skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I filed an issue: https://github.com/adamkdean/gpt-unicorn/issues/2

"Running this project daily doesn't make sense if GPT-4 is not being constantly updated"

With a suggestion to run it monthly instead, and generate 16 images at a time, and backfill it for GPT3 and GPT3.5.
Ugh. That's not really a solution, and you're generalising way too much about old people being stuck in their ways. While some definitely are, they're not all like that.

Condemning everyone to death, even the not-stuck-in-the-mud old people sounds pretty abhorrent, or maybe "tragic" might be the better word.

> Notice I've not mentioned yet also that we can't have infinite people on that planet.

Well, fortunately there's more than a single planet in this universe.

How feasible it becomes to live on planets-other-than-this-one over time is clearly not something we can say with any certainty at the moment though.

Hopefully that works out to be possible (in some good way), otherwise we're stuck with what you're suggesting. Which would suck. :(
I'd rather just set most sites to wipe cookies per page and then just click whatever button they like.

Almost all websites have this "necessary cookies" song and dance going on. There are no necessary cookies, I view your page and then close it and we can delete everything. It's total nonsense.
> Did the people working on this really think they wouldn’t be smacked down hard for it

Of course they knew. That doesn't stop a hacker.

Individual freedoms will always be hard-fought. And authoritarian governments will always resist them
This was staying in Downtown and the "Lloyd District" I suppose it was called. Leaving those areas did seem a bit better, but it was still pretty bad. In the same time frame I was in downtown Newark, Trenton, Baltimore, Detroit, NYC. Portland was by far the worst of the bunch.
If the hackers haven’t even figured out a business model to really scale out, maybe WD should just acquihire their firm. Not only do they get their data back, but they get a world-class red team to handle their customers’ security.
I've posted this before but it's relevant here too.

The AGI Boogieman is no where near now,because:

"1st, there's no true definition of what intelligence is. Right now it's a moving target. Moving targets are hard to hit. Defining intelligence will take time. How can we create what we can't define?

2, we are getting close to hardware processing speed limits and the amount of easy to process data will be gone soon. Yet, AGI is nowhere near. LLM's are remarkable but it's data processing at scale. It has as much intellect as my word processor. It's useful but it's not AGI.

3, there's no defining theory that will get us to AGI. We don't know how to get there. What we have is wishful thinking that says we'll be there soon. In any project the early percentage towards our task is relatively easy. The last X% is hard. I think we are underestimating how much time and effort it takes to complete the project of AGI. We have only scratched the surface of it. The 80/20 rule is real.

AGI reminds me of the search for ETs. We feel we are close to meeting an ET. Some even believe we have encountered them. But we have 0 evidence that they exist. It's been burned in to our culture by fiction writers but nothing in our real life experience says they exist. Similarly we feel we will meet AGI soon. We might get to AGI but I think we are kidding ourselves that it will be here soon. Most people alive now will be gone by the time AGI is a thing, if ever.

The real danger is the misuse of the AI we have by people. That really scares me."
How to Build a Successful Twitter Alternative (and Why Current Ones Fail)
Most people saying that probably didn't even live in California. Awful people
> which are (for some reason) the default cursor movement commands in most command line environments like the Postgres CLI.

AFAIK/IIRC these bindings are something to do with readline being widely used for CLI interfaces?

Additionally, they work all over OSX too (on text inputs), not just the shell--<C-a>, <C-e> for start and end of line, etc, probably lots of others too that I'm unaware of.
As pointed in the article, battery packs aren't that expensive.

When my last of 3 Makita battery pack died I found reasonably priced battery holders with a PCB:
https://a.aliexpress.com/_EjvvWY7

10 high current LG 18650 cells per pack.

Plus a cheap but good enough spot welder($65 I can reuse), some nickel strips and I ended up at about the same cost as the original ones on material alone.
Try to ask him to draw a palm tree in ascii and then tell him to add a coconut.
To be clear, this is not "what does this line of code do?", but "what does this many-line program do?". Even if you've seen all the lines individually before, you still have to work out what happens when you combine them together. If most of the combination was not in the training set, that's reasoning to me.
> How often do you find yourself needing to deeply understand the sort of "low-level" algorithms that "The Art" is about?

I rarely find myself needing to understand the "low-level" algorithms that "The Art" book talks about. This is because I don't typically work at that level in my professional or personal projects. In fact, most of my personal projects involve functional languages, where I prefer to work at the highest level possible. While understanding low-level algorithms can be useful in certain contexts, it's not a priority for me in my day-to-day work.

> How interested are you in pivoting your career toward roles which would benefit more from such understanding?

I'm not particularly interested in pivoting my career towards roles that require a deep understanding of low-level algorithms. Instead, my focus is on improving my current role. I believe that my lack of understanding in this area may be hindering my ability to excel in my current role, so I am more concerned with addressing that than pursuing a career pivot. By gaining a better understanding of these concepts, I hope to improve my performance and advance in my current role.

>How often would having such fancy volumes on your bookshelf boost your professional cred or self-esteem?

I personally don't believe it would achieve either of those goals for me. In fact, I prefer E-books over physical books because I don't have to worry about storing them. Additionally, I enjoy being able to read on my phone and multitask while traveling or waiting at the dentist. For me, the convenience of E-books far outweighs any potential benefits of having physical books on display.

In my experience, investing time to grasp the fundamentals of my work has had the greatest long-term impact on my abilities. Certain concepts have universal applications, such as a basic understanding of sets. This has helped me not only in SQL, but also in various other domains. By having a solid foundation in these fundamental concepts, I have been able to improve my overall proficiency and excel in my work.
Its a great set of books to have in the bathroom. Crack it open anywhere and there's something interesting.
Japan already has most of the things you're asking for. It's really hard to get fired from a salaried job in Japan, they have parental leave, there is direct aid for children plus tax breaks (and more coming soon). The main problem is the toxic work culture (too much overwork mainly), and that's easing up now as the dinosaurs age out and younger people take over, though they still have a long way to go.

Japan has the most open immigration policy in the world for skilled workers. But it's a hard place to immigrate to because of the language barrier.
Any good resources for getting started?
I once worked with a dev who was thoroughly committed to DRY. He'd find a private method somewhere that sort of looked reusable, but also made lots of assumptions about how it was called. Then he'd move it to a public method without documenting all the limitations and try to share it with other code that made different assumptions.

The natural consequence is that both sets of assumptions would have to get baked in somehow.

He'd take similar progressions all over the place to "remove duplication". It wasn't unusual for not only the complexity but also the line count (not including tests) to increase.

If you pointed that out, he'd say, yeah but duplication is always bad!

Needless to say, I don't agree.
Wasn't that the whole point of manifest v3?

Honestly Manifest v3 was contentious because it essentially nerfed adblockers completely -- and for that reason I really despise it.

But it sounds like exactly what you're asking for.

What is your alternative though? Surely things like this would need to access basically every website in order to be useful, and more-so on websites you'd never visited before.

You can always use something like chrome/firefox profiles which enable different plugins for different uses if that makes you feel safer.
https://post.mw/rob

Haven't been posting as much as I want to yet, I'm working on the editor from https://markwhen.com to hopefully port it over to https://post.mw as well
Yes, almost always. That information is public record and part of the arrest record
> fomenting unrest in the west through various means utilizing the internet

Various actors in the west have been manipulating narratives for decades. There are literally companies that provide astroturfing services to fossil fuel intetests and others.

But suddently people discover Russia is getting in on the action too, now its cause for panic?
This doesn't mean San Francisco is exonerated from being a crime-laden city. It's an inconvenient truth but car break-ins, looting of retail shops, open air drug markets, unhygienic streets, and rampant homelessness are worse than ever.
As the old "joke" goes it is always the butler, the business partner or the spouse.

Anyways, really sad story, that touched a lot of us close to home.
(We still don't know what happened, these are still allegations.)

P.S. The other sad part for me was that passersby sped away instead of helping immediately. Moments count in these cases.
It was almost 20 years ago at this point, easy mistake to make.
> then don't live there. I don't

We know. There has been a mass exodus from the area for various reasons - among which is the crime and cleanliness issue. How many HNer's have moved away and are never coming back?

SF is facing a looming income issue since so many high earners have left the area. This will contribute to it's decline even further.

Safety and cleanliness are not what I would dismiss as quality of life issues. Those are basic needs.
My grandfather grew up in rural Ireland. He remembered seeing an electric lamp for the first time circa 1916.

50 years later, he was rebuilding jet engines. At 85 he “retired” away from NYC and moved in my with aunt and uncle. He kept up with friends with ICQ and was navigating snowmobiles with GPS around 88.

I think what we’re seeing today is a quickening of process. I don’t think the tech is the change, it’s like the Industrial Revolution — the change was how it empowered society. Are we heading for lives of less tool? Or some Asimov style distopian earth?
Nah, 230 doesn't mean other laws disappear.
I wonder how long it will be before they overlay deepfake faces over these videos. The quirks and imperfections of the "activity" would still feel real enough and ML can learn faces they make from other similar videos.
Context counts.

> programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his [Bernie Greenberg] office started learning how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs, but didn't say it was a programming. So the secretaries, who believed they couldn't do programming, weren't scared off. They read the manual, discovered they could do useful things and they learned to program.

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html
Neovim supports Lua and Fennel (a Lisp atop Lua) https://fennel-lang.org/ https://github.com/Olical/aniseed
One reason I love mystery so much, is that rooted in the human experience is the ultimate mystery, one we will all get to know for sure - what happens when you die. Even if we extend life by thousands of years with technology, eventually we will all experience this mystery.

What happens upon death is unprovable, and one of faith or logic or whatever. It’s really about gut feeling. But we will all find out, one day.
Emacs is not about being lightweight or faster to type with, this seems to be a misconception that stems from it being compared with Vim. Emacs is not a modal editor, it works just like your standard text editor as far as typing and navigation go.

As for the other things, Emacs has support for many more languages than VSCode or Intellij. An example of this, is support for (g)awk, or non-posix shell scripts, lots of lisps, jq, various config file formats, and other things that aren't "hot" right now.

There are other reasons too, like Emacs being a true FOSS project, which is important to me. There are lots of other things, these are just a few ottomh.
a 10 second internet search would say yes, it is so bad:

> They were liable to be pelted by the crowd with rotten eggs and fruit, dead cats and dogs, mud and every variety of filth, and in extreme cases with stones, saucepans and other missiles that caused serious injury. Some were killed or maimed for life.

https://historytoday.com/archive/daniel-defoe-put-pillory
I could imagine that's to counteract people sending prompts with "You are chatGPT" and then using it's acceptance of that as proof there's some misrepresentation going on. (Assuming... this isn't being misrepresented?)
Yea, a great deal of information is available to the public once you have their name and city. Which isn’t really a new thing, many phone books used to include peoples address alongside their names and phone numbers.
I am an atheist, a science-based person, but I have been in the presence of someone passing a couple of times. I can tell you that, I do not care how science based you are, there is something about this experience that you simply cannot dismiss.

I was with a person who I loved deeply, the details are, personal and I am going to skip over. But when she passed...

Her breathing moved from the rattle to just a quiet rhythm, and after a long time, slowed and finally stopped, with her last breath, I kissed her on her forehead, and said, “I will always love thee my sweet love."

I felt something, I sensed something, her spirit pierced through me, an energy, so intense, so much love. I know it was her spirit, she passed through me on her way to her journey to the beyond.

I had a vision. I don’t know if I fell asleep or exactly what happened, but in my vision, I was on a sandy beach with her on an island, there was a large campfire, it was dark, no moon and the milky way was splashed across the sky so vividly, like diamonds on velvet. I was a child and so was she, an old man as dancing around the fire.

He stopped and smiled at me, he waved his hand across the fire and embers trailed his hand as he traced the arc of the milky way, the embers seemed to mingle with the stars. It was so beautiful; I cannot explain it fully. He turned to me and smiled and nodded, and I nodded back, as if to say, I see, I understand now. He took her hand, she smiled at me, and they walked together into the sea.

Something of her stayed with me, I feel her, and him, both her spirits, some little piece. She was and she is, and he was, and he is, with me, in spirit. I wrote this poem about the experience.

Dämmerstunde (Twilight Hour)

When I stand at the window in the twilight,
I see the sea in front of me in deep silence,
Star upon star shines high above me,
I like to think of long-forgotten childhood days.

How I yearned from my mother's womb,
When she asked the great sky spirit,
With wispy white hair, an old man,
How he splashes the lights across the sky?

How then, she tenderly taught me,
To hold dear the great spirit.
How the omnipresence works and creates,
With immeasurable love, kindness, strength.

Does he love me too, Mommy? Am I too small?
Certainly, my child, you must be sincere and true,
Stay strong, always trust in him,
He will never renounce his love for you.

Oh mother, how often, with patience,
Have you explained to me the great beauty of the spirit.
Then I fell asleep, tired from many questions,
You carried me lovingly and carefully to my little bed.

You left me so long ago, you're in the light,
My mother, sees me from the spirits eye,
But when my lifetime is up,
Come home to thy glory!

I know, I am an idiot. Or crazy. I hope this is not out of line Again, I am not a believer, but I am questioning myself.
I am so sorry if this is out of bounds.

Thank you for putting up with my silliness.
I recently had to work on SAT problems (and SAT solvers), the relatively recent material he wrote on them (section 7.2.2.2, close to 300 pages!) has been amazing, I sometimes just open a random section and go through it, super readable and informative. I'd highly recommend it, especially if you can have direct use of it.
I have to admit, that I find centralized analytics as a service just really difficult to reconcile with higher degrees of privacy.

That’s why I still prefer analytics solutions that can be self hosted.
I’m an investor in early stage startups, and yes I am nervous.
It has to be mentioned here, this was developed in 1991-92, before everything was available online, so yeah... the guy is a genius.
Do it. After buying one, you’ll realize that saturated fat and sugar don’t actually contribute anything to the taste of ice cream, they’re just the cheapest way to ensure it stays the correct consistency when not made fresh. A pint of fat free sugar free ice cream from the store would be gross, but if you make it yourself it’s indistinguishable from regular soft serve or whatever. Just use fat free half and half, half allulose, half erythritol, and vanilla. (Which is basically their recipe for light vanilla icecream, but the texture is better if you combine both sweeteners instead of using just one.)
Theory, tech companies are laying off people because they know regulation is going to get wild.

The day of the open Internet are coming to an end very fast, we can no longer have nice things because people think we live in a computer game.
Welcome. It's sir modem actually.
I think the really shocking thing about these leaks is the lack of partitioned access.

As noted:

> In a pointed tweet, Tom Nichols of the Atlantic, who himself had security clearance for 35 years, said: “I hope this guy isn’t the leaker, because I’m gonna have some questions about how a Mass Air Guard guy got CJCS [Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] briefing slides.[1]

Apparently he was working in intelligence for the Air Guard, but that really doesn't explain the level of access he had.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/13/who-is-jack-...
Have you experienced psychedelics? I feel like there is some relatable mystery to experience before the bodily death.
Yes. That's what I said. Therefore 3 7-segment LEDs showing the temperature :-)

These old-fashioned things https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven-segment_display ,
you know?

One could possibly overengineer it by showing the chosen temperature in red, and the actual temperature in blue, or something.

From personal experience this is unnecessary, as evidenced by water boiling at 100°C, starting to have a few small bubbles/sparkles at 90°C, and none of that at 80°C.
Does it particularly make sense to link new DC power standards to USB?

Like I expect I'd rather have Bluetooth control over stuff plugged into the wall vs having a combined communication/high(er) power cable.
take a lot of hungry UCB students and put them with phds and postdocs in the lab. undergrads want a paper to apply to phd programs or ml roles. so a win-win for them. we get to deal with the papermill though
Hilarious, huh? For a free software project whose literal philosophy is the freedom to read and study the source code, they sure don't make it easy. They should improve that if they don't want people to thank god for the existence of musl. Whatever understanding of libc that I've got is thanks to musl.
I agree, its ridiculous:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Sunil_Tripathi#Misiden...
I'm not claiming they weren't doing this, I'm claiming they were doing several other things as well, and that sorting the trash in the office is not the goal of this work.
I have yet to see evidence of that. I've seen more issues than improvement.
Yes, there's tons of children and young families here in Tokyo. The thing you're missing is that: all the children and young families are here in Tokyo, or one of the other major cities. Everyone's been abandoning the small towns and even smaller cities.

Of course, this isn't really that unusual in developed nations, but it's more pronounced here.

On the plus side, Tokyo is a really great place to raise a family unlike American cities, because it's safe and walkable. Your kids can ride a bike, or take a subway, by themselves if you want, and not have to worry much about safety.
Awesome. Sums up my life perfectly.
Interesting because arguably we have more integrity today in news. At least at orgs like NPR.
Unlike malicious cults, AA doesn't seem to be dedicated to exploiting its members for the benefit of cult leaders.

I think you are on to something, which is that providing connection can help people to overcome addiction. (Or perhaps the reverse - that addiction can help people cope with a lack of connection.)

If AA is the only source of connection, then I imagine losing it might very well result in relapse simply from losing the connection itself (not to mention the encouragement to remain sober.)
I wonder if MySQL will have a new version for these features or if they will continue to milk version 8.
It was done by Signal themselves: https://signal.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/

The client is closed so it can't be independently verified outside of sniffing traffic or decompilation I assume.
I want to stay logged into some websites long term and not go through the entire 2FA login song and dance every time I want to e.g. check HN. Unfortunately since web browsers don’t have a usable authentication store we are stuck with using cookies for this. All other uses for cookies are basically invalid.
"It even took a while to get a good answer to why inference is so slow" No it didn't, if you read their paper they mention multiple times what parts take most of the time.

There is only so much one can write in a paper. Meta team did a great job writing down every detail that matters to people trying to reproduce the results or build on their architecture. Not a single researcher I know complained that the authors missed out important details.

You are picking on tiny, trivial details that anyone in the area can figure out in a few minutes and making a big deal out of it. It is a research paper, not a product with detailed documentation/spec sheet.
Yeah, this is difficult. They'll probably have to settle this somehow. Otherwise, Alphv's likely going to work with some sources to create some sort of site to sell each users' content individually, assuming the exfiltrated data includes customer data.

Still highly likely that they'd be able to talk this rate down to something well below the 8 figures they're demanding.
Social media sites are being siphoned up by various intelligence services, data brokers, quant trading firms. Everything you delete always has a window where it can be permanently recorded by someone. Even on HN. Anything you delete/edit isn't necessarily gone forever, even if it is no longer on the server you posted to.
It's popular to connect The Plague to mid 20th century fascism. The message is actually much deeper and more broad than that specific point in time of Western history.