skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow had no idea. My assumption was it was about building something so durable and stable that it’ll be around forever.

Which doesn’t make sense given oxidization slowly robs something of its durability. But Discord is named using a word that means “disagreement and lack of harmony” so I kind of look past weird branding in tech.
Attractiveness also has a lot to do with the time and place when the term is being used. Your idea of beauty may not be someone else's, and for much of history it may be starkly different to what was considered beautiful.
You've got to love a website that makes text selection invisible by default.

I'd probably double check assumptions on the cloudfront issues. Switching carriers or adding VPN might connect you to a different edge node.

Some web assets being throttled for specific AT&T accounts seems a little too targeted to just be traffic shaping. I'd expect them to throttle traffic for all users, like they do with the speed tests.
This essay resonates with me. It's deeply honest and introspective. Best wishes to the author.
There's no code which controls the aliens' speed; that doesn't mean it wasn't intentional.
Wordle sold for ~3M, and it had a user base.
No, this bloomberg columnist is just writing what their bosses want them to write. Its mass manipulation on a grand scale, they want to blame the consumer for inflation, instead of the real cause.

Anyone that knows anything realizes what a shill position this is. In many respects, we really need to start punishing businesses that engage in malign influence campaigns.

Its just like this article here. Completely false if you look at the publicly released data, but they still publish it, and if you are too dumb to tell otherwise you end up supporting them.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/location-location-locatio...
Got a link? I'd like to read more.

The theory is at least plausible given what we see. They'll kill many products that seem viable, and would help diversify their revenue stream. Does Google really place no premium at all on that?

For example, killing Stadia after only a few years, while predictable for Google, is still a head scratcher to me. Building a platform and letting other companies (in this case, game studios) take the big risks on what will sink and what will swim, is a hugely privileged position to be in. Why did they kill it when others are moving into the space?
No, you see, they saved up a bunch of cash on hand and are waiting for you to stop spending. When you stop spending companies will downsize and large amount of unemployment will occur. This will lead to huge amount of foreclosures and a deflationary cycle. Then when prices are low they'll strike with their cash on hand buying up these cheap assets and win the game of capitalism as they strike it rich in the next inflationary cycle.
Fun story: I work remotely for an org located in the Bay area. Few months ago I get a call early morning from the IT security person. Apparently someone had been trying to RDP into my work laptop, over a thousand attempts per day for last couple of days.

What changed before the last couple of days? My laptop was frequently dropping WiFi connection- a lot of times in the middle of zoom meetings. We use a router provided by AT&T. My wife complained of the same thing, so I thought I'll ping their customer support.

The customer support person proceeded to tell us they wanted to reconfigure our router to enable "5G". After some bewilderment we realized they were talking about 2.4G vs. 5G WiFi. And they will do it remotely. Ok fine go ahead, we said, and forgot about it.. until I got the call from my office IT security.

Apparently the AT&T support person left our router in passthrough mode. According to their K/B, "Placing a device in passthrough mode will remove firewall protection provided by the AT&T gateway."

I reset my router to default settings, and got myself a 100ft Ethernet cable to fix the issues.
Why did you need to spend weeks going back and forth?

Do Visa and Mastercard have a much higher bar for chargebacks where you live?
Interesting, why not?

Found this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75459594/why-doesnt-edge...
T-Mobile was one of the earliest violators of net-neutrality: https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/publications/t-mobile-likely-v...
I know, that at one time, the Mediterranean Sea was just a gigantic (dry) below-sea-level valley.

Then the Straight of Gibraltar popped a cork, and there was the world's most awesome waterfall, for a long time.
> the FBI took more of a meme-account approach. ... it didn’t even bother to link out the FCC, where the information came from.

Sadly, this is one that almost all "news" orgs. are guilty of. Almost every single one of them fails to "link out" to the item for which they are reporting (when they are reporting on something for which a link to the source would be possible). Why they almost all seem to fail to link I do not know, but it is by far a much too common problem.
> What exactly leads you to believe that shutting off nuclear power is anything other than a good idea?

It's objectively a terrible idea until a single coal power plants is still running anywhere in Europe (well approximately anyway...).

Unless that is you consider the value of human lives to be insignificant. 20-30 thousand people die in the EU alone because of coal, slowing down climate change is just a "free" bonus..

> It was my understanding that by now it was clear this is all around an awful idea

Not building more nuclear plants before renewables became economically viable was a awful idea (of course only if you care about pollution and climate change which the German Green had did not even the tiniest bit back in the 80s)
Shame on that spokesperson.

Don't care if it's on behalf of a company, have some shame.
how can people say that they've been resting on their laurels when they are continuously making their product more shitty and more SEO rewarding with each update? If they were sitting on their laurels, we'd have the same version of search since before the drive for ads over legitimate search results.
Right. Google fixed this and punished anyone who embedded invisible text in their websites.
Consent-O-Matic lets you to select which cookies you want in a site, and then automatically clicks the selections to popups if they appear. Has been working pretty well for me.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat...
GTPQ has been the missing piece, it allows quantizing the model weights from 16 to 4 bits with only a small loss in quality.
That it turn allows running even the large 65 billion parameter version of the LLaMA model in ~33GB of RAM or VRAM.

With VRAM that requires two 24GB GPUs which is no longer completely out of reach.

The model running in the browser is a smaller version with 7 billion parameters, which is good enough for some things.
I'm referring specifically to the income grading, not shifting to a fixed-fee model. In reality, the legislature (at local/state/national levels) has already made the tax code so convoluted and politicized, which is why musical chairs accounting stunts like this are necessary in the first place.
You're on Hacker News and hacker culture has had a significant overlap with anime fandom since at least the 1980s.
Well if veggies are so expensive why don't they buy cake?
Ask HN: Could somebody use GPT make Git super easy to use?
A lot of amazing thingss are being done with AI now.

Could someone train GPT to automate most of Git workflows and make the rest super easy?

I would think if you can use it to code an
entire whole application, it can do Git.

I would try it myself, but I have no idea how to use the various AI tools.
I still miss my 486 sometimes. I rebuilt a 90s gaming machine somewhere in early 2010s. You can guess how often I power it up.
LLMs are not search engines. They’re language processors: you put language into their input buffer and get a language response in the output.

A search engine is a great peripheral for a language processor. Bing chat does show how you’re supposed to connect the two, as are ChatGPT plugins.

LLM can do synthesis and summaries of multiple search results. It is slow to get a response and the thing makes mistakes sometimes but we’re in the first quarter of the tech being deployed. It’ll only get better.
I could ask ChatGPT why you're likely to be a grumpy bad-faith asshole, but as an expert in the field of dealing with children, you probably just need a snack.
Sonic vs Angry Birds?
>Dynamic speed limits are a good idea, because they allow a global view of the system to be used to improve it.

That's the theory. However, based on my experiences, it seems the control loop is badly tuned. In general, people's paniced response to a new speed limit needs turning down. All that happens is that people randomly slow down or brake at each new speed limit, and 1/2 mile down the road, there's the regular traffic jam anyway.
On my older plan, they downscale video from some providers to 720, but don’t include that video in my data count.

I can opt out, but then any streaming goes against my high speed data limit.

I think it’s actually a pretty fair trade off.
Agoda is owned by Booking.
I use a VPN to a cheap server in a lesser-known datacenter. Also works for bypassing government level blocks in middle eastern countries.

But yes, AT&T throttles a wide diversity of content, even on their very highest tier plan (Unlimited Elite, now named Unlimited Premium). This is advertised as never throttling, no matter how much data you use (all other customers are supposed to get throttled first).

Also the throttling happens with mobile hotspot, I have to use VPN on my laptop with many many sites as well, even when I'm inside the "40GB/mo of unthrottled hotspot data".

The speeds instantly go way, way up once I hop on VPN.
...except that the `uppercase` function would be wrong for everyone else.
Throttle video CDN ISP/ASN's
Musk had the insight to aim for the overwhelmingly practical and economic benefits of reusable rockets.

While the road to achieving those benefits directly was a long road, the immediate indirect benefits of having a clear path to a major competitive (and customer) advantage were the quality of people he was able to inspire to work on the problem.

And as SpaceX began delivering reusability, their profit margins, and industry respect, have risen to a level that gives them overwhelming advantages for now and seemingly for some time to come.

A clear vision counts for a lot.
Is it really simpler to document income to PG&E for every household in California, every year, in perpetuity? Household income isn't tracked by the IRS or FTB, which tracks individual income, so they need a different reporting structure.
>You've got to love a website that makes text selection invisible by default.

First time seeing it being invisible, mostly they just disable it. Terribly annoying practice. I often select text while reading articles.
"It's easy to understand if we consider a hypothetical situation"

lol
Several of his interviews on YouTube pre 2020 I believe. Might be in “Zero to One” as well. I believe there’s also a talk between him and Eric Schmidt on YouTube where he brought it up.
Would depend on the province. Canada kinda sits between Europe and USA when it comes to worker rights.

You can always fire people without cause, but you would owe them termination and severance pay which positively correlates with (among other things) duration of employment and specialization.
A real ally ends every speech with "Russia delenda est."
He's been credited for Box2D in many games, including a number of Angry Birds iterations. They sit nicely along all the work on Blizzard's physics technology across all their games. https://www.mobygames.com/person/221583/erin-catto/credits/
Sharing porn openly has always been illegal in germany. Liking a post is an endorsement (of a criminal act) or further spreading (which is illegal unto itself), depending on the platform. Same thing for hate speech. When the law says you can't say a thing, it's unclear how one would conclude publicly liking a post you can't legally make isn't criminal.
The REAL problem is the algorithm was implemented specifically to hide the problem of no recourse, it's a pretty evil decision
It is in collaboration with certain video providers.

YouTube over mobile for me is downscaled to 720p. In exchange, that doesn’t get counted in my high speed allotment of data.

I can opt out, but then my data can get deprioritized over a certain threshold.
It's not plane-fillingness, but fractalness of the inputs that makes the DFTs look interesting. So I'd experiment with other L-space system curves. A fractal has some periodicity that appears as bright lines on DFT, and when you add an extra level of recursion, the original periodicity remains and it gets supplemented with its harmonics. I'd also try to interpret a diagonal scan of the DFT images as a sound waveform, probably scaled down to fit it into the audible range. There's also a related so-called Radon transform that would make the DFT images more roundish.
Thanks, went to the comments out of laziness. Hug o' death, or just old?
Same here!

I think it helps me read faster online, but it's probably just a fidget-y habit.
> We have much lower prices for electric power than our neighbour france

Negative externalities from burning coal are pretty significant*. Of course it depends on the value you place on a human life.

https://www.clientearth.org/latest/latest-updates/news/23-00....

> An french three-mile island can happen any time

As long as the likelihood of that remains substantially low it's not a huge issue. I mean the cost would be almost entirely financial since nobody died because of it (the same obviously can't be said about burning coal or even natural gas...).
... and killing nuclear is apparently more important than not using coal.
I suspect that as much as we hype ChatGPT here on HN, its effect on Google’s actual revenue is effectively zero. It could affect their stock price due to informed speculators, but their search revenue is another story. I assume it’s declining anyway but I doubt ChatGPT has a noticeable impact on it yet.
I was going to say the same thing. I would add though, if you aren't overly attractive, keeping yourself together is usually good enough. Dress well, good grooming, bathe regularly, keep the weight down, the usual stuff.
There are 0 hard numbers on profit margins and cost, just taking PR or best guesses at face value.
Yes, it does feel either we are at couple of months away of a scary smart AGI or we are already at 90% LLM potential.

I think the later is more probable, and it’s only diminishing returns from now on. I don’t think it peaked yet though.

I would still bet 1:10 on no AGI in the next 3 years from this.
Debt. So much debt.
Not doing anything in the search engine world will make it worse. One of those "if you're not moving you're falling behind situations". So, if google had done nothing at all the product would be completely unusable and we wouldn't even be talking about Google at all. Google operates in an adversarial environment in where bad faith actors attempt to garner as much attention and ad revenue as they can commandeer even though they put little to no effort in an actual website that demands it.

That is not to say Google doesn't do a lot of bad/shitty things, it's that they are just "middling shitty" compared to all the scammers out there.
If I'm taking a mostly urban type trip, I can pretty much fit needed stuff for an indefinite period (which is admittedly pretty much never longer than three weeks) into a fully-compliant carry-on. About the only times I check luggage is for outdoor activities or if I have to carry business-related stuff to an event.
> “Then it would be portable to systems that aren't Windows”

I’ve seen this type of “COM Lite” used for cross-platform plugin and driver APIs. For example Blackmagic Design, a manufacturer of pro video capture hardware, provides an SDK that is essentially identical on Windows, Linux and Mac using this design.
Lots of indies keep close track of Disney. Many of them have a good understanding of the cost structures and revenue splits, and every time somebody does a breakdown of the numbers, Disney is bleeding red ink with the Lucasfilm acquisition. It's a complete boondoggle for Disney.

This is just one example breakdown of the numbers:

https://practicaleconomics.org/category/star-wars/

We also know that Disney+ is hemorrhaging tons of money. Disney reported something like a $1.1 billion loss in 2003-q1, and $1.5 billion loss the previous quarter. This is like Disney sinking one of their cruise liners every quarter. Neilsen streaming ratings have shown Star Wars shows have completely fallen off and have failed keep Disney+ competitive.

There are also tons of stories reported about how the Star Wars toys have failed to sell, and retailers were fire selling everything trying to get rid of the merchandise.
Ask HN: Will we see another home computer revolution (in the context of LLMs)?
... or fat client era?

At the moment Chat-GPT and other instruct-based models show what's possible with modern LLM models. Although most SOTA models need cloud-compute to predict, it's feasible to assume that they might work on beefy standard desktops in the next 5 to 10 years (IMHO).

Now, historically we had:

- thin-client main frame architecture (1970s - 1980s)
- fat-client "home computers" (1980s - 2010s)
- thin-client SaaS software platforms (2010s - 2025s)
- fat-client LLM inference engines (2025s - ?)

In particular I think there will be a lot of ethical questions and legal work for companies to sell LLMs as SaaS, and because of fear to "recommend stuff against the status-quo", they might be inferior to "open" (unconstrained) models and that might be just possible for private persons (at first).

Just my 2 cents, what do you think?
I have felt this train rumbling down the tracks since GPT-3 hit. He compares peak LLM to what has happened with SEO, but that doesn't really capture it. Gaming the Google algorithm has made the discovery of human-generated content more difficult, but what happens when most of the content to be found by LLM-powered search engines is itself generated by LLMs? The Internet after 2022 rapidly becomes garbage and everything we do on it becomes a dark pattern we have no control of. The analogy: what if all the petroleum in the ground instantly turned into shit? You could still burn it, but it wouldn't do much useful work, and would smell so bad no one would want to use it.
This is, apparently, a frequent misunderstanding of inflation. Inflation means prices go up. That's it. It can be because of an increase in the money supply, but it can also be because of an increase in demand, or a decrease in supply. People tend to use the misunderstanding to push a specific agenda, I've noticed.
Netflix intentionally hosts fast.com on the same IPs as their video sites. It is a very intentional way for consumers to see if their isp is throttling Netflix.
It probably depends on your time of arrival. With some rooms sold as fully refundable or as "one night fee for no show", the hotel does not know, even at 10PM, how many people will actually show up, so many go with first come first serve method. As a single data point, I had two cases of booked room not being available and both happened when I got to the hotel after midnight. My 2c.
You aren’t running a business, and you haven’t really dealt with your bank much beyond the e consumer level. They will cut you off as quickly as possible if they suspect anything nefarious going on. Banks are less reasonable than techs in this regards, you’ve just never used them to sell something.
"Wether or not that means consciousness is computable is an ontologically disconnected argument."

How is that ontologically disconnected? You forgot to provide an explanation. You wrote something interesting and I would like to know why you think that.

My understanding is that consciousness and physics being ontologically disconnected means that there is no direct causal relationship between the two.
> The power discrepancy you describe comes from those sweetheart deals

I'm speaking of the power discrepancy between the employer and employee. Many of these sectors move towards a monopoly regardless of government interference. There's just no way a new infrastructure company is going to come in to destabilize, say, city sewers.

> The ones who suffer are the workers who now find jobs much scarcer.

This whole paragraph doesn't make a lot of sense to me. If the assumption is that a minimum wage job is the amount of money you'd need to make in order to survive (arguable) then the ability to create a ton of extra jobs below the subsistence level is useless to society but useful again to the employer.

To be more precise, I was thinking of things like laws that protect people at their workplace (work place safety) or those allowing employees to discuss their wages. The first set are obvious why they are important, and it would take a truly ghoulish argument to be against them, but the second are important as well. Without those there would be complete information asymmetry between the employer and employee. Information asymmetry is a huge problem.
Totally. I personally cook salmon until 120F and then sear the skin side. But was addressing the parent poster about the temperature that kills pathogens.

Edit: I now see that parent was talking specifically about parasites. Indeed those are killed by freezing beforehand. But a long bath at >130F kills the bacteria.
Musk also certainly deserves a lot of credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...
I’m sure it depends on the language but I’ve found ChatGPT works well for this purpose. I suppose the risk is that I don’t know what I don’t know so it very well might look fine to me but terrible to native speakers. Even so I’m fairly certain it’s better than DuoLingo which is more of a mobile vocabulary game than a language learning platform.
No... but having them spend two decades failing slowly isn't the answer, either.

I agree that utilities are a special case. The main point is that you don't want them to fail at all, ever. If they do fail, well, there aren't any good ways for that to happen.
> Placing a device in passthrough mode will remove firewall protection provided by the AT&T gateway

Did... did they seriously turn the router into a DMZ*, without your consent? Where every port of your computer is just open to the internet?

That's scary.

*that's what it was called on my router, the "forward every single port to one device" mode. Not sure if that is the correct term for it.
This is not a proposal that is intended to actually happen, this is just to get into the news.
Sure, but in his case it is pure populism. The only rational would be that he finally gets caught by his and his partys stupid energy policy. They were part in phasing out nuclear, but also fought and blocked renewables and blocked the building of a huge power line to the north where there is plenty of wind energy.
The big difference is that Europe is a collection of independent national governments, many of which were/are keen to independently support their own distinct domestic tech industries. The EU doesn't run the sort of big projects that dole out large amounts of govt money to tech, particularly in defence, which is notoriously partisan. France, Germany, Italy and the UK are all separately in the world top-ten defence exporters chart.
Thanks for your perspective.

I'm wondering how this squares with the tendency of formal language theory folks to push for functional languages. It's clearly a preferred approach if rigorous correctness is your main goal, but don't functional languages like Haskell suffer from the fundamental issue that reasoning about runtime performance is really hard?
Keepass2Android also has an offline version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=keepass2androi...

I find this one nice, there's no need for a password manager to have Internet access when the database is synced with a separate client (in my case Nextcloud).