skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not an expert at all but I am curious if training a LLM purely on ACE input would result in a smaller but still capable model. I guess a small regular trained model can then translate ACE to a natural language.
Browsers are the operating system for the web, yes.
My bad, I tried to install a too recent version: https://f-droid.org/docs/Running_on_old_Android_versions/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35944376
Their research team is crazy good. Even our local journalists can't get a hold of our special forces.
I find this Dantotsu method really inspiring. Turns out, I shared some thoughts on the topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34545732

Is it a methodology you implemented yourself? Curious about what your key learnings are.
If you've got a better idea for how we can keep a tiny minority from absolutely dominating the rest of society, If like to hear it.

I really don't get why so many people are so eager to empower a class of people that can make the rest of us do their bidding.

It shouldn't matter how many websites, shoe stores, or or newspapers they or their ancestors make, that shouldn't make them the boss of us.
Can you finish and release stuff in your working life?

There are lots of great tips and perspectives in this conversation. I think you should ask yourself the question why you actually want to finish these projects. Do you think you should? If so, but do you actually want to, and how hard do you want it?

If you don't find a clear answer to these questions, consider to decide to not finish from the start: take all these little projects just as experiments, explorations, little code essays. Do a lot of them but don't become invested as much.

If you do decide you want try finishing something, I think you need some external accountability. If you don't want that, you can also try to make a rule for yourself that you aren't allowed to work on anything else while your current project isn't finished.
> Heating and cooling (...) is hard to timeshift

One can shift them by at least few hours using theorem-insulated water tank. It costs money but likely will be cheaper (and safer) than Lithium batteries.
Certainly coal-fired power stations are better than no electric power at all. They just have pretty visible cost in quality of life: they improve some aspects, but worsen others. As basically everything in life, it's a balancing act.
I see. So remakes with women, gay people having roles in TV etc. I guess if you're a religious zealot that would hurt. I miss the days where you had to be intelligent to be on the internet. Sorry, but social media royally fucked up humanity into a polarised war of opinions.
> bottom line is commercial real estate (CRE) is screwed and the sole driver of all of this

I suspect that alongside the obvious reasons (inflexible management styles, micromanagement, etc.) always discussed, this is a major driver: ongoing spend on office buildings needs to be justified, and is probably very difficult to get out of - e.g. long-term building projects, or ownership of buildings which would be difficult (or a big loss) to resell, or long-term leases signed when obviously the offices would be needed for decades, or senior leaders feeling personally invested in particular building projects, etc.
abuseofnotation indeed :)
Just looking at Horizon Worlds makes me wonder if the whole Metaverse thing was just a front to funnel funds into a top secret defense project and if WWIII would be preferable to playing that game.
Thanks for confirming! I think it's okay to settle down and watch the same landscape after a while.
Spanish is too verbose and the gender feature is a pointless waste of time. Informal/formal also pointless.
> And the same is true of the entire west.

Yeah .. Nah.

Religions aren't generally exempt from taxation or immune to prosecution in Australia.

Those parts of a religions income that are used for charity can be exempt from taxation if the proper paperwork is filed and continues to operate in a transparent manner subject to audits, etc

> To access income tax exemption, a registered religious institution must be a registered charity and endorsed by us as exempt from income tax. [1]

Mind you Australia also recently and famously jailed a tier two 2iC Vatican official Cardinal George Pell so hardly a friend of the Church .. but a country generally agreed to be part of "the West" | "Global North" etc.

[1] https://www.ato.gov.au/Non-profit/Getting-started/In-detail/...
I didn't try it out, maybe you're right. I know how to deploy my stuff via systemd, install Rust/cargo/Elm/Python/Node/GHC/libopencv/Nix/whatever, link static libs and so on. And when I'm using Raspberry Pi I need near-zero new knowledge to do all that.

I suspect that trying something like that on Android will be a long road with lots of caveats, even if possible, learning to do all the things the new "Android" way. Am I wrong?
Probably Monaco or the Vatican (though none have a subway).

Because in a real country you always have blind spots, even in relatively easier points such as the Netherlands (flat and populated)
One thing I haven't heard much discussion about is the fact that ChatGPT is constantly being updated.

This means that if you build a prompt for classification and become confident that you've whacked all of the moles so that it is pretty solid with all of the edge cases, it can later start breaking again.

Some solutions I can think of are 1) choose a fixed model to test against but they become deprecated over time or 2) perhaps fine-tuning might help.
Well, I should have mentioned I already tried that:

$ cat s ; docker run -it --volume ./s:/etc/apt/sources.list:ro debian/eol:wheezy /bin/dash
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian wheezy main
#deb http://archive.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib
#deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/debian-security/ wheezy updates/main
# apt-get update
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process http received a segmentation fault.
My Windows computer is always demanding updates and reboots. And when it goes to sleep it sometimes doesn't wake up. It's quite annoying.
If Vice had stuck to making sensible documentaries and news coverage, they could have focused on that niche while selling their content to Amazon, Netflix, Apple, etc.... Hopefully this bankruptcy is an opportunity for that.
Same as having to always mention the gender in English, ie "he said", whereas in Spanish it's just "said".
He became the head of both church and state, they were still separate.
The Facebook/Metaverse kerfuffle is more fitted to "first as tragedy (the damage ad-driven social media has done to fabric of society is yet unaccounted for), second as farce (VR was a sad joke from the start—proud owner of the first HTC Vive, used it 10, maybe 12 times in 7? years)". [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eighteenth_Brumaire_of_Lou...
Why Are Young Adults Having Less Casual Sex?
I think you're right. In fact I think permanently connected AR/VR computing is the next phase after mainframe -> desktop -> laptop -> phone.

It's a good few years away - at least a decade or so. It won't happen until the hardware becomes stylish smart glasses instead of a clunky headset.

And it won't be created by Zuckerberg.
People should still report to the relevant authorities when churches do political speech.

If nothing else it would keep them from actually saying "You must vote for X" and diplaying electoral posters.

It could even happen that somebody high in a decision chain ends up claiming "we don't care they can do whatever they want" which could be a minor scalndal.
And out of curiosity, where do you hold your code reviews? Your hosting platform (GitHub, GitLab...) or elsewhere (Slack, Teams...)?
The biggest issue is that ARM was already king, so x86 was an exception that wasn't always accounted for.

So there was occasional incompatibilities and no real benefit to balance them.
So... we need critical mass without early adopters, because the things to invent will be created only after critical mass is reached? I think you're just inventing excuses: "There would be a Cambrian explosion of new uses cases, were it not for (excuse goes here)".
Just to clarify, Vice was on HBO.
They were really good for drugs coverage, and I mean that beyond the "New York Hipster smoking weed 100 times a day" comment someone else made here.

Max Daly's probably the best drug reporter out there, and was the main reason I kept tuned in for so long. Was really the last bastion of their decent content.
This is sound advice. I was once recommended something similar: budget time to do <something you don't want to>, and then do NOT invest more time than this. Stop once you reach the timebox, even if you feel like you want to continue working on it. Because you have to learn to decouple this task from your motivation. You are not doing it because you feel like it, but because you decided to do it.
"Voting with your wallet" isn't particularily unheard of. I dont understand why you seem to make a difference here just because the topic is leaning a little towards politics.
Which makes this a great time to observe that electricity != clean. That’s a non-sensical conclusion because electricity doesnt have the capacity to be clean nor dirty. Its a storage format. Stored energy in gas just sitting in your gas tank doesnt really emit either. It’s ridiculous to conclude energy is clean by simply ignoring its emissions.

Replacing an ICE vehicle with electricity isn’t necessarily lowering emissions. Its entirely dependent on how the electricity is generated. There is nothing inherently clean about switching from gas to electric. But many people only care about squeezing the balloon intil they cant see or know about the emissions.
Solid advice. I also have seen companies not able to follow the simple rules you described, or getting lost in heavyweight frameworks (given that I understand being a single individual vs an entire companies have different problems, my complaint is about underestimating the overhead they create).

Shipping should be a priority, not an afterthought.
Looks like ADHD person with high IQ and curiosity (like me). You could cure the problem with medicine or just become better managing it with age. From my experience, eventually you'd become more selective with your ideas and more involved into really finishing them when having long term plan and returning to implementation from time to time. But it might took some years for ambitious projects :)
yeah, if you think this is what they have been doing for the past few years, then you haven't really bothered to check out their work. They have been consistently doing some amazing international reporting that none of the mainstream media channels were/are interested in.
There's an interesting confrontation over that piece in the NY Times 'Page Six' documentary, which filmed David Carr, the Times's then media correspondent, interviewing the Vice Founders:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLmkec_4Rfo

I think part of the Vice pitch was always that it was a disruptor of the old-fashioned media narratives, uncovering the stories to which boring old media was blind. I tend to agree with Carr's implicit critique here that we undervalue the journalistic, societal value of the sort of unglamorous coverage in which traditional media invests and at which it excels.
Often 100 hours per week, an hour each way.
There obviously are enough of them because we've heard of this Cleopatra docudrama when normally this kind of production would have vanished without a trace.
Second Life still exists and is profitable...

(Unlike Meta's efforts.)
I love how every time this EU thing is mentioned, you already know beforehand the 5 companies they'll mention as a "counterpoint"
Cloudflare still provides free hosting for one website. Setting it up not exactly straightforward. But they're currently hosting my website, my domain, and giving me free CDN, without my having ever provided a credit card.
Brilliant, that's great to hear.
That doesn't seem squeamish. I think many writers of that era viewed violence as bad, and sex as private. You may disagree with them on that point, of course.
Is there a cheap Hotjar “Ask” alternative?
I am looking for a cheap hotjar "ask" alternative. Any tool would be good that's cheaper than $20 and offers survey widgets. I only found solution so far that have many features like heatmaps etc., but I would only need a tool for feedback & surveys. Thanks in advance.
The Romans were buying knitted and spun textiles from the north-west of Scotland before they even set foot in the south of England. It's pretty well-documented.
Nobody is answering your question. Churches (cults, religion) all over the world are tax-exempted as a way to avoid "persecution". If a cult is taxed, then a particular government could persecute a particular cult by just raising their taxes. Imagine a government that is very strong on religion A, decides to raise taxes on religion B.

I'm not saying this is right or wrong. It even sounds a bit dated to me. But that's the underlying reason.
The content on the AM band had been disappearing for a while though. German world radio stopped broadcasting on AM a long time ago. I haven't heard sufficient quality BBC for a long while either.
Why are so many young British men suddenly unable to pronounce th's?
I've seen a recent boom in public exercise spaces in some big cities and people really use them and these are free.
Would be cool if more companies offered a compensation for gym subscription as in IT sector
Maybe, maybe not. But Meta do have a heck of a patent portfolio for it if it happens in the next decade that will make life very hard for anyone else.
Of course. Provoking liberals for visibility is a time-honored strategy in right-wing media.
> * Additional living space required for WFH

Of course, there is a trend to people choosing to relocate to cheaper areas once the requirement to live near a (n expensive) city office is lifted. As such, this would often provide ample space for a WFH office.
Hammerhead sharks hold their breath on deep water hunts to stay warm
If you read or watched Vice News cca. 2014-2018, there was indeed plenty of high quality journalism. What’s that article got to do with it? And why do you think it caters to millenials specifically?
The goal is to serve more ads into people's retinas
GJS and SICP inspired me to love programming - before that, I only knew the rigid and cold C++ "Pyramid". Lisp is more dynamic and "organic" to me. (And I like his Babylonian wizard costume more than a Harry Potter one!)

The past decades were dull for me in terms of programming languages, compared to the era of Scheme and Prolog. But the computing industry advanced steadily: multi-core programming, map-reduce clusters, CUDA, etc. And these led to these crazy generative neural networks we see today.

I recall GJS gave several talks on this "We Don't Know How to Compute". I can't find the source and I skimmed this video and couldn't find it, but I remember he talked about how Gecko (or Lizard I'm not sure) could be transplanted with extra arms and still function. It strikes me as how much we don't know about computing, if we view biology and other things as computation.

Now, with the AI hype, these frontiers seem open again to exploration. For example, you can give AI agents goals and tools and let them act on their own, it's still clunky but it works and it's improving fast every single day. It's just that we haven't figure out the patterns, implications and best practices yet. Exciting times!
More Penguins Than Europeans Can Use Google Bard
I've never heard of non-deterministic programming languages. Is that really a thing?

(I mean - cue the JS jokes and all, but, really?)

Fwiw, to me, writing prompts feels most similar to management, directing, maybe psychotherapy (though I never worked in that, just guessing). Knowing how to adapt and use language to guide the "other" to achieve a goal, but without having insight into the exact way they go about it.

I feel like when I talk to ChatGPT I am directing it. "guide to directing AI bots" has its share of problems too, and "directing prompts" is just flat out unsexy.
I haven't read the book but based on the title I can confirm that you can entertain with a pocket calculator.

On our first date with my now wife I showed her my Casio FX-991ESPLUS Scientific Calculator and we spent at least 30 min playing with it.
Man on sick leave for 15 years sues IBM for no salary hike
strange that so many british performers have put on american accents!
Two edged sword here. If the government confined itself to the Enumerated Powers, your argument would be strong.

The government setting itself up as "god" and interfering with religious liberty is a bit of a Rubicon.
Natural gas is much better than coal in terms of emissions. Doesnt have to be solar. Obviously it would be more expensive for them, perhaps too expensive, but lets take the opportunity to at least acknowledge that natural gas is a great step away from coal.
That's a valid concern, I think just like with any other software you need to write tests for the AI model to constantly check if your prompts are working as intended. Basic unit tests would work well in this case.
Thanks for linking the review.

That machine sounds great except the battery life. 6 hours? Why can’t it be 600 or even 6000 hours? The Model 100 came out 40 years ago and could go 20 hours on smaller batteries!
> Emotions are the opposite of rational.

Of course. (If not "the opposite", at least they are not rational.) But - again - neither love or hate are emotions. They are decisions. Of course, they may be made irrationally (like many others) or under the influence of emotions (like many others), and a lot of things other than emotions and rational analysis may influence these decisions (like many others) to some degree. But that is beside the point.
The ultimate goal of the Metaverse can only be to have something like the Matrix, i.e. have a significant part of the population "jacked in" to the Metaverse most of the time (which would only be the logical continuation of the current state of affairs, with most of us walking around like zombies, constantly looking at our phones). But that would be a bit too dystopian for most people's tastes, so they avoid mentioning it too explicitly...
The same's true of even fairly innocent looking denominations in UK churches. If you're a large land/property owner (that doesn't have to pay business rates), with thousands of people willing to give you donations each week (on which you don't necessarily pay any tax) then it's hard to lose money even with dwindling congregations. The Church of England has something like £10bn of assets, but even small denominations own hundreds of both commercial and residential properties. A lot of the more liquid assets were invested in absolutely stuff like oil or tobacco companies, but most have at least attempted to move towards more ethical investments. Source: child of the manse.
Agreed. Automation and AI tools don't make us smarter programmers. However, some companies reportedly don't default to code reviews anymore. [1] There certainly is a balance between both worlds :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29792859
The same way you square "food insecurity."
Ask HN: How to minimize career risk from an attempted startup
I am about to ditch my somewhat successful FAANG career to attempt bootstrapping a SaaS business. My goal is to build a lifestyle business, not a VC rocketship, but I still think there is a substantial chance it will not work out. What ca I do to minimize my risk of having lower chances on the job market due to this adventure? What data do recruiters and employers look at to determine if the failed startup listed on a CV is a plus or a minus?
I've occasionally thought that prompt engineering is better described as a type of rhetoric that aims to persuade LLMs to do what you want.
My instant thought was:
707 + 707 = hihi
and what's more interesting, Amsterdam is not even super child friendly city because of the high and thin buildings and it still thrives. I read somewhere that Utrecht is even cooler for families(but less vibes) because of better buildings
Yeah yeah, girls get it done is of course the most believable trope ever.
They go and piss on a fire? Oh I see they are better described as "fire prevention goats".
The Maddest My Code Made Anyone
It's one of two things pointing to an incorrect change requiring access to all scoped packages to be authenticated.
> I mean… Do you always make so many random assumptions about the thoughts and lives of people you don’t know and know absolutely nothing about?

I'm not sure why you're accusing me of this, when I was replying to the person saying that if you're a single parent your only option is unemployment

> Let’s play this game.. Maybe your job is just not very demanding and you get paid for doing basically nothing all day?

Feel free to, maybe it is, I don't think so, but that's kind of moot as I don't have kids. What I do know is that I have plenty of coworkers who are parents who seem able to do their job while their kids are around, and my experience working with them was very periodically rescheduling meetings rather, and not once them being incapable of doing their job.

Let's try this again: I am not saying that looking after kids is easy. I am not saying that looking after kids takes time.

What I am saying is very simple: people who have kids, of any age, are able to do their jobs. Requiring them to return to office means immediately and instantaneously that at least one must quit. Not because they're not doing their job, but rather because their employer has required that they be in the office from 9 to 5, they're now (let's be optimistic) away from home from 8 to 6. At that point the message is extremely clear: if you have children you cannot work here. An absurd hypothetical of children need only one minute of you being there during the day means you can no longer be in the office, and therefore are no longer permitted to work for your employer. Again not because you're not doing your job, but because you're not in the office.

It's also super fun that childcare penalization disproportionately impacts women. In the US at least, you only get 12 weeks of guaranteed maternity leave, but it's generally recommended that you breastfeed for 6 months. So the mandatory RTO policies say "are you a new mother? time to stop being employed in tech because mothers don't belong here".
It was also on YouTube -- I still don't think YouTube and Vice are comparable entities.
What if the authorities don't mind the churches doing so? It seems like, especially leading up to elections, you see videos of this almost every day. How can someone actually make sure that some consequences happen?
Does anyone know the computational resources necessary to make a good metaverse? Why were “legs” an “incredible new feature” and not a given? Were/are there engineering or computational constraints limiting the ability to have “legs” / a high quality experience, and what were/are they?

Meta has industry leading AI tech, i mean they research for “embodied AI” and interesting ideas like that, they have expertise in many areas of AI like generative AI… But if there is a CEO king, one must do as the king commands I guess.
" Sorry, but social media royally fucked up humanity into a polarised war of opinions."

I rather think it made those polarised opinions more visible.
The divide existed before, extremists on all sides just had less broad interaction. Now they read each other on the internet and can directly jump on each others throat. And with less restraint, than in real life, as all semi anonymous.
> They were really good for drugs coverage, and I mean that beyond the "New York Hipster smoking weed 100 times a day" comment someone else made here.

Really sorry, but this just reminded me of this clip: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ia7fUQXskvA