skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I moved (back) to Seattle, one of my coworkers invited me along after work for Monday night pool. This had been going on for a couple years by the time I showed up, and I made it a regular part of my life for the next decade. I made some of my best and longest-lasting friendships there; those connections led to others, and on again, ultimately populating most of my social world in this city.

It was a simple thing which didn't need a lot of coordination. You just showed up after work if you felt like it and hung out as long as you wanted to. When each game ended, the winner took on a new challenger; new arrivals were automatically next up. Between games, you hung out, drank beer, chatted, enjoyed each other's company, maybe got some food (if you ordered a plate of fries, it would be shared with all; that was the rule). Some people were serious about pool and played hard, while others only went for a round or two; some people stayed until midnight, while others just dropped in for a pint.

I don't know exactly how many people were part of this thing; anyone could invite anyone, so there were maybe forty or fifty people involved overall, roughly a dozen of them regulars. On any given night there might only be five or six present, but sometimes on a nice summer evening you'd get fifteen or twenty, and we'd open up another table.

Not a country thing - this was right in the heart of the city. It's possible some of the people may have known each other from college but that certainly wasn't the defining character; we were all working professionals, ages from mid 20s to late 40s. I wasn't there when it started but I believe it was a group decision among existing friends.
> GitHub Copilot [for business] transmits snippets of your code from your IDE to GitHub to provide Suggestions to you. Code snippets data is only transmitted in real-time to return Suggestions, and is discarded once a Suggestion is returned. Copilot for Business does not retain any Code Snippets Data.

Likely, some employee would whistleblow that they're not complying with their privacy policy, and either government litigation or a class action lawsuit would ensue. That legal process would involve subpoenas and third-party auditors being granted access to GitHub/Microsoft's internal code and communications history, which makes it pretty hard to hide something as big as collecting, storing, and then training from a huge amount of uploaded code snippets they promised not to.

It's not inconceivable that they're noncompliant, but my bet would be that if they are collecting data they explicitly promise not to it's an accidental or malicious action by an individual employee, and they will freak out when they discover it and delete everything as soon as they can. If they intended to collect that data, it would be much easier to write that into the policy than deal with all the risk.

Notably, this applies to Copilot for Business, which is presumably what you're using if you are at work.
This is affecting companies with <$10m in revenue that don't have CFOs.

I appreciate your point about not putting faith in Congress, but as a country we should not let them off the hook for passing batshit insane legislation that screws over small businesses.
Also with the factory analogy - unreal is the car factory and you are like the worker who built the factory. (Asking out of ignorance) The workers wages are not treated as a capital to be amortized right?
Start with simple. Don't involve objects and classes and whatever, until there is a need for them and you can justify them. Don't use them because OOP. If your program or part of a program is fundamentally just a complex function, then write it as function(s).
You can take CMU's 15-445 which is available online with lectures uploaded to youtube: https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2022/.
An easement that forever stops me from planting a tree or building a building is not simple ROW. It is a takeover of my property.
That includes things like failed restaurants that didn't make money and closed as well as fast food restaurants that operate on margins impossible for other restaurants and essentially act as real estate companies.

If you want to run a restaurant and not join the tens of thousands that close each year you can't run them the way you're saying. Doing $2000 in business and making $40 isn't sustainable. Successful restaurants don't run that way.
The Honda CRV now offers a hybrid version that gets 40mpg city / 35mpg hwy.
I agree in principle that you can care about and adopt an issue you know nothing about. The problem is to do that in a productive way you have to actually delegate authority and then back whoever you delegated to. That's not what's happening here - the PM has decided on a nonsensical policy, and is pushing it despite not knowing anything about the subject area. We've seen this re-inforced today - they wanted to launch a PR campaign to support this policy. Who did they get to head this campaign? Stephen Follows, a film data analyst. Does Stephen agree with the policy? Nope! And I quote

> Nobody thought to ask me whether I support this policy

My concern is this - there are policy aims, like ending modern slavery or improving maths education (or even just improving the status of maths in the UK), and then there are actual policies. What Sunak is doing here is endorsing a policy in order to achieve a policy aim. But the policy he's endorsing is a policy that will be totally ineffective at achieving that aim.

You're right - ideally the policy would've been worked on by Spads, domain experts, etc. But it wasn't. It was a half-cocked idea that he came up with by himself. How do we know this? The policy is nonsense! No one seriously thinks it will achieve the policy aim, you can't actually endorse a policy that both insists on more maths education and endorse a policy to give maths teachers a massive pay cut.

I understand how this is meant to work, what i'm saying is it very clearly isn't working that way.
https://archive.is/oTID1
OTOH, I used to have lots of people tell me that it would be almost impossible to stay under 5 degrees of warming. Landing at about 3 degrees of warming is substantially better than many of the scenarios laid out in the past.

I'm still optimistic we can stay below 2 degrees of warming.
I think it's a breath of opportunity to hear that there is tooling for Rust to write Kubernetes operators, previously my impression is that there is no match for Golang when it comes to writing operators, and that has invited me to try and learn Golang and the codegen that comes with writing operators, but I never enjoyed trying to learn things about Golang, the language feels like an exercise in ambiguous minimalism to me personally.
No or no company would be able to use it. As you type fragments of code are sent and discarded after use. You need to trust Microsoft to actually do the discarding but contractually they do and you can sue them if they accidentally or deliberately keep your code around or otherwise mismanage it.
fireflies.ai is quite good
Yes: start with experimental systems where people are, and then at some point when the tech is mature and really optimizing for costs you get into moving it out for cheap land and power.
notwithstanding the obvious arguments that patents are spectacularly unhelpful at leveling the playing field for at least software and pharma, pedantically shouldn't it be:

No Source Code => No Patent
Would “cultivate an interest or hobby to avoid burnout” be an accurate summary of your comment?
No, you're not. You're dealing with principles of communism here. They're inherently nonsensical.

Note the standard of justice being used. It's not, "impersonating someone to use them as a stepping stone is wrong, no matter who does it, or who is the victim".

The standard is, the rich and powerful don't "deserve" equal protection from the law, the real victim is the artist who isn't being recognized because the industry isn't playing "fair". So it's ok if the underdog breaks the law, because the world is stacked against him.

Yeah, and basket ball isn't fair because I'm fat and uncoordinated, and math isn't fair because I'm stupid and don't want to study.

Ironically, these were the same people that said, "Nobody deserves a platform to spread the 'wrong' ideas." when it came to censorship on Twitter, and had the gall to call it "accountability" when people were banned for wrong think about vaccines.

If you're scratching your head and saying, "Wait, what am I missing? That makes no sense! Ten seconds ago it was the rich and powerful censoring the poor underdog, and that was bad. But now big pharma backed censorship is a good thing?" -- it's because you're the sane and logical person, and they're the ones without a consistent worldview.
I’m not an investment banker but my understanding is M&A is far larger than tech, so you can do deals in a variety of industries. You could also go into private equity.
Feels like the sort of punishment that might drive a man to… violate the law.
They have clear rules, it's not clear to me why Coinbase does not think that those rules apply to them.
Corporate media is in total freefall, yet continue to give their primary competitor free advertising. The stupidity of these folks truly is limitless.
You're right. I just thought the nuclear debate in the last few days was so heavily in favor of "nuclear is silver bullet for climate change" that I felt like publishing my thoughts too. It's not all gold that shines.
If you consider that the purpose of ethics is to capture reality, then of course it can never be complete (and consequentialism in particular is trying to predict reality so it will never be). But deontological positions like the ten commandments are not trying to capture reality, yet they do try to be universal and accurate. Given that people keep coming up with ethical framworks (if even ad-hoc) and they try hard to refine them and remove internal contradictions, I don't think we're getting rid of this "nonsense" anytime soon.

Except the nihilists. They already don't bother with it.

But the postmodernism view of "ethics is incomplete" is an interesting one. Can a society where this is accepted exist and thrive, where two people with identical ethical frameworks can come to different conclusions? Would ethics even be worth having?

I've only seen one situation where ethics stops making sense, but it was falling apart at really far-fetched edges which are not normally possible to encounter: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5iZTwGHv2tNfFmeDa/on-infinit...
I was watching this excellent video by Numberphile [0] on Go First Dice [1] and I went down the rabbit hole of dices [2] and Archimedean solids[3], and thought it would make for a nice HN submission :-)

[0] https://youtube.com/@numberphile

[1] https://youtu.be/5q32heFz1bs

[2] http://www.ericharshbarger.org/dice/go_first_dice.html

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedean_solid

P.S. This is another great video from my favorite James Grime, https://bit.ly/grimevideos
Thanks for your perspective.

>> At seven a child is only half way to fourteen and fourteen is an early start on programming.<<

I had a similar thought running in my mind but then till the time we introduce her to XYZ how will we gauge if it is of interest to her or not.
All of transportation is only 27% of CO2 emissions. Personal SUVs and trucks can't possible be more than a few percent. Banning them will at best buy us a year or so if you can get the entire world on board.
That's not what he said. He said "Bitcoin is the only thing that is definitely not a security", everything else is undecided. Big difference.

Terrible reporting from crypto slate even when it's an opinion piece.
I think the mention that upgrading your distro doesn't automatically enable a better KDF for LUKS is a good point.
Pirates were downloading music for their own personal use. RIAA overstepped by suing them individually.

This OTOH is taking existing IP, creating a derivative product, and then uploading it to their Spotify profile, for monetary gain. I think most people can make that distinction.
I've slowly drifted into preferring tags over log levels. Strict hierarchies always turn into dead ends sooner or later.

https://github.com/codr7/cl-redb
DAC makes no sense from an energy accounting perspective.

Simple argument:
DAC requires energy.

In some places, that energy is stranded. Think of the DAC plant in Iceland using geothermal. Fine. In that case, DAC makes a meaningful contribution.

If the energy used for DAC is not stranded and could instead be used to offset fossil fuels, it would be far better to offset the fossil fuel use. This is trivially proven true when you consider the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Better to prevent the entropy increase from adding CO2 to the atmosphere in the first place.

Therefore, attempting to use DAC to mitigate climate change while fossil fuels are still being burned is pointless. If you can build the energy infrastructure you will need to power DAC, you would be far better off just using it to offset and eliminate fossil fuel use.

Once you have eliminated the use of fossil fuels, sure, DAC makes sense. But the idea that DAC will save or even help us without complete decarbonization as a prerequisite is just nonsense in my opinion.
No, it would not. You avoid burnout by not having a full-time job in addition to whatever personal development you are pursuing.
Only if the company still exists in 5 years time.
A better outfit. You won't be "more effective", but you will be "perceived" as such.
Diversity is where it's at! Heatwaves can also drain the rivers that cool nuclear plants! We need a more resilient grid and diversity of production is probably the answer here, isn't it?
If your coin meets the Howie test it’s a security and must be registered with the SEC. If you go to the SEC and say “hey, please register my security so I can scam some people”, and they say no, your security doesn’t stop being a security, it’s just not a registered security. Going on to cry about them then prosecuting you for operating an unregistered securities exchange is purile.
With freedom of movement, it's just as easy to move around the EU now. But I don't have to make a trade-off between safety and nightlife.

But I've got to admit that Maine looks pretty safe according to https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/charts-and-maps
There are means to offset, defer, and reduce tax burden that you also get from doing R&D, so honestly the change in the way the salary is treated is somewhat balancing these other tax benefits that startups are also taking. It's a balancing change to a larger system, not a targeted change to screw startups. A comparison over just Year #1 is disingenuous.
Eerier than the infinite void with points of light suspended in it by nothing at all?
Btw. I don't have a book in Nuclear/renewables. Not sure if my friend Mike can say the same.
There are some ideas for using the captured CO2, but they're all pretty early and unproven: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_air_capture#Application...
Neat thanks I'll check it out, it looks like it checks all the boxes I'm looking for.
ChatGPT Is Making Our Software Engineers Dumb
That is a big win for the much larger, safer, and more luxurious 2021 Civic. The 1980 one was tiny and not something you wanted to be in in a crash.

Also, the EPA ratings have changed between now and then getting stricter and closer to actual mileage. That 1980 vehicle would get much lower mileage ratings now than it did then.
But this is only a "problem" for those who want to ride right on the line of what's technically legal. People who strive to stay within what the law is trying to accomplish, who are with the spirit of the law rather than the letter, have no such issues.
> the symmetries apply to higher-dimensional objects such as lines, rather than lower-dimensional objects such as particles at single points in space.

Does this relate the String Theory?
Is there any explanation to the negativity expressed here over the name? Because GPT4All was posted 20 days ago here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35349608 with 593 points and 303 comments, and nobody mentioned it.
Do you have a source for that? I thought it came from the 2018 OpenAI paper "Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training".
Here’s a much better track and song that uses a Jay Z AI vocal replacement:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y7r6PAkFRfU&feature=youtu.be

The implications of this kind of technology are wild. Imagine seeing a tribute show where the lead singer runs their voice through a voice changer that matches whatever artist they’re covering.
Something like €200/mo if you factor in the need for disk space as well. This is also Hetzner we're talking about. They're sort of infamous for horror stories of arbitrarily removed servers and having shitty support. They're the cheapest for a reason.

But with dedicated servers, are we really talking cloud?
Lockbit Spreads to Mac
What about them not initiating contact is a negative? I can see why that'd be interpreted as a negative, but does it make sense for that person?

I know that I do a poor job of initiating hanging out but if I'm ever invited somewhere, I say yes 9/10 times. I like to do stuff but 1) I don't know what to suggest to do with others or 2) I want to suggest something however I am worried it'll be a negative experience and therefore I don't send out the invite at all.
Instruction Tuning with GPT-4
The SEC isn't saying that crypto is a security.

It's saying that some crypto tokens are securities, and that Coinbase is trading at least one of those tokens.

It doesn't matter how much Coinbase wants a particular token to not be a security, or whether they had 30 meetings, or 300 meetings where they ask for that token to not be a security. If it passes the Howie test, it's a security.
The wikipedia article mentioned by another commenter is a bit drier but more informative.
The knitting kit stuff is just flourishing and actually was not that important. What should have been emphasized is the sheer courage of a teenager being dropped behind the enemy lines as a spy. Spies, moreso in a war, are almost always executed, usually after a gruesome session of torture to extract information.
Probably because you can use the error gradients from the generative model somehow
Exactly this. I've tried to implement ChatGPT into may daily workflow, but you have to give it an excruciating level of detail to get something that remotely resembles real code I'd use, and even then you have to hold its hand to guide it in the correct direction, and still have to make some manual final touches at the end.

This is why I'm looking forward to Copilot X so much. It will hold much more context than the current implementation, and integrate the Chat interface that's so natural to us.
> I am not enamored of tags, because tag systems break down when humans get involved.

One of the things I'm curious to try out with GPT is auto tagging content and patching documents that have missing tags. You train GPT with your corpus and existing (and incomplete) tagging system, and have GPT fill in missing tags and revise tags that are synonymous or spelling variants.

Maybe there are already good non-AI system that do this, I haven't really looked deeply into other solutions yet.
The West ignores much more egregious rights transgressions by much deeper allies. India is a lamb of a country in comparison.
It's unfortunate, because there are some improvements like WSA (Windows Subsystem for Android) [1] that I think are a big step in the right direction. The problem is the OS is becoming user-hostile in order to squeeze every last penny out of users. On a paid product (when there are an entire universe of free software), what is the point of paying for ads?

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/android/wsa/
I believe Tesla uses synthetic data for FSD/Autopilot training as well. Not sure what's the ratio between synthetic data and real videos, but it seems that they plan to rely more onto the first group in the future.

https://www.youtube.com/live/j0z4FweCy4M?feature=share&t=571...
Gensler not able to clearly articulate an answer to a simple question presented in a multiple of ways:

https://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1648338351832064003
All torrents for all editions: https://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
Some DAC startups (like terraformindustries.com) believe it is economically viable to produce methane / natural gas from air captured CO2. They obviously cannot take credit for CO2 reduction, but can sell the methane as carbon-neutral.

Another potentially useful product besides the two you already mentioned is plastic.
Producing counterfeits is a completely different issue from piracy and it isn't surprising that people would have different opinions about them despite some lawyers having bundled them together under the label of "Intellectual Property". I frequently saw people getting upset about ripoffs long before AI.
It's pending.
It was a lot of fun when I was younger and didn’t have any responsibilities. You never even needed to go anywhere or spend any money.

I wouldn’t want that now but my school friends always say that if they ever manage to retire early, they’ll all move back to our hometown and do that random hanging out thing all over again.
Steganography is hiding information in plain sight. This is knitting steganography.
I think you're confusing reality with science fiction.
I mostly work on desktop tools, and this was a great presentation on a topic I'm rather unfamiliar with. It was communicated very well. Nice work!
To quote from Martin Luther King Jr., during his 1964 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech:

"We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers"
I'm curious about the claim that the panel can be installed on ungraded ground. What kind of slope are we talking about? Would it make sense to dig long shallow trenches and adjacent mounds to orient the panel a bit more toward the sun?
I try my best to not assume malice unless evident beyond reasonable doubt.

Far more evil comes from misunderstanding or just plain old ignorance (not in a deragoratory way - we all learn new things every day). So in practice, it's a useful heuristic.
What do you want to know? Why do you think you need to know it? Can you do without knowing? Do you think not knowing will cost you too much in lost opportunity? If so maybe it is worth it to pay for it. If not is there a way you can make a pretty good guess from public sources (eg filings of public companies)

Best of luck!
yeah I found that pretty funny and it was the reason I re-uploaded my answer. Bit surprised that he'd "delete" my response because I'm not a subscriber.
For the record, he left another free subscriber's answer online

- https://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1648292545040982020

- https://twitter.com/timdaub/status/1648297715703373824
Sounds a bit like how authorship on academic journal articles works.
Show HN: ReLLM a Permission sensitive long term context API for LLMs
Hey, we're excited to share ReLLM!

ReLLM provides developers with an API to quickly add permission sensitive context for LLM's such as chatGPT. ReLLM goes a step further and also encrypts all of your plain text data at rest.

The Motivation: We built ReLLM, because while developing a different application we realized there was not a great way to provide our users context for their GPT questions that was limited to only the data they are allowed to see.

ReLLM is fully functional with 2 API endpoints. One to embed data, and one to invoke chat with GPT.
That’s the unfairness about power laws and the reason why YC wants to hear if you have any unfair advantage in your application.
I loved looking for jobs on SO. I found some of the coolest companies and was seriously bummed when it went under. It’s how I heard about my current job I’ve happily been at for a couple of years.