skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re not missing anything, but apparently it works for them. I suppose if it were more widespread then there’d be more incentive to automate scraping entire books.

They also sell their eBooks as normal PDFs (no DRM).

I assume it’s a healthy combination of making high quality technical publications easy to acquire at a reasonable price. Similar to how digital movie and music piracy finally died down when that media became reasonably easy to acquire legally.
> this is the first technology directly displacing a bunch of white collar work

That isn't true at all. IT has been displacing white-collar work since the 1960s. Perhaps the reason you missed it is that a lot of that white-collar work was seen as women's work? E.g., secretarial work, administrative work.

> Are you referring to the record low unemployment for African Americans?

I think we both know I wasn't.
Htmlx has a type ahead attribute that you can add to form elements and send the contents to an endpoint without the user explicit submitting the form.
I don't know about AWS but with GCP the instance gets suspended if you try mining
If you're ok with your toddler accidentally getting the wrong medication, or having a fatal drug interaction, then sure, it's possible to "disrupt" the industry. But hey, at least you didn't have to wait in line for 30 minutes.
Yes, that's very close to what I meant.
Upgrading the power lines isn't the full answer, certainly some upgrades will be required, but the wires are designed for peak demand. EVs have flexibility, and can mostly be charged in non-peak times, drastically reducing the powerline and power station upgrades required.

This flexibility has to be managed, and there are many companies working on this. For example: https://ev.energy/
Utterly precedented. https://www.sfchronicle.com/oursf/article/Shoot-the-tires-Th...
Hey HN! I recently faced a challenge of generating vector embeddings within my Swift app, so I built this library as a "good enough" solution for on-device similarity search without relying on an API. I've got some exciting plans for future development, but I'd love to hear your thoughts and any interesting use cases you can think of!
It is also about performance.

I've watched a video recently from a guy who compiled entire Linux kernel in under 1 second I believe, he used TinyC and also noticed that something like 90% of compilation is tokenization of headers that are included many times, like there are headers that are included thousands of times in almost every C file, so he ended up caching tokens. So a big reason to have a separate tokenizer is that tokenization is a simpler task and can be optimized with all low level approaches, like perfect hashes, crafted nested switch/if tries, branchless algs, compiler intrinsics etc.

The good tokenizer is about as fast as a speed of writing the output array of records into memory. Which means it is important to choose right memory layout for your tokenized data so that when parser reads tokens it has as little cache misses and indirect memory access as possible. Tokenization can be thought of as a sort of in memory compression.
If that's the best argument you can come up with, I don't see how you can be so incredibly confident in this view.
So what if human labor will be required? Humans won't all band together to stop a power seeking AI. And I don't see any human randomness matters. I agree that it's naive to think a complex takeover plan can be perfectly planned in advance. It won't be necessary. We will voluntarily cede more control to an AI if it is more efficient to do so.
I wish I could play this on a Mac. Maybe just best to get a second Linux box for several reasons.
But you can download another node package from npm to delete those other npm packages: npkill. For whatever reason this is as they say in the javascript world "blazingly fast"
This is dead on. IBM pulls publicity stunts, often achieved by brute force. Then, it uses that marketing to sell contracts to customers whom they promise the world then, typically, fail to deliver on. Or as noted deliver on in the most basic way often by contractors and/or fellows (fancy word for contractors). But the money is paid, and the contract signed, so IBM got theirs. Rins repeat.

Pretty easy to look back and see their amazing "innovation" every 5-10 years, which never results in any lasting product.

In the in-between time, they farm employee IP via contracts taking all past and future rights, and profit on that IP ownership for no ones benefit but the IBM management. Disgusting company. Pour one out for Redhat.
apparently it’s `atuin import`
Yes, exactly. Where I live it's a political thing so I'd know. The situation now is that they say they're not going to do it because people oppose the higher prices.

They even stopped allowing people to connect their solar arrays without large batteries because the grid is that overloaded.

(of course they're doing work on it - but definitely not the sort of work required to allow everyone to charge their 1-3 cars per household).
The two are not mutually exclusive dangers. If anything, they are mutually reinforcing.

The Faro Plague in Horizon Zero Dawn was indeed brought on by Ted Faro's shortsightedness, but the same shortsightedness would not have caused Zero Dawn had Ted Faro been a car salesman instead. (forgive my reliance on non-classical literature for the example).

The way this is framed makes me think this framing itself is even more dangerous than the dangers of AI per se.
I'm afraid you broke the site guidelines very badly in this thread.

Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to using HN in the intended spirit? That means without swipes, personal attacks, and so on, and generally eschewing flamewar.

Edit: you've unfortunately been doing this in other places recently as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35804439. We have to ban accounts that do this repeatedly. I don't want to ban you, so please fix this. Fortunately it doesn't seem to dominate your comment history overall so it should be fairly easy to fix.
Do you use it for proprietary code and if so, you don’t feel weird about it ?
https://xkcd.com/1732/

Also, oxygen and CO2 solubility changes heavily with temperature.
Counterpoint[0]: I have a master's degree in composition and I don't play any instruments at a decent level of performance. I would say the requisite skill is knowing how instruments sound, how they sound together, where their limits are, where the golden sounds and techniques can be found, and how to notate all of that so you can reproduce it accurately. If you can read a piece of music and know what it sounds like without needing to hear it played, you'll be fine. And that's also a skill you can learn, just like performance. The rest of composition is experience, artistic vision, and luck, just like every other job.

[0] wink
It is already causing undue harm to people around the world.

Nefarious use, from scams, weaponized tech, propaganda and just the magnitude of noise generated by meaningless content, we are about to have a burden of undesirable effects to deal with in regards to both powerful and easily available technology to all.

There is so much focus on the problems of future AGI, but little on AI that we have now, working as designed, but yet still very problematic from the impacts on societal order.

I've elaborated much on the societal and social implications in the following reference. I expect AI will lead all concerns in the area of unexpected consequences in due time.

https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things
Jerry (YC S17) Is Hiring Head of Design, Sr Designer, and PMs
Currently in the UK energy prices are lowest at night when usage is lowest. Night being after most people are in bed and before they wake up. You're correct that when solar makes up a larger propotion of the energy created, it might change that, but that doesn't change the idea of encouaging people to charge when energy is most abundant/cheapest.

There are already companies doing this in the UK such as Octopus with their Agile tarrif[0]. the unit price you pay changes every 30 minutes based on the wholesale price at the time. It's capped at 100p/kwh, which is 3x the average flat rate people use in the UK, but on the flip side it can go below 0p and at those points you actually get paid for using electicity. In those cases you're acting as a load balancer when there's just too much energy in the network. You can see a graph of the past prices here[1].

Octopus also has a pretty good API and hooks in IFTTT so you can set up automations for yourself. You could set your car or home bettery when the price is under a certain price. This could also just be built into the charge in the future and there's no reason why it couldn't be a standard between energy providers too.

[0] https://octopus.energy/agile/
[1] https://dashboards.energy-stats.uk/d/5cZqqmf4z/user-dashboar...
>As of June 2011, the reactor had only generated electricity for one hour since its first testing two decades prior.

It would be hilarious if not for the wasting of a trillion Yen on this.
Ensuring that everyone is enslaved by their telco and becoming more dependent on their data collection device (phone) on them at all times and subsequent payment infrastructure used to facilitate etc.

Avoiding saying no to telcos.

Turning me into a criminal for being the best at helping people with their mundane legitimate businesses.
What else can be done to corrupt Russia’s economy? This war and injustice ticks me off it’s still going on.
People who don't test well, maybe have a low IQ or some other measure of intelligence, shouldn't get as much say as clever people (like yourself)?
The interpretability of LLMs comes in chain of thought. When a human explains a process, they talk through it. You don’t measure their neurons. The interpretability of neuron weights is a sub-symbolic red herring. Causal emergence says, the agent is what matters, not the individual synapse. Think like a manager with AI, not a cellular neurobiologist
Their platform has a neat feature: you can use all the plugins they sell, but you can save projects using only the ones you've bought. It's a more granular version of the crippleware approach to licensing, and yeah, as you say, it can be really effective if you've worked a new sound into one of your compositions.

(It's been a while since I fired up my copy, so this might have changed.)
> In one interpretation […]

> The other interpretation […]

Where are/were these interpretations of "democracy" defined? What (who?) makes them definitive? What makes them the only two? What makes one correct and the other incorrect?

Any links or ISBNs that you could provide would be most appreciated.
Every post that claimed using ChatGPT to achieve non-trivial tasks turned out to have non-trivial human intervention.

> (from the original article) In fact, I found it better to let ChatGPT generate a toy-ish version of the code first, then let it add things to it step-by-step. This resulted in much better output than, say, asking ChatGPT to generate production-quality code with all features in the first go. This also gave me a way to break down my requirements and feed them one at a time - as I was also acting as a code-reviewer for the generated output, and so this method was also easier for me to work with.

It takes a human who really knows the area to instruct ChatGPT and review the output, point out silly mistakes in the generated non-sense, and start next iteration. This kind of curated posts always cut off the most part of the conversations and the failed attempts, and then concatenate successful attempts with outputs of quality. Sure, it will be helpful as a super-IntelliSense. But not as helpful as the post suggested.

I've tried to do something like in the post, but I was quickly bored with waiting output, reviewing, all the iterations. One important aspect about programming is that reading code may not be easier than writing code. And in my case, it's more painful.
Can you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I am literally building an electric jerry can in my workshop right now so that you can carry around car recharges in your trunk. There are solutions to all of these problems and the technology is getting better all the time. All you have to do is stop looking for reasons why it can never work, and start looking for ways to make it work.
Right now all of this is people tinkering with the API. If you look at the docs you will note that it doesn’t even provide chat history or any kind of session. You have to pass all context yourself. So you’re already homebrewing that, why not add some spice.
Or Rankine for a US reactor, surely? ;0)
Fairmail and K9.
Proving once again that the KISS principle always applies.
Not really my problem - I have a car for long distance trips only and that's going to be diesel at least for another decade or two.
You completely missed the point, which proves the work of this Wikipedian is very much necessary.
Can someone tell me how much these microkernels are used and where?
Traffic isn't a function of road space. The true throughput of roads is immense when utilized by better drivers (one extreme example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pbAI40dK0A). A lot of traffic is caused by bad human drivers: accidents (and associated rubbernecking), shockwaves, running red lights, double parking, circling around looking for parking. Additionally entire additional lanes of traffic (for cars or personal mobility vehicles) will be available when streetside parking isn't necessary. Personally I look forward to the possibilities of turning all that unecessary parking space into something useful ("we’re the Saudi Arabia of developable land in cities").
AlphaFold Spreads Through Protein Science
ChatGPT4 blew my mind when I asked it some specific details about my PhD thesis. It was a relative simple question, but you needed to know some domain knowledge to give the correct answer. ChatGPT not only gave a wrong answer, it completely made up a story was beyond repair. It is concerning (blew my mind) how confident ChatGPT can provide a completely wrong answer.
What additional benefit do you bring over just running ControlNet myself?
Another thread mentioned something like a 30day unlimited trial. That could be a good way to gather metrics on how many searches/day to expect from users, and should help with pricing.

Which part of the service actually costs you more money? Is it the cpu/bandwidth of returning search results, or is it the indexing that happens before then, or the storage/memory?

Maybe instead of charging per # of queries, you could charge per number of sites the user follows/searches? You could always leave something in the ToS about abuse to have an option to stop users who are making an excessive number of searches.
Restaurants embrace premium reservations to target big spenders
Sometimes it's nice to not manually write a regexp to find all of the variants of every word or deal with arbitrary ordering of substrings. And if you're using SQLite and fts5 is installed, why not just create a virtual full text search table with one command and use that? With a small enough corpus, it's a meaningless distinction to bikeshed about the implementation: the easiest solution to build is the best. 500MB of disk space for a pet project that gives you convenience is a terrifically small amount of storage. I have videos that I recorded on my phone that take up more than double that.
> I do wish the Quest 2 had a more cleanable padding. Mine is used exclusively by me but the sweat, face gunk and hundreds of hairs that I can't easily remove(and dont feel leave my head) are definitely a bit problematic for sharing.

But it is highly cleanable. If you use the provided silicone "condom" you can clean that to your heart's desire with alcohol or something.

If you don't yet have the condom you can order it for free, it is provided to all Quest 2 customers free of charge after the original facial interface material was found to be allergenic. https://www.oculus.com/silicone-cover/

I wish they would sell these things though as mine are getting a bit tatty now :( And they never gave me a cover for the additional facial interface I bought.
I'm not sure how that helps if the grid is already nearly overloaded and we need gas/coal to cover peak demand. The problem is not the charger and its small battery, the problem is generating clean power and transmitting it.
The vast majority of Christians that I've spoken to don't seem to understand one basic fact:

If you allow religious belief to be the sole factor behind legislative action, then you also open the door to a different religion coming in and democratically taking the reins of that action.

They also will heavily vocalize their opinion that no other religion should be able to come in and do exactly that. In the years after 9/11, they would harp about "Sharia law" and how it was allegedly "taking over parts of the US".

It is very clear in the Constitution that the government may not favor one religion over another. Ergo, to open legislative action to religious motivation allows any religion to do the same, no matter what. The US is pretty open about what it considers to be a "religion" as well, we're one of the few countries that allow Scientology to be considered a religion.

In the interest of identifying bias, I live in Tennessee, right in the middle of the bible belt. Thus, my opinion is indeed biased by experience in this area. I've seen how nasty and bigoted this neck of the woods can be, and these are the people that the region's politicians tend to pander to.
I am not wrong, you are wrong. The fact is that NLP and other fields are FULL of people using automated benchmarks to claim that they are "state of the art". They are incentivized to downplay or trivialize any quality losses. Scores like ROUGE and BLEU are terrible and the whole community knows it, but they're still used because we have nothing "better".

I can actually see jpg artifacts on the jpg variants of the png files that I generate in Stable Diffusion, and the impacts from quantization down to 3,2, even 1 bit are FAR more than the impacts of switching from png to jpg.

Also, I actually have published peer reviewed research on LLMs and spend a majority of my time on this earth thinking about and coding for them. I know what I'm talking about and you shouldn't try to dismiss my criticisms so quickly.

Even the coomers at civitai have done polls where their own users find dreambooth models better than lora models on average, likely because the likeness of a person can be more properly trained when heavier/stronger methods are utilized. Same dynamic here with quantization.

Yes, as a model scales up in size quantization hurts it less. The claims made that extreme quantization is not noticable at all when the model is super large is just pathetically wrong.
And especially strings, which with all those escape codes are small programming languages in it's own right.
> This is just talking past the conclusion though. Have you considered that the reason people are freaking out is because this is the first technology directly displacing a bunch of white collar work and not blue collar work?

I've been looking for a way to explain this and I think you nailed it. Something about this feels different. I'm sure the same feeling struck the people in history, but there's also nothing guaranteeing the outcome here will be the same.

There's also scale.

A very simplistic comparison would be Netflix DVD and Netflix streaming.
Is this describing the practice of 'grayboxing' in design?
The post isn't making anything, it's just sitting there being read by us. The author, however, made some good points in the post.

Additionally the verb to comprise isn't suitable here either, so it's going to sound awkward no matter how you try to rearrange the sentence. The "composed of" or "consists of" alternatives mentioned in the original page aren't really a good fit either.

There's no need to complicate things: this post contains many good points.

In truth if someone said or wrote any of these sentences, I wouldn't mind whatsoever. I know exactly what they meant and that's what matters. However since we're having a bit of fun, I figured I'd weigh in :)
Looking at the claim again, it has the potential to make business people assume they can treat DevRel and Marketing the same way.
<pedant>C is a measure of temperature, not heat.</pedant>
Interview here with its creator

https://boilingsteam.com/an-interview-with-gdkchan-creator-o...
It's a reasonable thought, but I live in the pacific northwest, which is one of the wettest climates in North America... it's possible, though.
EVs can go to 12kw but don’t need to. At that rate a Tesla will add over 40 range-miles per hour, which means you’d recharge the entire battery range in about eight hours. Some people do drive 300 miles per day, but on average people drive less than 30 miles (in the US) and maybe 40km/day in Europe. When you work this out into a continuous power draw over the course of a day, it’s a few hundred watts per vehicle. Still requires grid upgrades and some planning to avoid spikes where everyone fast-charges at once, but it’s better to consider these smaller averages than assume everyone is doing 12kw charging continuously.
Same. No plugins or GPT-4 API for me despite signing up for the waiting lists on the day they were announced.
Pure conjecture. But I think there are many examples: look at dying empires, corporations, etc... its all the same. They stop seeing challenges, get lazy, and are taken over by some hungrier and scrappier entity. When the real challenge comes they're unprepared.
I directed chatGPT to code
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/franz-ai-text-rewr... a chrome extension which rewrites any content in place on any website.

not a single line of code was written by me by hand.

but damn many prompts.
That’s my point though, us humans get better at working with abysmal directions the more we encounter it. Current AI, on the other hand, requires humans to improve to meet AI cannot still take those inputs literally, warts and all.
sigh yeah - GM's replacing the Bolt with the 2-ft larger Equinox for instance.

I'd rather have a revised Spark EV with rear wheel drive and 200mi range myself.
This service wouldn't be useful to me because the number reputation seems poor.
Actual delegation would not rely on pooling numbers for increased user per SIM card. It's one client per SIM card.
We have the capacity to take care of everyone right now but we don't because private wealth realized that comfortable people creates an equal society and equality means there's no way to be a mogul where everyone has to listen to you. This is in part why they destroyed the middle class, things got too crazy for them in the 1960s and they counter attacked. There are documents from both liberal and conservative establishment figures at that time describing the situation.

c.f. The Crisis of Democracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crisis_of_Democracy

c.f. The Powell Memorandum: https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/powellmemo/
> They will instead pay a lot for MSFTs cloud service offering, which of course comes with the crucial promise that their data is safe and secured and handled in a way that is compliant with all privacy laws. Which of course isn't true, but that doesn't matter, the promise is what matters.

In what way is this not true? Obviously there is no perfection here, only degrees of risk. But this is literally why people pick MSFT over others. They have by far the strongest culture around maintaining trust in the enterprise space.