skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Utrecht, darling of urbanists, has one right outside the steps of Utrecht Centraal train station too for that matter.
TLDR: F MS.

I only use a Microsoft PC for gaming.

I use MacOS generally, because I prefer its UX & general software & hardware quality.

I use Linux Desktop if I choose not to use MacOS for some reason.

I would never want to use Microsoft for anything. I would not use it at all, if it weren't that its the primary OS for most PC games.

...And... just found out I can run Squad on Linux via steam. Ill have to start looking into gaming on Linux.
What is your definition of a human right, and why does AI access meet it?
Sucks because SES reliability is a mixed bag and more competition would be good.
> limiting bias by RLHF rather than picking the right datasets

This is the same as curation and picking out the dataset, except as post-processing. The reason why RLHF has to happen (and traumatize the people <https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/he-helped-train-chatgpt-it-t...>) is to address the problems by censoring the model.
I think the point they’re trying to make is that the “open” command does something very different than the Mac builtin
14 years ahead of time.
That map is misleading if you just look at the colors, because all the downtown mixed-use zones are grouped under "commercial". The red in SoMa is mostly "C-3-O (SD)", for "commercial 3 - office - special districts", where there "special district" rules allow either offices or residential over street-level retail. There's a bunch of large condo buildings in the red areas between Folsom and Market east of 4th (you're probably at least familiar with the infamous Millennium Tower at Mission and Fremont and the visually distinctive Mira at Folsom and Spear).

Along Market in the other direction, "C-3-G" ("Downtown General") also includes apartment buildings, and there's a few that have opened in the past few years between 6th and 9th.

North of Market to the east you have more of the traditional financial district, but that's really quite a small area, and it's not where the mall is.

You also have to remember tourists, which have actually picked up pretty well post-pandemic. The red areas in around Union Square and in SoMa between 2nd and 5th contain a large fraction of the city's hotel rooms. That's not permanent residents, but it's still a lot of people.
Isn't that fine though? I mean, if you've created a popular product, and make margin on every sale, why would only making 100 million dollars instead of 400 million dollars in profit push you into bankruptcy?

Did they take out a ton of loans to expand their manufacturing capabilities with out of touch sales projections or something?
With the mention of the parser's performance, I am reminded of Rich Kilmer's 2004 RubyConf presentation. Rich used Ruby to test reliability of a distributed system with hundreds of Java VMs. Some of the serialized data was stored as XML (over 1M lines!), which was slow to parse and load. Rich modified the program to serialize the data as Ruby code, which loaded much faster (https://www.infoq.com/news/2007/06/infoq-interview-rich-kilm...):

> Chad Fowler and I over basically 2 weeks, took the Java Debug Wire Protocol specification [...] turned it into a DSL in Ruby, and used that DSL to generate the packets for sending and receiving data. So we used the DSL in Ruby as a generator to generate Ruby code, as the whole protocol and then I used that at Darpa. They were trying to say “we could freeze the agent society from within the agent society will send messages, and it took about 7-8 minutes for all the messages to propagate and everything to freeze and then go quiet. I had a Ruby process that was running all 300 VM’s were underneath it, and I could freeze it in about a half of second. All 300 of them! And you actually could watch the CPU use because we had a monitor and the CPU use has dropped to zero. And it freaked them out. And what was great was you could turn it back on, and all the agents came back on. But time had been lost. And it was like alien abduction lost time, ten minutes went away, “what happened to us?” It was a bizarre thing because they were agents and they were planning on things and all of sudden 10 minutes just went away. But it was interesting to show how Ruby could actually be used as this kind of harnesses to wrap around things like systems.
Very interesting! What's the conclusion? The last document appears to be dated 2019: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1693656/000110465919...

So they did make token sales, and complied with the "accredited investor" rule.
I basically use i3 as a very minimal window manager. I just run all my programs full-screen on a workspace each e.g. one for chrome, one for visual studio code, one for slack, one for discord etc. I only ever use the tiling to bring up a quick terminal wherever I am or maybe to view a browser occasionally. You can def go down the rabbit hole with optimising but you don't need to. You probably rarely need to really see verything as once after all - hardly good for productivity IMHO. Otherwise I like how there are no window decorations using screen real estate or menus I never use etc
There is no universe in which the CVE database is going to be reliable as a source of analytical data about vulnerabilities. It exists to provide a common vocabulary in discussions about specific vulnerabilities, and that is literally all it can do (& even then...). It is gamed six ways from Sunday by practitioners, and nothing is going to stop that from happening, because the project isn't staffed adequately to meaningfully adjudicate, let alone analyze, all the vulnerabilities that get filed, and nobody in the industry is remotely interested in funding such a body.

So, however valid these complaints may be, they fundamentally misconstrue the role of NVD. They're taking NVD artifacts far too seriously. I'm sure that's a reaction to incompetents in the security industry also misconstruing NVD, but the correct response to that is to dunk on those incompetents, not to attempt to hold NVD to an impossible standard.

Meanwhile, the CVSS is bad? You don't say. On this point, Stenberg's right to make noise: there is a broad (if quite shallow) belief that CVSS scores have some meaning, and they do not: they are a Ouija board that reflect the interests of whoever calculated the score, and it's easy to show pairs of sev:lo-sev:hi vulnerabilities that illustrate exactly how ridiculous the resulting scores are.

It would be better if the NVD CVE database didn't include CVSS scores; they don't work, they're unscientific, and they too hold NVD to a standard they can't possibly meet, making a lot of this their fault.
I went full tilt and bought beaker tongs! Lab coat works great instead of an apron too.
It will be interesting to see how many federal government RFPs ask for no/reduced AI alignment.

I can imagine alignment is probably an impediment to several areas of interest.
How can someone validate the data if they can't query the original source? I understand the argument "an expert is made more efficient", but you are saying that the model enables someone that doesn't know what they are doing to suddenly be able to supervise the model doing it for them.
It's a completely new scripting language. It uses C-style braces rather than the more ALGOL-style `if / fi` keywords. However the core syntax of the language should still be familiar to those who use Bash (eg pipes, commands, `$` sigils).

So there is a little more to re-learn than you would with Fish but it shouldn't feel alien to read and write.
What is it with these coastal cities I truly wonder. Just better weather to be homeless?
A Chrome extension on GPT 3.5. Make summary on long text, unveil hidden intent
Why limit it to 100 emails a day for the free plan? Makes the 3000 limit feel like a false advertisement unless you have 100 users signing up every day.
Definitely an urban legend. Heat and narcotic substances do not mix very well beyond the barest threshold of baking temperatures.
San Francisco was much less expensive in the 60's. Of course the city lost 25% of it's population then and it wasn't a really attractive city to live in.
FWIW, Intel has OpenVINO acceleration on their ARC GPU lineup. Their $300 Arc A770 outperforms the M1 Ultra by ~10% in OpenCL (which OpenVINO uses): https://browser.geekbench.com/opencl-benchmarks

It stands to reason that Intel is making highly price-competitive hardware at the moment, but people don't talk about them as much Nvidia because they have a minuscule install base with primitive Windows drivers. I wouldn't count them out if their first showing is this impressive, though.
I have a completely new install of archcraft with hyprland and I have to say that it's the fastest out-of-the-box productivity experience I've ever had.
I think ‘is Ruby dying?’ is little more than a meme that has stuck around for longer than it deserves.

The continuing work on the language and its performance is impressive, but Ruby (and Rails) themselves have the honour of being stable, tried-and-tested solutions for rapid application development. Is it as exciting as the latest and greatest serverless lambda framework in Typescript? Not really. Is it a dependable workhorse? Absolutely.

At some point you might be successful enough to justify a rewrite into something else, but a simple Rails app will take you a long way with little effort.
> Us westerners in Christian based societies somehow always like to say that money is the root of all evil

Traditionally, the saying is that the love of money is the root of all evil.

> I feel that that stance (at the very least) doesn't take into account what the alternative is to money

The alternative to loving money is not loving money.

Fundamentally, money is an IOU. It is certainly useful to be able to give something to someone now and not have to take what they have to trade at the same time. If I offer you work, and you offer me food in return, the food may be spoiled before I get around to eating it. Indeed, it is much better to take your IOU (money) for my work and then redeem it for fresh food later on when I'm hungry. That is an incredibly useful tool.

The love of money implies that one starts amassing more IOUs than they could ever possibly redeem just for the sake of having IOUs in their hand. This becomes a drain on one's life as they keep giving and giving without getting anything back in return, notably taking focus away from religion in order to give beyond their reasonable means.

> I deserve the downvotes, but this is one of those posts that generates a lot of replies and I see it going up and down in karma. It's somehow "engaging".

Downvotes and upvotes are equivalent, both providing record in a poor man's analytics system. Naturally it is engaging to think that your work is being seen. No doubt that is why you are here and not writing the same words in a private journal.
CIA and Mossad-Linked Surveillance Being Installed Throughout the US
I lived in SF/East Bay across 10 years (eventually owned a house in El Cerrito) and moved up to Seattle in 2011. I love both the Bay Area and Seattle deeply.

What's happening to SF is very similar to what has become of Portland. That, my friends, is not a downtown I would recommend anyone visit until something changes. Simply walking around any time of day it becomes immediately obvious that if you're walking downtown you're either a hapless tourist or homeless. Most of the locals seemingly drive into downtown, jump in and out of stores and restaurants that are still in business, then they drive back home. The suburbs and surrounding areas are gorgeous, but large sections of downtown are just ... terrible. (And often scary.)

Seattle was teetering on this fate, but Amazon forced their enormous workforce to come back to the office. And, it produced a lot of blowback from the employees. But, local employees went back.

What has that done? It has created a TON of downtown traffic. Not fun at all. But it has also injected the downtown core with (you guessed it) lots of people and money, keeping small businesses downtown alive in some areas. At least for now, Seattle seems to have dodged the ghost town blues that have befallen beautiful SF and Portland.
I’ve had the exact same experience! I’m getting to use some new JS SSR frameworks at work (Remix) but I keep using rails for my own things. Gets out of my way.
Although most in the CDR industry don't refer to their negative emissions tonnage as 'credits'.

Continuing the DACS example, they are not issuing 'carbon credits' that are verified by Verra or Gold Standard. There is no existing standard for verifying removals.

I would say the majority of the CDR industry is trying to distance themselves from the term 'credit' as it implies a 1:1 relationship however reductions and removals just can't be seen as the same.
Stochasticty of meaning is not defined. I think it's an unfortunate use of the term

Humans are also like that
> 99.5% uptime over the course of a year

I had no idea geostationary satellites were so far away! (Per Google, 36,000 km -- about 6 times the radius of the Earth.)
So what is the sample size at which this can be useful. A notes vault doesn't seem large enough.

Obsidian/Logseq are already great for thinking by way of their "show a random note" feature. Usually pulling up unfinished thoughts from past days will give me an idea for extending it.
That is interesting. Like OP, we use ours constantly. I consider it to be the kitchen appliance I would never do without. I wonder if it comes down to OP and we making more similar foods than what you eat.
They do not handle the rapid temperature differentials a home chef often encounters when they aren't careful enough. Especially when they are expecting the resilience of borosilicate glass.
> LLMs, in my opinion, are on average better at writing copy than humans.

The question is, do you want an AI writing the brief and doing the research that is going to be given to an administrator who is going to decide if you are denied medical care in an emergency?
Creating the future tools of suppression.
The article doesn't go into much detail on this, but the UV source using the hydrogen here is incredibly cool.

To get the 13.5nm light they need, they use a 20kW CO2 laser to explode tin droplets into plasma that emits the correct wavelength. 50,000 droplets per second. And they use a smaller laser to first shape the droplet into a little dish shape that explodes better.

Shown better in a video - https://youtu.be/5Ge2RcvDlgw?t=648
XD yes.

I realize you’re probably trying to disagree with me, but, yes.
> SARS2 none of this has been found, which stands in stark contrast to all previous coronavirus spillovers.

Do we have that for HCoV-HKU1?
Hilariously obvious corruption.
Well we've had 2 decades of super low rates... Thats plenty to build up a nice big retirement fund...
I don't agree with you
If that's why you love money, I would argue that you love good, not money. Money is merely one tool among many to help you manifest the good that you love.

But the people I've met who actually love money have been ones that I would prefer to stay away from. They're not concerned with "good". They're concerned with their own comfort and/or power.
Well, that is an entirely different question. My personal view is that nothing prevents an artificial neural network from having a consciousness (I don't think it makes sense to believe there is anything magical about human brains).

What I am saying is that we emphatically know things about the physical processes that (almost certainly) generate consciousness and that we should take that knowledge seriously when examining artificial neural networks. People eager to attribute more to these networks than they plausibly constitute love to dismiss all this knowledge so as to muddy the waters of comparison.
I completely agree that greatly increasing data accessibility is a huge unlock and value add.

A package I open sourced recently might be useful for use cases like this, https://github.com/approximatelabs/datadm It's essentially a chatGPT code interpreter, specifically designed to work with data, that can be run entirely on open models (eg. StarChat). True local mode operation.
> > - as you'd need to validate the things the LLM serves

> And that is not as hard as retrieving that originally, how so then?

Not necessarily. With good prompts GPT-4 is decently good at citation of exact sentences in the source. And there could be a separate system that verifies that citation text matches the real text for being safe.
Comments go beyond explaining why a choice was made, and this is usually not very useful information for a comment.

Really like comments for providing edge cases and information that can't be found by reading and understanding the code.
This sounds a lot like ServiceNow to me
Uh, thanks. I couldn't resist this time, I needed the reminder I guess!
I am sitting in a $10 Walmart camping chair as I type this with my laptop in my lap.

[edit: oops, it's $8 https://www.walmart.com/ip/Ozark-Trail-Basic-Quad-Folding-Ca...]

For me, the second part - the laptop in my lap - is 90% of working comfortably whether on the go or in my regular workspace.

The chair just needs to be good enough...just needs to not have terrible ergonomics and for me "better" chairs tend to be worse.

Chairs being better or worse based on theory won't reliably predict whether a chair is going to work for you. That's why Aeron's come in different sizes.

Good luck.

[PS: if a want shade, I put my chair in shade]
The target audience is those who do. It's a complex enough topic that it's reasonable the author chose not to explain it (an early question of "where do I begin?" doesn't have an easy answer).

"Denormalization" is saving data in the "wrong" place in a database so you don't have to do a join to a different table. It's "normalized" if the textual data[0] (e.g. a name) is all in the "correct" place (e.g. the user profile) and not in the "wrong" place (e.g. the user's comment). In a normalized database, the comment displaying the username would have a reference to the user record, which has a reference to the user profile record (assuming those are separate; they're often not).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_normal_form

[0] "Non-primary-key data" but I don't know how helpful the extra technical jargon is.
A mindset of producing more than you consume has taken western cultures to where they are now - less poverty and more abundance than ever before in human history. We live freer and eat better and live longer than any of our ancestors. Why do you see it as "disastrous and unappealing"?

What's the alternative? If everyone consumes more than they produce, we all end up in poverty and hunger. That sounds truly disastrous and unappealing.

Most of that hard work goes to the profit of the one doing the work. History shows that arch clearly. Not many surfs or feudal lords about anymore. Your children aren't properly of your owner because you have no owner. Don't buy into the "inequality" BS that's being pushed about. It's not to the benefit of you or the generations that come after you.
You can use vegetable oils but it will be difficult to clean. Deglazing doesn't work well on polymerized oil. Baking soda will dissolve the sticky goo.
Cat-Astrophe
Einstein essentially started the Manhattan Project with the Einstein Szilard letter. He was a signatory because his name carried weight with the president and he knew the Belgian royal family. I don't know what you would call that except social power coming from prestige.
This is a very interesting point that requires some examples and further elaboration to have value for the readers. It refutes but doesn't provide arguments. Can you please elaborate?
This article seems to ignore common denormalization patterns that don't cause problems, e.g. denormalizing immutable data such as row ids. These reduce the number of joins needed, and make code simpler and faster, refuting one of the article's claims about code complexity due to denormalization.

The article seems to be saying that the trade-offs of denormalization often aren't being correctly evaluated. Without examples or specific advice, this is not particularly useful information.
>OpenAI is close to becoming a necessity

I disagree. What gives you the idea that any software is a necessity? We've (modern humans) been around for 200,000+ years and software (and LLMs for less than a tenth of the time that software has been around) has existed for ~0.04% of that time.

Oxygen (in its molecular, 02 form) is a necessity. Water is a necessity. Nutrition of some sort is a necessity.

Pretty much everything else is a nice-to-have (with some things like money and shelter being important, but as we see from the poverty and homelessness around the world, definitely not a necessity).

I'd posit that LLMs are helpful and sometimes even useful. But necessary? I think not.

I'd note that I'm not dismissing LLMs, nor am I trying to dump on you. But the idea that any software is necessary is ridiculous on its face.

cf. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/necessary
Does windows show the stack trace? I’ve been very appreciative of it in osx as it’s helped me identity how to avoid some
Thanks for replying- I completely agree. Which writing is that quote from and/or any goods tips for where to start with Seneca for someone who didn't study the classics in college?
Those unemployment numbers are complete BS and you I and everyone else knows it.

edit: and if they aren't BS (which they are) my previous assertion applies: increase pay to make the job more attractive.
But then why wouldn't the same process result in the bankruptcy of all (relatively) durable goods manufacturers with a limited set of products? For example, why hasn't Vitamix (blenders) or Zwilling (knives) gone into bankruptcy?

Also, I don't think the market for this stuff is ever truly saturated: every day, plenty of people get their first apartment and need to buy appliances. Instant Pot seems similar to other things like microwaves and toasters, which we don't think of as a dead end due to market saturation.

I think the "bought by private equity and wrung dry" explanation makes more sense. Or if not that, perhaps just a poorly run business.
Can you recall some of these architectural decisions? I think that would be interesting.
With Ford and GM’s help, Tesla reignites the charging standard war
That really isn’t the point, I said it was tame for a reason.
When I went to the Kentucky Derby, I was surprised by how few people were drinking Mint Juleps and how many were drinking cases of Bud Light. It was a particularly hot year, so not sure if this is normal, but I saw at least a dozen people carted off by the EMS golf carts hours before the Kentucky Derby was run.

I've been to a bunch of events, including the Indy 500, Times Square for NYE, and Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and by far people were more sloppy drunk at the Kentucky Derby.
With Paradox games, I recommend starting with just the base game with no DLC. Most of the features in the DLC actually get added to the base game, so it gets better over time even if you don't buy the DLC.

For example, the After Dark DLC for Cities: Skylines added a day/night cycle along with lit-up night time versions of all of the game's assets. Except all of that is actually part of the base game. The only thing that is unique to the DLC are the nightlife and tourist districts, and the new buildings that can grow in them.
Yes, it wasn't started to listen for this situation, it's just funny to me that there were extremely rare occurrences where people did wake up...
So I work for one of the consulting firms :)

I can confirm the giant FOMO happening, and LLMs projects are popping up everywhere.

Good news is, the "talk-to-your data" use case you're describing is not the only one that can deliver amazing new tools! There's the "explain-me this", "summarize that", and "next-best-action" use cases that shows great promise!