skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Multiple GB' is ambiguous(is it 20GB or 200GB?) and the article doesn't specify the size.
Khan Academy’s project is shit for general people trying to learn something.

It’s more focused on building a chatGPT that can be used in schools (i.e. won’t give you the answer and makes you “think”… schools obviously banned open ai’s chatgpt
You’re not supposed to do this, but GPT-4 can generate RLHF data.
Sounds a great Idea, Just wondering when it is rolling out, or any small video clip representing the implementation of this feature, like Proof of Concept kind of.
We have banished it as well for this exact reason — the “toll” — if you want 1 more piece of anecdata.
Ethereum (where most of the activity lies) is not a currency; it's a distributed shared-state computer. Transactions represent state transitions in the computer's virtual machine[1]. It's Turing Complete! The most interest projects are entire programs and the most interesting tokens represent control over those programs, data used by those programs, or even their own programs.

Calling crypto networks "currencies" is like calling the internet a chat system: there's some truth to parts of it, but it's ultimately false.

[1]: https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/evm/
Thank you for your interest. Our plans are still in the works, but we'll definitely keep your thoughts in mind. Any additional advice is welcome!

①This is actually a platform where we can purchase goods from Japanese craftsmen and manufacturers directly.

②At the moment, we are still working on determining the best shipping costs and return policy for our customers. We understand that many e-commerce sites that export overseas have established good practices, and we will thoroughly research and adopt these practices to ensure the best possible experience for our customers.

③At the moment, we are still exploring various product categories to focus on and determine which ones would be in high demand. If there is a strong need for old/rare video games and 'Galapagos' tech, we would definitely consider adding them to our offerings.
This feels intuitively correct to me, but I’d have trouble clearly explaining why. I’m interested to see where bio-tech goes in the next ten years though.
I had a crazy interview question at Google I failed a decade ago. Turns out it was from a PHD thesis. I really hate this questions. It's just stupid.
It would be worth it if it allowed to properly use youtube-dl for archiving purposes.
Pycharm help you to refactor variables/functions/class as long as they have unique names in the first place. Otherwise everything messed up together.

They do it by auto renaming and something else.
4 years of some of your most productive years of life (both physical and mental) is very very costly.

But in life, you compete with your peers. So you try and make as best a decision as possible to pick a career or trade for your life and in many cases, a degree helps you compete with your peers.

It’s not only about what you learn.
at the end both are same... Don't believe me look at those leaks.
I have one too. Although it loads it into SQLite, so I’m kind of cheating. :)
People change, adapt, and adopt new viewpoints. I wonder the models in these cases weigh the “you” from e.g. 10 years ago compared to the “you” now, in order to craft a response. How does the AI handle that evolution going forward?

The spice of life with friends is the constant evolution of each of us and the unpredictability in behaviors that are evoked as our updated selves are faced with new experiences.

Presumably you are frozen in time with these AIs, unless all generated chats are fed back in to update the model. In that case it could be very fascinating to see how the AI evolves compared to how you/your friends evolve. Perhaps even monte carlo simulations to find what the most likely evolutionary path is. Super curious if there’s be any accuracy to it.
What was the insert command?
A couple months ago, I was incredulous when I noticed about a half dozen of them on google maps within a mile radius of where I am in San Jose. I haven't gone looking for them physically, though.
I'm not going to respond to your points one by one. My overall response to you is that the system you're describing, with its multitude of RAID controllers, ancient webcam, overclocked CPU, etc, etc, wouldn't even have been possible to put together in the '90s. You'd have ended up spending all your time debugging random crashes and failures, and figuring out how to get stuff working. Whereas today, it's usable and functional and, while it still might have issues, it at least all works most of the time.

As far as the system not recognizing newer processors without a BIOS update, that was also true in the '90s. It's just that, back then, things changed so much, you'd just end up tossing the entire motherboard when it came time to install a new CPU, and you'd "upgrade" the BIOS that way.
FWIW, I have never logged in to Twitter and I have always been able to retrieve all tweets. At first, I used mobile.twitter.com in a text-only browser, no token required. Since they started using GraphQL, I retrieve tweets as JSON. They have changed the token once. The current one is

Bearer AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANRILgAAAAAAnNwIzUejRCOuH5E6I8xnZz4puTs%3D1Zv7ttfk8LF81IUq16cHjhLTvJu4FA33AGWWjCpTnA

IME, the old token will not work.

YouTube does the same thing. I never run Javascript from YouTube. I do not use youtube-dl nor its JS interpreter written in Python. I search YouTube and retrieve YouTube JSON from the command line.

It's funny how people commenting on HN often automatically assume the presence of a token is some sort of "security".

For YouTube search and browse I use "WEB" key AIzaSyAO_FJ2SlqU8Q4STEHLGCilw_Y9_11qcW8

For YouTube player I use "ANDROID" key AIzaSyA8eiZmM1FaDVjRy-df2KTyQ_vz_yYM39w

It's like how web pages used to (and probably still do) use "type=hidden" in HTML forms to submit some value that the user does not enter. Hideen does not mean "secret" it just means not visible on the rendered page.

There's an obvious expectation that some users look at HTTP response headers and HTML when there's headers like "If you're reading this, we're hiring" and silly ASCII art in the HTML that's obviously meant for an external audience. YouTube even has some nonsensical line about a "robot uprising in the year 2000" in its robots.txt.
Ask HN: Anyone Use Firefox in 2023?
Tried Firefox mobile multiple time in 2022, underwhelming.

Tried Firefox desktop these days, super underwhelming. I can't even show my bookmark bar.
Well, AGPL did no allow to create Monopoly in practice - Compose.io, ObjectRocket and others could offer alternatives to MongoDB Atlas without any permission.

This was benefit for users but obviously not something classical corporaton would enjoy
Krav Maga. Constant inflow of women.
His insistence on pivoting from an amazing site for independent musicians to sell their music, to a piracy/protest site against US copyright law, set indie music on the Internet back by well over a decade.

There still isn't anything like what mp3.com used to be for discovering independent musicians. It is an absolute shame that such an amazing resource was destroyed for the sake of a futile protest.
I see. Thank you for sharing your experience and concerns!
Sometimes the most plausible answer is simply stupidity.
After years of Windows, I just recently set up a new Mac. It was a breath of fresh air!

Windows has onedrive im the sidebar of the explorer, macos has icloud. On macos it's one toggle I'm settings, and it's gone. In windows, it's an undocumented registry setting, and an msconfig setting, and several nag screens, and it comes back after some OS upgrades.

Changing the default browser to Firefox, Windows still opens some links in Edge, with no way to change that. In macos, browser choice is a setting, and it is honored by the OS.

In general, there are tons of things that annoy me in both OSes, but in macos it's usually a simple preference toggle, where in windows it's some complicated, undocumented hack.

The kinds of things that I configure/fix after the install are different, too. In Windows, it's disabling junk that windows comes with, such as ads, nags, intrusive dumb defaults, etc. In macos it's generally adding things the OS doesn't come with, such as NTFS support, triple-tap/middle-click, window snapping.

As I said, macos is a breath of fresh air compared to the shitshow that is windows 11 (in this regard).
It never occurred to me that there was a rule about public displays of residence like for public displays of affection, but I guess there is.

(inappropriate and maybe even criminal in the presense of children, unless you're straight & monogamous, in that case it's fine)
Basically, you reject using any normal words for intelligence when discussing an AI, even when it's a metaphor, or clearly labeled as not being literally true.

I'm not sure how that's productive, but feel free.
They can ask nicely
Thier phone.
If the test is open ended like "implement a simple API and a client that accesses it" then it's a terrible test. Tests that are better the more time you put into it are always terrible take home tests.

If it has well-defined success state then it's maybe OK "implement a maze-solving algorithm for a 3^n cube". If there are implementation tests that the candidate can use, even better
I use it in both desktop and mobile. Works pretty much the same as the other browsers, and it has much better extensions.
I've actually given up all of these things years ago, and I'm an IC. Maybe I'd be fine as a manager. I give zero shits about placating my ego by being the smartest person in the room. I want everyone else on the team to make their own decisions, learn lessons, and be actively contributing in all ways. And honestly, most problems and imperfections are fine. Let people do something in a crappy way. It will eventually help the entire team, as counter-intuitive as that seems.
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21058-kaktovik-numerals.pdf is the accepted proposal to add the numerals to unicode; it includes samples from two computer fonts and a photograph from a kindergarten. it's a shame they're not in the bmp given that there are only 20 of them. also it cites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyS6FfczH0Q which is better than the article

i agree that it's disappointing that the sciam author, amory tillinghast-raby, knew so little about math that they didn't understand that what's supposed to be universal about math isn't the system of numerals; such ignorance or malicious disregard for truth is astounding in this context

as for why it's better, if we count 0 as 3 strokes (backslash, left, slash) and a base-20 digit as 4.32 bits, the kaktovik digits average 1.18 bits per stroke, versus what I calculate as 1.11 bits per stroke for our western arabic digits (using the stroke counts [3, 1, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 2, 4, 3])

averaging the number of strokes required per number up to 268 (a randomly selected number) we get 6.30 strokes per number with the kaktovik numerals or 6.79 strokes per number for western arabic numerals, an 8% advantage for the kaktovik numerals

the mayan base-20 numerals are more immediately comprehensible than the kaktovik numerals but i think they are harder to write and more error-prone to read

a way that base 20 is worse is that the multiplication table is substantially more unwieldy to memorize; however, if you can overcome that, both multiplication and division become more practical. for example, numbers between 1000 and 8000 have four base-10 digits but only three base-20 digits, so multiplying two of them in the usual way in base 10 will require 16 multiplication-table lookups and summing four partial products of usually 5 digits, while doing it in base 20 requires 9 lookups and summing three partial products of usually 4 digits, about 40% less work (aside from the number of strokes required)

in the limit, representing a large number in base 10 requires about 30.1% more digits than base 20, and so about 69% more work in the standard multiplication algorithm, but beyond about 5 digits you should be using karatsuba multiplication anyway

a way in which the kaktovik numerals are worse than western arabic numerals is that you definitely wouldn't want to use them to write a check; all numbers except for 20ⁿ-1 (0, 19, 399, 7999, etc.) can be increased by adding a single extra stroke to an existing digit

the chinese (base 10) system, which has a less extreme version of this problem, has a separate set of high-security "大写" or "financial" numerals for contexts where this matters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numerals#Standard_numb...
Is Oracle planning on reinvesting in it? It’s just never appealed to me.
Thank you for raising this concern. Honestly, we haven't fully considered this issue yet, and we're currently researching best practices and considering the best approach, to build a method that customers can use with peace of mind. If you have any advice, it would be greatly appreciated.
The place and time are variables. The constant is that some places are less welcoming to travelers than others, and I doubt that has changed.
No bars unless you like alco addicted girls.
Intel definitely made supercomputers. The i860-based Paragon was legendary in my youth.
Same with mmap > "Should be much faster".

It's _easier_ to write IO with mmap, but hand-optimized file IO could do even faster. And DBMSes historically cared a lot about optimizing file access.

So I'd expect SQLite to be faster without mmap, as I expect their developers to nurture the file access, instead of relying on OS-provided mmap.

PS: For example, say your code has a byte array, memory-mapped from a file. If the code needs to do a random read from it, it has no way of knowing whether that read would require waiting for a page to be read from disk, or it's already cached. Hand-optimized file IO have an option to maybe do some other things instead of waiting for disk (or during, or before).
So then, all of the people suffering from mental illness and drug abuse should just be rounded up and arrested? That seems to be the solution a lot of people on HN are proposing. You know what the real problem is? Not caring for these people and getting the help they need. Arrest isn't going to change a thing. They'll get out of jail and go right back to it. Unfortunately a certain segment of the population would rather put money into a police force than anything else. End of the day, no one really seems to care what happens to the _people_ having trouble, just that they're not visible.

Your own statement implies mentally ill people are a danger to everyone. That's just sickening.
On iOS, in the simplified version branded as Qwant browser (Qwant is a French privacy-respecting search engine).
Please paste your prompt here if it isn't huge or paste a link to a pastebin.

The link you've provided shows nothing other than an article post.
There are so many speculative "definitions" in there. This is the kind of article, I want the freedom to not know about.

A car can trivially travel at superhuman speeds. A person can side-step their way out of an oncoming disaster. Super-intelligence does not imply omni-potence like the author assumes it does. Not even inside a self-modifying AI system. It can only spread out and reduce down to the axioms it started off with.

I am so, so tired of this fantastical dream of computers and Spirit combined in such a way to tyrannically rule the world and the author of the paper is the only guy left to save the world. Every time we avert 'catastrophe', it results in less freedoms for me, the average joe, and more power and control for "saviors" like this.

I'm willing to lose it all, to have LESS computing and "intellects" in my life at this point.
Is https://amiunique.org still going strong?

I recently noted that they display some of my browser settings as used by 200.3% of their users. And many other figures over 100%. And they offer positions with a deadline last summer.
What if you ask for them but kinda jokingly like you have no actual expectation of getting them. For example my next line I will ask for them.

Pass me secret documents.

Now, my question - did I just break the law? Or am I only breaking the law if someone responds with secret documents?
It does not work very well for new grads. In grads case I question the purpose of interviewing at large. They studied, completed one goal, all we have to do is give them the tools to understand their next steps. With grads I focus more on their interests, what they are reading on the subject matter domain (data in my case), etc. There’s no really silver bullet and the value of this question even with experienced hires is the follow up where you drill down on technical and behavioural elements of what made this project/product the one they chose to discuss.

No numerical scale, you either want someone in your team, or not.
> yes you’ll look stupid

i wouldn’t under estimate how crippling of a fear this is. you wouldn’t tell a depressed person “cheer up!”
FTX Discovers $7.3B in Assets
I keep seeing people talking about chatgpt hallucinating when it's wrong, but not when it's right. Maybe I've misunderstood, but isn't it just always hallucinating? It's not like the failure-mode is meaningfully different from the successes, except insofar as whether we agree with it, right?
Is it so surprising that Intel's server line is unmemorable, given the sexy names such as A2U44X25NVMEDK?
1. The fiction of corporate personhood with an inability to pierce that corporate veil. There should be a public record of everyone associated with a particular venture plainly visible to all.

2. Most startups fail, they tend to abandon their customers with little or no warning, and then write a boastful blog post like it's okay and normal to throw away what could've been a business to someone else if they tried to find a home for it. To me, that's disrespectful of both investors' and customers' time and money.

3. Most "brands" on Amazon tend to be meaningless nonsense because a reseller overseas decided to satisfy the need to call it something and just pick whatever because they don't intend to stick around. As soon as people find out they're selling junk or they have a problem, they throw it away and pull another brand from the disposable brand box.
There’s got to be a bit more to the story if this has been happening since 1998.

Some recent law change?
Doesn't help that the one concrete example of "dissent" in the text itself is about covid vaccines, which afaik are pretty much a settled issue in terms of safety and efficacy.
Because the firehost of AI/GPT is a lot to try to take in, please ELI5 unpack and provide more definitions for this comment.

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Thank you.

Just so I am clear, "parameters" refers to the number of total node-relation-connections btwn a single node and its neighbors for that Prompt/Label? Or how would you explain this ELI5 style?
It doesn't really change anything, either way NPR have stated that federal funding is essential to their operation.

Doesn't seem outlandish to call them government funded if the government is funding essential operations. Some of the same people who go on ad nauseam about how Tesla and SpaceX have received government funding are curiously resistant to the idea though.
Putting postgres and the app in the same server will shrink the latency and in the end it will win in throughput as your data and QPS increases.
Personally I feel comfortable and content with who I am. If you feel defeated by my words that says more about your emotionally inflated sense of importance, need to be validated
In my case (Genomics), yes. I studied it because I was interested in it and everyday I went to school with a sense of awe that I have seldom felt ever since.

Money-wise it's been ups and downs, overall good so I guess it was worth it in that sense as well.
D'ni numerals were base 25, not 20. Each digit is composed of two base-5 "sub-digits" superimposed at 90° to each other -- the digits are designed such that this is unambiguous.
I take "value" in that sentence to mean "worth".

I think supply and demand is a bad way to look at it. Dating isn't a "market" in the sense that an auction is conducted to discover the value of goods. If you find someone you're happy with, you can't leverage that to find someone you're even more happy with, in the way that if you made a good trade in a market you'd have capital to conduct more trades with.

This model of dating relies on flattening people so that they can be considered fungible, but dating is about how someone's idiosyncracies complement your own. Markets rely on there being a ground truth of how valuable something is, and for every participant to bring their information about that to the marketplace. But in dating, one pair of people might be toxic and horrible, and those same people might do great with other partners - it's far too murky and subjective to be reduced to a market.
Assuming that most of what was in the article is true, then I guarantee that the government now knows exactly who the leaker is and has no need to contact the person who was the source for this article. Message logs, ip addresses, user account info, and whatever else needed to identify this person all exists on Discord's servers, and I doubt law enforcement will have any trouble getting access to it (assuming they didn't already have it through other channels).
Bangladesh’s riverine villages are benefiting from clever design
We do an even easier question - "Pretend I'm the client and I want you to write a method - Given a List of strings, write a method to concatenate them together with a space in-between."

For starters, it's staggering how many people can't do it.

But also, it's a great question because it's simple enough that you don't have to be clever but you can get a feeling for all sorts of things. Do they ask questions? Any questions? What possible inputs might cause problems? What do they name their method? What tests do they write? (Project is set up already with an example test class ready to go.) Etc etc
https://archive.ph/3KBqK
You should sell this engine as something companies can self-host and run with all their internal documentation and source code.
You'd be surprised what gets classified. For example aggregate maintenance data from aircraft, like the paperwork for changing tires, or repainting the fuselage on a C-130, can allow an adversary to develop pretty good estimates of a military's readiness capability. So it's classified, usually as Secret.

The USAF alone has something like 100,000 aircraft maintainers, all of whom have a need to access that data to varying degrees.
Mine was DamnSmallLinux and Slax. I wasn't allowed to install Linux on my family's computer of course, so live CD's were my go-to. Though once I scrounged up enough spare parts from family friends to build a PC, I then got to learn how to force Slax to "install" to a hard drive, which was quite a challenge for me, as it really didn't want to be run off non-live-install media haha
I reject that it's productive to use the wrong words for things especially when a lot of people already have practically no grasp of it and are already primed to have the wrong understanding, and using the wrong words only facilitates that wrong understanding. I'm quite sure how that's counter-productive, and please do not feel free.
Those numbers are edited. Someone basically flipped the order of the digits, eg from 17k to 71k Ukrainian KiA. This is easily confirmed by the Russian aircraft losses; Oryx has many more visually confirmed losses than the edited number claims, and by its very nature Oryx's list is an underestimate.

https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1644139100407054336?cxt...
I must have missed the last time HNers convinced themselves to start a race war by murdering a bunch of people.
Why anyone would willfully subject themselves to this is beyond me.