skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember the narrative a few months ago?

> Don't be a conspiracy theorist! Nobody is coming for your gas stove! Are you paranoid??!

Now all of that has come true. Suddenly NYC has banned stoves. And stoves are causing asthma. Soon we will discover that gas stoves are part of a scheme devised by the devil himself.

Consider the fact that if product of technology X is better than Y, people will automatically switch over to Y. You wouldn't need to force them. If you have to, it means you haven't considered the pros and cons properly.
100% agreed, yet the average user is incredibly fickle. Without the power users reddit will fizzle; a little bit at a time, then all at once (as we may see soon).
Of all things to trust to the invisible hand of government, I would put nuclear power generation dead fucking last on that list.
Intent. You can always get diffs of one commit vs another. You can't always discern why those changes happened
Not OP, and I'd have to see the prompt to run it on my set up, but I but together a refurbished HP Chromebox with some extra RAM and an SSD for a total of $250 and it'll run all the 13B models about as fast as I can type on my phone, just as a reference point. I'm consistently impressed by it even if it's not blazing fast.
a non connected digital camera would seem more practical.
Mainstream media is funded by advertisers, more than (or, in the case of TV/radio abd some others, instead of) subscribers.
I saw the PBS documentary yesterday. If I am not mistaken, one of the accidents mentioned involved a Chevy Silverado [1]. If so, then the lobbyists are full of it.

On the whole, I don't understand why the objection is there: are bars all that expensive? For comparison, here are Daimler trucks sold in India [2] - side protection is clearly visible. (Admittedly, they are high-end trucks as far as the Indian market is concerned.)

[1] https://youtu.be/1LyaWzOesXk?t=1374

[2] https://trucks.cardekho.com/en/trucks/bharat-benz/2623r
Well, Firefox, of course
This whole post sounds like a very false dichotomy to me. The author makes it sound as if `trained eight hours a day, four months in a row` is a single activity. But of course that to be productive, Keanu had to be on top of many different activities, in different locations with different trainers, in addition to what I believe would have been a myriad of other work activities he had to perform for unrelated professional responsibilities.

Keanu Reeves is not a monk practicing the same activity day in and day out, but rather a very busy professional, with a team of people working for him to help manage his schedule.
no one is appeasing anyone, the only suggested changes are stopping new gas stove installs in new homes in some states. even then i would imagine it would be trivial to just wait till after the house is built and put one in

induction stovetops are faster and easier to clean anyway, my stovetop is playing up so i'm swapping from gas since it's just better tech anyway
This is a weird comparison. On one hand you have an independent contractor preparing for an engagement. The other is actively collaborating with a team to make a thing. The less bad (but still not great) comparison is to Reeves' allocation of time during principal photography.

On multiple occasions I've spent weeks out of the office in training sessions. Even with on-site training we were pretty good at turning peoples' responsibilities off so they could maximize the time spent with someone we flew in for a few days. Or there's that big bit of training before getting a job at all: university. (That's another rabbit hole of arguing about topical focus within education, but still a portion of someone's life dedicated to learning.)

I can kinda see what the author is trying to get at, but it's weird to use training to make a point about time management. Training is the main type of work I've seen offices willing to let someone go fully incommunicado. Unless you work somewhere that doesn't believe in training. And cramming an online module in between normal tasks isn't training, it's more like reading documentation (it's a con so the personnel software can get an entry that X is trained in Foo).
This is a tough one. Efficiency is what tends to be the ultimate goal of any venture, and getting 5 things 80% done instead of 1 thing 100% done is incredibly efficient.

Moreover, no matter what course of action you choose, it will have downsides, you only get to choose which ones. I'm not so sure that the downsides of this hyper-efficient approach are worse than those of the alternatives.

There's a bit of human bias at work here, you focus on the downsides in front of you because those are the ones you can see. However, you ignore the downsides other approaches would have because you can't see them. That doesn't mean they don't exist.

Another aspect, it's considerably easier to find and solve problems with an implemented solution than an unimplemented one. That's what this hyper-optimized approach is likely great at - paving the way for other engineers.

In the end, I think you need a few such 80/20 engineers on your team, but they must be coupled with a few "completionist" types as well, who'll come in afterwards to bring everything up to standard.
I get the feeling they are just disappointed in where liberalism has shifted and their recent work is calling out that discomfort.

My reading of both is quite honestly the exact opposite of what you describe, they tend to call out the authoritarianism they see no matter the side. Frankly even Taibbi’s recent foray into Government and Twitter is more an indictment of a government’s overreach into controlling speech which is very authoritarian in action. That series spoke about both Trump and Biden’s administrations attempting to control public discourse. It certainly feels like it was more critical to the Biden admin, and that might help the GOP…but that might be because there was a lot more evidence of it provided to him.
I gotta give a shoutout to `gj` and `gk` because sometimes I write really stupid loooong oneliners or just use vim to edit markdown and i want to move up and down in screen lines, not real lines.
Just end your request with

‘’’json

Or provide a few examples of user request and then agent response in json. Or both.
Interesting observation, @swyx. There seems to be a connection to transitive closure in SQL queries, where the output of the query is fed as the input to the query in the next iteration [1]. We are thinking about how to best support such recursive functions in EvaDB [2].

[1] http://dwhoman.com/blog/sql-transitive-closure.html
[2] https://evadb.readthedocs.io/en/stable/source/tutorials/11-s...
I built a fun hack back in college that used a laser microphone to listen to keypresses - the timing and sound of which is relatively straightforward to extract letter pairing heuristics from, and from that, given some time, you can build pretty strong guesses on people's passwords.

The next step I was going to take it was to use to microphones on different windowpanes and be able to triangulate multiple keyboards in a room - never quite got there because my DSP skills were garbage, but it's in the back of the mind someday to pick back up if I ever take a sabbatical.
As long as X >= 2, I personally wouldn’t have a problem with it.
> I will pay you X times your a salary to not start a competitor for 2 years, should that be legal?

What about joining an existing competitor? How is "competitor" defined? Is it competition if someone left Apple's iWork team to join Microsoft's Office team? Or just left Apple to join Microsoft even if it's in a non-competing, or even a team that's actually beneficial to Apple's bottom-line (e.g. Azure, as iCloud runs on Azure+AWS+GCP)?

...these difficulties in nailing down "competition" is what leads to overly broad and ultimately unconscionable noncompete agreements.

Ultimately I wouldn't trust an employer to define it for me - so if I were in that position I'd tell them I'd treat a noncompete as a gardening-leave clause and require 200% my final TC for the same time period (so 4x my salary for 2 years) - if my ability to compete with the company is really worth that much then they'll gladly have no problems paying it - and if they don't, then they're clearly a company that wants to exert undue interference (i.e. punishment?) on former employees for no good reason and I'd interview somewhere else.
Deploying drones to combat mosquito population
Generally I’d say moderators can break a subreddit far more easily than they can make it, but that’s a danger of a big mod cull.
I'm very surprised to see a lot of French, German and other EU businesses on this list "cooperating with sanctioned individuals' (Heliski, a tourist company) and advertising and selling there. Is the EU not enforcing these things?
Don't forget that Nixon established the EPA. So he wasn't entirely anti-regulation. (or maybe there were political pressures, I don't know the details.)
Can you summarize your other feeds? I actually created an account here on HN during the blackout for my tech info but constant tech info gets exhausting after a while.
The (sad) reality of GPU capacity in public clouds at the moment is your basically need a sales call and a reservation to get any capacity.

So the on demand price is not really relevant, maybe thats why they excluded it.
I don't think that's feasible. Human nature just doesn't work that way. I think we could potentially get to a point where we can trust the other drivers more than we can now -- and that alone would be a laudable goal -- but I don't think it's reasonable to expect we'll ever get to a point where it's safe to place 100% trust that another driver on the road will always do the right thing all the time.

So what we're left with is defensive driving. If a giant vehicle starts edging out into the road in front of you, assume that the driver doesn't see you at all, and act accordingly.

Frankly, I don't think it's a tired meme: it is absolutely better to be alive than to be right. And sometimes those actually are your only choices.
While OpenCL was simply not equivalent to CUDA, I think you're correct that those other enterprises (Apple, AMD and similar) that could challenge Nvidia on the high-end GPU front simply choose not to. The thing is, the reason is if there was competition in this market, prices would sink much closer to costs and no one would be making bank whereas a large enterprise would want a higher return.

Also, a consumer-grade GPU can used for neural net training at the researcher level but large corporate use requires H100/A100 and that is what's getting traction.
> in concert with utility scale batteries firming renewables and providing grid services

Great links, but it seems like you’re papering over the actual issue: energy storage

This is nowhere near solved and currently very expensive.
If any exists.
That’s a bad faith non-sequitur.

How often do you think that’s actually happening. Hint: not often.

Have some freaking compassion dude. Do you have any data (anecdotal or otherwise) to support your world view?

It’s rough as hell to be homeless….

And for what it’s worth (though it’s none of your business), I am “differently abled” - not anyone’s fault I suppose, but I am. I fully grasp what it means to not be able to do things I used to do thank you. That shouldn’t change how I treat others. I’d be mad if someone did this to me, but being mad at all similar people because of it would be folly.

Show some compassion.
Where does this line of thinking end? Banning unhealthy food and alcohol? Forcing everyone to get proper exercise? Perhaps a perfectly balanced tasteless meal powder created for own good.

I’d rather pay double for health insurance and die young than live in your perfect nanny state.
Protest song vanishes from Spotify, Apple Music ahead of government ban
What if non-salary compensation makes up the majority of their total compensation?
It is much easier to transfer X amount of heat with a liquid than with air. Liquid travels in pipes and has enormous mass heat capacity (Per unit of volume, water has about 3200 times the specific heat capacity of dry air (at 77°F)). Air needs wide straight ducts and fans every 10 meters to keep air flowing.
Actually USB mice and keyboards would not be susceptible here - they use their own power filtering circuits as part of the USB circuitry.
I'm starting to see sub Reddit's come back as "unblocked." People are creating r/subreditUnblocked communities and filling the void
Show HN: FFmpeg UI
A user interface to quickly and easily convert media files using FFMPEG behind the scenes.
This. The many little white lies killed trust in institutions.

People knew things were not adding up. The mistrust drive them to search and search for answers, and if you search long enough on internet, something will turn up because search engine don't have discernment.

That created the breeding ground for conspiracy theorist to gain unprecedented audience.
> Rust sounds like something old and crusty.

True

> No one will ever adopt a language called Ru...

I never made this claim.
There are a number of LED tape options on Amazon, etc., that offer both extreme dimming and full blackout and they are game-changers for mitigating or removing the scourge of insanely bright blue LEDs in a dark bedroom.
After this I am going to try to work in f to my routine.

The only issue is (content warning: controversial remap) I have ; nnoremap'd to : and : to ; so it would be awkward to advance multiple matches. I would hate to lose my one key :, but perhaps there is a workaround if f is useful enough (for those unfamiliar, with / or ? you use n to go to the next match).
Language-specific synchronization primitives such as mutaxes or volatile variable use memory barries to ensure the caches are flushed and/or a CPU core reads from the main memory directly:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_barrier
I have an open source project doing exactly this at https://www.generativestorytelling.ai/ GitHub link is on the main page!
I have to say, this reliance on the government telling the populace the truth if it has it just doesn’t ring true to me.

In recent memory, I’ll point to going to war with Afghanistan, telling the Taliban to pack sand when they offered up Bin Laden, while ignoring Saudi Arabia. Going to war with Iraq over “wmds” and lying to the world about it.

Would the govt tell us that China, a country that owns most of our debt, and is probably the most important trade environment, started this thing and covered it up? They might not.

I understand your instinct to push back against blowhards that confidently proclaim some bullshit, which they only do when it’s expedient and helpful to them. I’m just saying that instinct that I also had might not be good. To discount a whole tree of idea ideas because some jackass is shaking it, maybe just ignore the jackass and still evaluate the ideas.
In the colab example it appears you are using the openai python library but with the gorilla model instead of openai's models. That works? How do you set that up?

# Query Gorilla server

def get_gorilla_response(prompt="I would like to translate from English to French.", model="gorilla-7b-hf-v0"):
try:
completion = openai.ChatCompletion.create(
model=model,
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": prompt}]
)
return completion.choices[0].message.content
except Exception as e:
raise_issue(e, model, prompt)
Moving companies, locksmiths, plumbers, tow trucks. These businesses all have certain things in common:

1) They work in business sectors which you usually only need rarely, so there's no need to build customer loyalty.

2) But when you do need help from one of these businesses, you need it now. There's little room for a customer to negotiate or shop around.

3) As a result, online advertisements and reviews for these businesses are an utter cesspool. There are very few honest reviews, and it's common for "local" business listings to actually connect you with brokers.
Same could be said about Canadian banks

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60383385
Closed sideguards actually improve fuel economy due to reduced air drag.
This is the sort of thing that should bankrupt a country, and they should be required to make up for the damage their negligence inflicted on the world population.

The Chinese cannot be trusted with power.
Not Buying Central Banks’ Favorite Excuse
> so the resulting effective speed is often barely better than a running speed of an Alzheimer's patient.

What exactly kind of comparison is this?
…And finally ELI5 questions on Reddit. All of which are very important for different audiences.
See, they're softening us up for the announcement of Non-DNA life. Mars has water. Ice moons have briny subsurface oceans.

Now an ice moon has CHONPS (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHON), all the elements used by DNA life.

Get ready!
If you don’t build it, someone else most definitely will. This has already become an AI arms race.
I work for MITRE on AI assurance. I'd love to reach out!
it's amazing and dazzling.
For 3.5, I found it easiest to specify a simple, but parsable, format for responses and then convert that to JSON myself.

I'll have to see if the new JSON schema support is easier than what I already have in place.
>eager to say that the US Congress and the CIA can't be trusted.

This is a truth universally accepted, no? I mean maybe not by some actual, genuine believers in totalitarianism but surely there aren't many of those? Surely?

You never trust people with power. You trust a system of checks and balances precisely because of this. You could even found a nation on that and expect continued support of it.
What did the + and - buttons do for the Xerox Star scrollbar? And is there any particular reason for its arrows to be inverted?
Does the ```json trick work with the chat models? Or only the earlier completion models?
Ask HN: Share your favorite tampermonkey script
Hello,

What’s your favorite tampermonkey script which might have saved you hours
If you are a newcomer to YouTube, the process of monetizing your content is about to become faster and more accessible. YouTube has expanded the eligibility criteria for the YouTube Partner Program (YPP), enabling a greater number of creators to generate income from their content on the platform.
No but all it takes is one chimp to rip the human's head clean off.
I’m in the MITRE ATLAS slack. Happy to chat.
I think the problem is that tokens are not characters. So even if you had access to a JSON parser state that could tell you whether or not a given character is valid as the next character, I am not sure how you would translate that into tokens to apply the logit biases appropriately. There would be a great deal of computation required at each step to scan the parser state and generate the list of prohibited or allowable tokens.

But if one could pull this off, it would be super cool. Similar to how Microsoft’s guidance module uses the logit_bias parameter to force the model to choose between a set of available options.
> I mean, there has to be actual capital at risk somewhere in this transaction, right?

No, since all component operations to a given transaction happen atomically, there really is no counterparty risk: Either the proposing actor manages to make a profit and "pay back" the flash loan (plus interest, apparently), or the entire deal does not go through.

> Otherwise, someone could keep running this trade on repeat until they’ve accumulated an amount equal to the gross product of the universe.

No, they can keep on repeating the trade (which is usually arbitrage of some sorts) exactly until the arbitrage opportunity is gone, which usually is quite soon – unless somebody has made a serious pricing mistake somewhere.

> Something can’t come from nothing.

It (i.e. arbitrage profit) doesn't come from nothing – it comes from seeing a market inefficiency and a way to profit from it. The actor that sees it is rewarded by profit; the entire market (i.e. all of its participants) benefits from better price quality.

None of this is a crypto innovation either: This is exactly how traditional finance/payments multi-currency net settlement works.
As a sibling noted, we don't have enough information about the crash to know. Marcos might have believed the truck driver saw him and would stop and wait until he'd passed. He was driving on a highway; many highways in the US -- even those that are not divided and seem pretty smallish -- have speed limits of 50mph and higher. Sure, it's possible that Marcos could have done something to avoid the crash, but that doesn't mean it's his fault.

But I think it really just doesn't matter whose fault it was. Regardless of whether or not the crash itself was preventable, the death was preventable, if these trucking companies would spend a measly $127 per trailer to help protect drivers of normal-sized vehicles. People are fallible. We know this. The entire point of vehicle safety is to acknowledge that people will screw up, and to minimize the injury and loss of life when it happens.

(And I don't find it remotely persuasive that $127 per trailer is a huge burden on their "razor thin" margins. If they're not making more than $127 in profit _per haul_, the entire trucking industry would be unsustainably pointless.)
Honest question, would you limit nuclear research in the 40s for the above reasons?

Sure we have nuclear power, but at the risk of the president holding the ability to level most countries. The only difference I see is that the harms you describe from AGI are nebulous and non-specific.
Could the explanation be simply that, when the doctor came back with the piece of paper, the family thought it was from a textbook, or a second-opinion from another doctor that had been printed out? I.e. that it carried more weight because of that.
Any AI that can be contained by humans is not intelligent enough that needs containment.

Any AI that is intelligent enough that needs containment can’t be contained by humans.
Maybe 10x, but I’m not willing to switch yet myself, I need C-[ for Esc.

https://10xeditor.com/
More fun with vim.

Assume you have a vim editor open with multiple files, each of which need to have their lines lexicographically reversed. Is this a contrived example? Sure, but bear with me for a moment.

A macro can do this pretty easily and could be recorded via 'q<buffer>', where '<buffer>' is a letter. But recording macros this way can be a bit opaque. Plus, having to manually invoke it for each buffer is suboptimal.

Here is one way to do the above:

- enter the desired commands on an empty line (such as :1,$ !sort -r^M:w!^M)

- review the vim commands and refine as you see fit.

- execute the following in normal mode on the same line (to load the 'a' register): 0"ay$

- execute the following ex command (to discard loading the 'a' buffer): :e!

- execute the following ex command (to apply 'a' to all buffers): :bufdo normal @a

In this example, all buffers in the vim session will have the commands in the 'a' buffer applied (reverse sort their lines and contents saved).
> I don't trust this article at all.

That's my reaction every time I see `substack.com` in the URL.
from Babybels.
The estimates I've heard of percent of users who use Reddit via third party apps are 5-10%, so nowhere close to a majority. I wouldn't be surprised if for power users the fraction is much larger though.

As a user of RIF I will be very sad when they shut-down. I'm hoping there's some alternative platform I can spend time on, but it's hard to see myself fully leaving Reddit given the sheer utility of it from an information stand-point.
Applying Fault Injection to the Firmware Update Process of a Drone
I’m voting for Amiga
@hef19898 Not 'better' just different culturally. The US installs ivy league types at well funded startups just as the french install their ENA/Ecole Polytechnique elites in their state funded 'startups' but somehow the French dynamic doesn't work nearly as well as the US one.
Yep. And this is why my work calendar contains several hour blocks where I can focus on the things that I want to focus on and other blocks here and there to do the things you noted.