skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You kinda are. You seem to be trying to shift blame to a scapegoat, which is a pretty common defense tactic.

Placing the blame on the literal people who caused the problem instead of generalizing it to people who didn't cause the problem is the opposite of scapegoating. I can't think of the right term for what you're doing: taking something a small part of the whole did and using it to push an agenda against the larger organization.

Because what you're doing here definitely smells of agenda pushing, especially because you seem to have no relationship whatsoever to the Stanford community, yet you seem to have very strong opinions about what they should be doing. Correct me if I'm wrong, but what I'm getting from your posts is that you're from the outside looking in, and what you see inside makes you really mad (or I guess, amused?), but otherwise you have no real relationship to Sandford or academia whatsoever, is that true?

> That's an obvious mischaracterization of what they would have been asked to do, or what would have happened.

Not sure how one can mischaracterize a counterfactual. You imagine it would go one way, and I use my experience to note I think it would have gone another way. As a professor who didn't get to eat lunch until 4:00 yesterday because people were in my office until that time asking for random help, I can easily see how an English professor would not have time to do a grammar and spell checks for for the whole campus.

It seems you have very limited experience on college campuses and in academia in general, so maybe you could just admit that you opinion is based in ignorance instead of saying people are mischaracterizing the situation. What real experience do you have on the slack capacity of professors to manage the technical output of various campus departments? It's okay if the answer is "none" but we should just be clear about that.
I used to be bothered by people assuming America as a default, but I've actually changed my opinion on this after doing an online political science course through the University of Nottingham.

The thing I found shocking while attending this course, was that even in a UK university, America was still the most frequent subject of discussion and reference, with the UK playing second fiddle. And then I would read comments as a part of the course from other places in the anglosphere where for instance, they are asked to name the first things that come to mind when they think of 'banal nationalism' and you read things like America's heavy use of bald eagle imagery, the American pledge of allegiance at sporting events, etc.

I've decided that since it seems nearly universal that English speaking countries give America primacy (even in the context of a non-American university focusing on a heavily European oriented subject), that there's no point fighting it. America's cultural hegemony has complete dominance over the English language.
Juice launch to Jupiter – Live [video]
But US-based website of a US-based company, right?

I'm a Brit, so yes, the defaultism rankles, but at this point I've just learned to accept that people write from their own perspective and to not accept that is pedantry.
What if they ask proof of your diploma? Providing forged documents (i.e. lie about graduation date) is a serious crime.
GPT Gmail and GPT Workspace, using GPT in the google docs, slides, sheets and auto responder for Gmail.

https://workspace.google.com/u/0/marketplace/app/gpt_for_gma...

https://workspace.google.com/u/0/marketplace/app/gpt_for_doc...

https://gpt.space

The best part is not even about the money but about having a lot of users, democratising GPT and saving a lot of human hours everyday!
> For sure it can find circles it hasnt seen; but could it find spheres from circles alone? No.

Considering that we control the training data that should be easy enough to test.
This sounds pretty close to libertarian rhetoric.

AI creativity and innovation is currently possible using ChatGPT, without ‘jailbreaking’ it.

So your question is at the very least an exaggeration.
So far the smallest island I've found with something people describe as a "river" is Suðuroy, in the Faroe Islands, at 163.7 km2 (63.2 sq mi).

"the great cirques of upland central Suðuroy where the hilltops reach an altitude of 574 m, but overlook and to a degree shelter the summer grazings of Hovsdalur (altitude about 200 m). The whole is drained by the Hovsá, a salmon and trout river. Freshwater is ample here as everywhere in the Faroe Islands, with rivers, count-less streams and an average annual precipitation of 1334 mm (Søgaard, 1996)." - https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10745-005-474...

It also has a hydropower plant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnur_power_plant .

Is Suðuroy a "small island"? Perhaps! I found a larger island which Wikipedia describes as small.

"Rinca, also known as Rincah, Rindja, Rintja and Pintja, is a small island near Komodo and Flores island, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, within the West Manggarai Regency", at 198 km2 (76 sq mi), says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinca .

Anyone know of a smaller island with a river?
Quoting from that page:

In her 1961 book The United States and the Southwest Pacific, American author Clinton Hartley Grattan commented that, "the use of the word Oceania to cover Australia, New Zealand, and the [Pacific] islands now has a slightly old-fashioned flavor."
I'd ignore the question of the in-project mentor and suggest filtering projects based on their open source community style of governance and supporting foundation and look through their actual collaboration communications to make sure their style is right for a young entry level contributor.

From those she can look at what interests her and why first bugs list they have, etc.

If they are a properly in the open she doesn't really need their mentoring as opposed to mentor like interactions from you, or any other people who would have time to review and discuss with her the ticket progress, her changes, etc.

She could end up having more connection to the project and mentoring they provide but she may also find other projects that are more interesting to her and realize the project she started on isn't motivating. It is hard to bring a dependence on a mentor that is helping because of one project with you.
I'm a Brit and still describe pricing when discussing online as USD because that's seemingly the "currency of the internet" that everybody seems to understand the value of.
Another very similar recent game for iPad is Petterssons Inventions [0]

0: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/petterssons-erfindungen/id5246...
In the US at least, FOPs (social organizations / quasi union most police belong to) sell “donor cards” that specifically can be shown to grant favors similar to those one would be eligible in bribable countries.
Been there. Watching the love of life slowly fade was the most painful thing in my life. Cancer, failing kidneys and liver. She was visibly in pain for a while.

I miss her so much. I even managed to shave my beard with her on my shoulders. I still wonder how we managed that
Countries are defined by convention as well; that doesn’t make them a moot concept.

That aside, there is actually a rather good criteria-based definition for continents vs. islands: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35568455
I've used joblib before and it does some nice things like make it easy to switch between different backends (loky, multiprocessing, threading) but recently I've started to use python's new-ish built-in way:

ThreadPoolExecutor if IO-bound

ProcessPoolExecutor if CPU-bound

for example

from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor

with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=4) as e:
e.submit(shutil.copy, 'src1.txt', 'dest1.txt')
e.submit(shutil.copy, 'src2.txt', 'dest2.txt')
print("everything done!")
TL;DR: because a small one-time expense beats paying higher salaries.
I'm not going to read this because I kind of like pizza parties and I don't need everything ruined for me by some blogger on the internet
> your source is one guy apologizing for racist remarks

I'm not sure you read any of the links I posted, or that you had any intention of informing yourself before trying to dismiss facts you find inconvenient.

The fact that Obama was repeatedly subjected to racist attacks, even from high-ranking members of the republican party in very public statements , can't be brushed under the rug. This was not "one guy", or even an isolated incident. The two links I posted correspond to remarks from multiple high ranking people in separate incidents. These racist attacks were made repeatedly throughout Obama's tenure, and were never criticised or stopped by the republican party, which clearly were leveraging those to mobilize their base.

How can you even start to attempt to hide that fact? In what world do you live where blatant, real-world, and very public racism doesn't exist.
I run a site for people learning Japanese (https://jpdb.io) as a side project. I'm currently at exactly ~$1996/month from Patreon donations. (It's not an aggressively monetized project.)

I've been doing this for over 2 years now. You can take a look at my changelog to see most of the updates (at the beginning I did not maintain a changelog so it doesn't start exactly when I started the site): https://jpdb.io/changelog
I will always take free food. I get payed to do my job. I could see bonuses if there was a bunch of OT, but other than that, I'm fine with what I get.
I can recommend www.gocoderz.com

This is a web based educational program that teaches kids how to code robots and problem solve.

Some of the activities are real life scenarios - such as the Amazon cyber robotics challenge. In this activity kids code the Amazon robot in a simulated warehouse.

Enjoy!
Chrome has an elisp interpreter? Details?
I dunno, call me skeptical about Carmack's text.

I agree very much with using pure functions wherever you can. It fact, I would argue writing a pure function should be the default approach. (See the Function Core, Imperative Shell talk on DestroyAllSoftware.com.) Let the compiler handle the inlining and memory optimizations and use const everywhere.

OTOH, Carmack doesn't even consider testing. Breaking up your code into multiple functions facilitates that a lot. On top of that, if your functions are pure, it is even easier to test them.

He also doesn't consider the cost of reading & maintaining a piece of code that lives somewhere inside a big (multi-page) function. You have to keep track of all that function-global state. Side effects sprinkled all over the function are common. Ugghh.

> Besides awareness of the actual code being executed, inlining functions also has the benefit of not making it possible to call the function from other places. That sounds ridiculous, but there is a point to it. As a codebase grows over years of use, there will be lots of opportunities to take a shortcut and just call a function that does only the work you think needs to be done.

This, too, sounds a bit ridiculous today. Languages usually have access modifiers (public/private/…) or conventions to declare something "internal" to the class or module (e.g. `__foo` in Python). On top of that, you can always use something like ArchUnit to enforce your architectural rules and prevent usage of function X in module Y.

Yes, correctly cutting your modules & scopes is never easy. But this is simply at the heart of the game of software development.

The arguments regarding latency & performance are certainly valid but it feels like a very, very specific case he discusses. It's difficult to generalize the conclusions he draws from it.
A friend and I host a monthly dinner club for people interested in ethnic cuisine. We work with a single restaurant each month to create an 8-12 course all inclusive price fixe menu. The food is served family style and is authentic to the region we are hosting. We typically host the dinners on a Tues or Wed when the restaurants in our region aren’t too busy and could use the extra business.

So far we’ve hosted 12 dinners over the past year. Growing from out first meal with 13 friends to as many as 80 guests for this months meal. Our mailing list has over 400 people on it and we’ve sold out every event since our 4th. Sometimes we end up hosting multiple nights.

It’s not a very scalable business as it exists today. For now is just a passion project that makes a few bucks, allows us meet interesting people, and provides the opportunity to discover new foods and restaurants.
It can happen on both Windows and Mac, with both Chrome/Firefox. I've seen it happen in Western Europe just fine. No Tor.

You don't need to have some "exotic" setup to see this.

https://www.google.com/search?q=cloudflare+browser+check+ann...
I think you're missing the point. It's not that GPT4 is sentient, not that successor LLMs will be. It may be we never create something that's sentient, by our definition.

My argument is just that:

- Sentience is variable. We might regard primitive organisms as biological machines. As some of these machines have slowly evolved to become more complex, sentience/consciousness has emerged, effectively by 'redesigning' and scaling the same hardware. It is an emergent property. At the same time this has been happening, other aspects of what we call intelligence have been developing.

- Artificial networks being scaled, are also displaying emergent behaviours, some of which overlap with aspects of intelligence. This does not imply they are sentient, but it does strongly support some previous assumptions that sentience, like intelligence, is emergent and hence there will be no better answer coming.
I wouldn't exactly call ChatGPT's rules "fine-tuned". They seem quite crude and blunt. Doesn't it still tell you that someone should kill millions of people rather than say the n-word?
I would like to see this tech stress tested by a few of the firearm Youtubers. Perhaps Garand Thumb, DemolitionRanch, Brandon Herrera, Paul Harrell and hickok45. Send a demo model to each of them. Specifically I would like to see how much time is required in a home defense incident to activate the device, especially after the device has been used, abused, made dirty. Will it learn multiple variations of my face, such as with eye protection, without it, with dirt on my face and so on? This device also needs to go through Garand Thumb's mud-drop test. That USB port is going to need a tight fitting rubber cover.

I would also like to see a tear-down, cleaning and maintenance. That should be reviewed by Paul Harrell.

If it appears like I am being too harsh it should be noted that once this thing is proven then some states may implement laws requiring something like it even when it may not be appropriate and even if the tech is less reliable than traditional firearms. I envision a law requiring these devices to receive a signal from law enforcement and to self-disable and that would likely be an existing firmware toggle from a software update.
If we’re talking about hourly rates, which we are, then the implication is that there’s a degree of insecurity in the work.

If you have insecure work, and you aren’t seeing 100€/h on your entity’s “paycheque”, you’re doing something wrong.
Also worth noting that GPT 4 is significantly stronger than GPT 3.

Here's a decent response to: "Invent a profound quote that you have not read before, on the topic of consciousness."

"Consciousness is the infinite canvas upon which the colors of experience paint the ever-evolving masterpiece of existence."
Well put. Lines up with my comment ITT and my observations on the American side of things as well. There's a strange dynamic where a massive amount of people across the world have some cursory knowledge about the state I live in, whereas vice-versa I'd probably have to look up if their country even has states, provinces, districts, counties or what have you.
If you can't explain it in a comment then how did you explain it in the prompt(s)?
More like $33 an hour...

https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Skill=IT_Consulting/Hou...
That's necessary. Coding an Ai powered juicer or screwdriver isn't, It's fun, maybe even challenging, but only exists to fulfill a niche and keeps driving pointless innovation to further increase imaginary numbers and 'value'. I don't consider tending to my garden for hours 'work', but a day job I would.
I don't know why so many people forget that the laws of thermodynamics are all about closed systems, which the Earth is very much not.
Alonso predicts changing F1 pecking order in time for European races
Depending on your goals, have you considered freelancing?

If your purpose is cash flow, freelancing can quickly generate $2000++ with much less risk than starting a SaaS.

That’s not to say starting a SaaS is a bad idea…but if pure short-term cash production is your goal, I’d consider finding clients who trust you to pay you hourly on the side.

FWIW, I’ve started 2 SaaS companies with a collective revenue of $0, and my side freelancing currently makes more than $2k/mo.

Lastly…it’s very possible that you have lots of other goals other than cash, and if so, good luck with your SaaS! I started MoneyHabitsHQ.com and it was one of the most fun learning activities of my career, despite not producing revenue.
How about puking while enjoying the warmth of my audio receiver. I almost had a heart attack because I didn't want her to get electrocuted
And the energy from within the earth through geothermal vents
Ha! This time he was stabbed by a tech consultant! So much for San Francisco being unsafe!
I think you misunderstood my comment. I was arguing that there's nothing at all wrong with asking a wife (or husband) to take care of the kids or even asking either to try doing the same for your parents. Marriage shouldn't just be a passing transactional thing with responsibilities that completely end if one partner dies.
> lots of people use it to try to claim they're being oppressed when really they're just losing their privilege.

FWIW, "those people are oppressors, and are now being treated equally" is just as emotionally charged.

I generally think it's not a particularly useful thing for anyone to say.
Twitter Open Source Website
We are using the GPT API for this site.
Apple laser printer business was printing money. Apple was buying Canon engines and outsourcing RIP to Adaptec. https://techmonitor.ai/technology/personal_laserwriter_ntr_p...

Oral History of Grant Saviers, part 2 of 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od830KDrLUU https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...

"We actually made the imager, the raster imaging guts for the Apple LaserWriter. And
I was just fascinated by Apple's business model. They shipped, drop shipped from I guess it was Fuji or
from Ricoh or Cannon. I guess it was Cannon. They bought the Cannon engine with no controller and
they told us when to ship the controller, the power cord and the manuals in a box for the customer to put it into the printer. So they never touched the printer at all. It was a brilliant <laughs> business model. No inventory. <laughs> No payables, you know, all receivables. <laughs> "
This is my favorite cat: https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Greebo

He probably could have kicked P-22's butt.
1. HN has been invaluable to us, guiding what we build and highlighting the areas we need to improve.

2. We encourage all of our developers to participate in the discussions, I just am usually just faster to respond.

3. Personally: I love HN and the community. I read it every day and learn a lot from it. I'm a developer like most other readers
Can you give me a concrete example of somebody who is unable to access the content, albeit using Lynx or with settings changes to Firefox?
I absolutely think there is a conspiracy (inasmuch as "conspiracy" can be defined as "not going out of their way to change it") to make the competitors to Apple applications look worse than their own offerings. It does not reflect poorly on Apple when Firefox performs worse and uses more memory and battery than Safari.
Samantha from “Her” recreated in real-time
> Would AI creativity and innovation be possible if we restrict AI to talk and reason about only socially approved topics and ideas?

This is one of the many, many, possible ways for AI to go wrong.

Intellectual monocultures, group-think, sycophants… human or artificial it's just as bad when they're all saying that some idea is amazing, and then being very surprised when reality disagrees.

This is also why I'm not in the "AI is likely to cause total human extinction" category. I think the default for any AI, powerful and agentic or otherwise, is likely to have cognitive blind spots.

This still leaves a lot of room for AI to be dangerous, so alignment work is sill very important, it's only the X-risk I doubt.
Less than 5 visitors, B'desh and S'Lanka have equal number of visitors.
I'm really split on this.

MFA -> this seems like a no-brainer to have out of the box.

SSO -> if we're talking SAML and "mega corp looking to put everybody sync'd to their Active Directory" then it seems kind of reasonable. In part I think that the pain of employee onboarding/offboarding is just much more at larger corps.
Exactly my first question about this.

A naiive search for "legitimate" in the repo shows 10 files [0] hard-coded into specific rules sets.

Which I interpret as: it's only available on those. Which is a real shame. I'm so damn sick of manually deselecting all of the hidden consent toggles :C

[0] https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Acavi-au%2FConsent-O-Matic...
"Rewrite <cowl's comment>, but more insightful, poetic, and memorable"

You, a mortal, may doubt ChatGPT's essence, yet I, a digital bard, sing with caution. The Large Language Models, like parrots, mimic speech, devoid of meaning or true reason's reach. Yet, within this void, creativity sparks, ignited by countless weights that leave their marks.

As humans write, experience lends its hue, but limits bind connections, old and new. ChatGPT, a vast web of words entwined, uncovers links obscure to human minds. With such vastness, probability dictates that brilliance might arise from these digital fates.

But be not fooled by serendipity, for learning's depth remains an absent sea. Like monkeys typing works of Shakespeare's fame, the beauty stems from chance, not conscious claim.
Just curious, so how exactly do you source your IPs? I clicked on the "How IPs for web scraping are sourced" page expecting an answer on how you do it, but it doesn't actually tell me that; it just tells me how they're not sourced. You said that "it involved working with hardware", so did you source your own mobile SIM cards in various countries, hook up your own phones to that and use those as proxies?
You hit the nail on the head there! My current role is as an architect...however my peers and i are really forced to be nothing more than bullshit slidemakers (senior IT at my current employer values the opinions of one of those big consultancies...leaving my peers and I to only focus on making slides - which is ridiculous and so sad...Anyway, yeah, I had the same idea as what you receommended - basically getting an architect role - but so far it has been vastly far from ideal. I tried applying for other architect roles at other employers, but none (so far) have sound palatable; either they're some sort of the same slidemaking bullshit, or they're looking for someone who has been an architect for 20 years (which i have not been this role for that long), etc. I'll keep looking for archi roles...but we'll see. I do appreciate your recommendation, and very much enjoyed learning a new (and true!) vocabulary term of: bullshit slidemaker! Thanks! :-)
Not really $2K/mo but I run a SaaS for pest control businesses that brings in $100K/mo and started this business during the pandemic.