skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey I appreciate the comment! I meant “if you could simply resolve debts mandated by the government by declaring bankruptcy, then people would declare bankruptcy just to absolve themselves of owed alimony or child support. Since this is not the case as far as I know, it would seem that Elizabeth Holmes would still be forced to repay this fine even after declaring bankruptcy.”

I clearly have some work to do regarding the clarity of my comments!
There's also the Computer & Communication Museum in Galway, Ireland for those who happen to be in the area. Only open upon request though!

https://ccmireland.com/collections/

The city has a rich history of computer manufacturing in the 80s and 90s, with DEC and later Compaq, and APC. They have a PDP-11 (sadly not working), many DEC terminals and a whole range of home computers, among others.
There were plenty of knowledgable scientists including those with specific familiarity that were censored because it didn't fit the media narrative at the time.
Obligatory when these threads come up - if OPs post rings true to you it’s worth spending a few minutes looking inward and identifying if depression might be affecting you. It might not, but loss of interest in hobbies/etc is an early symptom that Ive personally experienced.

Also possible your interests have changed, and what’s on HN now doesn’t align!
People do steal stuff, but that stuff isn't usually a data collection device which is clearly tied to an specific individual. For every phone that exists, Apple, Google, and/or the wireless carriers have extensive and detailed records of who owned the device and when, along with multiple measures of where that phone was at any given time, who was using it, and what it was being used for.

If my phone is stolen, these companies continue to know exactly where it is and who has it and what they are doing with it at all times. I should be able to call the police and have them track down my device and retrieve it for me.

There's the potential that someone could try to scam this system by selling a phone second hand and then pretending the sale never happened, but of course our purchases and financial records are typically being tracked at all times as well, and there are countless records of nearly every interaction we have with other people, and receipts are also a thing. The risks of scams in a "phone theft mostly isn't a thing" world would have to be measured against the scams and thefts we have today in our current "All your data is constantly collected and endlessly stored, but never used to benefit you" world.
I think environmental policy people have a lot to learn from the philosophy and ideas in preventative medicine (and honestly a few ideas could probably flow the other direction as well).

These two groups need to sit down and compare notes.

Stitches suck, but they’re better than dying of cancer, or gangrene.
>there's a lot of interesting stuff to learn from the mechanics of the debt collection business

I'm intrigued. Can you elaborate?
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This weekend (5/20-21) they’re hosting an Acorn Econet LAN party!

https://www.tnmoc.org/events/2023/5/20/econet-lan-party
My company uses something called Menlo Security to police our web access. It blocks this page:

> Menlo Security

> Request Blocked

> This website or download request has been blocked. The request is classified as: Hate and Racism

I have come across a few pages blocked in this way, and none of them were hateful or racist. It's not at all clear to me how they make that decision. It's mildly concerning.
> I find it very difficult to sit in complete silence.

That's not what I'm suggesting.

What I'm suggesting is, when you drive - just don't have any music on. Just drive.

When you're showering, don't play a podcast - just shower.

When you're doing dishes, just do dishes quietly.

It's not dedicated quiet time. It's "don't fill in all parts of your day with information".
There is a church doing exactly that with medical debt:

https://www.wxow.com/news/a-church-is-canceling-peoples-medi...
one of the contributing factors is because iOS offers native search support for DDG and they don't any other providers (eg. Brave)
Another approach would be to let players host their own instance to keep their API key private. I'm available to test this out if any of the developers are interested.
That is true of "theoretical" regexes, not of the ones actually used by modern languages.
Dolly from Databricks is one at least
We haven't done extensive testing or optimizations (i.e. sleep, idle power down, etc.) yet. But with the stock battery of 2000mAh and Pi Zero @ ~80mA idle, it should be around ~20h always on. We're estimating a week of battery life once the optimizations are implemented.
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Right. LA Times has a good write up, Rebuild, Reburn

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-27/rebuild-...
I wonder if the journalists who are trying to push this Twitter alternative so hard know they’ll have even less vanity and more hate speech on a distributed platform
> (I don't think the original is available any more)

That's because this one was not a blog post, it was a Google+ post that he intended to share internally with Google only. He had other great rants on his actual blog though, about (vague memory here) Emacs, game development, language design, etc.
I would be interested if they at least said "Yeah, we're shitbags, but that's just how it is, and someone's gotta collect delinquent debt". What I'm not okay with is putting in shit like this:

> The Debt Buying and Debt Collection industries can be a very rewarding career if it's right for you. It is also a risky business to be in and has a somewhat negative connotation among some groups because of a few people/companies that have exploited the industries for personal gain or because of a general lack of understanding of the laws or regulations in place for consumer protection. Be mindful of who you deal with and always practice honest, legal and ethical business to help prevent any further negative stereotypes from being cast over this industry.

It's not a negative stereotype, and it's not because of a "few people". It's the facts. Don't pretend like you're doing something noble here.
I believe that decision was that web scraping doesn't violate the CFAA unless there are access controls (such as the need to log in) to get to it, but they specifically said that the ruling doesn't comment about other possible claims against it.

That's why I think it's still a gray area. But I could be wrong -- I haven't been following this stuff all that closely.
It was Yann LeCun. His professional experience and knowledge of the AI development timeline outweighs your opinions, imo. Thanks for confirming you have no sources.
There is no legal definition of e-paper, but I have been using this term for over a decade to refer to Memory LCD and it's worked out fine. This definition nitpicking is getting oooooold https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3828249
Tech is pop culture. As such, one often gets tired of it. Do you imagine never getting tired of reading TMZ?
I understand your viewpoint, but I think it's a bit too pessimistic. While we essentially don't know how to consistently write good code and deliver quality products on time (the whole industry, save for some niches, has this problem), it's also improbable that nothing we could try would get us closer to that ideal. Not too close to it, perhaps, and not in a matter of months, and not by simply switching one set of rules of thumb for another, but surely, there's got to be something that can have a noticeable impact. Especially over longer-term and in larger codebases.

Trying to replace X with Y, where both have similar expressive power and similar drawbacks (i.e. FP vs. OOP), won't help much. Not on its own, and not without many other conditions being met, including completely non-technical ones like the personality of a hiring manager. Surely, though, in every paradigm or style, it's possible to write better or worse code, right? So it should also be possible to create an environment where the code quality, on average, would be just a bit better than the norm.

I'm not looking for quick gains for a single project, but rather a medium-term strategy that can save the effort required to develop and maintain products. People who claim to know how to "get good code quick" are mostly swindlers, and it's really hard to confirm causality in practice, but we shouldn't give up on finding ways to get better-than-average results in development.
Kennedy? Clinton? There are so many. Not sure this is the issue.
I believe it's locally (inner-loop or simd op) up-cast to float8/float16/int8, but I haven't looked at the internals of llama.cpp myself
I'd much rather see the antivax garbage debunked. Think of it as a form of vaccination for the mind.
People got greedy and started re-packaging sub-prime loans due to financial engineering enabled by the ratings agencies, which were greatly influenced by the erroneous notion that "housing always goes up" and incentive to collect for each CDO rating they opined upon.
AM radios ( in cars or not ) would be much more reliable than and mobile phone app OR using a PC
possible with the current deepf^Wparody technology
So I guess, if you are in a situation when you can easily relocate one could use to their advantage and ask for more money.

But with remote work relocation will be less of a necessity.

Usually all the fees are covered by the relocation benefits.
Curious why tailwind isn't scaling for you. Vue + Tailwind + Supabase + Vercel is working great for my projects.
This isn't the suburbs. This is exurban sprawl deep into the redwoods.
No it isn't, quantization is not free. You lose a significant amount of performance that you are not measuring properly in automated benchmarks when you quantize to that level.

You can see it in real time when you take most LLMs and compare them at different quantization levels. I can see the degradation even in the largest llama quite badly even at 8 bits.
How about none of it.
xfce is probably closer to what the OP had in mind: https://www.xfce.org/

I use MATE, personally, because it gives me the configurability that I want without the resource hungriness of KDE or cinnamon.

Cinnamon, while more resource hungry than MATE, actually isn't bad except that Nemo (its file manager) seems to have this bug where if you're doing a lot of batch file operations it just gets slower and slower to the point of becoming unusable... and it seems like its gone unfixed for ages. That's a deal breaker for me since I do photo and video editing and have to work with a lot of files. Caja (MATE's file manager) never seems to have a problem no matter how much I throw at it.

I find that MATE looks pleasing enough to me and is fast enough that it never reminds me that I'm slowing down my machine with a full-featured DE. That said, I tend to run modern hardware even though its by no means a powerful gaming rig.

For those who need something similar on older hardware, or who want a bare minimal but "nice" DE that will consume minimal resources, xfce is likely it.
True, although I already check behind/around my car before I set off.

I appreciate the motivitions of those who think technology is the answer to accident prevention but now you are discouraging people from developing proper safety habits ("I don't need to check around my car because the cameras/sensors will tell me if I'm going to hit something") and then one day a sensor fails or they are driving a car that doesn't have this technology.

I already see this with my wife who has those little blinker lights in her side mirrors that warn if a car is next to you when you are changing lanes. She doesn't really look anymore, just makes sure the lights aren't blinking. I always turn my head and look; I don't trust the sensors and I also set my side mirrors to cover the typical blind spot.

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15131074/how-to-adjus...
[Author] You approximate the weights using fewer bits. You also switch to ints instead of floats and then do some fancy stuff when multiplying to make it all work together.

More detail than you probably wanted: https://huggingface.co/blog/hf-bitsandbytes-integration
Very good! PostgreSQL should follow suit.
(I'm the CEO & Founder of DuckDuckGo.)

It is simply not true that we have censored anything or made ourselves "the arbiters of truth." I realized I previously explained how our news rankings work very poorly on Twitter but I subsequently put out a clarification in this help page with a much clearer (and detailed) explanation of how our news rankings actually work: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/ne...

From that page: "When we apply our own ranking signals we do so in a strictly non-political manner, meaning we don’t evaluate or otherwise take into account any potential political bias or leanings of websites in our search result rankings."
You can work with independent studios but you're not going to get distribution.

Tyranny is a pretty hefty word for "can't get a particular job without agreeing to the rules of the employer"
No, it doesn't, but you're a hypocrite if you don't.

If you think there's nothing wrong with the idea that "censorship is good as long as I'm not the one being censored", I don't know what to tell you.
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Very interesting, so it could be that depression is essentially a race condition in the brain.
> religious organizations will start offering (voluntary, in first world countries) censorship services to their members

I have seen something similar to this in the wild. Members of a church install spyware on their home computer that church officials can access to snoop on their internet traffic for "accountability" reasons. Members are shamed for looking at any content deemed wrong.

One young man got in trouble for looking at SFW images of models. Turned out he wasn't even the one who had visited the site, it was his sister looking at fashion ideas.
Person that sells cars for commuting wants people to commute. News at 11.
1 part pg and 3 parts _why maybe.
Note that you can turn off advertisements in DDG. Not sure how long that business model will continue to last, but I would _happily_ pay money to not see ads and blog spam on my serps. You need to trust your search engine before you can trust just about anything else you find on the internet, and I truly feel like Google is no longer a trustworthy company.
Bing prompt is hilarious. And so wrong in so many ways.
Watching the video that is linked on that page.

at 2:30 he states "anytime that somebody says that they've already paid a debt that you have in your make sure that you have them send you a letter and make sure you specify that you need a release letter..."

How about you prove that I actually owe the debt and then we'll talk.
Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already [Rodney Brooks Interview]
Eyes on the poor: Cameras, facial recognition watch over public housing
1) maybe? this is just a hacker device for now. You can easily add a USB LTE modem if you'd like.

2) battery life will depend on which OS you use, peripherals, software duty cycle etc. It's a hacker device, don't expect it to work without putting in the effort to tune/tweak it.
Do you put "everything" in "quotations" all the "time"?
Can you really not see how this will automate harm at massive parallelized scale?

Even if you're nearsighted you can see how the internet will in short order be rendered useless by fake real-time interaction and digital malice. Look at how much automated ssh poking you get on an IP address. Look at how much email you receive without a comprehensive spam filter (it's much more than shows up in your Gmail spam folder). If we combine that level of relentless volume and speed with moderate skills at hacking, fraud, influence campaigns, abuse, and so on, the internet will break.

Look at the all the plugins GPT-4 has already. Do you really think if a system with those capabilities, with evil intent, running millions of threads, wouldn't cause untold levels of harm? If not, then at which point do you push for regulation? Do you wait until anyone can build a literal terminator in their basement? Openai is already working on robotic control models, so that's not likely not far off.

All I see are mindless silicon valley tech-optimists who can't see the forest for the trees.
“bail” refers exclusively to pre-trial conditions. Not only is she post-conviction, she is post-sentencing, so bail has nothing to do with it. Generally white collar defendants get some time to get their affairs in order before incarceration. She is arguably abusing that time and trying her best to extend it via appeals.
DDG honestly have better results for me. Google usually have worse results when i cannot find what i want on DDG and use the !g command.
> Like indie hackers, the site has been infiltrated by business lizards and marketers along with more of the masses leading to a lower signal to noise ratio.

Infiltrated? Have you seen the company that owns it?
>That's a shame

Is it a shame? Could the guy instead have written an article entitled, "How to Protect Yourself (and Others) From the Worst Abuses of Debt Collectors"?
CNIL disagrees and says you can need them to secure your service. Legitimate interest (art. 6(1)f) is applicable (recital 49). You can also be required by law to keep them for some time, so legal requirement is applicable (art. 6(1)c). Other uses may require consent.

Cf: https://www.cnil.fr/sites/default/files/atoms/files/recomman... (in French, though)
Wish I lived in a state that would let me use psilocybin! I first tried bupropion, and now I take a smaller dose of that + fluoxetine. I suspect the bupropion is superfluous at this point but I'm making slow, controlled changes.
At meta and google they certainly don’t make more, the L6 manager and engineer bands are the same. Same for l7. At director level the bands are so wide it may not be the same between ic and managers even if it is in theory.
Most of those are ads and targeting.
> I don't know if it's really possible to change public ignorance,

Let me clear that up for you, no, it is not possible. Society is suffering willful ignorance in so many aspects of day-to-day life that this is not going to change in our lifetimes if ever.
By the time you arrived the first time it had already changed quite a bit from when I joined so this is more or less expected. The big inflection points to me were 2009 (before Dec 2008 when I joined I was just lurking) and 2016.
Everyone in this comment thread seems to have a different definition of staff engineer. And that is kind of the problem with this term. It's almost devoid of any meaning now, like the ubiquitous VP title at a bank.

This book should probably be titled "Being a staff engineer at big tech - how to navigate the performance process to get promoted as an IC". From my brief skim, that seems to be what it's about.
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I think in this case, the functionality outright broke - that is, this is a bug - due to how their indexing works. The CEO (HN user yegg) talked about it a bit in another post - they modified their READMEs to remove mention of some operators because they're malfunctioning.

So they still get the benefit of the doubt (as you say, the other choices are just Google) but the real test will be in how they communicate about this going forward and whether they fix it.
I was lucky to grow up in a tropical seaside city in Mexico. Mangoes and papayas were everywhere. Papayas never went to waste, but mangoes were almost a plague, old trees will drop kilos of ripened mangoes every day, and some people had several trees in their backyard.

Our house didn't have a tree, but you could take a bag and just walk around the neighborhood, because people put fresh mangoes on their fences for others to take for free before they spoiled. Naturally ripened mangoes are indeed on a different level, but they last so little before fermenting because they're very sweet.
If you had to choose between Kennedy, Clinton, or Trump as the CEO of your company, would they seem equivalent?
Having read the article to the end - it was an extremely bad article.
Hey dang. That's fair.

To be frank, we went back and forth on this, but in the end, thought the original title was ok. The only other large, "open source" dataset we could find was 9M. So after researching, we came to the conclusion that it sounded clickbaity, but was likely accurate.

And yes on "open source". We fully intend for this to be "open source" in the full meaning of the word, but it seems we were moving too fast and missed adding the formal license.
I think there exists a group of people who are actually attracted to doing things that are unethical because the association in a lot of business that unethical = profitable can create some really strong priors. Like, if something is unethical, it will make some people more interested than if it was ethical, because they've associated unethical business with incredible profits.
It's size is what turned me off most about the devterm. I would be much more tempted by a device just a bit bigger. This[1] blog post has good pictures, one next to a DVD case for size comparison.

[1] https://www.talospace.com/2022/05/mini-review-clockwork-pi-d...
Both were existing companies bought up by him, with the "founder" title included. Also, paying salaries for talent is very different from having said talent oneself. He has no expert knowledge on anything, one might have thought that at least he is good at programming (paypal), but look at twitter, he ain't good even at that.
Because AM is frustratingly simple.
you're avoiding the question.
A cyber attack that publicizes your patient records database or wipes your production configs are also "bad words" if you type them in a terminal.
Ubuntu is not vanilla gnome at all. It's very heavily modified.
I love reading salty HN comments.

Debt (credit) is and will be a crucial part of any functioning economy and society. It's been around for millennia [0]

[0]The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest is a wonderful book on subject.
DDG grew up being a whitelabeled version of Bing. As far as I understand, DDG has since started implementing more of their own search patterns and results, but has not completely removed themselves from Bing
As noted, there are some orgs trying to actually discharge debts this way. You should try hooking up with one of them, they probably know what they legal/administrative tasks to do it are.
Mistakes may be the next (extremely short lived) way we tell a bit from human, once 'correcting by plugin' becomes automatic in various pipelines. We get plenty of that, but we have the option to be lazy.
I can't believe I've been here since 2010.
There is this android app called background video recorder that records in background, with screen off and screen on. Just mount the phone high enough on the dashboard. It can go for hours without any heating, if you select a little lower resolution.
> to not use the absolute cheapest approach

Can I just say -- you rock. I've been a renter my whole life (I prefer it that way), and I appreciate when the property owner steps in to keep property management companies from being total cheapskates with repairs. It makes sense -- it's the owner's investment, after all, and I don't mind paying a bit of a premium for a place that is well maintained.
Have you tried removing it and checking the results? Could it be that this is a cargo cult, people using You, simply because it was present in the ChatGPT prompt at the time it got leaked?
It's not clear to me how your statement disagrees with mine.
I want to buy my friends debt for cheap. What's the usual discount on this?