skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This statement also carries so many implications. Is the Twitter database public? Can I also download from the Twitter database? Has Twitter now had a data leak? Does Substack just use a single IP that Twitter has... blocked?
Adjusting for age is the tough one. And good luck finding something that works for you!
The majority of the what we consider classics were the pulp fiction of their day. All of Shakespeare was written to be enjoyed by day laborers who couldn’t afford a seat. Jules Verne and Michael Crichton did the same thing, one just seems more like literature because it’s old.

Some things where both written to be high brow and ended up being remembered but that has more to do with quality than their intended audience.
> if a chess program was 3000 Elo before but so slow that it would lose under competition rules then humans still dominated chess.

How are you working out that it has a 3000 Elo if it's not winning games?
Ah, is it the "openly" part that you're focusing on? I can imagine that, but it always seemed pretty open to me. I suppose I'm attuned to the dog whistles that they've long used. I'm pretty sure George Bush didn't spend much more time clearing brush off his ranch than it took to finish the photo op for instance.

Or maybe I just spent too long on calls with executives who were trying to find the best place to source "non-value added labor" (the ideal proles are interchangeable cogs, ideally without any benefits) that I forget that they sometimes try to hide these things.
Really? 5 years? That seems really harsh. Is it all business failures or does it have to be due to mismanagement? I've heard the climate is very hostile to businesses in Germany; my sister in law was trying to sell art on etsy and apparently she had to get a business license to do so in Germany. She's now back in the USA where she can just sell stuff online and the only thing she needs to do is file her taxes correctly
Used books appear to me to be largely unaffordable these days due to the internet creating a global market.

If an obscure out of print book costs $500, because (my hypothesis is) it is priced for the single most desperate buyer in the world, then the market for used books no longer has any relationship to my life or needs.

On the other hand, if there are only a dozen people who would buy it at say $5 then it's not in anyone's interest to reprint it. And if someone did reprint it but didn't do the labor intensive part of editing the scan, it would hardly be worth it - so I'm sure even free isn't cheap.

So, I mean, I will do without. Just like I did without Napster back in the day. But people should ask themselves if this is the dystopia we want, and who is serving who. If the Patent and Copyright Clause verbiage in the US Constitution meant what it said, and if markets serve society too.
It's like steroids in baseball. Anybody could do it so in that sense it may be fair, but it's unfair to all the players who aren't utterly reckless and short sighted.
First minor point, but a country I was born in is not necessarily "my country" and I feel I was pretty clear in my possessive pronouns through this thread :-)

Second, yours is a true logical statement, but I feel if we are talking of our North American education system as a competitive advantage, then we are inherently talking about comparative and relative performance. Which countries have worse educational system? I can name a few, certainly, but if we look at our economic and geopolitical competitors, how does our education actually compare? Not favourably has always been my impression. I'm curious to see any stats to otherwise, and especially when it comes to efficiency I. E. Money invested vs educational results (understanding measuring educational results is a tricky and controversial area)
GPT-3.5 for this specific example, but I've been experimenting with GPT-4 via Bing Chat and it hasn't really changed my impression. I'm going to reevaluate once OpenAI releases ChatGPT + GPT-4 for free users.
Loved hearing about the history SQLite! I do feel we should capture more of the tech story's, as its hard to learn from mistakes.. if you don't know the history.
That actually makes sense. We need proper category names to have better conversations. I didn't think of it that way.
> I don't see how libraries are to blame. Your ire should be directed at modern society

On the contrary, libraries are there to facilitate the improvement of said "«modern society»".
Yeah, you know, the Substack IP address. You look it up in the Yellow Pages.
This isn't news. It's commentary on a ruling that's been discussed to death and most everyone recognizes the IA forfeit their case the moment they started the NEL.
There are already a lot of protocols for microblogging (RSS, ActivityPub, JSON Feed, etc), we don’t need yet another.

I’ve lately been a fan of hosting my own Beluga feed (https://beluga.social) since it’s much more lightweight than a full mastodon instance, and I still rely on RSS feeds.

But let’s be honest, very few people actually want fragmentation and ownership even if it’s better for the long-term health of the Internet. They prefer discoverability, reach, and usability, which will always be better on a centralized platform. It’s like asking people to eat boiled broccoli when there’s a pile of donuts next to it.

Can we make broccoli donuts? Mastodon is doing pretty well these days, but given that email went from a fully federated and open ecosystem to mostly centralized over the last 2 decades, I’m not super optimistic.
The article makes no case about car tires and specifically addresses the limitations of certain filters used on diesel engine exhaust. If you can't get behind cleaner transportation technology, try not to stand in its way.
> Inferences drawn from any of the collected personal information listed above to create a profile or summary about, for example, an individual’s preferences and characteristics [0]

I think it's a brilliant use-case of AI, but I really don't like this especially considering how much personal info is in that list. Kudos for being transparent about it, though.

[0] https://insightbase.ai/privacy
He's a notorious gaslighter.
Substacks plan to add a newsfeed has me really unhappy. I’m on substack partially to avoid the problems that come with newsfeeds. The newsfeed ruined Facebook imho and kept anyone from visiting each others pages after that. It is clearly a play to capture disaffected Twitter users, or so it seems to me. But it feels so out of place for the platform
Looks interesting, I like the online demos. I would look at using it but it doesn't look like there is a port for esp32. The lack of explicit instructions/info about getting this running with esp-idf puts a bit of a damper on it. Rust is nice, but I'm not sure how to get that working with an existing C, freeRTOS project. So while the technical parts of this seem really nice, the developer experience for someone outside of slint seems a little hard.
>she had to get a business license to do so in Germany. She's now back in the USA where she can just sell stuff online

If you want to sell in the Germany, get a business license from Estonia or Romania or some other low-cost low-bureocracy EU country, and pay your taxes there. Germany is still living in the business climate of the '60s.
Mmmmm, still could have selected an Ethernet hardware without ME.

Why bother to disable ME if you could do the right thing?
> you mean like EVERY SINGLE western journalist

and why do you think they do that? isn't it possiblee that there are many things very, very wrong with china?
Are Substack releasing a Twitter clone, everyone will leave as soon as they can if they do!
Yeah… I have two containers running on google cloud run right now, the nextjs container cold starts an average of 1.5 seconds. The actix web rust container cold starts in 150 ms. The difference is staggering, I can’t even tell when the rust container cold starts
> Auditors insist that their services cannot be treated as a guarantee that accounts are truthful, and note that sophisticated frauds are by their nature difficult to spot.

As someone who knows nothing about this area, I don't understand why audits won't always detect fraud.

I would naively assume that auditors have access to all financial accounts and records of cash flows and they make sure they all add up and are categorized correctly. And that if fraud is happening, there will necessarily be numbers that don't add up.

So what am I missing? Do they not have access to all accounts and statements? Is it just a top-level glance at the numbers because there isn't enough time/money to scrutinize everything? Or can the numbers all add up but there's still fraud?

Is there anyone here who can give an example of something fraudulent that is hard to catch?
This is a Unix system, I know this.
Fun fact, I saw the temperatures they're getting and I just looked this up to be sure.

The freezing point of Carbon Dioxide at atmospheric pressures is -78.5C, which it reaches sometimes at the south pole.

So apparently carbon dixodie can freeze out of the atmosphere (deposition) and turn to solid carbon dioxide ice in mid-winter. Though I believe because the partial pressure will be too low, you'd need to concentrate the CO2 first.
It’s never been about the space, for 40 years it’s always been about zoning and compliance. Environmental assessments costs multiple times what they did a few decades ago in ON, this is a problem we created ourselves.
To Tackle Climate Change, We Need to Update Democracy
Created an account to play with it. Great work! Some suggestions:

1. Accuracy needs to be worked upon. I asked "How many total movies are there" in the demo project, it gave me "You are trying to run an unsafe operation" (!!).

2. It asks for database access if you want to run on your database. Until the trust in the tool is developed and value proposition is clear, will be hard to give any database access.
He’s accusing Substack of trying to scrape the Twitter database, and therefore nobody can like or retweet Substack posts because their “IP address is obviously untrusted”?

This is the kind of explanation that sounds good when you give it to a close circle of yes-men who won’t dare disagree with you, but falls flat when posted somewhere that anybody can think about critically.

Also, the pandering replies from the social media grifters trying hard to break into Elon’s inner circle are just sad:

> Got it. Please DM so we can take this private.
Makes a big difference what you're doing. I'm extremely prone to motion sickness but can do vrchat for basically unlimited amounts of time. I think that's because your avatar is mostly synced with your body. That said I can hardly play anything that involves moving your avatar independently of your body, e.g, most games
Looks like Superfront doesn't ship many of their products to the US. Bummer.
The Great American Solar Eclipse of 2024 is 1 year away
>writer's income looks like a power-law distribution

That's at least directionally true with most creative fields. (Leaving aside the people working for companies doing creative stuff as a day job.) The exact shape will vary of course. I suspect very few poets are making big bucks.

Government grants can be problematic although probably less so at the local level (on average).
But on the contrary, It can speed up learning a technology as you go, like a senior engineer packed with knowledge available to you. You could be not knowing the frontend!? You can ask it exactly what you don't understood.And it'll never get bore and try to formulate the answer in a frame that it settles you an understanding, not limited to what your senior has settled with. I would say, it's a good tool available to you when senior engineer/mentor isn't.
The longer a book has been around, the longer you should probably keep it.

Maybe your one copy Thucydides has been checked out 1 time in the past 20 years, and your five copies of $SLIGHTLY_OUTDATED_POP_LIT have been checked out 200 times in the past 20 years (but very little in the past two.) Junk the extra copies of the latter in your branch. In a few more years, junk all but one copy in your library system. In a few more years, junk all but one copy in your ILL network. Soon it will be safe to junk that too, unless you're the Library of Congress.

Instead, they junk Thucydides.

Unfortunately, this requires much more curation and work from librarians, which is why it will not be done.
Story has it that Rust was born out of a fake language, so maybe they are worth something.

Likewise Ada makes your vacations possible, in case taking a plane or train is part of it.

Kotlin turns pixie dust into Android apps, while Swift does the same for iOS.
I find simplicity aesthetically appealing. Obviously some other people differ.
Probably using the oauth tokens they get from substack users that connect their twitter to spider and download the API. Cambridge Analytica-style.
To be fair, Amazon and Google really didn't/don't like each other and were blocking each other's products.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28046256
You know, all regulations only hurt small sellers, people at the “top” always get away from all the crap they are directly responsible for, no matter they are hurting their own business or the society as a whole
The art world, largely, concerns itself with scammy NFTs, that happen to take the form of physical artifacts.
In 2000-2019 you would complain about one specific product going up in price and adjust appropriately.

In 2022 you complain about everything going up in price.
They did this and undid this already.
AFAIK, it's the first experiment that Apple has allowed ChatGPT Plugins to indirectly enter their ecosystem. Although it might trigger Apple if OpenAI were to place this in the App Store first, I think Apple will likely allow ChatGPT Plugins. At least for now.
If you didn't read the article - "American anxiety surrounding China’s potential moves in Afghanistan’s mining sector may be misplaced, for now"

There's a solid chance Afghanistan enters a civil war this year or next with the internal divisions between the Kandahar clique and the Haqqani clique starting to become violent, and the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (in reality ex-Taliban from the Mehsud biradari who split due to internal conflicts with the Haqqani biradari) pushing the Taliban out of FATA adjacent regions.
You're using geoemetrical construction not dissimilar from proving the theorem for a != b. So it's not in the spirit of this new method. No one disputes there are easier methods to prove the theorem.
> Cryptocurrencies are specifically designed to evade regulations.

No, most are not. (I'd go as far to argue that even monero is not specifically designed to evade regulation.)
The Apple headset is supposed to have dual 4K displays. It's true that you can't render an entire photorealistic world at 120Hz with low latency using a mobile-grade GPU, but there's still a lot you can do in VR and especially AR.

Apple knows how to work within hardware limitations to give users a smooth experience. Like the first gen iPhone, which had perfect lag-free scrolling even if the actual content took many seconds to load.
Looking at the source paper, they are claiming a 2.2x speedup over cuFFT for convolutions, so it's not an earth-shattering gain, but still.
It's also worth noting that hard links are "harder" to view and find compared to symbolic links (symlinks) and are primarily used for administrative instead of user purposes. Modern terminals display symlinks with colour, the -F option to ls appends @ to symlinks, and the -l option displays the target.

Hard links are only indicated by a link count >1 for files, but to find them, you must search by inode number (since they all share the same inode number) - e.g., ls -i to list inode numbers, and find / -inum 1234 (for inode 1234) to find them on the same filesystem.
Right so if I'm a janitor and I use chemicals to clean things which is the result of hundreds of years of human ingenuity and chemical engineering I suddenly owe humanity money?

No. That is the perverted idea. I'm simply talking about fair as in fair trade. As in what is defined as a fair trade and a fair transaction according to economic theory and common sense. I am using the absolute most normal and most common sense meaning of the word "fair."

You are the one in your words: "perverting" the meaning. Perversion is actually too strong of a word. I would say you are definitely twisting the meaning and using an uncommon and sort of made up definition.

According to the most common usage of the word fair those who own AI only owe what they paid for. If they give away money then the economy is becoming more socialist or in another words an even distribution of wealth, but certainly unfair in the eyes of capitalism and fair trade and the fair exchange of goods.

Keep in mind though I'm not blindly supporting capitalism. The future of society may rely on a more practical but more unfair distribution of wealth. But we have to face the fact that such a distribution is fundamentally unfair.
I don't think it's some big secret. Any time libraries hold a book sale that's usually the last chance for those books, everything left is tossed. I can't understand any outrage about that though, they buy new books and they get donations and don't have infinite space.
I'm willing to bet that the additional mass of EVs has a marginal effect compared to the environmental impact of ICE fuel shipment and delivery.
You can use Stripe Identity or similar to government credential proof someone for about $2 per proofing request. High level, you want to bind IRL identity to digital identity (passkeys) when you have high identity assurance.

https://stripe.com/identity

https://pages.nist.gov/sp800-63a.html

Let’s assume crypto proofing is insufficient (because people lose their cryptographic primitives, secure authenticators, and recovery codes), and US digital identity is still playing catch-up to the developed world (I assume one day login.gov, the USPS, and other trust anchors will be able to attest to who you are). Therefore, having a commercial identity proofing provider providing account recovery seems like the optimal solution.

(management of customer digital identity is a component of my work at a fintech)
Given its volatility, this is a risky move by the Chinese. Maybe it’s just a bet with a corresponding hedge somewhere else.
> My country took on many bad loans form the IMF, World Bank, etc. and all that borrowed money went into useless projects of the oligarch owned companies, and to pay off the massive debts, the country was forced to sell of various state assets (oil & gas fields, mines, etc) to western owned enterprises.

IMF / World banks loans are only given based on various factors which in include the ability to pay the loan back. They don’t take assets.

This is what happened with Sri Lanka. The IMF and World Bank refused loans because they deemed the risk high and chance of loans being paid back low.

China did the loans at a higher rate with projects being won by Chinese companies and forfeit of loans being given assets for 100 year leases.

You can try justify it anyway you want. China loans are debt traps. Plain and simple.
When do you need chain-of-thought prompting for ChatGPT?
Google. I literally lost my voice and could barely understand the Chinese interviewer's accent. All my interviewers that day had an accent. Little did I know I had COVID. I failed the interview and had to take some time off to recover emotionally because it was a difficult interview.

Also failed at Amazon because they brought me for an interview and it started 9am and ended at 5pm. I was too tired and they kept trying to make simple question harder by adding constraints. I gave up because it wasn't worth it.

Do yourself a favor, if you don't like the interview and interviewer just leave in the middle of the interview. It's not worth the emotional and mental cost. Also there is a good chance you don't like the company and the company culture if the interview is not going accordingly.
This is a great guide!
Lichtenstein mined existing comic book panels and painted them worse. If that’s too subjective of a statement, you could say he painted them in a more simplistic and machine-like fashion.

The art world of the time thought that the very idea of emphasizing low-brow art’s disreputability was in itself high art. The art speculation world agreed, and Liechtenstein made nice bank, as did many speculators.

What these claims fail to take into account is that the buyers never cared about the “source material”. If they did, 1960s romance comics would have a multi-million dollar market today.

I don’t care for most of pop art, and certainly not Liechtenstein, but these types of allegations seem to deliberately misunderstand its appeal.
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fyi, computer science is a subset of mathematics, the "computer" part sort of gives it away, because what it really means is "one who computes, factors, reckons." To be more clear, CS is Math. My CS degree, and most others I am aware of, had a built-in math minor, i.e. 22 credits of the 60 credit degree were courses from the math department, including discrete math, two years of calculus I, II & III, linear algebra, statistics, differential equations, number theory, and numerical analysis. If your CS degree didn't include any mathematics whatsoever, then your alma mater didn't prepare you to find work as a computer scientist. And if being only one or a few credits shy of a psych degree didn't earn you at least a psych minor, I'd ask for my tuition back with a lawsuit.
"...Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting can effectively elicit complex multi-step reasoning from Large Language Models~(LLMs). For example, by simply adding CoT instruction ``Let's think step-by-step'' to each input query of MultiArith dataset, GPT-3's accuracy can be improved from 17.7\% to 78.7\%. However, it is not clear whether CoT is still effective on more recent instruction finetuned (IFT) LLMs such as ChatGPT. Surprisingly, on ChatGPT, CoT is no longer effective for certain tasks such as arithmetic reasoning while still keeping effective on other reasoning tasks. Moreover, on the former tasks, ChatGPT usually achieves the best performance and can generate CoT even without being instructed to do so...

...Hence, it is plausible that ChatGPT has already been trained on these tasks with CoT and thus memorized the instruction so it implicitly follows such an instruction when applied to the same queries, even without CoT. Our analysis reflects a potential risk of overfitting/bias toward instructions introduced in IFT, which becomes more common in training LLMs..."
If you search for ‘substack’ it will be replaced with ‘newsletter’.

https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact/status/16447089979817738...
Your static files still need a webserver. Maybe you do not need to write it, or configure it; but there is still one there. You probably just pay S3 or a CDN to do your web serving for you.
They display those on purpose, because they've found that people who recently bought something are fairly likely to buy another copy in the near future.

Sometimes it's bought as a gift or because they want another one, but I've also seen people break cheap products and then order the same one as if they're supposed to be disposable. (There's the "boots" theory of economic inequality again)
Yes. It's not unlike how people assume someone with a rural/southern US accent is dumb.
I don’t think an LLM is required for the UX you want. Online grocery delivery already exists. They could easily offer a list-based UI where you upload a list and it populates a cart for you.

I order groceries online a lot. My personal opinion about why this UX wouldn’t work well is that people want to feel like they made an optimal choice. Like when you go to the store to buy an apple, do you just pick the first one? Or do you pick the organic variety that looks freshest? Or maybe you go in for an apple buy decide to get grapes because they look better. There are a few staples I always buy, but generally my grocery purchases are more deliberate. From what I see at the store, many people exhibit such behavior.