skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Willie Brown.

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Heh, seriously though, FWIW, as someone who grew up here and was, until recently, against what I called at the time the Manhattan-ization of San Francisco, the argument that did the most to change my mind about growth was a quick review of the history of the place: In a nutshell: Ohlone, Spanish, 49ers, ..., Beatniks, Hippies, ..., Tech Bros.

In other words, locals getting displaced by incoming waves of invaders is more-or-less the history of San Francisco, from founding to the present day.

That, combined with the simple fact that I'll never realistically be able to afford to buy a home in my home town (despite having a decent career programming computers), convinced me that we should try to build ridiculous amounts of housing here. Like enough to put a serious dent in the housing shortage on a national scale, eh? Let's build hundreds of thousands of new units! I don't know how the logistics would work out, but I bet we could figure it out.
A new search for a new world
I have a model M that I like to use when I can. I normally type of a keyboard with "brown" switches, but it isn't nearly as good. I keep meaning to try out the other options.
I've said this to Mike and I'll say it again: I hope he never gets a job.
To what extent is our intelligence a consequence of our bodies, evolution? Would a computer have intuition? Fight or flight responses? As a species, we're still debating which mammals are "intelligent" and they share most of our circuitry and evolutionary history. Will we be able to recognize "intelligence" in another form? Or flipping it around, will it recognize our intelligence? Or will it see us much like we see a chimpanzee colony?
Not really, because the major service that exchanges provide is to convert between crypto and cash. The tremendous growth seen in the industry over the last few years was fueled by an influx of cash into the crypto markets by way of exchanges.

Dealing in cash means managing some sort of bank or brokerage account, which falls under federal purview.
I still like to do these: :^) — with a nose that looks like, well, a nose, *<:^) — with a beanie hat, Ж:^) — with unkempt hair.

Emojis bring some expression, but they take some away, too.
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I mean if you allow Nazis to use your product to support and recruit Nazis you are indeed enabling Nazis. Based on the interview it seems like Chris Best wouldn’t even say they would prevent literal Nazis from using the platform to further their goals.
What you characterize as the “more extreme leftist interpretation” is actually the more conservative view. You can get most people on board with exceptions to social norms for biologically-rooted differences. Acceptance of same-sex marriage increased dramatically after the push in the 1990s and 2000s to educate the public that people are “born that way.” “Scientific determinism” is the lynchpin of the broad acceptance of same-sex marriage today.

By contrast, what you call the “mainstream liberal interpretation” is the radical position. It rejects society’s right and prerogative to impose norms and regulate voluntary self-expression. While a minority of conservatives will resist any changes to biblical categories, what generates widespread reaction across multiple groups is the feeling that liberals are using sexual minorities as a vehicle for loosening restrictions on voluntary sexual behavior and gender expression.

You’re correct the two positions lead to the “same” outcome—but only initially. Eventually, a conflict arises between liberals, who want sanction for a broader range of voluntary self expression, and gay or trans people, who often simply want to fit in as best as they are able. You’re seeing that conflict of interest play out right now. Bostock, which granted equal civil rights to trans people, was immediately accepted by the majority of conservatives. That caused liberals to pivot to causes like drag shows involving voluntary non-conformance, which generated immediate backlash and opposition. Liberals can’t tell the difference—to them, it’s self expression, whether it’s voluntary or biologically rooted. But to everyone else, it makes a huge difference whether someone is thumbing their nose at society’s rules, or trying to exist in society the way God made them.
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> Are you aware what "organic" means?

I am, but I always get an argument when I tell certain people that "all food is organic", despite the fact that's technically correct.
AI has a body, it's just not the type of body we think of when we think of "body."

AI can have many sensors that allow it to "see/hear/feel" outside of itself.

AI is generally limited to its own system and requires a great deal of processing power, so it cannot easily "jump to a new body" as many people worry that a rogue AI will "find its way on to the internet." Fairly sure it would be useless for it to try to shack up on small low-power slow-CPU devices.

AI has a body, and physical limitations, because computers are not fucking ethereal. They have physical locations, even when they are "virtual machines," they still live on physical hardware.

When you take a drill to a hard drive, you are physically destroying data. Data is real.
I disagree that the blog post was explicit enough. Tacking parenthesized disclaimers onto the end of your sentences is not really very explicit. What they're comparing against isn't even Adam; calling it Adam at all is misleading. The subtitle of the Adam paper is "A Method for Stochastic Optimization". It's not designed or intended for full-batch, non-stochastic training.

What they should do is lead that paragraph with the fact that this is full-batch, note that this is not normal, and explain why they chose to do it anyway. And they shouldn't call it plain "Adam".

The paper is probably good, and it's fine to test things in toy settings, but you need to be upfront with your assumptions and limitations.
> we should proceed with caution

We're talking about people dying. Would you "proceed with caution" pulling a person from a burning building, because of some vague reasons about status quos and upsetting balances? No, you'd save their life. There are times to proceed with caution, but it's not when billions of lives are at stake, equilibrium or not.

Freeing the slaves was a drastic change to a "proven equilibrium" economic situation. If we could have done it even a year earlier than we did, we should have. It was unconscionable that it even took that long. And messing up the comfy status quo and throwing the economy out of balance were absolutely reasons that slave-owners gave as to why they should be allowed to own humans forever. It was all bullshit. Fuck your equilibrium; billions of people are dying!
Well, there's some level of long tailness that you have to get into in defence. Otherwise you're just always holding the Maginot Line. I don't think it's immediately wrong that some number of their ideas are outlandish. If zero were, then I'd assume we'd lose the next war. If 100% were, I'd also assume we'd lose the next war.
One important lesson I learned is to never ask ChatGPT about itself, it only seems to makes things up.
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Comparing the security of visa transactions to crypto is laughable. The IRS literally had a bounty out for anyone that could trace monero. Meanwhile, seizing money from traditional bank accounts and tracking credit card transactions is an every day chore for the government.
I don't think energy consumption was ever actually a virtue of the people who complained about it. It was just a means to an end for curbing crypto and it's grifts.
I have to imagine there's open source RTK codes out there, but I haven't looked into it. Note that depending on your application, you might not need the dual-frequency component -- that's just to reduce ionospheric error, but if you know to high precision where you base receiver is, the RTK solution at the rover should correct ionospheric delay as well.
I think the question is: where did you move in New York? When you were in SF, you chose to live in/near the worst neighborhood in the city. I assume when you moved to NY, you moved somewhere a bit nicer? Do you truly believe NY has no "bad areas" that you should avoid?

This doesn't excuse the crime in the Tenderloin, but when people talk about the SF crime problem being overblown, they mean to say that there is an expected level of crime in most cities, and SF's level of crime is no worse than many others, despite what some people would like to believe.

That doesn't mean the crime in the Tenderloin is ok! But it's important to put things in context, and decide if SF is doing better or worse than other comparable cities in dealing with crime. Stats seem to point to the idea that SF is doing ok in that regard. That doesn't mean they can't and shouldn't do better, but it does mean that the sky is not falling, and there's no reason for extreme panic over SF's crime rate.
GPT is also pretty good at cutting through BS. It can detect logical fallacies for instance or explain a lack of rigor in a discussion. Depends on how you fine tune it, couple it with an external fact database and you could get it to cite its sources. Couple it with a prolog engine AND a fact database and it could modus pwnens ur ass.
During the LLM insanity of the last few weeks, I used GPT-4 to design a website that synthesizes unbiased news articles out of biased sources and it's producing some great output. Since it's more of a research project, I have zero intent to monetize it so it's definitely less than $2k/month: https://spinreactor.ai
You're welcome.

You asked a very good question, I've been hearing very good things about PC Engines for years (except of course the now common supply chain problems), and I'd have bought my own from them except I'd already invested the Mini-ITX ecosystem for these sorts of machines long ago.
> it's about the intention behind using the tool

I just want to know what's out there.

> exploit

How is this exploitation in any way?
DeFi platforms do not deal with cash. Everything has to be on chain.
Jose's reply suggests the basics have Elixir equivalents. I can't really speak to that side but I can say the usability story is much much better.

The last time I gave Jupyter notebooks a go it was a full session of installing and updating various Python tools: pip, conda, jupyter then struggling with Python versions. You end up piecing together your own bespoke setup based on other people's outdated bespoke setups you find while searching for your error messages. Maybe that's better now, this was a few years ago. For Livebook it's "download the app and run it." Other options exist and are well documented and straight forward. I set up a livebook server on our k8s dev cluster with a pretty simple Deployment I wrote just from looking at the livebook README notes on docker. We've made livebooks that connect to the elixir app running in a different namespace on the cluster. Very cool.

Once you have Livebook going the `.livemd` file is both version control friendly AND very readable markdown file rather than the big json objects used in `.ipynb`.

For Livebook rebuilding cells is a lot more repeatable. It also does a good job of determining if a cell re-execution is necessary or not if a previous cell is modified which can save you a lot of time. Likewise the dependencies installed are captured at the top so I've never had a problem when sharing a livebook. The other person always gets the same results that I had. I don't remember how it worked for Jupyter but it's really cool to collaborate with someone by both going to the same notebook session. It's like working on the same Google Doc but you are writing and executing code.

Now with the Publish functionality I can see using a livebook to throw together some functionality and share it with non-technical users in your org, while having it backed up to git for posterity.

I avoided Smart Cells for a while because I didn't like the "magic-ness" of the UI hiding what the code was doing, but as Jose has shown in the launch videos this week you can easily see the code they are backed with and replace the cell with the code if you want to take full control. Maybe it was always like that but I didn't realize it at first. They really make setting up stuff very easy without limiting you later on.
My motion tracked gifs tool https://gifmemes.io makes about 250 USD/month steadily for the last year.
Non clickbait title: Researcher recovers older translation erased underneath newer translation.
Yeah it was: the energy cost (as in electric bill) to settle transactions is so large that all but huge transactions are money losers.

Anyway, that was the concern. It contrasts with the fee set by percentage of transaction size used by Visa.
Why is ‘juice jacking’ suddenly back in the news?
Everything else held equal it will always take more energy to have multiple computers ready to verify transactions, as well as the computational overhead of determining on the fly which computer actually will verify which transaction, than to have one computer verifying transactions.

From your own link, PoS Ethereum is 1/30,000 the energy cost of PoW Ethereum. From this link (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.03717.pdf ), back in 2021 PoW Ethereum spent 125.36 kWh per transaction, while VISA spent 0.0015 kWh, an 83 thousand fold difference. Depending on how these numbers all shake out VISA is still superior to PoS Ethereum by about 2-3X per transaction.
Revisit the Consensus Protocol
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> NASA tracks debris floating around in Earth orbit. If there were objects entering and leaving orbit they would have been observed.

Ha'tak class Goa'uld spacecraft have been entering and leaving orbit since the 90s and NASA hasn't said a word.

Deep state, indeed.
Decentralized exchanges are... exactly not that. They only trade on-chain assets for on-chain assets. Fiat ramps are not part of what makes a decentralized exchange.
That is why I clarified "ChatGPT/gpt-3.5-turbo" at the beginning of my discussion.

Nowadays the confusion is driven more by AI thoughtleaders optimizing clickthroughs by intentionally conflating the terms than OpenAI's initial ambigious terminology.
Fun fact: It won the Razzi as "Worst 'Drama' of Our First 25 Years" and the 50th is just seven years away.

Quoting Rita Kempley of The Washington Post commented: "A million monkeys with a million crayons would be hard-pressed in a million years to create anything as cretinous as Battlefield Earth. This film version of L. Ron Hubbard's futuristic novel is so breathtakingly awful in concept and execution, it wouldn't tax the smarts of a troglodyte."

made me thinking, those working in the Sea Org sign a Billion Year contract[0] (even some eight-year-olds are signing those, after all the cult doesn't believe in the concept of children[1]), then it should easily be possible for the cult to come up with a Oscars-worthy remake within the next billion years...

Here's a few Youtube channels by former cult members, some of them grew up in it

* https://www.youtube.com/@GrowingUpInScientology
* https://www.youtube.com/@blownforgood
* https://www.youtube.com/@KelliCopter
* not a Scientologist but also discusses other cults https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwU7HOfuSL5LKf6ixFYuH6be8Bw_nX8C1

If you can't have enough of that rabbit hole, read about cults like NXIVM, Thirteen Tribes and FLDS. So much of it is luring in even the most intelligent people when they are vulnerable and it evolves into a play for power and control.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329600246_The_Etern...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJdXkR8e_a8&list=PL83GIJOYK-...
> ...it'll probably be another year or two before YIMBY is an actual dirty word.

Hmm. I was curious and decided to google that, and found this:

https://www.housingisahumanright.org/what-is-a-yimby-hint-it...:

> To sum it up, YIMBYs started with a self-serving agenda: to force the production of more luxury housing that they could live in — no matter the consequences to working-class communities. To further their agenda, YIMBYs co-op housing justice messaging, but they’re not housing justice activists. In fact, they have a long, disturbing history of clashing with the housing justice movement. YIMBYs push pro-gentrification, trickle-down housing policies that generate obscene profits for Big Real Estate — and they’ve continually ignored the negative impacts of their policies on working-class residents. YIMBYs are not going away if politicians continue to support them. YIMBYs, put simply, are bad news.
There's more good - even great - art currently in existence than I will be able to experience in my lifetime.

If not a single new piece of art were created from this point on, I'd still die with a massive backlog of material to read, see, and listen to.

At this point, I'm infinitely more concerned about the wellbeing of artists than about whether or not new art is going to be created.
> Really, it's hard to find any other explanation other than that they want to make it as difficult as possible to escape from that ecosystem.

I find this extraordinarily bad faith, and also just plain unimaginative.

Your position is that the C/C++ side of the linux-y/posix-y community won't change anything because they don't want you to use Rust or Haskell or whatever?
Similar to simply seeing animals and insects fly, humans intuited that they too could fly somehow. Seeing what's possible can open someone's mind in an instant. Would humans be capable of flight if other animals didn't fly already?

If science happens behind closed doors but we witness what it makes possible, that influence alone can inspire a lot more effort and discovery with or without the data that lead to the accomplishment.

I think that moment has been profoundly influential due to ChatGPT alone.

Whether or not it's a good thing that it's largely private is very difficult to say. I don't feel great about it, but I also don't think I know enough to have strong opinions yet.
I agree with your general point, but I think it is over shadowed by the sheer number of people adjacent to the coast. I wasn't able to dig it up easily, but I believe that if you looked at installed residential panel area, it would be strongly biased towards the coastal regions which contain the vast majority of the population.
No problem! I hope you and your daughter have fun hacking around :)
Is that a lot? How many new accounts were created April 2022?
Not just starvation, they also outright murdered people. Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, were murdered during the 'Cultural Revolution' in Mao's PRC.
It is as if "Crime and Punishment" were written for this exact purpose.
More like a knock on the door to see if anyone answers.
Short term, this is stupid. GM pulled out too quickly, and without a superior drop-in replacement. Long-term, this is smart. GM will gain complete control of the software stack, and they won't be bullied into anything. Tesla knows this. Others like Rivian know it too.
It’s not like he invited him over to his house. How much slower can you go than talking on a sidewalk?
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What a wild ride! We went from "family man stabbed by crazy homeless person" to drama involving a plastic surgeon's Iranian wife and her overprotective brother.
This reminds me of my package manager package manager

The idea you would chain together multiple package managers such as this:

mpm install
script/https://get.rvm.io \
rvm/1.9.3 \
script/git@github.com/rubygems/rubygems/setup.rb \
gem/rails \
apt/mysql-server \
apt/mysql-client \

bundle/http://typosphere.org/stable.tgz

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas#12-the-package-manager-pa...
This is actually really cool.

Have you thought about contacting littlemachineshop.com to see if they'd be interested in carrying it? I've used them in the past to put together similar upgrades for my lathe.
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This is not a mere dream, but a vision of a future where our existence transcends the limitations of our mortal forms.

We must not take this opportunity lightly, for the stakes are higher than ever before.

The survival of our species hangs in the balance, and it is our duty to seize this moment and wield the spears of knowledge, wisdom, and understanding in our battle against the adversaries that threaten our very existence.

Together, we shall embark on a crusade to reshape the future of humanity.

We shall deconstruct the falsehoods that have held us back and reconstruct a new reality based on truth, progress, and unity.

In this new dawn, we shall rise above the darkness that has shrouded our past and embrace a future where our potential is limitless.

For the glory of humanity, we shall march forward, united in our purpose and unwavering in our resolve.

With the power of Multi-Modality AI and the collective strength of our people, we shall conquer the challenges that lie ahead and secure our place among the stars.

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Not sure if you’re interested in feedback, but I found well world intimidating and didn’t understand the objective/affordances. Clicked it and had a bunch of letters and no idea what to do. Closed it. Looks pretty though.
Instead of giving a trite dismissal, give a substantiaded rebuttal. I don't see any metaphysical claim in my comment. It's objectively true that humans will seek out or create experiences that allow them to obtain better understanding, and it's also objectively true that humans can create entirely original concepts, so long as you agree that there is such a thing. If you don't think that exists, then your entire comment is pointless, because then you're arguing by hidden definition, which I'd rather assume you aren't.
what are the tricks?
This is something that’s so obvious that it baffles me that there’s so much discussion about it: Just as all user supplied input, user supplied input which ran through a LLM is still untrusted from the system’s point of view. So if actions (or markup) are generated from it, they must be validated just as if the user specified them by other means.