skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Over voice, in person, or without listing incriminating details, presumably. That would be my recommendation. I do know that listing specific details in text messages is how they got caught, however convenient it may have been until that point.
I don't see this mentioned, but is KV.js used somewhere in production? Is there a recommended way to use it?

For example in a separate worker, in a child process or in the same process as the node.js app, or embedded in an domain-specific server. Side note, is lua support in consideration? Some redis workloads rely heavily on it.

Looks cool and exhaustive nevertheless, the author did a great job!
> The problem is it's not data for you, it's data for Microsoft they turn around and sell.

Why can't it be both? Being data for Microsoft doesn't preclude it from also being data for you.
Being able to just put in a query without having to fire up a browser might be a marginal improvement for a lot of people.

And Microsoft doesn't sell you data. No advertising platform does. They sell access to you, by using your data to classify you in ways you can be targeted. It's a subtle difference, but it changes the implications. If someone is making money off of being able to reliably target you based on your data, that means your data is precious to them. Selling it (or losing it) is tantamount to selling their competitive advantage, such as it may be.
I mean, Jair wasn’t exactly a hero in the pandemic. There’s probably better examples.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/10/27/toll-bolsonaros-disastro...
And that's why they have a hard time getting their stuff out there and getting the money they need. I mean, trying to run a business like a research lab is kind of flawed, you know? And you don't always want some Musk-like character messing around with the basics of the company
Reservations are not ghettos. There are no walls and no guards. People can leave anytime. To equivocate them is to diminish the horror of the holocaust. It's true that they came about as a result of a long and brutal process of conquest, but these were warring nations and different times. It's also true that those living who were forcefully oppressed deserve reparations. Sadly there are few still alive.

Those who do leave reservations however, especially those who do so in pursuit of education and not drugs, tend to fare far better than those who stay. This is hardly surprising given that remote areas that find their populations too dense to be supported by their economies tend to do poorly. You don't need to be on a reservation to have awful outcomes in remote areas. The (few) reservations that manage to produce something valuable and govern the proceeds well are hardly grim.

People can just leave. Many people do, and many of those succeed. Our free society produces hierarchies of competence (not privilege)[1]. They're still hierarchies however, with winners in opulence and impoverished losers. More than there being nothing wrong with this, it seems to be a completely unavoidable law of nature. I'd say that's a good enough reason to embrace it.

1. The vast majority of intergenerational wealth transfers fail. People with rich grandparents tend to be middle class. It's (very) hard to raise competent people in a privileged environment, and incompetent people tend to fail in our society.
I can attest to the value of living close to friends.

A few of us moved into 3 apartments in the same apartment complex, and it's really great. Other close friends have a place that's 20 minutes walk away, so we frequently do things together.

Of course, we live in the Bay Area where the housing market is shit, so we recognize how lucky we are to afford our situation.

It was much easier for me when I lived in a small city in Europe. The population density and walkability of the place made it.

(Incentivize more building! Abolish CA Prop 13!)
There is another answer to living close by. If VR and AR one day meet the promises of old sci-fi, distance will be less of an issue. It will be a dramatic improvement over phone calls and FaceTime / zoom.

Unfortunately, the current form factor of affordable units (sub $500 standalone units like the quest2) intimidates nearly everyone including techies on HN; most people refuse to even try it. Of the few brave people willing to try it, most don’t go beyond 10-15 minutes.

The other major problem is affordability. While it isn’t a problem for many people in our bubble, most people will balk at spending $2000 or more on bleeding edge tech.

AR and VR currently are at the same stage of personal computers in the late 1970s, only a few die hard techies like me can see its current and future potential
You're the real MVP on this thread. Thanks, I'll be moving to 11 on my next computer here shortly and the msn news infection I think will be the most frustrating bit.
people seem to have forgotten about the multi-modal GPT-4

There's a ton of potential left on the table. The question is if transformers have hit their limit with GPT-4 or not.

It's a pretty simple equation when you think about it this way and why Sam would say they have hit their limit. Sam is basically Microsoft and they want to retain their lead.
Once Google learns to put their data to use correctly, it's almost guaranteed game over for OpenAI if they want it to be.
I've had some success with sites such as Facebook Groups or Meetup. They organize events to connect strangers with a shared common interest, in my case casual hiking and board games.
Case of the Unpredictable Run-Parts
CDK itself relies on a good number of hacks and workarounds, some of which are not well-vetted at all in my experience. Some of the workarounds are really a symptom in my opinion of certain resources not being part of CloudFormation itself, when if they were, it feels like it’d be almost entirely a non-issue.

It’s a little odd that at this point in the game, the prospect of “make a thing that depends on another thing” is still not an entirely solved problem within AWS.
Isn't it like 5 miles away?

That's fairly close, but it also ends up involving quite a large volume of water.
> about American individualism[0] and not wanting to share anything if you don't absolutely have to.

I don’t know if this is an American quality specifically. It could just be that Americans can (or used to be able to) afford it, whereas most other people in most other societies never could.

For example, what young married couple would want to live in their parents house if they can afford their own? All of my extended family grew up in intergenerational households because they were poor immigrants who had to make do, but all the cousins became doctors/lawyers/engineers/etc and got their own house.

That is not to say that my cousins would not let their elderly parents stay with them if the need arises, but being financially independent does allow people to do what they want.
Which ones do you recommend?
Yes, agreed. I would like to run large models at home without serious expense.
OpenAI can afford to build a scraping network, built with thousands of proxies.
> I'll move back eventually with a partner in tow

Why though? What is the appeal of SV when you could live anywhere?
> With time-varying signals, the return current follows the path of least reactance, which is also the path of least impedance. This means the return current path in your PCB is determined entirely by the impedance of the circuit that carries the return current.

I was also a bit surprised by this. But I do recall doing equations regarding capacitive and inductive reactance. In both cases there is a frequency-dependent effect which alters the shape of the waveform. It being frequency dependent, it disappears in the presence of DC (inductors becoming irrelevant and capacitors becoming nonconductive).

So I can kind of see it. But not enough to turn it into a return-path-is-suprising type example.
> That's when Windows died for me

I never really used it at home, I went from DOS to Coherent to Linux/BSDs. But from the Work Computers I had, I found one of the NT (around 2000/2005) interesting. Then XP came out, but by then I was on Linux at work.

I do not know how to replicate early PC usage these days where you poke around with the commercial OSs we have now. Maybe a Linux/BSD would be fun for a youngster to mess around with. You can still start with text mode and create silly to useful applications without GUI complexity.

One example for a young person is to pull raw weather data from NOAA and create your own analysis applications using it.
"I don't see this mentioned, but is KV.js used somewhere in production? "

Hey, author here. It's used in puter.com, my startup. Still in alpha though.

"For example in a separate worker, in a child process or in the same process as the node.js app,"
Right now I'd say in the same process as the node.js app. Open to suggestions.

"Side note, is lua support in consideration?"
Yes.

"the author did a great job!"

Thank you! Please do let me know how I could make it better :)
I recall that you can't uninstall Edge because it shows up in weird places all over the system.

As for disabling, maybe some of it can be disabled. If the myriad anecdotes across the web are to be believed, however, then updates have a tendency to silently re-enable settings or revert defaults almost at random.
> A transformer trained on all text and all of YouTube will be killer amazing at so much.

ah yes, a bot where the answer to everything is to buy ridge wallets and play raid shadow legends
Damn, maybe you live in a crappy town?
The only way you can pretend nuclear is "better for the environment" is if you ignore most of its supply chain and only point a finger to "what comes out of the stack." The fuel supply chain is incredibly energy-intensive, expensive, and environmentally unfriendly, and unlike the materials used for rare-earth magnets and lithium ion batteries which everyone here loves to bleat about...the material is not recycled (nor can it be without significant changes that will take decades) whereas rare earth magnets, lithium ion batteries, and now windmill blades, are all recyclable.

Nuclear has never been economically viable. It's been subsidized, enormously, for close to a century as the stepchild of the "defense" nuclear weapon and propulsion industries. It continues to get more expensive, whereas wind/solar/energy storage are plunging in cost.

Nuclear would also still require energy storage because it can only fulfill base load; nuclear takes days to change power levels, and running at anything other than full capacity drastically impacts its economic viability.

You can point to research all you like. US power companies are buying wind, solar, and energy storage. Not only are they not buying nuclear, they're shutting down plants because they are not economically viable.

It's funny how HN is all "free market!" when it comes to things like renewables and decarbonizing transit (ie "why muh tax dollars going to this?!")...but nobody seems to acknowledge that the nuclear industry is massively subsidized and Biden is proposing throwing billions more at the industry because of lobbying.

Also, that paper was published four years ago, which means it was based on even older data, and the cost of renewables and energy storage is plunging while nuclear goes up in cost...
It's not strictly a question of trying Everything and seeing what sticks.

There's a hypothesis in the parent comment - better handling of the time domain will lead to better modeling - which is actually fairly independent of architecture. So, there's going to be a number of possible ways to build better time modeling, ranging from tweaks to existing architecture to completely rebuilding Rome. So, if better time modeling really is a limitation, you don't need to rebuild Rome to find out.

In fact, I might argue that S4 layers already provide this improved time handling in the current world, and is proving very successful, which would again widen the moat for SNNs.
I rode Windows NT 4.0 into the ground. It was a truly professional operating system.

Honestly, Windows 7 and Windows 10 have been configurable into a mostly serviceable state. It was much more of a hassle to keep Windows 10 tamed, but tamed it can be.

I worry that Windows 11 will require a bunch of disassembly to get it operational, so I will keep Windows 10 until it is no longer supported.
The pipeline could have gone around Lake Michigan through Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana, before crossing back into Michigan and continuing into Canada (it crosses the Great Lakes again in Sarnia too).

I think it makes sense to build the tunnel and continue operating the pipeline, but "no alternative" goes too far, you need to condition it somehow (like no profitable alternative or whatever).
Came here to post this, yeah, it’s a fantastic and detailed explanation of Conway’s law. Casey provides a worked example at 19:50.
What sacrifice would you say that the Bode 100 makes in performance (Especially compared to the E5061B)?
That’s even worse. Microsoft is trying to make money by taking advantage of users’ ‘ignorance’, right? That’s no different from a scammer.
Stems Social: a new Bluesky server for Handshake domains
> Ask yourself how many of the above countries that started breeder reactors do we want making new nuclear weapons? And note how many have kicked out nuclear weapons inspectors (Russia, China).

This to me is the single biggest reason to pursue the tech. The genie is out of the bottle.
https://archive.ph/BTFKZ
We are friends, friend! :)
This is incredibly dumb. These plants were only designed to run for 40 years. This particular one was extended to 51 years. Restarting it will be very dangerous. Nuclear energy is expensive, dangerous and will only work with massive taxpayer subsidies. But running old plants many years after their designed for lifespans is especially stupid.

Radiation corrodes metals much faster than usual and in ways that are not predictable. It is dangerous to run these things longer than their designed for lifetimes.
Fair point. I will certainly admit that, despite having made a decent (not spectacular) profit in crypto in 2021-22, the cascading high-profile failures and rug-pulls have made me lose faith in the individuals involved. The technology and concepts themselves are a different matter. I love and enthusiastically support what people _claim_ to be working towards, but an overwhelming weight of evidence suggests that the rational thing to do is to assume that any crypto project is vapourware, a scam, or some combination. Here's hoping I will be proved wrong one day, I really hope so.
It's a shame that the whole "walkable city" concept has become a bit of a meme in the US - it truly should be a thing that we all strive to create - to nurture in-person relationships through the physical design of the space.

>I’m not talking about crime, don’t be ridiculous.

While gender-affirming care and bodily autonomy is (obviously) a critical point, I am very much also talking about factoring in crime. There is no way I'd live in SFO/LA/NYC/SEA.

When we talk about limited mobility, we have to talk about places where that kind of physical interaction has undue risk attached.
If you’re not intentional in cultivating relationships, they don’t last. Find good people and hold on to them.
I wonder why amaricans are silent with a foreign company abusing laws to stifle and destroy their budding talent pools like this. Each time nintendo twists the law to dish out illegal abuse, it drives talented people elsewhere. I'm sure it already had a real negative effect on US overall ability to compete with other countries.

I guess I just don't understand why they don't get penalized for abusing the rights of US citizens.
Mini-States and Micro-Sovereignty: Democracies in East Central Europe, 1918–1923
It does work. Check Lee Kuan Yee and Singapore. but it needs to be strong willed not weak.
"The fetishization of the nuclear family" mentioned in this article feels unnecessarily provocative, as if the author isn't well socialized (perhaps overly associating with minority subcultures that don't recognize traditional norms?)

The basic premise of the article is fine, living within a reasonable distance of friends makes a lot of sense, but some parts of it are extreme. Most people wouldn't buy a house with a friend because they have a wife, husband or significant other with whom they either currently live, or are working towards living with.
How about we do something about being able to support a family on a single, decent job for 30+ years?

That would mean people can stay in their neighborhoods and get to know people over time.
Our team typically expects some cost consideration given in design documents. This way we know that some attention was given to it and it's a good starting place for discussing costs during design review.
I think they are counting on the fact that any recourse you do have would be far more expensive to acquire than the amount owed. Economically, it's probably not in your interest to follow through. Basically, consult a lawyer if you actually want to.
ot but i don't think it's in good faith to be downvoted for having an opinion other people don't like.
Environmental group sues to close California’s last nuclear plant
I don’t think it’s unconventional, it’s just a definition of suburbs.

Worse of both world in my book. Unless you want to raise your kid in isolation.
You can have perfect crypto on your devices, and great operations, and your messages can still be intercepted several ways.
The feds are almost never in a rush. If they want you, they'll get you. If they want you enough, they'll sit in a coffee shop they know you frequent with a high zoom camera ready to read your encrypted texts from across the room. Or they'll bug your car and listen in to your properly encrypted phone calls. Or they'll intercept a package and add some spy gear.
They won't do this to bust some street level meth dealer. But, if you're suspected of something like posting state secrets in a Minecraft server? You betcha. They'll follow you everywhere.
As a nobody with a few side projects on AWS I found support incredibly helpful- walking me through a long process of how to turn off and lock services when my account got hacked and a huge bill ran up.
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People in HN threads should collectively start timing how long it takes for Gen Xers and boomers to come out of the woodwork to gatekeep something that has evolved past their tunnel-vision.
There's a separate Samsung version of every core Google Android app, a separate Samsung account system to sync everything, and a Samsung launcher. Mind you, I personally use none of it (except launcher), but that's basically the definition of Android bloat.
People said SpaceX was wasting their time trying to land a rocket. High risk, high reward. The potential for advanced robots in vehicle production is a no brainer.
That's naive without any context to claim. You have to know the source that triggers the code to publish the message, what the message is for, the fault tolerance and availability of the API we're calling before you can even begin to decide. Which you validated perfectly by giving a snarky "what about redundancy" answer to a complicated question.
That hasn't been my experience at all. If anything, they are more userfriendly than other phones I have used. One thing in particular that is very nice is that everything is accessible on the larger screen sizes, action centers, call logs, messages, everything is designed to be accessible when holding your phone with one hand without having to awkwardly reach the top.
In practice what happens is as an IC engineer, one of the meetings in your interminable string of Zoom meetings has the firm's legal department and outside counsel on it. They're asking about something from years ago that may or may not be real, or called what they think it's called, or have overlapped your tenure at all. You have neither the incentive nor the opportunity to launch some kind of conspiracy to protect the company. You tell them what you remember about it, if anything. Maybe give them the names of other people who might know something or links to documents they might not have seen. Then you probably never hear anything about it again.
I spent a few years running a startup that was tackling this very issue. Sadly getting $ for "solving social isolation in America's cities" was hard to do, but I am still confident that the approach the company was taking would have worked for at least a double digit % of people.

tl;dr friendship is formed when there is alignment of values/personality (but not in the way people always expect), and also when a lot of time it put in.

The time thing is powers of 10. IIRC, 10 hours to get to know someone as an acquittance, 100 hours is a casual friend, 1000 hours is a good friend, and 10,000 hours is a lifelong friend you can really depend on.

The way to fast track this process is to create a shared feeling of oppression. Military boot camps rely on this technique to rapidly form group bonds. It is the same idea behind quite a few team building outings as well. It is also why college dormmates can form long lasting relationships, lots of time spent together during a period of high stress.

Same goes for people working at high pressure startups together.
Whether or not cost matters much depends on your perspective.

If you’re OpenAI and GPT4 is just a step on the way to AGI, and you can amortize that huge cost over the hundreds of millions in revenue you’re gonna pull in from subscriptions and API use… then sure you’re probably not very cost sensitive. It could be 20% cheaper or 50% more expensive, whatever, it’s so good your customers will use it at a wide range of costs. And you have truckloads of money from Microsoft anyways.

If you’re a company or a developer trying to build a feature, whole new product, or an entire company on top of GPT then that cost matters a whole lot. The difference between $0.06 and $0.006 per turn could be infeasible vs. shippable.

If you’re trying to compete with OpenAI then you’re probably doing everything possible to reduce that training cost.

So, whether or not it matters - it really depends.
I don't know what they are doing. Google search is so bad that people are appending site:reddit.com to every search just to find something that isn't SEO spam, and bard feels like it's from five years ago. Whatever they did to google search a couple years ago was sudden and quite noticeable, so I am not sure why they didn't revert immediately. I guess they thought since they had no real competition they didn't have to worry about it. As soon at it started ignoring my quotation marks in searches so it could continue to feed me pinterest garbage I jumped ship to a paid search engine. As far as bard goes I think it's dead in the water. Nobody wants to use the 4th best LLM on purpose.
> Why would anyone fertilize their crops right before harvesting them for sale?

That was neither said or implied.
> If you flip the switch, you kill yourself and everyone you know.

If I'm an atheist and materialist in my views, then I am not grasped by any larger context in which to evaluate this decision.

That is: why not a nihilistic flip of the switch?
This comment puts into words what I feel. For example, my parents generation immigrated to the US, and are very close as a diaspora/tribe. They can go to any city and visit a friend of a friend’s house and be considered friends themselves. But they all went through the same immigrant struggle of establishing themselves in a foreign nation, relying on their network to be able to vacation and travel since they did not have enough money to stay in hotels or eat out or fly.

However, ALL the kids of that generation have none of that connection to each other. We would feel like we are imposing if we called a cousin’s friend in a different city to hang out or stay over. We prefer to stay in nice hotels, and fly to exotic destinations. And I don’t think we can re-create the type of relationships our parents had with their extended tribe, no matter what, since we are all very independent.