skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is DAY ONE of the content explosion. People will soon learn they can skip the middlemen and generate yourself any niche theme at all. The story gen a.i. are only going to get better day by day.

If you must have new published books (allegedly human authored, edited, and curated for cultural relevancy) you will almost have to use your own a.i. anyway. You'll need to trust it to summarize the work or "human" reviews, detect/fix repulsive flaws, and get/generate any recommendations according to your satisfaction.
we wrote a blog about how to use GPT-4 and “custom SQL” to create Tableau data model. Wondering from the experts here, if this is / can be useful - feedback is welcome!
Give Erlang/Elixir the full JavaScript!
Super news. I wasn't aware of this, so looked it up. Here's the Thunderbird blog for 'supernova' https://blog.thunderbird.net/tag/supernova/
Fair enough. I was looking at Photoshop which is claimed at $20.99 a month, but if you actually rent it monthly it's $31.99 a month.

Oh, and I wonder how long the $5/month pricing will be in effect - when they'll raise the prices.
> there's no such thing as "decoding" IEEE754 to something else.

Huh? You can totally take the raw bytes in an IEEE754 floating point number and parse them into something else (say, a decimal type) the same way you can take the raw bytes of a JSON document and parse it into a struct.

It's a lossy encoding for reals.
Ask HN: What GPT4 frontend do you use?
I'm curious to know which frontend alternatives you've been using to replace ChatGPT when working with the OpenAI API. As ChatGPT premium has a very low limit, I prefer to use the API but still want a similar (and hopefully better) UI.

My specific needs include:

- Token counting and cost estimation tools.

- Visibility into the sliding window of context in chat-style environments, as it's unclear which parts are considered in OpenAI's UI.

- Code compression and optimization techniques, such as stripping comments, removing irrelevant utility functions, or other methods often discussed here.

- Assistance with frontend coding: For instance, I struggle with managing React projects that have numerous files and require multiple changes for data passing. While the 32k model might help, it can be expensive.
I've read this book, and it doesn't end well for humans.
You have a perpetual right to use the product you bought. You don’t have a right to upgrades in perpetuity.
This is the route I took, started with a 40-something inch TCL TV and eventually moved up to 75" LG OLED, the constant has been an AppleTV. The interface, the apps, etc. all work.

If only it had a mode that would keep commercial/trailer volume at a reasonable level.
Weaponization of the dollar was really shortsighted.

My hope is that my country can maintain dollar reserve status for another decade, but that might not happen. I may be wrong, but I think de-dollarization will be gradual with other currencies seeing slow increases in use for international financial settlements. I think that a fast transition would be bad for most of the world’s population.
There is no negative zero
This is why I prioritize “existing libraries” when investigating which programming language to use for something, and Python almost always delivers in this area. The tooling is probably a close second. If it sucks to develop software with a language, I don’t want to use that language.

Can anyone guess which languages I use most and enjoy the most? It’s Python and C#!
> "oh, this is going to be way more scalable than ActivityPub once it's done."

Can you elaborate on this?
> The paper explains this in detail, but here is a summary: an explanation is good if you can recover actual neuron behavior from the explanation.

To be clear, this is only neuron activation strength for text inputs. We aren't doing any mechanistic modeling of whether our explanation of what the neuron does predicts any role the neuron might play within the internals of the network, despite most neurons likely having a role that can only be succinctly summarized in relation to the rest of the network.

It seems very easy to end up with explanations that correlate well with a neuron, but do not actually meaningfully explain what the neuron is doing.
Serving 90TB/Day of Linux Updates from Thin Clients
there will always be some religious people who require AI to have soul to qualify as AGI. So there will be always be people who deny the existence of AGI in the future.
Don’t drones require registration in the US? So any event like this will become a cyber investigation. And for the first one likely even considered domestic terrorism so it would use the NSA’s gorgon stare to trace back the purchaser and operator.
Every cell in our body, and every bacterium living in a body (e.g. gut flora), contribute to our intelligence. It looks plausible (to me) that there's one "top cell" among them that represents the "person", others just contributing via layered signals, but whether this "top cell" is a neuron or another kind of cell is unknown.
Use it to analyze the California & US Code, the California & Federal Codes of Regulation, and bills currently in the California legislation & Congress. It's far from useless but far more useful for creative writing than any kind of understanding or instruction following when it comes to complex topics.

Even performing a map-reduce over large documents to summarize or analyze them for a specific audience is largely beyond it. A 32K context size is a pittance when it comes to a single Title in the USC or CFR, which average into the millions of tokens each.
did not know it was possible to use such ports as not-root.

anyway here is a direct link to how you can host your own devzat server: https://github.com/quackduck/devzat#want-to-host-your-own-in...

good luck, OP!
Yup. Stupid virtual currency awarded for stupid daily tasks. Utterly neaningless. They wanted 7 day login habits and used reward schedules to form that habit. I still remember that timer counting down to the next reward and feeling the need to be there at that exact time because it's a waste if it's not counting down to the next one. Not just me either, entire groups of people waking up at 3 AM because that's when the timer resets.

It's gotten to the point I find the presence of timers unacceptable in almost any context. Almost all other forms of rate limiting too.
I don’t think so. Internally all these countries are very stable, they are just weak to external forces that are out innovating then and move up on the tech/production tree.
I second this as another advanced amateurist who mostly fakebooks, D, A, and Bb are my favorite scales because you can play them blind.
I think we'll soon be able to train models that answer any reasonable question. By that measure, computers are intelligent, and getting smarter by the day. But I don't think that is the bar we care about. In the context of intelligence, I believe we care about self-directed thought, or agency. And a computer program needs to keep running to achieve that because it needs to interact with the world.
Server-side or WASM is an option when you create a Blazor project in Visual Studio.

You can write libraries and either approach can use the same library.

Server-side Blazor keeps a websocket open to send messages back and forth. If you can tolerate the latency, it allows your UI code to be able to handle data that needs to remain secret on the server.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_sanctions
For rack servers you could probably get away with a number of microkernel os today. Desktop has clear options in that regard, but you are giving up op n source.
> because it’s already biggest(network effect)

This is exactly what is downtrending. Nations fear being sanctioned and holding on to dollars they can't use

> and most stable(military/economic might/feed back effect from being global currency)

This is also what is being questioned. There is domestic turmoil and the US economy is funky.

I'm just paraphrasing Ray Dalio's recent discussions and extensions on his dialogue on the rise and fall of nations.
No one cares about a factor of two in astronomy.
What's the alternative, just running all code at ring 0?
GPT-4 is better at reasoning than 90% of humans. At least. I won't be surprised if GPT-5 is better than 100% of humans. I'm saying this in complete seriousness.
The comment time stamp is clickable, you should see the reply button there.
Well put, and I agree. My belief is that if a typical person was drugged or otherwise induced to just blurt out their unfiltered thoughts out loud as it crossed their brain, the level of incohesion and false confidence on display would look a lot like an LLM hallucinating.
much more likely to be used by motivated terrorists than vigilantes.
You’re being aggressively literal here. It comes across as an insecure need to “be right” rather than interpreting OP’s comments generously.
Was that part of the study? Seems like an unrelated piece of trivial.
I’m not sure that’s the best takeaway, but maybe. It resonates with my experience with folks who near retirement and are on a glide path out - they know what they know, understand it will get them over the finish line, and aren’t interested in learning new tooling.

It has nothing to do with software design decisions and everything to do with a cost/benefit equation in the mind of someone with one foot out the door. I’ve seen this with senior DBA’s and CEOs alike. They are not objectively good judges of “what works” for anyone except themselves because of this huge conflict of interest.

I sincerely believe you see the same thing with the elderly at a certain point - I’ve known a few people that after like 85 have zero interest and feel zero compulsion to “stay on top of” new ways of doing things, whether it’s software, vehicles, whatever. They’ve got enough skills to make it out and why trouble yourself with stuff that doesn’t matter?

I understand it, but am not sure it’s wise for a retiree. For instance, Excel may come in handy for that guy doing budget planning or contracting gigs later.

Add to that, the further behind you slide with technology, the harder it is to catch back up. You miss out on integrating the models, paradigms, and affordances, and a couple gens of compounding evolution happen without you and the learning curve becomes much steeper than it needs to be. It’s like keeping your house clean by doing little bits frequently rather than massive efforts rarely.
U.S. Marshalls computers still down 10 weeks after ransomware attack
It's available now.
Musician hijacks top Google search queries? You tell me.
https://archive.ph/5MHxj
Who is the adulterous woman here?

Edit: the above quote is from NASB Proverbs 30:20.

This is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, And says, “I have done no wrong.”
It goes without saying that an easy way to reduce risk is to dress like you’re going to a disco party during the day and cover yourself with lights at night.
We cant be more diametrically opposite. I was in US now in India and didn't vote for Modi :D
But what does that link add to point I raised? Looking at Baghel's wikipedia page, he is typical politician jumping parties to be in power. He'll say whatever suits his position. And if you want to pin it on RSS, at least cite their chief's position instead of a politician who has nothing to do with RSSS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvR8Gy8TDsQ (same thing is what media typically does, use sound bites from unofficial sources).

My only request was to look beyond headlines which (I claim) are biased and do logical analysis. Not here to debate or convert your ideologies.
What you suggest is impossible, because you are attacking a wrench on the head problem with a coding solution. You can always get a dish and connect to your choice of orbital provider, if your ISP - which is regulated - is blocked. The problem is, guys with guns will come to your door, beat you with a wrench, and put you in jail.

Now if we solve for the real issue - lack of freedom because of a ruling class, the technical issue goes away. There's nothing to solve if you can't be oppressed, and if the ruler has no way to oppress, they'd have no way to block your ISP in the first place.

The reason for the oppression is, a large portion of every country actually wants to be oppressed. Even in a democracy, the oppression of you can simply come from a majority (EU citizens have no freedom of speech) or large minority (magats prosecuting women and doctors for murder because of a life-threatening abortion).

There is no answer, because many people want to control and silence others who don't agree - or to compensate for lack of control of their crap lives by controlling other lives. Take a look at this site, and most social media sites. Tiny-dick big-belly mods shadowbanning, the other users downvoting, making comments gray so you can't read them.

Most people are bootlickers. Most people want the type of power structure that ends up with the internet blocked. They don't want freedom - they want to be on the side doing the oppressing.
Here's a blog post by the author on the same ideas, for those who don't have the time for a one hour video: https://www.bldgblog.com/2010/01/nakatomi-space/
what is HSI?
Citation? I think you have cause and effect backwards? This post and all the news coverage I can find says that the Pakistani government is the one enforcing these blocks. Including wholly disabling the internet for mobile devices in some regions.

I don't understand how US social media networks could cause wholesale internet shutdowns in Pakistan, or why they'd suddenly be inclined to do so. Seems much simpler for the ruling government to require their local ISPs enforce these blocks.
So you would suggest countries with more power outages should have higher adoption of power backups? Yet, about 25% of population in Pakistan does not even have access to electricity. [1] Meanwhile the rest of the country frequently is plunged into darkness with millions without electricity. [2] Yet, solar adoption in the country is very low and most of the population does not have any backup power.

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS?location...

[2] https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/01/22/asia/pakistan-power-outag...
I’m concerned about the transaction cost variability that we’ve seen with ethereum.
This shouldn’t be surprising - they cut music years ago.
You’ve made a fair point and that’s a reasonable opinion, but do you think it should be outright illegal for console makers to use a business model of consoles at cost, profits made on a share of game sales?

Because that was Epic’s end game.
Local icon Raven's running streak continues – for now (2022)
Are you OK with the developers of LLMs capturing the most value of every incremental piece of content created by humans in perpetuity?

The difference is scale. A human can use their learnings from copyrighted work to get a job making $80,000/year. An LLM can use their learnings from copyrighted work to become the biggest, most profitable company ever.
Yeah, Discord doesn't have the greatest reputation. https://endsexualexploitation.org/articles/discord-is-a-have...
What about NaN? Does Erlang have NaN? How does Erlang compare two variables containing a NaN (or expressions evaluating to a NaN)? There are (2^24)-2 different NaNs in a 32bit IEEE 754 float, and there are (2^53)-2 different NaNs in a 64bit IEEE 754 double. The IEEE 754 standard says, that a NaN value should compare to any other number (including any other NaN) as not equal. Yes, the expression `x == x` could return `false`.
Automation gives profit margins to owners, not free time to workers. You’re asking for charity or revolution.
It's not rude at all. It's true. Those bastard leaders are there because their people refuse to do anything about it, and a large fraction of those people serve in the military and police forces to keep the bastard in power. The only way a "motivated majority" can be unable to overthrow their government is if a very sizeable, motivated minority holds a lot of military power somehow (which was arguably the case in Saddam's Iraq, where the Sunni minority oppressed the other two minority groups). Usually, this is not the case.

The people are almost always to blame for their authoritarian leadership. I'll give a pass to a few people, such as the Kurds in Saddam's Iraq who actively resisted his rule, but generally speaking the people are the ones ultimately to blame. It's quite rude to claim that people have no agency and somehow are magically forced to do the bidding of a geriatric leader.
Yep, we don't know all constituents of buttermilk, nor how bread stales (there's too much going on inside). But it doesn't prevent us to judge their usefulness.
Almost all states have drinking and driving (DUI/DWI) as misdemeanors and it's a misdemeanor federally.
Walmart already does that. And the Apple Store offers 0% APR right now. Possibly Best Buy too? I can't remember
> I read Power of Habit, so I can easily quit things,

Most people can easily quit most things, that’s why addiction is treated as a pathological condition.

I suspect its more like “I read Power of Habit, so I am inclined to credit Power of Habit with my normal human ability to quit things” combined with “I exhibit the common human trait of mistaking my normal human ability to quit things with superiority to people who fall into addiction”.
https://media.defense.gov/2023/May/09/2003218554/-1/-1/0/JOI... has some interesting technical details.

Good to see the bad guys also make bits-vs-bytes mistakes, with their 128 bit Diffie-Hellman key. But it's puzzling why they'd be using OpenSSL, it's not the easiest software to embed. I guess they don't have to worry about the advertising license clause!
In capitalism, capital owning individuals, companies and countries gain wealth at an exponential rate, while labor producing individuals, companies and countries gain wealth at a linear rate.

In such a system, high levels of inequality is the natural state.
SQLite will open temporary files (for sorting and sundry functions), then immediately unlink() them. This is allowed behavior under POSIX.

The NFS trick was documented in "Why NFS Sucks" by Olaf Kirch.

"Some other cases are a bit stranger. One such
case is the ability to write to an open unlinked
file. POSIX says an application can open a file
for reading and writing, unlink it, and continue
to do I/O on it. The file is not supposed to go
away until the last application closes it.

"This is difficult to do over NFS, since traditionally, the NFS server has no concept of “open”
files (this was added in NFSv4, however). So
when a client removes a file, it will be gone for
good, and the file handle is no longer valid—
and attempt to read from or write to that
file will result in a “Stale file handle” error.

"The way NFS traditionally kludges around this
is by doing what has been dubbed a “silly re-
name.” When the NFS client notices during an
unlink call that one or more applications still
hold an open file descriptor to this file, it will
not send a REMOVE call to the server. Instead,
it will rename the file to some temporary file
name, usually .nfsXXX where XXX is some
hex number. This file will stay around until the
last application closes its open file descriptor,
and only then will the NFS client send the final
REMOVE call to the server that gets rid of this
renamed file.

"This sounds like a rather smart sleight of hand,
and it is—up to a point. First off, this does not work across different clients. But that should
not come as a surprise given the lack of cache
consistency."

https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2006/ols2006v2-pages-59-72.pd...
> Most fun thing about permaculture is the fact that no one is making money from actually applying it but rather just selling courses, books and other media

Checkout "Stefan Sobkowiak - The Permaculture Orchard" via his YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@StefanSobkowiak. TL;DR, he purchased an apple orchard and started applying permaculture principals to create sustainable business. For example, he took every third apply tree and cut it down to replace with a "Nitrogen Fixing" sort of tree in addition planting other smaller plants and shrubs in between the trees (see "syntropic agroforestry") and overall he's had tremendous success. This would be the best video of him explaining his success with applying permaculture - https://youtu.be/zArUk3THIV0.

Another person to checkout is "Shawn Dubrowsky - EdibleAcres" via his YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@edibleacres. He basically applies permaculture principals to feed himself/wife on a substance level and runs a tree nursery business.
Are you really complaining that the luxury store is declining to accept a cut of drug dealers’ profits for letting them operate on the doorstep?

Epic can be as skeezy as they want. Apple can be as prudish as they want. I can imagine disliking both, but I just can’t grok cheering for skeeze.
It would drive you nuts, but they probably love it or they would have stopped years ago.
The description here is from the bill from 2020. 40% of the bill already changed since then. Totally different.

Currently the bill is a clone of EU's Digital Services Act or Germany's NetzDG.

As usual as Brazil like to copy European laws. Brazil also have it's own GDPR (LGPD)
The people opposed to "western imperialism" are usually big fans of theocratic, misogynistic societies where women are stoned to death in the street for showing their ankle.
Amsterdam Schipol Reduced Toilet Cleaning Costs with Fake Urinal Bugs (2021)
Erlang has =:= and ==. Kind of like how Python has is and ==, JavaScript has == and ===, and Lisp has eq, eql, and equal.

The change in the article is about =:=, so NaN =:= NaN does not have to give the same answer as NaN == NaN.
So, would you say Google has been as successful with AI products as anyone else?
Not mentioned: “Open file description locks” (https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/fcntl.2.html), which are the locks you usually actually want.
Yes, let's kill the golden goose that makes us rich so that other people cannot get even richer and we won't get jealous.

Developing countries also seem to be catching up. The gap between southeast Asian states that used to be tragically poor a few decades ago to western countries is clearly closing.
Most of the comments here about running are about performance but running could be a practice linked to meditation [1] where breathing and leaving thoughts are key.

[1] https://tricycle.org/article/still-running/
Well yes, since others not paying enough taxes is part of the tax system being unfair, someone who actually cares about fairness would be bothered by it and them personally paying more doesn't fix that. Do you not care about fairness? "You could pay more yourself" has always been more of a snide low-effort attempt to shut down conversation than to engage in it. Please try to do (and be) better.
One guess: if macOS could be virtualized, it would be even easier to run things like Messages, FaceTime, and Photos on non-Apple hardware, which reduces some of the lock-in effect that keeps people from leaving the ecosystem (i.e. Green Bubble Effect)
Even if we stipulate that “bad” trading is limited to directional bets on the price movement of a security, and as such is definitionally a 50/50 proposition (at least in the very short term - in the long run, every issuer is going to zero), I still think that bad trading has to be negative EV. In the olden days (of five years ago), those bad traders paid transaction expenses. Now they’re just getting adversely selected against.

And there are all kinds of objectively worse trades than 50/50 price bets - leveraged ETFs, short-dated options, buying stock issuances as a company free falls into bankruptcy - these are definitely not positive EV trades.