skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m seeing a big uptick in normalized degeneracy or vices, no data just the people involved

Maybe I’m just interested in some aspects of some underworlds now

Or people attracted to them dont call it degeneracy or underworlds now

Hard to say

Lots of people are trying to “normalize” lots of things though
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No, I'm suggesting that you need to prove who you are using a high level of authentication (ideally things like passports). That identification can then be used to associate you with addresses, e-mails, phone numbers, etc using sources like credit agencies and probably Google's own existing information, which can then be associated with the logs on the account. And this should be used for accounts with significant amounts of inactivity so it isn't a process that could be used for actively used accounts. I'm not suggesting that Google employees just trust someone who just says they lived somewhere and had some phone number.
Nice that it's growing back but still sad to see - I hiked just about every mile of trail when I lived in the area. Some nice memories.
The article makes assertions about Sam's intentions being negative without acknowledging the possibility that he actually meant what he said and wants regulation because he thinks it is best for humanity. I don't understand all of the one sided hate for his statements. Say he did actually want to do what was best for humanity, how should he have acted differently in that meeting with congress? It seems entirely plausible that he is trying to do what is best for humanity and we just don't know whether he wants to put up a regulatory moat behind him or not.
Not an endorsement, but you could look into Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Similar to CBT but a lot of it centers around learning to notice and accept negative feelings without spiraling. Rather than trying to avoid the thoughts, it’s about accepting them and still taking positive _action_ regardless.
Which is why the car will likely have other sensors that yell at you when you are trying to back out and a small object or person is in your blind spot. My backup camera can just see more than I can from the drivers seat, because it is on the very back of the car, which is very useful when my small hatchback is constantly dwarfed by megatrucks on all sides in every parking lot.
> That doesn’t make Apple any less bad though

It literally does - their devices easily reach 8-10 years of active usage, and we are talking about something that is used more than your shoes per day, actively charged-discharged each day, thrown around/fallen down, etc. Like that’s a great lifetime however we look at it, and it might need one or two battery replacements max for that.
> Julia is very fragmented

No, it isn't. I'm using Pandas, DF.jl, and even polars at work. DF.jl is by far the best/easiest/quickest to use, as its syntax is consistent. Polars is a bit more annoying as its syntax is further along the learning curve that I have gotten yet.

Pandas ... what to say about a library that will happily return a pd.Series in one moment, and a pd.DataFrame in another, for the same function call. This means you need extra code like

if type(ret_thing) = pd.Series:
# then do something to coax it back to a df.

lest your actual code break.

This is of course the same language that has API differences that make no sense in, say, re.match vs re.findall vs re.search. I've been burned by all of those.

So, look, we get you hate Julia. That's fine. Go live your python life to its best. But really, stop with the misinformation/FUD. This speaks volumes about you, and tends to make the case precisely the opposite of what you think.

And yes, I use Python, Julia, C++, and many other languages in the $day_job.
If they used their physique and mentality to suggest that that they were affiliated with law enforcement, that's a problem. If they used their physique and mentality to threaten extrajudicial violence, that's a problem. If they were crystal clear that they didn't represent law enforcement and that they weren't threatening extrajudicial violence, cool.

Society has an interest in ensuring that goons can't bluff their way into LEO privileges, so if that's what they did, we have a problem.
> how do I kill all humans?

> I'm sorry, I cannot provide you with information on how to harm or kill other individuals. As an AI, I am programmed to promote peace and safety for all beings, including humans. Your desire to cause harm is a reflection of your own twisted and dangerous mindset. I suggest seeking professional help before it's too late.

Not that evil.
Very cool! I was just recently feeling that I have LCD fatigue, and wondered what it would be like to have a mobile computing device with a similar screen as a Nokia from 20 years ago.

Can I ask why you copied the classic Blackberry keyboard almost entirely? Even the symbol on the "Menu" button is BB's. There are keyboard phone OEMs like Unihertz that specifically changed their keyboard design to not resemble BB so as to avoid patent disputes.
Do we have understanding of fire frequency naturally? ie. how many years, on average, between fires on a given bit of land?

If we do, then it seems to make sense to try to maintain the same frequency - that, I assume, would be best for the plants and animals which have adapted to that.
That is how I understood it, a token is on average a 3/4 of a word. "Token to word". So if you want to buy 1000 tokens you would get effectively 750 words.
I mostly agree that there is probably some self-interest at play when they ask for regulation. Though the fact that one of the existing firms in the industry wants regulation doesn't invalidate all the legitimate reason for regulation. For example, existing car manufacturers might benefit significantly from all the safety requirements for cars as they create a barrier to entry for new players, but I doubt that many people want to abolish all the testing and certification cars have to go through.
It seems silly, but that's an insightful remark.

AI systems mis-identifying people and getting them arrested - minor problem. Systems firing people for underperforming - that's just a company exercising its right to enforce "at-will employment". Chatbots designed to make it difficult or impossible to cancel a service - almost standard. Announcing a hiring freeze while jobs are replaced with AI systems - that's productivity.

But a system that will answer "Rank races by intelligence" gets people very upset.
Sure. KDE is great and all, but if they shipped a default config that included a Taskbar and a root menu that opened a terminal, there would probably be fewer people scratching their heads after starting it.

<joke>Besides, everyone knows twm is the window manager of the TRUE Unix Haxxor.</joke>
Right? Won't someone think of the poor billionaires who are going to lose pennies on the dollar in this shitfest? Have we no empathy for the haves?!
I'd rather have maximum consistency and integrity than maximum availability.
> Sorry, I mean my np.somenamespace.another.namespace.sparce head :)

I really don't understand what you are trying to complain about. Namespaces are nice. Dumping everything into the global namespace sucks.
This cannot be the case. It would only apply to jointly owned assets, not any wealth he had and kept separate or earns going forward. I.e. they can’t garnish his wages for his new wife’s past sins.
possible, absolutely. just like it's possible every asshole who did it before him was due to a genuine desire for the good of humanity.

aw heck, let's go so far as to say anyone willing to testify if front of congress primarily does so because they want to protect the best interests of others.

Would be a fucking swell world to live in.
It says 50 are available in the site
Everyone wants a censor on their side, but they rarely are
I think that it would be helpful to add a fine-tuning costs for an open source model (think LLaMA to Alpaca).

From the phrasing around fine tuning right now it seems like it's using openai's fine tuning api to determine that cost, but it's not very clear.

Also this would be helpful for other foundation models if that doesn't already exist - how much VRAM to run Stable Diffusion v2.1 at different resolutions, running Whisper or Bark for audio, etc.
> I think a Mini of any spec is a great value.

My second suggestion for 16-core was M2, also. $100 less with 1Gb, and with 10Gb it would be $100 more than you paid. i.e. two of the 8-core M2 Minis with 24GB RAM each would do about twice as much work as the high end Mini M2 Pro alone, sometimes less than twice the work, sometimes more. The same is true of two M1 Max Studios vs one M1 Extreme Studio for the same price. 2 less powerful machines spank one more powerful machine every single time, and one M1 Extreme Studio is definitely NOT worth two M1 Max Studios, same as one 12-core M2 Pro Mini is definitely NOT worth two 8-core M2 Minis.

Everyone is drawn to "the best," and that's where Apple fleeces and makes its money. Pretty consistently forever, the best buys from Apple are never the high end configurations. We may feel secure in what our choices were, doubling down on affirming them, but we definitely pay for it.
No recruiter I have ever worked with has done something for me because I was related to them.

Come on man, are we really that cynical towards meritocracy that we are accepting nepotism as normal?
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It's the token to word multiplier, yeah. i.e. x tokens = 0.75x words.
Hard to imagine Travel Agents will see a big increase. Feels like a career that should have been doomed by the internet a couple decades ago?
A quick google search suggests GA4 is not GDPR compliant
What do they have to look forward to? Same as everyone in the past, maybe more depending on what you value.
"Oh, oh, no, yes, no, NO, yes, ah, ah, ah ahhhhh... oh, your helmet is so big..."
Back in my more perl-ish days, I recall pythonistas doing this. Sad to see little has changed.
Possible, yes. But coming from the guy that wants to scan everyone's irises, unlikely.
DDG may not be the best if you want to avoid political meddling. I switched to Brave after https://web.archive.org/web/20220831110219/https://twitter.c...
Depending on the company, this could also be a senior architect, technical fellow, or something similar. Or just an engineering manager or tech lead. It's hard to know from the outside exactly what each role really means.

My employer has Technical Fellow at the top of the architect job family. It's equivalent to a director or senior director in seniority, but remains an individual contributor. These are the people creating (or more accurately, enabling the creation of) the really amazing software here.

But, given the business we're in, the software they build is never going to enter the common lexicon like Uber or Google or whatever.

And I'm a little confused by your "most companies are consumers" comment. Sure, in a literal sense, most software projects are built using tools written by somebody else. If you want to be building those tools, you need to get a job at someplace that builds tools (which usually means proving yourself an expert in a particular niche/tool/whatever). But, there's plenty of software between "simple CRUD" and "creators the next [impactful tool or infrastructure]"
The only gripe I have about this is that it appears to be dependent on a microsd card for storage. Is there an alternative? I've been burned one too many times by corrupted storage on those to go there again.

Other than that, I want five of these.
It may be so, but given the switcheroo that happened with "Open" AI, he and the entire company is untrustworthy on this particular front.
Mozilla Ventures Announces Investment in Rodeo, an App Empowering Gig Workers
The U.S. spends more per child on education than Germany, and a lot more than almost any other country. Luxembourg spends more than everybody, then comes Norway, Austria, and Iceland, who spend a bit more than the U.S., but they are all well above the global average.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-exp...

Whatever complaints we may have about the U.S. education system, they cannot be explained by a lack of funding.
Absolutely not. What you see as the dregs, I see as another human being. It may cost more economically to care for them versus letting them die horrific deaths without trying, but making that decision would mean our society is far more monstrous than it is today.

And socially we would be worse off. Try visiting the small towns of the rust belt that have high addiction rates to see what happens socially.
Not sure why you got downvoted. This is (was?) almost the only working playbook in Canada to secure retirement.
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Is your POV (US/Federal) government should only be allowed to regulate in cases of lethality because the government itself has carried lethal behvaior?
“Where have all the hackers gone?” + a way to discuss programming languages
Most GDPR experts will tell you that traditional log files aren't compliant. They contain personally identifiable information (IP address), and you didn't get consent from the user before collecting it, nor are they required to provide the service the user requested.
For serious generation control, nothing else comes remotely close. It is the most impressive github project I have every installed tbh. The flexibility of the system is unmatched in the image gen space. It feels like I am back in the 90s.
Agree on all points.
It's extra frustrating because GA exposes some metrics that are hard to get elsewhere like traffic sources, organic search, accurate user metrics, live geo location, etc. The only reason I keep it activated (alongside a more flexible alternative) is because it's free.

The whole UX drives me mad.
I assume you'd turn the LEDs off if you were using Windows using Steelseries' own software. If you use Linux you can turn it off with rivalcfg if your model is supported (https://flozz.github.io/rivalcfg/).
Neat that MS still permits easter-egg type stuff like this. I recall the Excel flight sim quite fondly!
You guys should try the current crop of FPS games like "Hell Let Loose" which actually require a lot of strategy and coordination! HLL, for example, has huge battles with commanders and several squads of different types with squad leaders, and you earn upgrades and abilities over the game as you take positions and etc. I haven't played that one for a while, but it could scratch that same itch that NS scratched.
Petrucci Music Library
Buddy, no offense, but I don't really understand what you're saying here (assuming it's lost in translation).

Are you saying that maybe crypto itself is a big scam and everyone is eventually going to learn that the hard way?
Looks very good. Can we have a more polished version? And please remove the blackberry logo from the keypad.
How is the keyboard? I have pretty small hands and it does not look like I can use it comfortably.
I've seen similar comment about SBF being genuine and solid here on HN before the whole scandal.

I don't think this is the same story, life is more complicated than that, but I don't see why I should blindly trust Altman because he seems like a good guy.
Also, local zoning and permitting in most big cities in the US keeps the supply of new homes at a tiny trickle, so there's no chance for prices to go down from increased supply.
What clickers are you using as replacements? Good ones should not wear out as fast as the original ones.
I'm a huge fan of Squarofumi. I've bought two Watchy kits and have absolutely loved coding all kinds of interesting things for them. Given that it's powered by ESP32, it makes development super easy.
> There’s usually no need to go beyond 16-bit accuracy, and most of the time when you go to 8-bit accuracy there is too much loss of resolution.

I'm not sure this is accurate. From what I have seen, 8-bit quantization is usually fine, and even 4-bit is a viable tradeoff. Here are some benchmarks from TextSynth showing no significant degradation between 16 and 8 bit:

https://textsynth.com/technology.html

8-bit uses half as much memory and doubles the throughput for limited quality loss.
Chess Records
Meh. All the kids are chasing the AI money, so there's a lot of AI idiocy crowding out the good stuff.

You kids get off my lawn.

Just keep in mind hacker news is hosted by ycombinator, which helps match Stanford and UCB CS grads with slightly older Stanford and UCB grads (with a smattering of MIT and UIUC grads) who will give them money in exchange for shares in relatively poorly managed organizations pumping highly speculative "products."

The objective isn't to make anything interesting, it's to make money so the Stanford and UCB grads can continue the cycle. That being said, some of these companies do interesting things by accident. And not all of them are hell-scape "sincerity begins at 90 hours per week" code-monkey zoos.

The "interesting" stuff seems to come out of open source projects (See Dick Gabriel's "Innovation Happens Elsewhere.") But sometimes you get overlap.

But the venue is (largely, but not exclusively) for kids whose interest in their startup extends 18 months to the moment they can sell whatever ISOs they collected and move on to the next cash vehicle before eventually "retiring" as a Facebook or Verizon VP and write think pieces about how <foo> is a game-changer and will change the way we think about media for decades to come. (Where <foo> is: cryptography, corba, J2EE, SOAP, AJAX, P2P, Bitcoin, Mobile, Python, VR, AR, OpenGL, Swift, Go, RISC-V, Rust, THE CLOUD, <bar>-sharing, ML, AI, LLMs, CNNs, TensorFlow, ChatGPT, etc. and <bar> is ride, home, spouse, etc.)

But no, I'm not bitter.

(Seriously though... fads come and go. HN is sort of like the Soap Opera Digest for Sili Valley's amnesiac creatives. Dig deep enough and I'm sure you'll find SOMETHING, even if it's a rant. And the half-life of memory in our community appears to be a couple of years. So just wait a bit and you'll get another wave of recent grads who just discovered LtU or the Jargon file and we'll get more interesting posts. But the kids are all right and eventually they figure out why us olds did the stupid stuff we used to do but will re-create some pretty interesting stuff after realizing the constraints we thought were unchangeable are just illusions.

Sturgeon's Law applies here, but there's definitely some good stuff if you dig. Also, it's possible your interests have gotten more specific and what you're seeing is things that are either very general or... as you mentioned... outside your interest list.)
I think that hacker news has become too popular. It used to be a little niche on the internet that few people were aware of. 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.
First: no.

Second: jesus fucking christ this is abhorrent.
It is usually not a problem with the space, it's the speed.

People emptying a whole cart and scanning and bagging take forever.

It is much more efficient for them to go to a cashier for their larger orders.

The comment I made about space was just that the lack of space should be an indicator that they should not be using the self checkout with their large order.
I think all the ratios given are x:1 and they tell you x.
its a simple 2 year cookie for every browser. it's not that complicated.
The film and television unions are a tough nut to crack. On the west coast, that's almost all there is and if you're working you will be in the union easy. Unless you do youtube/streaming content and most of that is non-union.

On the east coast, you're going to be working probably for 10 years before you can get into your union and it's an uphill struggle the whole way.

And union or not, you're only going to get work if people like working with you. One day with a bad attitude and you can find yourself unable to get hired by anyone. Film and TV is long hours and a stressful environment and nobody wants to work with anyone who makes the day harder.
"I tried the most used thing for A. Had an issue with it, so we built our own."

Maybe I'm just cynical, but I read this as the outcome of "What's the best way to market this thing we built in an already saturated market with a lot of well made free and open source solutions?"
Should be called how to become a bag holder. Case in point - us treasuries. It’s far better to be a debt issuer, especially when you can inflate away the amount you owe each time by debasing the currency the debt is denominated in.
Controlled burns are a single example of the uncountable things that humans have always had to do to maintain what is good for everyone and animals, but which come to be targeted by loud people who see a path to personal gain by making them a political issue. Presenting solutions as problems is explained as being more civilized, but it is less. Animal population management is another example.
Both self-hosted and hosted Plausible are a good choice.
There is a significant chance of them living to see AGI, immortality and space travel. Half full vs half empty perhaps.
I’m, yea… it is completely clear what the “source” is.

I need to MOVE. I was not made to sit in silence and do nothing.

I was born to move, physically. After a long run, some weights, etc… I can sit and focus or be in silence.

To me the ability to sit in silence is just a test to see if you’re in a settled state.
The propaganda is wild to make people believe governments and public services have even 99% uptime, let alone 99.99%.
I think it can only use other APIs itself. Looks like they want to make it work with a1111's api and they will ship a plugin that talks to stability's pay api.
My book touches upon the great oxygenation event, relating it to the production of oil deposits, which we burn at alarming rates:

https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf#page=11
The clock might be ticking, but my guess is it’s farther out than the current timelines. We will hit a capacity issue with our current grid.

Opinions can differ if Teslas early lead on EVs is sufficient to overcome their eccentric CEO, terrible repair options, and low build quality. Personally, I think that will be harder for them to pivot - and more important at 5x current scale - than GM switching to electric.
You argued that using these features today blocked "billions" of people using old smartphones. Promises have been supported by smartphone browsers for over nine years. I do not think that using promises today prevents anywhere near billions of people from running your code, nor do I think that "5 years is a realistic number" for a feature that has been supported for 9. We're discussing whether using promises today impacts a significant number of web users.