skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made a Hacker News alerts telegram bot. Reply notifications is one of the implemented features.

https://github.com/lawxls/HackerNews-Alerts-Bot
In other words: ChatGPT is there for you to help with most human interaction.
Oh now that sounds worrying again. Maybe there is a trade-off between being spared pain and losing IQ points.
> Side note; does anyone actually think that chat gpt succeeds at rewriting things 'compassionately' or 'more intelligently'?

Yes, I use it for this purpose all the time. I could have done better myself if I invested time in writing it, but it allows me to get a good enough result in a couple of seconds.
I think it is worth asking questions from the Realpolitik [0] school. For example, what makes Russia objectively powerful in the international arena? Its military? Well, besides nukes and subs, not really. Its hold on natural resources like fresh water, energy, forests, etc? I think this is a far more interesting aspect. Even if Russia is run by the most human-rights-respecting government, what would it mean for the US to have a powerful independent Russia as a competitor in a world where necessary natural resources are becoming more and more scarce?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realpolitik
It’s certainly strange how many fires destroyed multiple cities across the U.S in that time period, not to mention the relation to world fairs. It always bugged me!
Johnson faced 90-day suspension for deliberately misleading MPs over Partygate
The proposed law bans voluntary non-competes as well as mandatory. It states that employers may not even accept such covenants. It is an absolute ban on employment restraints.
Can't we just do this with an antenna? The issue is that the private keys are likely not being sent as cleartext.... no?
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I never heard of him. If the facts are:

1. The lab was doing gain of function experiments on coronaviruses

2. They wore limited PPE while working with these viruses

3. The first reported cases were near the lab

then I think there's a high likelihood the virus came from the lab. I don't know why this would be controversial.
I got Yahoo! Mail in the 90's (when they started offering email, the world was so different and I thought a @yahoo.com address was a must have). A few years ago I thought I'd look at emails from my teenage years, and guess what, Yahoo silently lost all my emails before the year 2000/2001.

If only I can find that 20GB IDE disk with all the data I've migrated since my first computer...
Actually you're right. I shouldn't say die.

Oracle will fade into obscurity sooner. Like Tivoli or Lotus or Sun.
I remember taking Adderall, it made me feel like I could do anything. However, when I went back and looked at the work product, it was like work done by a crazy person. I went through bad withdrawal, thinking I could not do my work or anything, unless I took Adderall. Then suddenly I took Adderall and I was smart again. A terrible false prophet.
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> we people are very soon capable of communicating using quantum entanglement

How much do you wanna bet? Do you have a specific bitrate and year in mind?
Would the American voters have gone with that though ???.
I wonder if we had implemented a Marshall Plan, together with Europe, for the former Soviet Union, namely Russia, would it have (a) been accepted and (b) worked?

The asset stripping and oligarchisarion we permitted in the early 90s isn’t quite the stuff of the Treaty of Versailles. But it certainly rhymes in that a vanquished power laid prostrate was left to the vultures.
This really resonates. It's so easy to get caught up in chasing trends and overlook delivering customer value/stability.

Good luck on the next 11 years :)
In the top 10 as well. In fact not too long ago I was asking someone to rate some piece of code and used 'from Linus / Carmack to (something shitty I don't remember)' as the metric.
Euro Parliament green lights its AI safety, privacy law
This is one of the best ops writeup I've read. People are rarely so vulnerable and relatable. Usually it's all "here's how we do things perfectly at our unicorn company".

The most important lesson was about reducing the alerts and sleeping better. It's important to be able to leave your laptop at the office and not worry about things going wrong. This post gave me flashbacks of when I made websites for others and hosted them myself. Never again!
Hey mate!!
Those will likely cause more problems (as per https://xkcd.com/927/). While bootstrapping Python is a problem, it's a symptom, not a cause. The underlying cause is there is a substantial part of the ecosystem (of which the "data science" component overlaps with) that is coupled to hardware, the OS and external (non-Python) software libraries which doesn't align well with the single-language approach that a part of the Python community wants (vague gesture to the "web dev" side of the community). This drives the pip vs. conda arguments, the discussion around docker, nix, homebrew etc. You can't tool your way out of this divide over what the community wants (and while there are two vague meta-groups, there are really sub-groups which want different aspects of both).

It's worth looking at how some other popular languages (don't) handle this: from what I've seen, CGo is generally frowned upon, and so there is rewrites of libraries into go (Python does the same), or network/IPC connections are used to bridge the game; Rust also has the rewrite attitude, but for bridging to other languages there's build.rs (which calls other tools and wrappers), but those usually require you have the external library already installed (via some other means e.g. homebrew), or at least don't feature as a self-contained part of the cargo ecosystem (there's a cargo plugin which downloads a version of the library from somewhere); nodejs seems to either try to build from source (which fails if you don't have Python install for gyp), or download random binaries which sometimes work.
So someone feels like a perennial outsider because they're referred to with slur words every time they out themselves as gay or non white or a woman, they should all get therapy and deal with it? Absolutely no responsibility for the people perpetuating hate?
Given that your very first point is arguing semantics, I think it shows how weak any argument that you can bring forward is, so I won't even read the rest.
No point being a douchebag.
Really depends on the situation. I have no doubts a typical doctor could easily ELI5[0] you anything about the procedures or treatments they're administering - once well fed, well rested, and somewhat relaxed. But if you're catching them as they're overworked and asking them to context-switch on the spot, well... I'd expect it work just as well as it would with software engineers. That is, if I was subject to random ELI5 requests during a busy work period, you'd bet I'd start preparing notes up front (and probably put them on a Wiki, and then give the people asking me a link to that wiki, and politely tell them to RTFM and GTFO).

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[0] - "Explain Like I'm 5 [years old]". It's Reddit-speak, but describes the concept quite well, and there isn't a proper single word alternative for it.
I'm not sure whether this is a troll post or but China is not a democracy. So public support isn't needed.
Yeah I'm aware of it. But it's less annoying than Medium.
Right, there are times when you need deadlines and you need to make decisions. Knowing what I know today, I would recommend cutting scope over technical debt, but that's beside the point really.

My problem is where the whole project is managed based on deadlines rather than the flow of work. Deadlines kill productivity, but productivity = efficiency = saving money.

The financial accounting for these things is complex, but considering most projects run late anyway, why even bother with deadline based management?
'F*cked up???'

"Helped deactivate 5,000 former Soviet nuclear warheads, over 600 missile launchers (including over 360 ICBM silos), over 540 ICBMs and SLBMs, 64 heavy bombers and 15 missile submarines through U.S.-Russian cooperative threat reduction programs. The Clinton Administration also worked with Russia to ensure successful denuclearization efforts in Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakstan; 3,300 nuclear warheads were moved to Russia and placed in storage. And today, no Russian nuclear weapons are targeted at an American city."

"Prevented the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction from Russia through the Expanded Threat Reduction Initiative (ETRI), complementing and reinforcing other nonproliferation efforts, such as in 1995, when Russia agreed to forego sales of cryogenic rocket engines to India. The Clinton Administration also provided critical support to safeguard fissile material that was not properly stored or protected. A June 2000 agreement between President Clinton and President Putin provides for the safe, transparent and irreversible destruction of 68 metric tons of Russian and American (34 tons each) weapons grade plutonium - enough plutonium to make thousands of nuclear weapons."

"Promoted regional security and integration by strengthening the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the New Independent States. The Clinton Administration also sought to promote Russia's integration with the new Europe and its participation in institutions such as the G-8. Russia withdrew its troops from the Baltic states and Central Europe. Russia reaffirmed the sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence of Ukraine as part of the landmark 1994 U.S.-Ukrainian-Russian agreement on post-Soviet denuclearization. Russia signed the NATO-Russia Founding Act in 1997, codifying a cooperative relationship with NATO, despite Russian objections to NATO enlargement. For the first time since World War II, Russian and American troops serve side by side in Bosnia and in Kosovo. Russian diplomacy was critically important during the Kosovo conflict.
"

And much more.. --> https://clintonwhitehouse5.archives.gov/WH/EOP/NSC/html/nsc-...
> are bars all that expensive?

From the article:

> The beefier, more robust rear guards would’ve cost an additional $127 each, according to industry estimates.

I'm inclined to think that 127 USD (even if the side rails were a little bit more expensive because they're larger) is not too expensive for a feature like this.

Also, I think that in Europe these rails are already mandatory. At least the rear guard is required in The Netherlands if the trailer protrudes >60cm at the rear iirc.
Sorry, edited my comment above before seeing your reply. Can confirm, I tested with the new version of Steam (the one being announced here).
> Infrastructure is kind of a solved problem for common use cases today, just requires the expertise.

This is the problem however for many (older) companies. They either don't care, or quite literally don't know the infrastructure solutions out there which can save literally thousands of hours per year of headache. Sure, for many companies with legacy systems they have a "dont fix what isn't broken" mindset, but from what I've seen, I always ask, if shipping and modifying new versions of a system takes hours or even days to complete, is the system really not 'broken'? I guess I never realized it, but having automated and clean infrastructure with tests and uptime metrics is a must-have for me on anything I build going forward. Take 2-3 weeks to save months of headache.
> You could have a system that doesn't guarantee cache coherency in general but works fine if you put in ordinary memory barriers.

How would that work? In such a system, either you have no caches or memory barriers would need to pessimistically flush all dirty lines to memory and send invalidation and synchronization messages to all other cores. In practice such system, far from being fine, would be so slow to be unusable if barriers had such semantics. Even implementing c++ relaxed semantics would be very expensive.
Why would the US want to do a Marshall plan? It was in full asset stripping mode in the USA itself in the mid 90s
Just pipe in https://whatthecommit.com
Russia still operates like an empire; Moscow pulls wealth and troops in from its periphery to its centre. The people getting rich off Russian resources aren’t—to my knowledge—Siberian. They’re tIt is uniquely difficult to imagine “Russia is run by the most human-rights-respecting government” in its current configuration.
> Firstly, it is important to note that the drug was only tested in vitro using a single line of monkey kidney cells engineered to express human signaling lymphocytic activation molecule (SLAM), also known as CDw150, which is a receptor for the measles virus

> Also, ivermectin has not been tested in any pulmonary cell lines, which are critical for SARS-CoV-2 in humans

> Furthermore, these authors did not show whether the reduction seen in RNA levels of SARS-CoV-2 following treatment with ivermectin would indeed lead to decreased infectious virus titers.

> Importantly, the drug concentration used in the study (5 μM) to block SARS-CoV-2 was 35-fold higher than the one approved by the FDA for treatment of parasitic diseases

"demonstrated" is doing a lot of lifting in that abstract given those caveats (and there's several more pages of caveats and "could", "maybe", "might", "may" hedging after those.)
I didn't know it was possible to permanently turn current to the speaker on or off, I thought you could just power it with a square wave. Which then would be my best bet: turn a permanent current on until it overheats.
As no justification was given for the change, I'm led to assume that it's because telemetry data gathered via logged in people is more valuable...

(...and that there is insufficient competition in the market to prevent the change.)

Guess it's time to learn how to use git's local search tools properly...

(Or, more realistically, use a site- & url-scoped search on DuckDuckGo...)
Congratulation, great paper! It should have been put on HN earlier ;)

I have a few questions:

* you say (page 4): "We then perform standard instruction finetuning on the
base LLaMA-7B model" Could you perhaps provide a reference to the _exact_ finetuning approach you used? I'm afraid different groups of people have a different notion of "standart" (see for example pages 131-155 from https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08575 for various fine-tuning approaches) and without knowing exactly how fine-tuning was carried out, it can be very difficult reproduce your research and results exactly.

* the idea of using AST Sub-Tree Matching is nice. Could you please let me know which function in which file from your GitHub repository this is implemented in?

Again, great job on publishing this paper!

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Best regards,

friederrr.org
Writing Ronin Ruby Scripts using ronin-support
In the '80s you could run a fully preemptive-multitasking OS with a point-and-click GUI, games and office applications on 1MB of RAM.
i took algebra 2/trig as a freshman in a class full of juniors and became friends with pretty much all of them. i was a pakistani dude at a title 1 school. it just depends on the class
Meanwhile in Europe: "New European legislation on the bumper to improve road safety"
https://www.krakertrailers.eu/en/news/126/new-european-legis...
Yep, right here:

https://github.com/id-Software/Quake/blob/bf4ac424ce754894ac...

:)
It is also worth stating that the US set the precedent [in post-Cold War era - Edit] for complete disregard of international (and even US) law for own benefit. Some examples include:

* Bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999

* Invasion of Iraq in 2003

* Recognition of Kosovo in 2008

* Military intervention in Libya 2011

* Snowden's revelations of global surveillance in 2013

* Military intervention in Syria 2014

Curiously, it was the US support for Syrian head-chopping Islamic freedom fighters that Putin said was the final straw for tolerating US unilateralism.
Key-Gone-Jin?
Great post, I've used all these services once or more at various points in my career. I'm still on the Digital Ocean stage, as I've found AWS is often overly complicated (or at least too much for me as a primarily solo founder) I'm curious about this line:

> We were doubling the size of our customer base every 9 months, and pretty soon this meant we needed more servers.

I've found that a moderately sized 4 core 'droplet' from Digital Ocean handles nearly anything I can throw at it (at least in terms of the web application world) - I see you product is doing employee management / scheduling - is there heavy compute / resources associated? Or is it more due to privacy requirements (i.e. you need a siloed instance / server per client?). Not trying to sound smug at all, just genuinely curious where the load comes from.
I went to shop for a wireless charging pad for my phone and two out of five had a power indicator LED on them. My god.
Now I'm mad at you for not telling me years ago. I've been missing this functionality since forever.
sort of the newfangled ballast of the future.
How does that answer the question posed?
I don't know if it's fake, but I would not bet on it. There is imho a large crisis of trust in all types of institutions, professions etc. Being a doctor has been demystified to an extent, for various reasons (e.g. the realization I've heard from some people that doctors didn't really know what was wrong and they just went from one guess to another, large amount of information being available giving people the wrong impression they know more than they do etc. etc.). It's also my personal explanation for the rise in alternative medicine, homeopathy, ivermectin treatments for covid, but also more broadly various forms of conspiracy theories. It's not far fetched that some people would trust "AI" more than a doctor who they don't trust or respect at all anymore.

So fake or not, it definitely hits a nerve as something that is possible. On a tangent, I think this is actually quite interesting. If I was a sociologist, I would be interested in the root cause of this as much as a scientist or an engineer is interested in a bridge falling down. But I mostly see lamenting that the world has gone crazy.
wallabag : New website and some other stuff
iCloud+ 50gb
$0.99/month

I haven't used it and not sure if it even has a web client, but for the 99c you can use a custom domain according to the ads.
It seems that the new PIT team was unable to manage the HN traffic.
For a business that makes checks notes 50 bucks a month in revenue with DO? If this were the case, prices would be astronomically high because there would be tons of scammers and bad actors abusing this system, leaving their servers running for months, because apparently DO has to send them a letter via snail mail to Antarctica and wait for their response. All of this would then have to be paid for by legitimate customers as for DO to break even, which means a simple droplet would probably cost around $50 alone. So no, thank you.

For larger businesses with thousands of dollars of revenue per month? Sure. For small $50 charges? No way.
Interesting. Isn't this the case everywhere? In European countries there are rules for where and when large trucks and trailers can go; inside cities, plenty of roads have size/weight limits, and outside, many roads allow trailer truck traffic only at night or during weekends.
Yes in Europe all trucks have bars, but I'm not sure if they would hold a car or if they are more for people on bycicles.
If I were a truck driver, I would go out of my way to avoid becoming a killer. But we see it all the times, they fighting to avoid doing even the bare minimum. They kill people and blame the "blind zone", but refuse to spend a few bucks on upgraded sensors/alerts and camera monitors.

I hope my city bans these kind of vehicles in the city streets. I like London's Direct Vision Standard, only allowing trucks with lowered seating and wide/tall side windows. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/i-P20wdrcAQ/maxresdefault.jpg
I am glad you're pointing at what you're pointing at.

For the uninitiated, I'd say it is a journey you should take on your own, arriving at your conclusions yourself. It is too out of this world otherwise, certainly to compile here in a comment.

A rabbit hole that may take you to places you do not expect.
> Broken gadgets usually make it clear how they’re supposed to work, just by the nature of their parts and assembly.

You're assuming most people have strong reverse engineering skills, but really only a small fraction of the general population has them. sigstoat implies the high IQ people are more likely to have this skill as raw IQ allows them to quickly learn the skill on the job.
AI 'godfather' Yann LeCun says it won't destroy jobs forever
I don't understand why they have done this? Like, how did the conversations go when it was pointed out to them what a pretty darn bad idea it was to recommend connecting chatgpt directly to a SQL database?

I know we are supposed to assume incompetence over malice, but no one is that incompetent. They must have had the conversations, and chose to do it anyway.
> I would expect a billing warning notice when I SSH into the service though. Maybe that was in place for the 30 days before they shut the customer out. I certainly hope so.

I would not expect Digital Ocean to alter the MOTD configuration of my Linux box because I forget to check my emails. That would be an invasion of privacy in my opinion.
The same predictions was probably made, but with nuclear instead of renewables back in the 60s-70s . And frankly it seems like the world could have actually been run almost exclusively by nuclear today if we had realized how bad fossils where instead of being scared of nuclear.

Predictions:

1) in 2050 NIMBY will be just as bad for renewables as it used to be for nuclear.

2) New standardized nuclear pp designs will bring the cost of nuclear down to be much cheaper than almost all renewables, but in localized areas where it actually makes sense renewables will dominate

3) Message boards will still be full of people claiming we should run exclusively on solar even in places like Norway and Canada
This link presumably inspired by the Banksy show in the museum next to this:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/15/banksy-show-...

> This might sound absurd and pretentious (just wait until you see the rest of the exhibition) but it’s my favourite work of art in the UK and the reason I’ve brought the show here.”
What does spend break down as?
And then there's Twitter who doesn't pay GCS and AWS for months and keeps operating normally.
We have 20,000 rspec tests. They do a huge amount. But every few months, something slips through. Especially when the change relates to 3rd party gems.

Having to write a billion unit tests to replace the type checker is just abysmal.
Those hold cars. Up to a degree of course.
>Kidults are people who preserve their teenage likings (from video games, anime and fantasy, to a responsibility-free lifestyle) until they are 30-35 and older

This is always something that has bothered by society's concept of adulthood. Are people just supposed to not like things past 35? Is the only acceptable use of your free time as an adult reading non-fiction about finding the meaning of life?