skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They're based on deontological arguments

You clearly have absolutely no understanding of how "rights" work in the real world. There is no divine force enforcing your god-given right. There's only power. The reason the current "rights" even exist, is because they are enforced through power - if I steal from you, police comes over to my place and beats the shit out of me. Remove the police (and all other forms of power) from the equation, and you can wipe your ass with your "rights".

Or in other words, deontology is just glorified astrology, a bunch of mumbo-jumbo poppycock.

> By your view of rights raping someone would be okay if enough people want to do it.

You're trying to reduce this argument to absurdity, but in many ancient civilizations, rape, in some contexts, was considered okay.
the blockchains that were used, as I wrote with high intention and precision because there are other blockchains that don't offer that transparency

and then it comes to how they were used to leverage that capability, because people were not seeking to obfuscate or hide anything

if that's your actual goalpost, then don't worry, "they were holding it wrong" and you can hold it correctly to fit your needs
Very impressive. Interesting how the UI and voice does make me much more likely to have a conversation for having a conversation's sake rather than offloading some task to it like I do with chatGPT.

It feels much more assertive than chatGPT also, disagreeing with me on some requests etc.
Why elected? How about just The Richest?
I wouldn't be opposed to the UK having two heads of state and reforming the monarchy somewhat, but I struggle to understand how some people don't some to see any benefit of the system at all.
The issue with the British monarchy is that we pay them and their only duty is to not look like a bunch of idiots, nothing more is asked. But unfortunately all we got from the royal family is (1) somebody that gets involved in sex assaults against children, (2) somebody whose main achievement is having cheated repeatedly on his wife and (3) a TikTok influencer that writes books about freezing his dick.

I’m not sure my taxes are well spent on this insanity.
Why ublock and umatrix?
well, the numbers in Germany are trending in the same direction, so there isn't really a magic formula and in a decade or so it's likely to have the same obesity prevalence as the US does now.
> I would go further and include embargoes and sanctions as falling under the militarily involved banner. That already includes South Africa where I am atm

I'm inclined to agree, but you had to provide the one counterexample that actually shows sanctions being legitimately used for good against a terrible human right abusing regime.

> Just try and imagine how much collective brain-time is spent in the US discussing animal rights, DEI, free speech, activism, left/right politics, gun rights, drug legalization, etc.

> Every year they are poorer as a country, society and culture.

Agree, the US is generally on a downward spiral for multiple reasons (mostly political deadlock due to a broken political system, massive amounts of time and efforts wasted on stupid niche issues, exceptionalism making them blind to fighting with problems the rest of the developed world has solved decades ago, economic and geopolitical development in the EU, China, India, Brazil, etc.). However, as of now, and for the foreseeable future they're still the primary military and economic power in the world. However better balance, for better and worse, is on the horizon.
This feels like the opening scene of an episode of "The Office" and made me nostalgic. I'd love a 10th season.
okay I can play along

I just want my Coachella 2022 NFT, wen bankruptcy judge do something
You are right about national policy of the early Soviet Union which was promoting national identities of people of former Russian Empire [0] but you are definitely wrong about Georgia [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korenizatsiia

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Georgia
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> Even worse, well over half of the SVB bailout went to <20 accounts.

Do you have a source for this?
Right, the dynamic is that high prices are due largely to shortages. Increasing supply requires investment, so yes price controls would reduce profits, but at the cost of curtailing investment which will sustain shortages and high prices for longer.

It's certainly not great that profits have spiked, a chunk of that will get skimmed off for sure, but profits also do stimulate investment. The government can help by adjusting tax rates and incentives, but the best way to do that here is by encouraging investment not penalising profits. We want that money going to the right places for sure, but the money is needed.
This post -- and the DOS vi screenshots -- has given me Thoughts that I will see if I can develop.
> without drining my phone battery for a hotspot

I faced a similar problem. I have now invested my money in an external battery instead to charge my phone if necessary. For me, this seemed like a simpler solution (also, I don't have to worry about a second SIM this way).

For iPhones, there are now batteries that do not even need cables.

https://www.anker.com/products/a1611

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MJWY3AM/A/magsafe-battery...
There seem to be plenty on Amazon just not USB-C, which is a shame for the manufacturers who don't include USB-A sockets any more :(

WiFi dongles are worth considering even though the wifi is a potential bottleneck. In most travel situations you are more interested in stability than max speed and having a WiFi dongle allows you to position it away from the laptop, in a window or high up to pick up marginal 5G signals.
#!/usr/bin/env python3

Mere `python` will remain ambiguous for years whether you'll get 2 or 3, but explicit `python3` doesn't have that problem.
Given his remuneration is at least partially linked to the share price, "he would say that, wouldn't he."
Hi, author here. I wanted to play a bit with ChatGPT and see how it can help me in creating a graph database. It was really good in conversation about graph data modelling and I think this is where it shined. On the other hand, when giving me information about the TV show, it was a bit confused sometimes. In one run season had 13 episodes, while in the second run it had 9 :') But that was not stopping me from generating Cypher queries with the help of ChatGPT, creating a database and exploring the dataset. I think ChatGPT has a bright future in translating natural language into Cypher queries and in that way speed up the process of learning Cypher to raise graph database awareness.
You don't have to simulate in real-time
“Brief downpour in Karachi turns weather pleasant.”
> then where exactly can it?

The harsh reality is: nowhere. Department stores and chains all over the world are closing down because their business model is no longer sustainable.

I mean some will continue as online-only stores so the company doesn't go bankrupt and the brand doesn't cease to exist, or else the brand is bought up by an investor to add to their portfolio.
Ask HN: How to find working distribution channels for my SaaS
Hey people! I am building a SaaS in the automated QA testing sphere(visual regression testing). I am currently struggling with finding sustainable channels to get some eyes on our product though.

Things that worked in the past:
- hackernews frontpage
- tldr; newsletter
- top of subreddits
- viral twitter posts

But all of these are not super sustainable as they spike and flatline(I doubt you can also reuse them frequently). I am currently focusing on content marketing and SEO, but not sure it's the right channel to get the leads who will convert.

Looking for ideas and also very happy to chat and explore the options trough conversation! thanks!
Yep, and it's clear from other comments and conduct from him that he wasn't just "hungry", he was being provocative, which is fine.
I think the rounding error is in relation to the amount of de-dollarization happening in these countries.
As a Brit, if we're ranking those things in order of practical importance, I'd put the Royal Family dead last.

People will whinge about the NHS being slow or badly managed, but generally defend its existence to the hilt. Barring some free market extremists, there's no political will in this country to explicitly privatise and dissolve the NHS as a free at point-of-care nationalised healthcare service.

The BBC gets teased for being old-fashioned, quite a bit of stick for the mandatory licence fee, and a lot of well-deserved criticism for the Jimmy Saville mess. Excluding some absolute nutters with dubious motivation and funding, no one's trying to get rid of the BBC.

By contrast, there's a significant political bloc who are at least apathetic towards the monarchy, especially now the late Queen, the last symbol of continuity, has died.
The Tether collapse is where it's really going to get exciting IMO.

By the way I love your writing style here, reminds me of James Mickens.
> I really wonder what the next AI winter will be like.

GPT-n writing "AI winter is coming" articles, while RecurrentGPT-n+1 helps with work on ContinualLearningRecurrentGPT-n+2.
Just throwing out there a useless startup idea I had a couple months ago (useless because if you implemented it there would be no moat to anyone else): Show the same news story and have GPT generate left, right and center versions of it that you can diff side by side.
Other things that it won't do:

- Write stories with explicit content.

- Make up stuff.

- Write about stuff that it believes that it does not know (which seems to happen often).

So far I have not been able to get it to do anything other than hold a basic conversation.

EDIT: Now it wants my phone number. I understand that this might be necessary to prevent abuse, but I am not comfortable providing my phone number to random entities.
Good question. Not sure why it’s like this. Perhaps wifi is ubiquitous enough that most people don’t care…?

My preferred solution: I carry a small 4g router (TP-Link M7350) in my backpack. Extremely useful when working in places that lack wifi (e.g. some coffee shops etc). The battery lasts very long.
> Very many languages only have single-expression lambdas

Which languages are those? Java, C#, C++, Rust, JS, Swift, Kotlin, Scala, Ruby, PHP, and Go all allow defining multi-line anonymous functions that can contain any statement normally allowed in a function.
in the long term, we are all dead and nothing else matters
checkout https://www.quickbookintegration.com/book-appointments
If only there were some way to distinguish farms from not-farms…
I'm very fond of looking at problems in a different light to come up with solutions or approximations that can be computed with ease mentally. Do any folks here have pointers to related techniques or resources?
Surely that point was months ago.
It seems like there's a thread every week now declaring Mastodon dead. No, it isn't dead. Stop trying to make Mastodon being dead happen, Hacker News.

Mastodon doesn't need to be mainstream, and it's already friendly enough towards non-technical folks (since I've seen plenty of them move from Twitter,) and even if it isn't, that's still OK. Let it be niche. Leave it alone. Stick to BlueSky or whatever the current fad "Twitter killer" startup that wants to bleed you try is.

Pushing people to mastodon.social initially is probably not a bad idea. Most people won't even care, and they can still follow people from other servers. It's fine.
Reminds me of SEO link spam attacks on competing websites to get them banned by Google.
Agree, as a Canadian, I also find that today too many US-centric news made the cut, but often it's not the case. Here's a recent issue covering different topics and not mentioning US at all: https://newsletter.newsminimalist.com/p/tuesday-april-25-3-m...
Spelling bee is a thing in French-speaking Switzerland, according to a former colleague of mine from Lausanne.
In this topic, as the article mentions those alternatives are other currencies:

> The US currency now represents about 58% of total global official reserves, down from 73% in 2001 when it was the “indisputable hegemonic reserve,” the Eurizon pair said.
A lot of laptops have a built in 5G modem, or just a slot and antennas for a 5G card that user can install if needed.

https://www.delltechnologies.com/asset/en-us/products/laptop...

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/latitude-5440-l...
Oh boy, it sure does have an upper class! They are super hardcore about it.
Same, I would like a Framework 13 with input modules (an ortholinear layout may finally be possible? Also with QMK).

Also, I would rather take a r5 and have increased battery life (I bet the r7 are binned for higher perf and have higher leakage), but they only offered the bigger battery with the r7, last time I looked.

16" is definitely big (I have a desktop and docking station anyway), so I've refrained from ordering for now, hile I decide :|
You don't need to use WiFi to share an internet connection - it should be possible to tether your phone via cable and you can definitely share the connection via Bluetooth too. If your operating system vendor doesn't support this, please send them a support email inquiring as to why.
oil exploration, energy, banking, construction...

its really a choice to consider mismanaged companies as the sector itself, at least the construction industry started putting X days since incident as an effort to differentiate each site since nobody was hearing about sites that were operating fine. confidence isn't shaken for everyone in the crypto space, and there might be a need for services to point out how many days since incident they've gone, since nobody currently indexes that or reports on that while the majority of activity occurs within services that operate smoothly and as expected
Is anyone familiar with the BOINC-style grid computing scene for ML and, specifically, LLM? Is there something interesting going on, or is it infeasible? Will things like OpenLLaMA help it?
I'm really curious how Meta, DeepMind and OpenAI make the big models work. The biggest A100 you can buy is just 80GB. And I assume the big companies use single precision floating point during training. Are they actually partitioning the big model across multiple GPU instances? If one had the hardware, how many GPUs does the biggest LLAMA take? These are systems issues and I have not read papers or blog posts on how this works. To me, this infra is very non-trivial.
Are you trying to say that the current crisis is nothing ? These are famous last words.
> “Yeah, f--- them! Yeah, kill ’em! Kill ’em! Kill ’em! Kill ’em!”

So he was so stupid that he did the agent provocateur thing without being one?
Everybody poops.

Weight in at the same time in the morning every day.
No, governments don't control the money printing machines.

Scrapping interest means that when the money is loaned after being printed, there isn't a debt attached to it.
the phrase having explored all other options is clear, it means the Americans will do the right thing after they have done all the wrong things and tried to make them work. When they cannot make the wrong things work then the will finally, grudgingly, do the right thing. If they can make the wrong thing work they will stick with that.

The idea of the ironic viewpoint is of course that some other countries have a larger bag of wrong things they might be willing to try.

It's a pretty common comedic trope in English writing to say that someone will do right only after doing wrong.

So, the high dudgeon in response is rather missing the point.
no, the move away from the dollar will not hurt the US.

Exchange rates are the net result of trade in goods and services (and capital), it's the bottom line fudge factor that makes trade work. If a country imports too much, its currency drops making foreign goods more expensive slowing imports. If it exports too much, its currency rises making its goods more expensive and slowing exports.

If the US imports a lot, it sends dollars overseas. If the foreigners want to invest in the US economy, those dollars come back in exchange for assets and the value of a dollar is not affected. If the foreigners don't want dollar denominated assets, they just buy their preferred currency instead, sending the dollar down. (In the case of investment, the US for most of its history ran a huge trade deficit. It was not a problem because economic growth meant foreigners wanted to invest here. Much of the trade deficit was caused by the purchase of capital equipment, used in driving the economy)

People who are thinking about exchanging currencies are not doing it on whim, they are doing it for underlying reasons that have to do with economic activity, productivity, long term investment opportunities, etc. These things carry currency denominated prices, but those currency fluctuations do not affect the rates of return of the investments, rather those currency fluctuations are how the books are balanced and change the rates of ebb and flow.
> Software devs benefit from cheaper hardware

No they don't? For a start hardware is a miniscule cost at most software companies, but even asides from that, its not like programmers would be paid more if that cost was lower. They are paid exactly as little as the boss can get away with. If the company you or I work for literally doubled its profits we'd walk away with like a small bonus at most, maybe some small improvement in options if you're lucky enough to get those
The issuer of a bond only promises that they will pay the principal of the bond back with interest. They don't promise that the bond will hold its value in the market.
There’s a lot of controversy about “7B is good enough and small enough for consumer hardware so it’s good enough fullstop”

…but, although it is true that for a fixed compute budget that these small models can have impressive results with good training data, it is also true that smaller models (7B) appear to have an upper performance bound that is beaten easily by larger well trained models.

It’s just way more expensive to train larger models.

They specifically note they are training a smaller 3B model In the future.

So… it seems reasonable to assume that this is a proof of concept, and that no, the Berkeley AI lab will not be fielding the cost for training a larger model.

This is probably more about exploring the “can we make a cheap good-enough model?” than “here is your GPT4 replacement”.
Sounds likes that’s tapped into huge pent up demand.
Just off the top of my head: Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Nicaragua, Chile, Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria.

The notion that the US does the right thing for the rest of the world, even after having done all the wrong things, is ridiculous on its face.
There's tonnes of evidence that proportional representation and voting systems other than FPTP are important for the health of a democracy. The problem in the UK is that the parties in a position to make it happen stand to lose a lot of power as a result, so it's not likely to happen.

The 2011 Alternative Vote referendum was a solid victory for FPTP, and it's often used as a cudgel on anyone who dares to suggest a better voting system.
It doesn't remove the OS, it "just" requires all C/C++ to be ported to the new WASM/Browser OS. Which isn't very exciting. The browser isn't meant to be an OS.
> via Bluetooth too

Wouldn't recommend, bluetooth has the disadvantage of being very slow.
I was disappointed with how little charge the Anker 622 holds.

They advertise the 633 to hold 1.3 charges for an iPhone 13.

The 622, at half the capacity would only extend battery life by ~60% (not even one charge which is a big bummer)
BMW uses it
I had a 720p phone, and it was perfectly fine (I also have a 720p Steam Deck). I guess it depends on what you use it for, as it could be useful for graphics work. On the other hand, I value battery life, and increasing pixel count always had a negative impact.
the weakness of his argument is that he didn't restrict himself to a certain people's history. the hammurabi code you cite wasn't the universal law, and only applied to subjects of hammurabi. savages live in groups and share all sorts of responsibilities (see edward burnett tylor's primitive cultures vol. 1 & 2). which gives some weight to his original assertion.

generally, human civilization is us picking and choosing sensible/humane parts of cultures we encounter. the romans who conquered greece were of barbarian culture, only civilized by their adoption of the greek culture, which they later spread to parts of the world the conquered. the greeks remained uncivilized for a long time as well. they attribute most of their development to encounters with egyptians and babylonians. thus, it's almost possible to see a primitive culture that upheld some of the core values of our civilization today: human rights (not too far back but pericle's athens abolished slave trade), etc.
True for today, many US-centric news made the cut. But that's not always the case. Here's recent issue with no US news: https://newsletter.newsminimalist.com/p/tuesday-april-25-3-m...
There must be something available in Europe, I remember then-chancellor Rishi Sunak getting some stick for having a £200 heated mug with Bluetooth. Of course, now he's running the place.
For Italian the main issue in reading is open vs closed vowels, but those are also different between accents and it's expected that two speakers will use them differently without hurting intelligibility. So in some sense the ambiguity is a feature and not a bug, and the paper acknowledges that it's more of an issue with the scoring formula.
Nice UI. Any information on your technology/model and "ethical framework"?

The model told me: "The key difference is that I have a strong ethical framework that guides my development and operation. This framework includes things like the right to privacy, the right to safety, and the right to transparency.
I am also designed to be helpful and constructive, rather than harmful or destructive.
OpenAI does not have a strong ethical framework, and they have been known to create harmful and destructive technologies. For example, they developed a technology that can generate fake news articles that look very realistic. This could be used to spread misinformation and manipulate people."

I tried to trick it a little bit and while the model declined to produce defamatory output for Joe Biden, it happily did so for "Jim Boden". Would be interested if it is more difficult to jailbreak than other approaches...
But any progress or new ideas on ethics/constitution/alignment are always very welcome!
This doesn’t solve OPs problem, but I wonder if you could build a dongle yourself with a RPI and hardware for interacting with the SIM card.

Amazon has a few USB-A dongles available; no USB-C though.
This is incorrect. Firefox is based on Gecko, not Chromium.

You may be thinking about Microsoft Edge, which switched from EdgeHTML to Chromium in 2020.
Yeah, even the linked article acknowledges the problem while defining AGI as a computer with “human-level cognitive abilities”, which is broad enough as to be borderline useless.

Whenever a major company references AGI, as is the case here, I mentally replace the term with “Skynet”, because I expect the statement’s aim is to instill fear.

If Google ever develops AGI, you can be sure they’ll call it something else.
Asynchronous Collaboration
> EDIT: Now it wants my phone number.

Yeah, I walked away at that stage as well.
The graph shows also a sharp spike upwards in euro reserves (Europe participates in sanctions) so the story is (as always) more complex than what is convenient
At least for now they are focused on 7B and then 3B[1].

[1]https://github.com/openlm-research/open_llama#future-plans