skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't trust narratives about what people are seeing on social media without empirical data.

I mean, I can speak from my own personal use case (I think I average 30-60 minutes of TikTok screen time a day per week... yeah... I know, not great). I would agree with you. The only reason somebody's feed would show "low grade" content is if they curated it to be that way for themselves.

Now, is it easier to curate a feed of garbage West vs East? Not sure...
Multi-Chain Middleware Li.fi Raises 17.5M Series A
Damn, they went full Insta.
The Starship era opened with a bang Thursday, as big things often do
The Metaverse is (was?) definitely proactive.
Yeah totally! I’m not trying to say that other cool shit wasn’t also cool.

Just that this launch was awesome. Huge rocket. Cleared the pad. Did a bunch of flips and blew up. Wow!!!
"They have learnt nothing, and forgotten nothing"

-- Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand on the subject of Hacker News
Just a comment to thank you! You did well to the earlier internet. Appreciate the effort and enjoyed reading the fast track through 17 years.
yeah, poor little buddy just got shipped across the country. at least they ended up in a nice gardener person's house.

seems like a pixar movie waiting to happen.
Wow, cellular sheaves, that's a connection I haven't thought of before!
List of things that were crystal clear before launch:

- SpaceX will be sad if the rocket blows up on the pad.

- They’ll be very happy if the rocket clears the tower.

- They’ll be ecstatic if the rocket makes it around the world.

- They’ll use the flight termination system, which all rockets carry, if it veers off course.

Did you see the employees cheering during the webcast?
Recent related post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35412342

"iAPX432: Gordon Moore, Risk and Intel’s Super-CISC Failure"
> That's not how credibility works. It is very easy to lose credibility but creating it is a long and arduous process. One credible brand tied to a noncredible brand leaves you with two noncredible brands.

BuzzFeed (the listicle site) never had any credibility, so the only direction they had to go was up.
Yeah but… i can look through 100 log lines manually faster than writing a good gpt prompt. This would get useful if I can easily paste like 1M lines of logs (a few minutes of data for us), but even if that would work, it’d be prohibitively expensive I think.

In other words, I still don’t completely grok the use case that’s being shared here.
There isn’t a such thing as “SEO for great content”. The search algorithms don’t reward “great content”. The only way you win is by not playing the game. You have to find other ways to market and have an “unfair advantage”.

How many times have you seen “useful content” buried by paragraphs of word salad to juice SEO?
I think many watching were hoping for it
I'm a longtime Perl user but didn't know about that library, thanks for the link.
It's worth noting that The Hoover Institution is a conservative think-tank. The article is written with an obvious slant.

I am doubtful that describing the decision to repay the loan with higher taxes on business can be accurately described as a "default", because it's not as though California is failing to repay. The state government chose to raise tax on business instead of using existing funds.
I'm going to assume that there's a non-controversial take on this, where this was predictable and expected? Hopefully?
Only one chip wasn't even enough, the amount of die needed and the limited lithography at the time meant Intel had to split it into three huge and expensive chips.

One of the crazier aspects of the design was that the chip design basically required the Ada computer language to take over the world. As far as predictions of the future go that has to be one of the most expensive misses of all time.
But will the GPT MLMs be able to parse long strings of emojis and platitudes?
So, the state had to pay this loan using tax revenue, and because it defaulted on it, the federal government is now going to collect on this loan using... Tax revenue?

Where did people think this money going to come from - the moon?

(Oh, right, this is a wild-right conservative think tank, of course they'd call taxes on wages 'taxes on business'.)
MetaMask denies claims of wallet exploit in 'massive' $10M hack
I get your point, but creative people are in fact like databases. They gather as much input as possible, and synthesize output based on that and a few mutations.
https://developers.facebook.com/videos/f8-2018/cassandra-on-...

(there's not much Cassandra now, though)
I first got the internet at in 1995.

I had the internet for a while when I turned 11.

My parents were pretty clear about what was good/bad. "you can see all sorts of stuff on the internet. But first things first, never use your real name or address. Second, we can totally see what youre looking at."

For me that worked.

For my older sister, she still tried to run off with a bloke she met off a chat room.

so you cant win them all.
Link to the github repository. https://github.com/cozodb/cozo

Rust and MPL2.0 License. https://github.com/cozodb/cozo/blob/main/LICENSE.txt
> there is a perception that 100% of Bitcoin activity is money laundering.

Let us know what bank you're using so we can avoid it.
No, it was for investigating the Chinese government's mass detention of Muslims:

https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/megha-rajagopalan-alison-ki...
Semiconductor company laid me off after working there since 2018. I kept a lot of leaks quiet and helped save a lot of trouble/money. Went above and beyond the call of duty and even relocated my wife and kids to be closer so that I could be on-call(not in job description). I took leadership and management positions without compensation just to keep workflow going. Although I had clearly indicated I was interested in those positions, I was blocked from them because I was not going to be compensated for the additional responsibility.

Now I'm left with a mortgage, debt and other payments that Unemployment can't begin to cover.

I asked if I could keep my job or get relocated to another dept- 'No'.

Everything is frozen- everything is stagnate and people are afraid of more layoffs happening for both contract workers and direct-hires.

I tried for years beforehand- to get moving up, but told it wasn't possible(yet). I even tried playing the 'I have another offer elsewhere' lie card, with nothing to show for it.

What's additionally frustrating, is that many local retail places won't hire me.

My experience at the company has cut me off from other work- for fear that I may not stick around for the long-term.

DoorDash is no longer taking applications in my area(that was a shock). Retailers wont take me because of my accomplished work history. Lyft/Uber wont allow me to work for them because my car is too old.

I have applied to soo many Craiglist, HN, Dice, Linkedin, Indeed, Gov and GlassDoor jobs that I my feeling of self-worth had diminished what has felt like eons ago. It's not that I don't get decent offers- it's that I get turned down relatively quickly despite my time at Semiconductor Co.

I'm at the point where I just want any income- the desperation to feed and provide for my wife and kids is what's driving me right now.
"this action will hamstring DeepMind in bureaucracy."

I'm sorry but I fail to see the problem with this. DeepMind has made very impressive demos and papers, but they have yet to add one dollar of revenue to Google's bottom line. Further they have drained billions from Google.

Google has to, somehow, get completely out of the research paper game and into the product game.

Papers have to have little/no impact on perf going forward. Other than a small windfall to goodwill they are a misalignment between the company's goals and those of the employees.

Products Google, products. Unless Larry and Sergey want to turn Google into a non-profit research tank. Which would be fine, but likely with substantially lower headcount. Even they aren't that wealthy.
Yeah, absolutely lining him up to be the scapegoat. His chance for success seems severely compromised and his mission was always to invent AGI, not create some kind of lowly ad-search product. The party sounds over for him and I bet he will be out and off to the next research think-tank soon.
I quit my job of five years three weeks ago to work on building what I'm calling autonomous computing [0].

I'd always been hoping to do a startup, having read all of the varying experiences here. The opportunity arose during the EthDenver hackathon where I hacked up a winning proof of concept. The decision to set off was easy since I felt if I didn't at least try to make secure serverless for web3 work, I'd regret never taking the opportunity.

So far, with ChatGPT as my legal and marketing assistant, things are progressing and I remain optimistic about controversial things like trusted hardware, blockchain, and human-AI interaction. Actually, what I would really love is an AutoGPT for bizdev if anyone has that...

[0]: https://enshrine.substack.com/p/enshrine-computing
AI Furby
The concept of debunking doesn't apply here, outside of the right-wing media bubble. The author estimated that 75% of the information was likely accurate. Is that what you think was debunked?
“Ito says the team has plans to investigate means of restoring motility of McSCs or of physically moving them back to their germ compartment, where they can produce pigment.”

Sharpen your machetes, tape up your baseball bat handles, time for the zombies.
Transplant hair from nose to head, perhaps?
SnakeGPT, a small game written by ChatGPT4
> What makes this default even more egregious is that the stone-age-era IT system of the state’s Employment and Development Department (EDD) opened the floodgates to bad actors, permitting more than $30 billion in fraudulent unemployment claims during the pandemic. Those receiving fraudulent payments include incarcerated felons, a person impersonating a one-year-old, and a person impersonating Senator Dianne Feinstein. A single residential address received checks for around 60 separate individuals filing from that address.

I don't know how true this all is, but I find it doubly infuriating given that I lived in CA at the time and tried filing for benefits on the basis that my employer was cutting everyone's hours and pay temporarily in response to the pandemic (and in addition to layoffs). Technically, I was eligible for these benefits that I paid in to, but the application system would continually have errors in addition to being fairly difficult to parse if you've never tried using it before.

I also find it insane that the state government would constantly brag about their budget surplus and offer various benefits like the recent gas rebate. They do this while defaulting on billions of dollars in debt. I'm sure there was some justifications for how they can do this, but it all seems quite scummy to me, model behavior of completely shitty governance. Imagine every other city in densely populated areas utterly failing to fix the most basic issues while focusing on doing things like removing gendered language from their laws or, better yet, passing illegal laws like bans on gas stoves that inevitably get overturned by a higher court.
Yes, that even adds more weight to GP's argument which seems to be "they had everything and someone else ate their lunch".
ah.. thanks for the detailed explanation. That's unfortunate. :-/
Heck, I'll solve it for half that much!
Transformers were fundamental research that ended up having huge side benefits. (Google has plenty of money to keep spending on fundamental research, especially focused on smart things like ML.)
Will Google stop sharing progress in foundational AI research to it's competitors now?
I can't really judge if this was a success or a failure or what it means for SpaceX. But as an observer, I have to say it is fun to be able to watch launches of massively complex rockets, in real time, in very high quality video streams, even when they explode.
Banning an app because it's controlled by a person or persons with ideas you don't like.
> The issue is that under Twitter's previous rules, they were compelling gender-critical feminists to pretend that this male is a woman, under the threat of being banned from the platform.

No one has to deny that she was trans. And everyone was free to criticize her behavior. Here is a great article that does not deadname her nor misgender her while also talking about the case accurately: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/trans-activist-files-another-human-rig... and this one as well is accurate: https://www.cranbrooktownsman.com/home2/b-c-trans-activists-...

I have to move on to other things and this conversation is going in circles.
That’s so hard to comprehend. I used to operate a 25ton crane. That’s less than half of 1% of Starship. That made me think it’s in the magnitude of a skyscraper. Apparently the Empire State Building is “only” 7 million pounds. What the fuck.
I'm curious what this will mean for DeepMind's work in medical and bioscience applications vs. now what may be more aligned with Google products and Anthropic which seem to be prioritizing commercializing consumer applications over science.
Ditto, this hover then takeoff was planned.

That's why on the live stream you see T0 and then T+0:06 you see "liftoff". The hover was planned.
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That's my thinking, but ignition is a staggered 6 second duration, so there's at least a window for adverse directional flow.

But looking at that pad and the damage to it- without deluge dampening, I bet the RC spalling might have been a bigger issue than just ground blowback.

Put a blowtorch to some concrete a and watch how quickly trapped moisture starts causing miniature explosions and flying shrapnel.

But that's just my first uninformed impression.
Sure, a reorg'll fix things.
Isn't "spilling" methane directly into the stratosphere problematic?
Why? Aren't you falling victim to false equivalency? One argument can be valid in certain cases but not in others.
My mother-in-law did MDMA and psychedelic mushroom therapy (on separate occasions) with an experienced guide.

This occurred prior to the official training that's occurring now but after the decriminalization of drugs in Oregon. The guide was not a licensed clinician, but she had guided 100s of clients.

My mother-in-law found it incredibly helpful in processing traumas from childhood and in getting "unstuck" in thinking patterns. She described the experience as a seismic shift.

She had been in therapy for her entire life. I suspect that her prior therapy had laid the groundwork for understanding the thinking patterns that weren't serving her.

My wife and I have noticed a subtle personality change. She seems happier and more open to new ideas. This personality change seems to have faded slightly with time. These are of course just our observations, which could be completely off.

Psilocybin mushrooms grow everywhere here in the Pacific Northwest-- I see them all of the time in mulch around our city. I've had many friends take them recreationally, and none of these friends have had such an impactful experience. All of this is anecdotal of course, but it leads me to believe that working with a therapist might be essential for efficacy of the therapy.

I'm a neuroscience researcher, and I'm hopeful that these treatments will be helpful for many people. It is tragic that there haven't been more clinical trials. I'm hesitant to try them myself until there's more data. If I was suffering from intractable depression or anxiety, I'd feel differently.
Author here if there are any questions. Also, if anyone happens to have other iAPX 432 chips sitting around, I'd be happy to take high-resolution die photos. There aren't good 432 die photos around, so I was happy to get access to the 43201 chip.

The thread is also on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kenshirriff/status/1649075486008524801
Doesn't help hair.
> Howard Dean's political career was ruined and is largely defined by one poorly timed on-air scream after it was mocked by late night comedy hosts.

Amazing to think that Donald Trump could make gaff after gaff and still, inexplicably, be considered electable. Dean made one dumbass howl and got shit-canned. MSM in action.

Also, a shame about Fatty Arbuckle, dude even got an apology from the court but still got his career ruined.
I could see "it does nothing for you" for some set of things, but it cannot possibly be absolutely true. For one thing, stretching has been very successful in increasing my range of motion. It may be, however, that it e.g. doesn't do much for reducing, say, back pain or improving overall health outcomes

It clearly does something, but it's possible that in the context of the claim it does indeed do "nothing" (nothing, or so close to nothing that it might as well be nothing, to affect the specific things in question)
Well this is fun. There's a lot out there once you figure out how to get off of Origin.
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E-Sports economics by president of esports at Riot
Some interesting reflections by Riot Games on the unique aspects of e-sports and how it plays out in terms of market structure and monetisation.
I would like a reason with a downvote. If you don't agree with me, fine... but if it's something else, I want to know. Not having a reason leaves things ambigous
> Not really very realistic is it though? I can only imagine this sort of thing is only done if the suspect is someone like Bin Laden, not the average Joe using a VPN for pirating Photoshop.

This is a misconception caused by the scale of surveillance today. In the old days you were right. To do this kind of tracing they'd have to assign someone to do it which takes human resources and is not infinitely scalable. So they'd only do it to people deemed interesting enough, so average Joe was safe.

Today the scope has changed completely. Everything can be correlated all the time, so it is. No suspicion or probable cause needed.
rocksdb is used in many more systems, but the storage layer behind TAO (UDB) is using MyRocks for quite a few years by now - migration was done in 2016 or so - https://engineering.fb.com/2016/08/31/core-data/myrocks-a-sp...
Expecting all their products to get cancelled in ~6months.
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I don't disagree, but SLS has successfully flown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUiEdqcLg-k
I'm happy subscriber of protonmail and proton calendar. Those are products which provide some value to me, that other products can't (end-to-end encryted, privacy-first, ....).

I would like to see other apps such as proton contacts or proton notes, that provide the same values.

However, I'm not sure if we need another password manager, there are so many already that propose exactly the values listed above...
What metaverse does Google proactively pursue?
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You can use vicuna-7b-1.1. No need for chat prompts. Just slam in your data and end it off like so

Generate a JSON with this and that
{"this": "

Lower the temperature to minimum for deterministic results, fine tune the other parameters if needed. And have a stop token for JSON closing tag like so }.

That usually works perfectly fine for me in most scenarios. Best: that stuff runs on RTX 3080 with 15token/s (quite fast!). Also vicuna-7b is pretty much as good as gpt-3 when it came out.
I wonder why people don't use this to take out their competition more often. Just buy them lots of fraudulent clicks.
This sounds about right. I think it's acknowledged that OpenAI's strength has been product rather than just pure research - google and facebook both have way more publications and deeper benches, but aren't really commercializing anything.

The shift to commercialization (by companies) was inevitable. It's also a bit sad though. Somebody still has to do the fundamental stuff, and Google (along with Facebook) have been amazing for the ecosystem, especially open source. If everyone is going the OpenAI route, the golden age of AI is going be be over as we to the profit extraction phase
I feel like I can't trust a password manager that's not open source.
I don't think so. CNN America isn't a Chinese product as far as I'm aware. Therefore I think /u/chaud is trying to say that TikTok is just giving the people what they want.
My outsider perspective is that DeepMind was the research arm and Brain was specifically tasked with making the company money through AI/ML applications. This appears to me that Google is combining the two to make sure that DeepMind starts turning a profit by adopting Brain's mission. Of course, DeepMind's brand is orders of magnitude more valuable so it makes sense to keep the name around. Would be happy to hear more knowledgeable takes on if this is an incorrect reading of the tea leaves.
Tell that to the mars climate orbiter: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35643049
"If CEOs had to work on a open office floor like everyone else, they'd want to work from home too"

bingo.
commoner - Thank you for this comment, and I think it's definitely fair to trust in Mullvad given these transparencies. The sequence of events are simply peculiar to me, and doesn't seem like a professional police operation. That said, I've been keenly watching Mullvad and agree with you that it's rock-solid in transparency which is the number one reason to use/not use a VPN service, if for privacy.

I salute Mullvad and consider it to be the top VPN in the world today, and specifically, the only one I would recommend to anyone looking for a VPN.

In terms of PIA, I am no longer affiliated with the company, but I agree that getting the source out for the clients out on time is something they should try to address quickly.

gerbilly (another poster in parallel) - In 2023, I don't think a VPN is not private, but, for sure this cannot be the only tool in one's arsenal to secure their privacy. Depending on your threat-levels, there are different things you may want to do. To be clear, if you're being targeted, you cannot maintain privacy.

For the absolutist:

1. Get cash but not from an ATM (traceable)

2. Go buy a computer (must be Purism or something with trustworthy hardware) with said cash but wear a disguise when buying it. Disable all the location/etc. stuff at store parking lot.

3. Purchase a T-Mobile Prepaid Hotspot with cash.

4. Purchase mullvad, but wear gloves, mask and a hairnet when working with the envelope to send cash.

5. Never login to any service of any kind that would leak your identity.

For everyone else:

1. Assume you're not private.
I think OP's meaning was clear as it is. No need to put someone down over a small grammar mistake.
The use case here is looking through logs for software that aren't familiar, especially stuff that gets touched too infrequently to internalize like, say, driver logs on a Linux workstation.

If it's faster for you to read the logs yourself, you should continue to do that. If it's bespoke personal or commercial software, chances are GPT isn't going to be trained on its meaning anyway.

Most people aren't going to be familiar with arbitrary ACPI errors. Most people would have to Google or ask GPT to even understand the acronym.
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I had mine APU2C4 for over 6 years, used as an all in one router, WiFi AP, NAS. Replaced it few weeks ago with Odroid H3+. Now I can have way more storage, 64 GB instead of 4 GB and performance while idling at same or lower power (3.5 Wh). APU2 (like the case) did indeed felt a bit more industrial grade though.
Same as the Google Plus days under wonderful Vic Gundotra.
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Thy've been proactive in deleting chat logs that they were ordered by courts to keep for pending litigation.
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