creates the effect you see.
It made me really happy to hear that. Thank you.

I’ve been told plenty of times that such a future is implausible. And I grant that our future may look a lot more like The Orville than Star Trek. But from an engineering, public health, and social perspective it seems that both of those visions have more similarities than differences. I accept that the individual work most of us do don’t directly build that future alone, but someone up-thread was quoting “E Pluribus Unum” and that’s how we get there.

(Auto-correct wished that to be “E Pluribus Ubuntu,” but I’ve always suspected LCARS is a lot more like BSD, Arch or Gentoo.)
Appreciate the insight! Consistency is a big one.
Funny, I thought working at Meta would be the thing that would create a morale crises at Meta.