skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a friend who had 3 cars burst into flames inside of two years.

It was the strangest thing, engines caught on fire out of the blue. Admittedly, he was pretty poor (we all were at that time) and his cars were old beaters, but that didn't explain how three different cars could have their engines set on fire out of the blue in such a short time period.

The strangeness of this situation finally revealed itself when I witnessed him checking the oil on his car. It was low, (they all burned oil) and he had some on hand to top it up.

I watched him open a bottle and dump it into the intake, spilling copious amounts before getting it settled in.

He was basting his engines in oil. No one ever taught him to use a funnel or told him he might want to clean up spills like this.

When you make something idiot proof, the universe makes a better idiot.
As a personal anecdote, I moved from rural New Mexico to a highly populated New England county and my baseline anxiety level noticeably increased.
For small games I really think it's easier to just use C++/SDL or whatever language and framework one is familiar with and go from there. A simple 2D RPG might be the most one can complete in a reasonable amount of time (say a few months) but once you have an engine you can "reproduce" quickly.
Audit what? Does this regulation create a responsibility for taxpayers to declare their residence(s) on their tax forms, with a statutory responsibility to be paying the utility company for residing there?

If there isn't, then there really is little downside to telling the electric company that only one person is living somewhere.
As I was reading your comment I was thinking "huh, that's interesting." But then I remembered: surfers use left/right as well, for instance if a wave breaks right or left. They use the perspective of being in the ocean and looking back at the shore, as opposed to the shore looking out to the ocean. I remember asking that very question when I first started.
> Small models only trained on 800B tokens, compared to 1T for llama-7B

LLaMA is trained far beyond chinchilla optimality, so this is not as surprising to me.
What did smartphones do to photography?

I know what they did to cameras, but photography?

You still need the person who takes the picture, and the process of taking a picture hasn't really changed that much.
I wonder how long it will be before something like this can interface with the brain with electrodes that go into the brain (like Neuralink) instead of on the surface?

Then 'all' we need is a plugin for Obsidian.
Taking MAO inhibitor along with DMT makes the trip 4-6 hours long. This combination is actually what's in ayahuasca. But don't take MAOI without any preparations as it turns off the blood-brain barrier, allowing toxins to enter the brain, which might kill you. Having a carefully assembled diet for at least 2 weeks is required to clean up the body beforehand.

https://www.verywellmind.com/foods-to-avoid-when-taking-maoi...
look the condition of artists, haha :(
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Every submission in there has to do with precipitation. I was curious which techniques are used to sustained warming throughout the winter
you need to compare this to consul connect, which is hashicorp's service mesh software.
Yep, it sure seems that billions of human beings have voluntarily contributed personal data to massive datasets, exactly of the kind that AI would need to be able to manipulate (or worse, exploit) each of those human beings.
Replying to your edit.

That note is financial accounting, we're talking about tax accounting. Entirely different worlds with entirely different rules.
Cite your sources for the claim that “no one is paying for oil in dollars anymore”

The West has stood up to a blatant land-grab invasion and has armed Ukrainians with the means to defend themselves effectively. Decimating the Russian military without firing a shot is objectively a NATO victory, regardless of the ultimate outcome.
Vault still uses Pinecone as a 3rd party service and your embeddings do get sent there.
templates don’t exist after the front end. there is no ABI that allows them to exist in any object file. there is no object file format they could be embedded in, sans a string representation of the source they came from.

extremely hard is underselling it somewhat :)
Check out the milestone on github: https://github.com/ory/kratos/milestone/15

not sure if that is everything.
Anyone have a sense for system requirements on running this locally? StableDiffusion was too heavy for either of my machines (which are admittedly not very powerful) - I'm not seeing much in the docs to indicate whether or not this is more or less intensive to run locally.
Meta tells employees to work from home as it prepares to ax 10k
Not disagreeing with you at all, but I want to suggest that we look at it another way - which is that accounting principles as a whole are really not built for technology companies, and we are straining them right now to fit ourselves in.

When you build a manufacturing line, you usually buy your equipment off-the-shelf (capex, with good resale value) and hook it up in a semi-custom way with cheap, movable conveyors (also capex, with resale value). This means that you can make a "stuff" company with practically no R&D. In that world, you only do significant R&D of any kind once you are big enough that your chance of going bankrupt before the end of even a 15-year amortization period is pretty small.

Even in those companies, the work product of R&D groups is often relatively modularizable and transferable. For example, your R&D group may modify a machine to produce coke cans 10% faster. That improvement is likely transferable to pepsi. You may also patent the improvement, but that's not required for it to transfer well. Your R&D can also be hard to transfer, like specific factory layouts to make $widget that only you would ever want to make, but you're only doing that research when you are an established manufacturer, which makes the depreciation not a big deal (you probably prefer to capitalize that expense anyway).

The fact that the work product of R&D is somewhat transferable at a price near how much it cost to produce is what allows you to get loans backed by R&D work (technologies, patents). Without the secondary market value, you don't really have an asset.

In contrast, companies whose primary work product is technology (software companies and some digital hardware companies) do significant R&D from day one, both before proving the value of the R&D work and in a way that it usually isn't sellable or modularizable.

Like the coke cans, there's probably a market of people who would buy the product "patch that makes redis 10% faster," but the tech transfer mechanisms we have today don't support that market well (if at all), and most startups don't waste time improving redis. There is almost certainly no market that would buy "efficient database schema for a SaaS for gravediggers," which actually is what occupies your time if you're building a SaaS for gravediggers.

That suggests, using the "capitalized R&D" and "software development is R&D" ideas, that the first few years of a software company will pretty much always involve vastly overpaying for an asset with likely no real resale value. That is very different than how a traditional capex works: usually the vast majority of the price you pay on a capex goes into the value of the asset.

So that leaves us in a weird sort of void. I assume the very-long-term solution is to figure out how to make an IP rights system that actually works for software (eg a new kind of patent), so you can finance your software R&D the way you do a house.
Obligatory Cory Doctorow link on enshitification:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
I think that a zipper would provide a much nicer interface for making "distant" transformations, but just to be clear you can traverse the entire AST with this approach by recursively returning macros that return macros and then re-assembling the entire tree once you get where you're going. Just, ah, not the easiest code to write :)
2 out of 12 months it’s pretty nice.

That said, I moved to a warmer country and while I enjoy the sun, I’m getting really nostalgic for the pleasant Dutch temperatures.
This is a really interesting idea I hadn't thought of before.

Both modern art and abstract art trace their origins to the mid-1800s, which is contemporaneous with the development of photography techniques, but before the popularization of photography in the 1880s.

I wonder if the knowledge of photography could have helped spur the development of abstract art, rather than its wide adoption and economic effect.

One other thing to consider is that the starving artist predates photography - the "Bohemian artist" archetype was in full effect in Europe ahead of photography's popularization.
The system of domestic buffers existed before for public distribution system inherited from British in both India and Pakistan who were told to get rid of it by IMF. Pakistan did so with alacrity in 80s but still has utility stores at province level IIRC.
It keeps receiving engagement.

Conceptually, it's revolutionary.

In practice, I probably wouldn't have posted more than a couple of times until things like document length restrictions were a thing of the past.
Correct. But that is where the lightsheet adds sufficient resolution. MRI for the “mesopic” scale, lightsheet for for microscopic scale to 0.2 microns, and selective elecron microscopy down as low as tissue quality will allow.
min{d(problem)/d(theta)} is essentially what LLMs are doing with a prompt. Every session that a chatgpt user has leads to either a resolution or not, which is the loss function given the prompt used to reach that point. It's getting better at not hallucinating in my experience over just the past 4 months.
There are various degrees to self hosting: for nice outputs, you need OpenAIs APIs to generate at least the answers. There are alternatives, but not as good.

If you are interested in this, feel free to reach out to me and I can help you with setting this up.
Resizing the Mac App Store: a tale of regret and redemption
I have mixed thoughts about this.

I think there are at least two or more factors and social media is a part of it, but it doesn't operate in a vacuum.

The reason I think this is that there seems to be a small minority of people who have the skills and mental models to use social media as a tool without adverse impact, as a well as another minority of people who seem to be able to remain distanced or minimal users of social media, without adverse impact.

These two groups seem to suggest that some kind of key missing life skill when combined with a need for social connection leaves people uniquely vulnerable to problems with social media.

My somewhat clueless guess about this is that people aren't situated to understand distance, authenticity, and relationships sufficiently. Maybe part of the problem is that many people are so socially starved of authentic and healthy loving relationships of all kinds in their lives, that many people can both know this but still be vulnerable. In some sense, maybe vulnerability rises because social media is a poor but just good enough placebo for loneliness?

I am also convinced that poor parenting compounds whatever is going on. Anyone who puts their 5th grader on Facebook or similar is a terrible parent IMO. Just the same as anyone who uses the iPad as a babysitter is a terrible parent IMO. But I suspect in many cases poor parenting is an artifact of parents who feel so trapped in unstable lives that hey can't feel stable or devote time comfortably to their kids. So maybe yet another factor.
(I'm not Italian, this is wild speculation)
I think it directly translates to something like "to the tooth", so I always imagine it meaning a food having a certain kind of "bite".
Congratulations on all the progress you've made! We are all learning as we're building and talking to users. I know for my team, E2E/Integration testing is our main priority (over unit tests), and maintaining E2E tests is definitely a struggle. I imagine this problem is even more of an issue for larger codebases so I see why you're going after medium-size startups where the product isn't completely rebuilt every few months.
In Facebook’s privacy case there’s also a fine and an agreement to change behavior. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2019/07/...

Generally, class actions can include changes in behavior as part of the settlement. Class actions also pave the way for bigger class actions if the behavior isn’t changed, especially since they often negotiated by claiming to have already spent resources fixing the issue and their claims and the settlement have to pass judicial approval.

I’m not saying it’s a perfect system.
They openly leak your first and last name, email address, payment address, the last four digits of your credit card, and the credit card's expiration date.
Cool to see the intelligent agent hype from 1995(!?) materializing. https://www.wired.com/1995/04/maes/
It's not efficient to do 175B. Training a smaller model (65B) on more data gives better performance for the same compute.
When you say he dumped the oil into the intake... are you using the word intake to mean the place in the valve cover where the oil is supposed to go?

To me, when you say intake, I immediately am thinking of the air intake.
I think their Github "About" text is quite clear imho. An open source identity service that can be an alternative to similar commercial ones like Okta, Auth0.
Yup. Port and starboard, along with forward and aft are in reference to the center-line of the ship from the perspective of being aft and looking forward. Looking at a top down of the ship from where forward and the forecastle are up, it is left (port) and right (starboard).
The irony of many libraries and frameworks trying to recreate the offline-first syncing and replication that Lotus Notes had more or less solved should be better known.

Bonus points for the irony of LotusScript being ECMAScript, which is also JavaScript.

Oh, and Notes generating the native app as a web app natively was pretty fluttery.

I have to stop, because I can no longer remember why people were switching away from Notes so furiously. And there was probably a good reason like IIS.

NotesSQL was a great little ODBC driver to make relational db calls from the NoSQL backend of Notes. Many folks owe their sharpness in the universal standards of ANSI SQL to get data ported to MySQL.

Edit:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCL_Domino
Aspie Quiz
REST vs. gRPC – What’s the Difference?
When will we see gglm-versions of these?

Good job on openAI to sell out in 2022. It was truly the end of the line.

No matter how bad these model releases are , they are certain to get awesome soon with everybody hacking around them. The surprising success of MiniGpt4 with images shows that openAI's GPTs don't have some magic secret sauce that we dont know of.
Plenty of people, myself included, don't pick investments based solely on what has the highest ROI. Some even pick investments based in part on whether or not they agree with the way the company is run.
The US has plenty of useful idiots in positions of power in the EU, yes. They knew precisely what sanctions meant for the populace but went ahead anyway.

As to the military I'd like to refer you to this:
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-nato-problem-defense-...

A couple of quotes:

"Opposition comes not only from the U.S., which despite Trump’s browbeating of allies to spend more, is intent on preserving a 70-year-old framework that lets Washington call the shots and put its interests first."

"Under the guise of avoiding “duplication” and demanding “complementary” capabilities, the U.S. and NATO’s political leaders continue to put up strong resistance to the EU ever developing the command-and-control capabilities that would allow it to operate outside of the alliance’s existing umbrella."

At least on the China situation we seem to agree...
Not sure, maybe there are some savants with photographic memory.

But likely people remember references to certain art and can look them up and then 'copy paste' stylistic elements (but with a lot of effort!)
> So why would you expect businesses to behave in a way other than maximizing ROI?

If I had invested in a company, I would prefer them to maximize my return over a span of decades, not over the next quarter by inevitably undercutting their long-term performance. For some reason, the market currently favors short-term gains in a way that inevitably compromises long-term results.
Solid step forward for supply chain security! For all the talk of SBOMs, supply chain security is much broader - notably, it must include frameworks to think about trustworthiness of builds, images, and build environments.
Again, there is not middle ground between existence and extermination.
I have seen posters on this very website claim that they will not be having children as a direct result of the information they have received about climate change.

of course, it's difficult to determine how much of that is ex post facto reasoning as justification for a decision that was already made for completely different reasons…
>Go build it. See how many people discover yourGitHub repository without so much as a coherent explanation of what problem your code solves. (And, yes, that's marketing.)

Only in a pedantic sense. We could live with non-commercial marketing, if you want to call it that, without an advertising budget, ads, sponsored articles, and other such BS - like, say, the author promoting their FOSS on their blog. Or crafting a nice looking page with an enticing description.

As for commercial companies not being able to sell their products in that case, the world's smallest violin plays a heart-felt tune for them...
That would imply that rice pressure would come down in the future easing the deficit (assuming global tastes haven’t permanently changed).

The article mentions a surplus next year is anticipated.
And THAT is the real question. Does it make economic sense long term. I can’t believe I got downvoted by saying from an accounting perspective it makes sense to test it like any other asset. But does it promote a better outcome if we do? We have all sorts of accelerated depreciation schedules for tax purposes, to promote certain activities. Note that for financial reporting purposes it’s possibly what some companies already do. Even though they expense it for tax purposes. We’re just talking about taxable, not GAAP income.
Basically all of the fire recalls on ICE vehicles in the recent past have been electrical in nature.
i'm starting to think it's some conspiracy, reddit is famous for having created fake accounts to fake engagement and activity to get the site off the ground. do we really put this type of stuff beyond the guys at openai? i don't.
Sanctions do work, albeit not as well as everyone hoped.

I don't think they should be lifted until Russia reforms. Not even when the war is over, unless accompanied with a regime change that takes serious steps to undo the imperialism.

I think it's completely reasonable to expect Russia to get the same treatment as Iran and North Korea.
>"To avoid potential issues, we appeal to our practitioners to not abuse this technology and to develop defending tools to detect AI-synthesized voices"

Well. I'm sure that will take care of everything.
> A lot of those examples have a Shutterstock watermark. I doubt that Shutterstock allows the use of unlicensed videos for this use case.

That almost everyone (other than, maybe, people specifically and very loudly selling the fact that they aren’t, e.g., Adobe) training base AI models is relying on the idea that doing so is fair use and doesn’t require a license is hardly news.
Do we know how they represent that knowledge? I always hear it called a black box but that seems a bit strange, since you can dissect any data right?
> The mechanical complexity? the graphical complexity? The volume of content?

Yes, yes and yes.

> The size on disk?

Indirectly, sometimes. Also, how polished a game is.

At the end of the day, people severely underestimate the last 10% -- which take about 3-30 times as long as the first 90% -- of creating a game. Creating a bare minimum Binding of Isaac clone can be done in 48 hours. Creating a full sized Binding of Isaac competitor will take at least a year of full time work of someone who knows what they're doing.
My bosses and their bosses and their bosses and so on. Probably the board as well, in the end.

I’m a simple Software Engineer, so I don’t really have much insights into that whole side of things.
This brought to mind the OpenBSD 3.5 release song https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#35

VRRP, philosophically,
must ipso facto standard be
But standard it
needs to be free
vis-à-vis
the IETF
you see?

But can VRRP
be said to be
or not to be
a standard, see,
when VRRP can not be free,
due to some Cisco patentry..
Got it. Makes sense. A big part of why we're building Bowtie. https://bowtie.works . We stay out of the critical path.
Care to elaborate? I mean, looking at the source code it clearly does use LangChain for PDF ingestion https://github.com/mayooear/gpt4-pdf-chatbot-langchain/blob/...
More importantly, it assumes that this week's LLM is the last one ever, ignoring the improvements and iterations we are seeing on what feels like an hourly basis.
Probably a lot. My anecdata: I have had four Seagate HDDs in my desktop PC since 2007 and despite a couple of remapped sectors, they're still working fine.

I often power it on and off 1-2 times a day, and the drives are set to spin down when not in use. The SMART data for these drives shows approximately 37,000 power on hours and 17,000 start/stop cycles. That's about 4 years 3 months of actual power on time, and about 3 power cycles per year over the past 16 years.

The spec sheet says these drives use 8W idle. So:

192 months - 51 months = 141 months of non-use

141 months * 0.730 kilohours / month = 102.93 kilohours

102.93 kilohours * 32 watts = 3293.76 kwh

Assuming 15 cents per kwh, that comes to $494 saved by shutting the drives down over the past 16 years. And I paid $232 total for the drives back in 2007.

Obviously YMMV, just thought it would be fun to calculate :)
Does anything prevent copying the token's private key to another token right now?
Many years ago a colleague once told me about how one could take an arbitrarily large vat of mercury on the moon, and set it spinning. Gravity plus centrifugal force causes the surface to become a more or less perfect paraboloid, and boom, now you have a giant, geometrically perfect primary mirror for a telescope. You can vary the focal length by changing the rotation speed.

Looking back, I've forgotten why this seemed like a good idea for the moon specifically. I guess maybe it wouldn't work on earth because the gravity is too strong, so you wouldn't get a noticable paraboloid curvature from the spinning bucket?
I think you can decline the $6 and start your own personal lawsuit for the same issue. But, IANAL.
Charitably, smartphones made photography a hobby/art form/vocation accessible to almost everyone. We all carry a "good enough" camera in our pockets. So it's really opened up the hobby to a ton of people.

I don't know why LLMs would do that with "writing" though.
See

https://huggingface.co/blog/codeparrot

for some idea of how to train a code generator.
So? The vast majority of IPv4 users also do not realize and did not have to set it up themselves.
I purchased a few solo key 2s but have ended up pretty disappointed. Keys ended up being delivered with bent usb connectors which worries me that they will break prematurely.

And the documentation, at least when I received the keys, felt incomplete and hard to find; it did not give me confidence in the product.

I still use them as a backup key, but I decided to just by two yubikeys as my main keys.
I'd rather have that than closed AI models controlled by afew corporations