skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great writeup. I use a KV store for work, but only because the alternative for our data size (>1PB, >1 trillion keys), sharded sql, is totally awful. Distributed KV stores like foundationDB, dynamoDB actually do offer transactions , which is a huge win and I think their main selling point.

I guess I'm like you - I really don't understand why someone who had another choice would opt in to a KV store (barring something like memcache, or something really high performance using an embedded KV store).
> Is there anything to prevent the pay for our most important and meaningful jobs from approaching zero?

The real blackpill here is that there's very little evidence that teachers matter at all. I mean somebody has to be there to supervise the kids and read from the workbook and it'd be nice if it were somebody trustworthy and reliable, so we might want to require proxies for that (like a 4-year degree), but beyond that the evidence just isn't there that it matters that much.

I reject the entire premise, in other words. Teachers do work that needs to be done, but they aren't individually important and almost anybody can do it. That's why the work isn't more remunerative. (Although it actually pays quite well (in the U.S. at least) for what it is.)
I think about this as shape and color. No one ever saw a shape that wasn’t colored and likewise there are no colored things that do not have a shape.
Also, displaying text without a font is not possible.
Text is the surface of the ocean where waves emerge, and while they have their own properties and may seem to naively have agency, they are an expression of the underlying ocean.
Have you thought of doing the same with an e-ink screen?

I would find it awesome to get work done while in nature.
To be clear, Bedrock Linux does not hang during sleep. Rather, it cannot enter sleep consistently; if it fails to, it simply continues on as it was operating before the request to suspend. The underlying issue is a long standing The Linux kernel bug [0] in which it cannot reliably suspend if FUSE is in use. When the kernel detects this scenario, it simply doesn't suspend, but rather logs its difficulty to dmesg. This is not specific to Bedrock, but hits all projects on Linux which leverage Linux's FUSE functionality [1]. It probably hits Netflix's ndrive as well.

In the few months since my comment you've linked, I've put some work into a possible FUSE-less Bedrock implementation. It will likely have some downsides compared to a FUSE-based solution, but the trade-off may be worthwhile for some users. While it's too early to commit to this, I'm hoping to eventually support switching between a FUSE-mode and a non-FUSE-mode with a reboot to allow users to pick the desired trade-off in the desired contexts.

[0] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34932 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198879 https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2011/10/msg00412.html

[1] https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/12458 https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/issues/248 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sshfs-fuse/+bug/17...
Is there anything more on this language? I do not understand this example source code, but I'd really like to.
18th Amendment: US Nationwide Prohibition of Alcohol (1920)
Where do people get the ROMs? For research purpose.
He doesn't say that, but it's a claim that would be consistent with his argument in the second half of the piece. Despite being obviously ridiculous.
Not broken. Use it everyday.
Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse vision is over. Can Apple save it?
"In a piece of research commissioned by Meta this month, the Deloitte consultancy said that the metaverse could contribute “between £40bn and £75bn in additional GDP [gross domestic product]” to the UK alone by 2035."

Just shows how consultancy companies are deeply involved in the hype and how delusional they are.
Could you run it once to get the A+ version, then feed it back that version saying "change x% of these words to be unlikely choices in a way that keeps all the meanings of the essay" to avoid letting the low-probability words hamper the main contents, just the way it's described?
San Francisco office values fall
in wealthy California, legally mandated education money is relentlessly diverted into obscure and opaque mechanisms, and rarely to teachers. Add multiple layers of political shifting, constant political bickering where promises for benefits much later (retirement) are played at the same time as the first part. Combine with housing policy, lending practices and asset bubbles, and a similar economic result is playing out here, across the entire State.
For the stuff the flip phone used to do. Soemtimes OEM androids can replace normal features with their own garbage. A better media player and safer browser is a good idea too.

It really doesn't matter to the point of the story though.
> Jobs pay as much as it costs to replace you

It also depends on the minimum competence people will tolerate. There's plenty of competent people who would consider teaching if the compensation was worthwhile. It all depends on how much a country and its voting population care about education and how much more in taxes are they willing to pay to support that.
GPT-4: Place the book down first. Position the laptop flat on the book. Stack the cabbages in a pyramid on laptop. Balance the bottle on top. Insert the nail into the bottle cork.
I'm not sure about Australian culture and I think it's a disservice to educators to think GPT can realistically just replace them, but accepting that premise for a moment, in the US, much of the public education system acts as a tax subsidized babysitting service for the labor force. People rely to high degrees that their children are being watched and to some degree taken care of for a large portion of the day by educators while they work. Childcare is absurdly expensive.

So while parents have varying degrees of interest in the quality of education their children receive in terms of what public education can and does, the vast majority of people have a high degree of reliance on that public subsidized childcare portion. For some, education is a side effect, for others it's the entire reason (because they can financially support childcare service or private education).

In the US, I don't see any LLM replacing that function anytime soon. Could public education reshape to become a better optimized child care service where a future system could substitute the education function need? Perhaps. I'm not entirely sure we should want that as a species but all hail optimal capitalism for our overlords. We're not there yet, however.
They are not threading the line. This is outright autogenerated spam.
Quite expensive renovation. how much would it cost to build another one today
That's right, they're not available.

From testing as I developed this, I noticed that certain emojis often lead to complaints from GPT 3.5 about how the combinations were too generic. After some really basic testing I ended up removing the 3 worst offenders from the emoji picker: ['+1','-1','okay_hand'].
It’s not really a capitalism thing (private ownership) as much as a free market/market economy thing. Although intertwined they aren’t necessarily the same thing. IMO a lot of gripes about “capitalism” are really grievances with competing in the market economy.
I tend to avoid stack based recursion when the application/routine could require unbound traversal depth (eg: depth is controlled by some non deterministic input, like user data). The last example that comes to mind was building an new enterprise financial rebalancer which needed to support dynamic asset model resolution. In a model, assets were dynamically associated via tagged characteristics. Models also supported including other models as children, so they were well represented with a stack like structure. This was a .NET based code base, which meant StackOverflow exceptions couldn't be caught (they immediately terminated the process unless some icky work arounds were used). For those reasons, we used heap based recursion to walk and resolve the final in memory model structure.
Here's an idea: tack it on as complimentary to the Apple Car. Sunk cost, so all the whales buy it and you get more locked into the Apple ecosystem!
Reading this, I did think "I want a pony". And also, "if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a bicycle". The world we have is the world we've been given and stacks are a scarce resource simply because they actually run out. Wishing otherwise doesn't change anything.
If economics were zero sum, wealthy countries would cause a decrease in the standard of living in other countries. Over the last hundred years worldwide basic education and literacy are closing in on practical limits while child mortality has decreased to what’s close to its practical limit. Is that because all countries became economically wealthy or because enough value was added into the world economy that excesses could be used to provide education and sanitation to people regardless of their status in the world?
I think in general the costs of low productivity sectors tend to outpace the average which kind of negates additional spending (we see that already, educational spending has grown a lot over the years).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect
That’s just component cost though, right? Now apply Apple’s typical margins on hardware to it.
Looking at high level numbers like citations is the cope. For instance, an individual researcher can have very high h-index scores while it would give no indication the relative merit of another researcher who has h-index score 1/100 of the original. The numbers are so context dependent as to become meaningless in almost all comparisons.
>yt-fts is a simple python script that uses yt-dlp to scrape all of a youtube channels subtitles and load them into an sqlite database that is searchable from the command line

"Scrape all of YouTube subtitles"

So if that data is not good...then how is this useful. The captions in YouTube have been pretty bad. Are these the same thing? I'll test it out.
Give it 5 years, and we'll have GPT-edu providing personalized tutoring at scale. Then all you need is someone to keep the kids in line.

Pay extra for the version trained on the classics.
https://r-roms.github.io/
Is your definition of fixing to remove the most obvious indicators that you autogrenerated spam or actually removing the spam?
Wasn't expecting the "why" section to be at the bottom, since that's where I'm used to seeing license and contribution info. Might be worth linking to that at the top of your readme so folks don't miss it. I was specifically looking for why shields.io wasn't good enough, and found my answer there.
Voyage of the Space Beagle (A. E. van Vogt)
It's probably more of a rear view-mirror than your typical rear-view mirror.
This does not seem to be doing anything. It's also being removed from the url bar when the page loads.
How do you know the source hasn’t been tampered with, or outright backfired by the author?

I don’t think any distribution mechanism will solve the “how can I trust these bytes I got from the internet” problem.
This only really applies if you're offering direct access to the Dragonfly wire protocol or something along those lines, not if you're merely using Dragonfly it as part of your product. Building, say, a Twitter clone on Dragonfly is perfectly fine. You're interpreting this exceedingly broad.
Pricing is highly dynamic for Uber and Lyft, changes minute to minute. I can't imagine Google can predict this well. Any idea how they do this? I can't imagine Uber and Lyft make this open. I just tried it and only Lyft is available in my google maps app and they said the range for one ride was $76-90 and the actual in Lyft was $66.
>Yes millions of people across multiple countries/continents

There doesn’t need to be collusion if it is in everyone’s self interest.

If it is in the interest of wealth preservation to buy and then control land which will be less affected by climate change, investments will go there.

It’s not a huge leap from there to ‘walled utopia’ especially if the landmass is small.

Maybe it also ‘makes sense’ in someone’s calculus to cut social and educational spending. Maybe this calculus is present in multiple countries.
> I did look - at the README of the linked site

That's looking for the wrong thing. Us Linux users see things like that all the time: proprietary software has a download page that only lists Windows (and sometimes macOS) but never Linux.

But we don't stop there. We don't look for a reason to abandon hope (or worse, complain idly). We look for a way to run that software on Linux. And usually, it is a lot harder than this case.

>> ocicl (...) only works on Linux

> I don't see a reason why the author(s) of ocicle should lie to me.

Is it not obvious? They aren't lying. They're being clear. As they go on to say, in the very same sentence: ", but adapting to other systems and platforms should not be difficult."

If you'd looked for a way to run it on your niche operating system, like me, you'd have found an easy way. And, maybe, you could have even contributed the solution to the project, as it says two sentences after where you stopped reading and decided to idly complain in a thread on an unrelated forum.
What a travesty. Why even go to school, then? Are getting good marks that much more valuable than the actual education you would receive if you didn’t cheat?

Any institution that produces this outcome has its priorities completely out of whack. And any student who willingly and energetically participates in such a system must be completely vapid, short-sighted and materialistic.

It would be a real shame for your country if this kind of behavior were common throughout. It would surely result in a situation where the most powerful and highly esteemed are without integrity.
The only legal way is to dump them from your own hacked Wii.
I've had arguments about this and don't understand the worries. Although it depends on what people do with it specifically and the context, most uses of LLMs are perfectly reasonable and legitimate, and quite comparable to other tools like spell correction and CAS calculators. In exams, you might not want to allow them, but in almost every other context they make sense and everyone will use them soon anyway.

There is one caveat: If the LLM counts as an author, then it needs to receive proper attribution in academia at least as a co-author. But so far I wouldn't say it is possible to create anything of quality solely with an LLM and these models are used for partial content like style and spelling correction software.

To put it another way, I see no reason why a writing instructor shouldn't base their assessments on the quality of the writing. Who has written it and how much the LLM can be attributed as an author is another question and doesn't really concern the writing process. Writers will soon use LLMs in all domains, just like they transitioned from typewriter to word processor. They will be integrated into every major word processor anyway.
Is it as effective as what you did? Did you need an API key for yours to work? What was your cost per video?
Because we focus on building the most
awesome datastore and you should decide whether you prefer having your store designed by good marketeers or good engineers.
Several comments about the budgeting issue in public schools, but what about teacher pay in private schools? Is it higher? Are private school teachers unionized? Because absent institutional constraints teacher pay would be more market based. My anecdotal evidence says the market still doesn't highly value traditional teaching, meaning teaching a class in a traditional school.
I bill based on the value of the deliverable. Billing by the hour just sets you up for conflict and micromanagement. Bill for what you deliver. If it takes you forever, that is on you. If you get it done in no time, you get good money for having the skills to deliver.
I think the word 'fulfilling' is more fitting than 'meaningful', and it's very subjective. Some garbagemen genuinely take pride in their work.
Is it teaching people anything? I suspect it's just enabling the "author" to spend even less time actively thinking about whatever task they're performing.
A good middle ground would be an equivalent to F-Droid, where the developer can only submit the source code and the code is either compiled by F-Droid, or it is verified as a reproducible build.

https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Reproducible_Builds/
DEC basically ended up getting commoditized by Linux; they still had momentum when moving from VAX to Alpha. In the early 90s they were able to migrate many of their VAX/VMS users to Alpha/OpenVMS and their Ultrix users to OSF-1, but by the end of the 90s, many of their ISVs had released Linux versions of their products. SGI at least had niche applications that let them hang on independently for a bit longer.

DECs offerings really couldn't compete with that, and there was noting Compaq/HP could do about it.
Wait. I just thought iOS App Store has manual review process with human? And it gains reputation by kill all suspicious applications before published to App Store?
In any economy there will be sectors that experience rapid growth and sectors that don't. The former will raise salaries, the latter will be impacted, because people have choice. With raising salaries you get raising rents, and this teachers get priced out.
Why do teachers only work 190 days in Australia? Here in Germany it definitely is a full time job if you include preparation of class and corrections.
Tree goes in a proprietary socket too, I assume.
i softmodded my ps4 to run pirate copies.
I have been using Corne since last year and want to switch to Dilemma - it really seems like a great option. I wonder if anyone has found any drawbacks against it?

If not I am going to buy the Dilemma this week.
Thank you!

I ended up trying to funnel people towards the emoji picker so that I could:
1) prevent unknown emojis outside the training window of GPT 3.5. As an example, ChatGPT said that this one was a box of falafel.

2) exclude certain emojis that had a high likelihood of leading to GPT refusing to guess (it would claim were too generic).
Ah, thanks. Looks like it may have an actual M.2 inside:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDT_wl2sPF4 (1 min teardown)
Fair warning, I only liked the first part of Seveneves; I thought the second part was stupid. You'll get a lot of recommendations for Liu Cixin's "Three Body Problem" which I personally hate (though the first part of the first book is very well written), but if you like all of Seveneves then it might suit you.

My personal favourites that might not already be on everyone else's lists:

Fiasco - Stanisław Lem

This is how you lose the time war - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Feersum Endjinn - Iain Banks

The Dark Side of the Sun - Terry Pratchett (yes, that one)

Blindsight - Peter Watts

Bloom - Wil McCarthy

Good luck!
So, Crash Bandicoot is more useful than Emacs or AutoCAD in your scale?
You may already know this, but Pyright and Pylance are the same thing.

"Under the hood, Pylance is powered by Pyright," https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-pytho...

I've been using Pylance with `"python.analysis.typeCheckingMode": "basic"` for a long time and have found it quite good. Most of the time, the problem isn't Pylance/Pyright, but poor or wrong type annotations in third-party libraries.
perhaps related to MESS not existing for several years, idk.
Matrix is just a protocol, not an application. And it seems Amdocs hasn't even been involved in Matrix for five years.
Thanks the the info!
Yep, explicit vs. implicit stack is exactly my reasoning too. It's easier to instrument an explicit stack too, eg. writing a metric for max depth.
AliExpress laptop with Intel 8088 CPU will take you back to the MS-DOS era
There is also Keepass2Android Offline

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=keepass2androi...
The next time a tax is raised in your municipality with the promise of supporting education, follow teacher pay and see how much makes it to them.

The idea of collecting more taxes to benefit $underserved_group is like an obese person eating more to increase muscle growth.
Calligraphy is similar. Once an important art, now not even an afterthought. We need a understanding of math and algorithms but not really knowledge of the procedures.
It feels a lot like it’s been pursued all the way to a releasable product and there’s just too many wheels in motion to stop and think if it’s really a worthwhile idea.

We could be wrong and people are happy to hand over 3k for this, but it’s just hard to understand how for a whole bunch of reasons.

Are they going to get third parties to build software for this? Where is the volume to support that going to come from? Who’s going to want to go first and risk 3k on something that might flop and be on eBay for a fraction of the price in a year?

There’s just so many hurdles to clear for this.
Looks expensive to me, $20 microphone? $40 PCB? $95 mid frame? $70 "heat dissipation module"? Are these prices normal for a mass produced item?
For iOS I use KeePassium. A paid app.
I’ll be honest, unless there’s a confident but obviously wrong complete factual blunder then I would have very low confidence in any probability of human/ai determination I tried to make. And even then I wouldn’t add many points to my confidence: I’ve made obvious blunders of my own, plenty of them.

Right now, and probably for a very limited time only, the primary hallmarks of llm responses like ChatGPT are confident tone and orderly structure, down to using bullet points and ordered lists. Except for the almost overly confident tone that bears a striking similarity to the tone of digests I frequently need to write, and GPT-4 is already much better at not sounding like a reasonably intelligent college sophomore that needs a bit more experience to avoid severe dunning kruger effects.

Within a year I’m not sure I’ll have any confidence at all in my ability to detect human/ai, except in areas where much deeper domain knowledge is required, and even that will likely be a rapidly closing window.

I doubt it would take much difficulty to train a model out of that confident structured tone as well. If we’re talking about adversarial or malicious use or content farms then I think the barn door is already wide open.

As far as content farms go though there’s a reasonable question becoming ever more relevant: apart from the cynical ad revenue cash grab, does it matter that content farms use AI, if it’s accurate and possibly better than, say, the average stack exchange response & threads in 90% of the cases? I’m ambivalent on the question. Deep knowledge and novel insights will be the domain of humans for some time, but I honestly don’t know for how long.

As I said before, my work requires succinct output along the lines of OpenAI’s capabilities. Right now it’s not reducing the amount of time it take me to perform some tasks— it’s bootstrapping the process so I can use roughly the same amount of time to produce a better, deeper, more polished result. I am already becoming more of an editor or curator of the end product of projects I work on, where 90% of the work takes place before I get to that point. But especially with GPT 4 I can feed it complex explanations of what I’m doing (not raw data) and ask it for its thoughts to get my own juices flowing.

To me, the question of whether something is human/ai produced is becoming not just irrelevant somewhat if a non sequitur. I’m exaggerating a bit to make my point, it’s not as simple as what I can fit into a comment here. But the question “did you use an LLM to produce some/all if this?” Is quickly beginning to sound like “did you spell check this before completing it?”
Monitoring my own website, as an uptime monitoring service