skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just when OP wrote: 'Griptape can be thought of as "Airflow for LLMs," providing an alternative to the agent-based LangChain approach.'
Ask HN: Anyone else wishes Google Bard fails?
I have no doubt that if Google gains market share in their AI endeavors, they will at some point kneecap or retire their products. Anything to save their ad business, since they're basically an ad company. I hope to see other companies become competitors to OpenAI, just not Google.
Framework’s Chromebook
GPT-4 is about 95% less hallucination for my use cases (coding, brainstorming, planning).

GPT-3.5 is actually stable enough with some training. You can use it on the typical grunt stuff: formatting text, sorting a pile of data into tables, writing boilerplate code.

It converts an API to code that accesses the API perfectly fine, with a lower rate of mistakes than I make. But you need to give it examples. I use it as a form of metaprogramming, where I give it instructions and it spits out the code with caching and all, better than what Copilot can do.

As a rule of thumb, treat GPT 3.5 as a worker with a thousand years of experience and an IQ of 80. GPT-4 is more like one with an IQ of 130; you don't have to prompt engineer and all but it's not omniscient.
Well shit, tourists can still get their free hepatitis.

And here I thought home-ownership in Santa Cruz was all about NIMBY's who might as well have been transplanted from Irvine, CA hating anything to do with the UC.
Is this a thinly veiled claim by China not only on Russia but also on other ex-soviet republics?
How did you learn Japanese? And does this overlap with living/work, or do you learn languages as a hobby? I’ve come to the sad conclusion that I don’t have the time to learn Japanese while also pursuing an unrelated career and another serious hobby.
> Well, each to his own I guess. I don't see the need for myself.

That's not an attitude that someone working in security would have.

It doesn't matter if "critical data is encrypted" if a keylogger is present when you enter your password. It doesn't matter that you've "never had a malware infection" because millions of other people have. And it doesn't matter that you're "pretty careful" because one of the core tenets of information security is that people are imperfect and it's best to remove as much of the human element as possible.

These are relatively basic facts that someone with a few years of experience would know.

> You can run something like Qubes if you want better isolation.

Qubes is sandboxing - but the thread topic is about sandboxing on Linux, and the need for it in OSes in general. Security should come built-in, not as something you use a special OS for.
The checkmark policy eludes me. Most of Musk's bad decisions are either:

1. Poorly executed cash grabs

2. Childish 'trolling' behavior

3. Ambitious moonshots

The $8/checkmark/month doesn't directly fit into any of those categories. It could be 1. but I think even Musk can scrape together enough brain cells to realize that it would be an immediate disaster.
Minor quibble: i.e. stands for id est, or “that is.” It’s a re-statement or clarification. Exempli gratia (e.g.) means for example. In the diagramme, every i.e. should be an e.g.. Put another way, if you can’t put an et cetera at the end, it’s an i.e..

Wouldn’t ordinarily rise to the level of commenting. But it’s an Andreessen post, and so I’m perhaps primed for the purpose being promotion versus informing.
but the flip is a vertical flip due to the nature of lenses? im having a really tough time interpreting the diagram too.

I appreciate you trying to share your understanding though.
That sucks.

> I can put any flavoring like vanilla or strawberry in the milk and it'll be perfectly fine.

Could you use this to train yourself to taste milk normally again?
3-4 weeks is okay too, but this super advanced notice stuff seems bizarre to me. It's a nice thing to do for some jobs, but a really bad idea for 70-90% of us.

Plus, IME nobody wants to wait that long.
Guantanamo Bay was opened in 2002 and Obama reduced the number of inmates there by an order of magnitude.

As an American, my general view of Obama is that he was exceptionally good at doing good while working within the system.

1. The system would not let him close Guantanamo (the military wanted it open, congress blocked him from moving inmates), so he shrank it as much as possible.

2. The healthcare system would never allow single-payer universal healthcare, so he implemented a healthcare marketplace for individual coverage to reduce the number of uninsured.

3. The 2008 global financial crisis (still ongoing during his first term) threatened to collapse the US financial system. He prioritized stabilizing the financial markets with bailouts at the cost of creating moral hazard for the future.

4. He relied heavily on drone strikes in the middle east, but did so in order to limit causalities of American soldiers, which is a reasonable tradeoff of a democratically elected leader.

All in all, he was a remarkably effective pragmatist.
> there will be no legal need for Apple to allow it here.

The point is that since Apple had to do the work to allow sideloading at all, most if not all of the lies they came up with for why they can't allow it for everyone won't work anymore.
(e: Low) quality troll. Ex 16+1 baltic countries dish hard against PRC sovereignty issues with respect to TW recently but can't take when theirs get questioned. I don't think this is part of some new grand PRC strategy - people who met him while Canadian ambassador said man enjoys talking shit. Same dude who suggested pro-independence TW faction will be getting some re-educating. Eitherway, probably fine for PRC to troll Baltics who are deep in US camp for domestic lulz.
East Taiwan doesn't have sovereignty to declare themselves their own nation.
> the solution would require a comparison to a hypothetical Saturn that has no rotation. If that's even possible.

Possible. But not probable. For one, you’d need a complete cancellation of angular momentum during formation, which is unlikely. Also, without a dynamo, even at that distance from the sun, the lighter gases would wash away.
> I'm not saying these birds can't be happy

That's pretty much the only criteria I'm really interested in.

All our birds have other birds of the same species with them, which they all do enjoy I can confirm. Well, generally :). When one is being obnoxious to others they can flee to their people.
PyTorch Performance Features and How They Interact
A lot of analytics funnels do this. You don't always want to just track sales in a funnel. You want to track how many downloaded but don't sign up (acquisition vs activation). Or signing up and logging in vs what they call a golden moment.

Also there's a reason people pay for referring a friend - it's easy to track who cares enough that they'd tell friends.
Language is an intrinsically social tool. If you’ve decided that you’re incapable of socialising properly, then you’re not going to succeed at learning a new one. The real barrier isn’t introversion, but pride. If you want to learn a new language, you have to be willing to routinely make yourselves look foolish while you constantly make mistakes and ask others for help understanding things. All you really need is humility.
Hi, I very much like the no social BS and no ads part.

Are (would you be) open to connecting to other tools on top of Garmin and Flow? I use Komoot, for example. Thanks.
> https://direnv.net/ -- when you cd to a directory, do things like set variables.

Just use dotenv instead.

https://asdf-vm.com/ -- manage and use specific versions of software. Can work with direnv too!

May be useful in some cases, but adds a global dependency on asdf itself.

> https://pre-commit.com/ -- git hooks that I personally found easier to manage than Husky.

Git hooks are disturbing and slow down and/or break advanced git interactions.

> https://github.com/qoomon/git-conventional-commits -- enforce standard commit messages. Works with pre-commit!

Only if you want to be so pedantic about them. I find it mostly a waste of time to enforce commit message style.
China deciding to invade Russia instead of Taiwan would be a quality and welcome plot twist.
And where does that spiritual source come from? Is it spiritual sources is all the way down? Or all the way up?
There was a documentary Roadrunner (2021). I haven't seen it.

I'm curious if anyone besides him knew why he did it. Existential loneliness, lack of love, distance from family and others, and purposelessness?

Mostly middle-age and older American men, skewing towards white and lower in income, are dying early by their own initiative. It might explain a fraction of drug overdose and mass murder events.
> one's personal expectations, beliefs, or imagination

I was talking about the evidence in this article about the primate neuron density patterns, and about how our personal expectations, beliefs, and imagination are updated by this evidence.
Interledger Protocol (Web Monetization)
> What a shitshow!

I’m not a fan of Elon qua Twitter CEO. But credit where it’s due: he has the humility to back down.
Why would you ever buy this rather than buying a regular Framework and putting ChromeOS Flex on it? Is there any difference, other than this one not giving you the ability to run other operating systems later?
I believe the reason being, accurate high resistance components were difficult to make for decades, so you’d be working with 10 ohm resistors for your dividers to have sufficient control of the reference voltage.

Although suddenly I wonder why you wouldn’t just use four of them for 40 ohms, or eight for 80 ohms…
It seems to me that you misunderstand the purpose of statistical generalizations in the first place? The purpose of looking at multiple cases is to derive common patterns regardless of the differences in detail among individual cases. Which is why, yes, you still need to apply the inferences into a specific context if you need to make a decision, but to say that nothing can be gained from a comparative big-picture approach is a malicious withdrawal from critical thinking.
I think instead of inferior and top and back, It's easier to visualize as referring to them as anterior and posterior chain
> Immersion turns language learning into a social activity

Not necessarily - it's the bombardment of the language on billboards, radio, television, the labels on products in shelves, about asking for a coffee or what time the bus leaves, that helps. You can still socialize or talk to your family or colleagues in your native language.
> The main inconvenience of fish is not even having to go into another shell for some tasks like virtual env activation

For stuff like "in this directory, I want this virtual env activated", I'd recommend using direnv.

https://direnv.net/

> wondering whether some command you just ran silently did something wrong because of shell incompatibility

I don't recall running into silent incompatibities. Do you have examples in mind?

Although, yeah, you can't just copy-paste most sh/bash snippets into fish.
The JVM feels like a bad thing to write games on
And Google's policy is 8 years. The 4 year number is apparently an average for devices currently in the field, which... I mean, if the number of devices is roughly stable, then the average device is indeed halfway through its life.

(None of this is a defense of either; as I type this on a 12-year-old machine running a fully up-to-date Linux install, I have opinions on lifespans, I just want to compare, er, Apples to apples.)
Why are there so many upvotes on an incorrect link?
Absolutely you can store knowledge in text. You can store quite a bit of knowledge in a book for instance, but the book doesn't have any beliefs and doesn't know anything. Whether a sufficiently complex Markov chain or ANN can have beliefs, I don't know but I'm skeptical that these ANNs do in particular.

It's ability to produce text containing true statements isn't sufficient evidence to conclude that it has beliefs, and it's easy to find cases where it contradicts itself (eg, if you play around with the wording you can find a prompt where it tells you that solving the trolley problem is a matter of harming the fewest people but proposes a solution that harms the most people). I take that as an indication it's primarily regurgitating text and rearranging the prompt rather than applying knowledge (which, to be clear, is useful for a number of tasks).
That's different. Shanghai and Beijing are still cities that are built really densely. LA is suburban sprawl which means everybody lives on a parcel of land and has a backyard. That same parcel of land in shanghai probably has 30 people living there in a tall building.
You say that, however, there is still no convincing scientific explanation for irreducible complexity in evolution. Interestingly, this paradox is exemplified best by the irreducible complexity in the nature of the eyes
IME, it almost always blows over relatively quickly... it's almost sad.
Gravitational interaction of two small balls would be hard to show.

A ball that flies upwards has been shown (as a balloon). A kind of stable replacement of orbital motion, if it exists, would be cool to see!
If you don’t like Google don’t use their products. Then you wouldn’t care about their ad-supported business or the possibility of them canceling products. Plenty of choice. Seems a waste of energy and attention to care about Bard one way or the other.

In any case “wishing” or praying will accomplish nothing, even if you find kindred souls here.
> My point was more that it’s not useful either way to look at this as a US issue when in reality, you have some states like Texas with very high rates of execution and others like Washington with none at all. My point is about how you’re framing the issue in the first place, in other words

But it absolutely does make sense to look at it as a US issue. The US is one country with a great deal of shared national culture - yes, there are cultural differences between different parts of the US, but they are rather small by global standards. Every US state has English as its primary language - that’s a very different situation from Canada (with Quebec and French), to say nothing of India, in which the majority of states have their own language. The US has a single two-party system nationwide, unlike many other countries where different parts of the country have completely different party systems (e.g Canada, India, the UK, Spain). State-based politics in the US is highly influenced by national politics and actually far less distinctive than in many other countries. Indian state-level politics is far more distinctive and independent from Indian national politics than US-state level politics is

And why should people outside the US care about the difference between different US states, any more than people in the US care about different Indian states, or Mexican states, or Swiss cantons? To focus on a country as a whole is the standard framing everyone uses to compare different countries, and even Americans adopt that framing when it comes to countries other than the US. There is no reason to treat the US specially here
Can Cruise afford to acquire Lyft?
In general, I would agree. Simply because of how the games ecosystem is currently, not because of the JVM being good or bad generally.

But if you want to make a good game, and have the desire and skills to do so, the language doesn’t matter. My favorite game of all time, a quite successful game that has critical acclaim from people all over the spectrum, was written in Java.

It’s Slay the Spire, to answer the next obvious question.
> I've lost data on both

Can I ask about the circumstances of losing data on ZFS? I've been viewing it as 100% rock-solid, so I'd very much like to know about any failure modes I'm missing.
From the article -

> Step one, take a paragraph of text, any paragraph, and uppercase everything. No catch here, just make it allcaps.

> Step two, find a bunch of friends who don’t know how to program and ask them how they’d do the same thing.

This is so, so true. Even amongst programmers. I've lost count of the number of experienced developers I've seen who go to an online JSON viewer site [0] to parse the server response!

[0]: https://jsononline.net/json-viewer
> I got $400 a week for around three weeks. Not bad. Covered bills and groceries.

How do people manage to find places to live where $400 a week is enough for rent alone, let alone groceries? Or do I just live in the worst possible area, paying $1600/mo for a small apartment, then having to pay for utilities too, and another $100/mo for internet, and that's not even accounting for groceries.
Putting 0 value used to be a bad idea, as it was a signal to the browser and various ad blockers and anti viruses that it was a rogue redirect. Wonder if it’s different these days?
I don't think your "synthetic data on ImageNet" reference shows "synthetic data is already very effective". Since many people won't read the paper, here's what it says:

Training ResNet-50 on real ImageNet gives 73.09% top-1 accuracy, while training it on synthetic data (same resolution, same number of images) generated by this work gives 64.96%, which is SOTA compared to previous work's 63.02%. Therefore, synthetic data is worse than real data for now.

But synthetic data is not useless, because training on real data plus synthetic data is a bit better than both real data and synthetic data. (Accuracy here is different due to different methodology.) Using 1:1 real data and synthetic data improves accuracy from 76.39% to 77.61%. But using 1:2 is worse than 1:1 (77.16%), even if dataset became 50% larger. With 1:4, result is worse than not using synthetic data at all. So synthetic data at best can enlarge dataset by 5x, more likely just 2x.
From dé- +‎ merde +‎ -er, literally “to remove oneself from the shit”.
Oh my. Chat.cgi days! :D
Yeah I have the same watch. The app isn't in the Google Play store, you have to download it straight from the company. Given that its half Chinese company it really isn't going to be better than Garmin.
https://github.com/ron-rs/ron
> Have you ever occurred to you that it might be the other way around? There was always one monotheistic religion and God, but then things got sidetracked and people started making stuff up.

After 30 years of trying, I'm pretty sure I can't believe any religion was ever true. It's literally all made up, and the only bits that survive are the unfalsifiable parts or rely on nostalgia or ignorance.
Doesn’t Taiwan continue to claim rightful ownership to all of mainland China as well? Or has that changed?
Yah - usually Chinese government employees are smarter. This sounds like some recycled Russian drivel.
Just don’t get too close to any powerful fields
If we're trading anecdotes, I managed to lose 2 root filesystems to BTRFS, on a laptop with a single drive, on OpenSUSE (which has been using BTRFS by default for ages, i.e. the one place I expected it to be the most stable). I think it was some problem triggered by filling the filesystem, because that system had too small of a root FS and snapshots piled up too fast, but I don't know for sure what happened, only that I couldn't find a way to recover it short of wiping root and reinstalling (thankfully, I had a separate home so that was actually okay). And to answer the obvious question, I don't know that it wasn't a hardware problem, but the home FS on the same machine, also on BTRFS, never gave me any problems, and honestly if the filesystem's reaction to a hardware error is to hose the whole filesystem that's still a hard pass from me.
Looks like it's Scala.js.
I can't determine if this person is knows what they are talking about or is an extreme amateur just making things up and speaking confidently. He has other videos that are complete nonsense.
Endangered Island Foxes Break Record for Fast Recovery
Ha remember that too! It’s basically just keeping the socket open and continuously streaming a response. As if it’s just a slow download. It’d also send heartbeat null values to keep the connection open. Of course in the CGI days that really didn’t scale well as it required a whole process to run for each user.
> Isn't that what the annual budget process is about? Why do we need a separate process to allow for the borrowing to make the payments for the things that were individually authorized (often with renewals every so often) and then collectively authorized in the budget?

Well, you answered your own question. There is a separate process because the budget process has been broken in a spectacular way.

> If you don't think the programs are efficient enough as it is, the collosal waste of a government shutdown should be a definite no. Those waste money in that there's extra work to prepare for closing and to reopen, that prevents people from doing the actual work they should be doing, as well as the fact that all of the government workers unable to work because of the shutdown end up getting paid anyway.

Can you quantify that?
I am a "smart tech" person who actually used bitcoin to purchase goods and services before realizing it was a scam that I don't want to be a part of.

I had sat on a wallet for years, having opened one to get 5 BTC from Andresen's faucet in 2010. A couple faucets later I had a few more.

That's right! They straight up used to give away multiple entire bitcoins just for loading a website.

Eventually a "real" retailer started taking BTC so I spent approximately 1 of them on a new power supply for my PC.

The last purchase I made using Bitcoin was a power supply from Tiger Direct: https://i.imgur.com/8tW7bmN.png

I had bitcoin to spend and Tiger Direct was the first "major" retailer to take it. As soon as that slashdot post appeared in January 2014 I moseyed on over to check it out and made a purchase, probably the same day the payment method was implemented.

Almost immediately after this the first cycle of widely-publicized scams/grifts/schemes started. And then the cycle never stopped.

The market became flooded with cryptobros and instead of being used for basically nothing it became a vehicle for fraud.

Rather than being a cryptographic curiosity it became a distasteful embarrassment so I did a cost-benefit analysis found that it wasn't for me.

I still have several BTC. I do not care. 1BTC could equal a quadrillion dollars and wouldn't care. I don't want a quadrillion dollars, I want my rose bushes to look magnificent this year.

Besides, I'm a "smart tech" person so I make enough money and have no desire to live the greasy crypto lifestyle.

Where did the $24,000 in value per BTC difference between when I last touched my wallet and today come from?

It came from schmucks pouring money into a system that, eventually, will run out of schmucks.

My moral compass is such that I would rather die penniless underneath a bridge after having spent a decade in squalor collecting cans and shitting in bushes than participate in a market like crypto.
I thought you didn't have to use the JVM with Scala. Not so?
Archive: https://archive.ph/GbACC
>Because if it was only from our brain then it wouldn't explain why we got only a slightly bigger monkey brain but also got powers of language and introspection and consciousness.

Or, to rephrase, "I don't understand how an only-slightly-larger brain leads to the powers of language and introspection and consciousness." That's not a statement about the implications of evidence.
The problem is very clear to me, but I'm not sure I understand the solution.
What government secrets?
Ha ha.

This is a great link to wiki - I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.

Thank you!