skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is saying racist things illegal? [in the USA]

If you said something racist on an iPhone telephone call, would that presumably allow Apple to lock you out of your devices?
Yeah, I'm sure it depends on the training and the document type. I haven't had direct experience with LLM-generated business documents, but I do think that, given a small time window, GPT-4 is more effective at communicating ideas than the average human even if those ideas are wrong. As far as my use goes, GPT-4 now serves the role that Wikipedia used to, which is to give me a baseline of understanding that I use to refine my research, given that most internet content is either verbose, hogwash, or both. Ironically, I've found that Wikipedia has made itself nearly obsolete in this regard given how seemingly every article has become so academically-written that it's an undertaking to just get a rough idea of something. Neither source I trust, but at least GPT-4 will introduce me to a topic in a way that is more effective and concise than most human writing today. But that's just my experience.

> If you want a lot of text that you don't want to think about, LLMs are great. If you want text that is pithy or persuasive, it doesn't help much, even when you use prompting tricks (eg "you are a CEO/professor..."). By the way, this has convinced me that local LLAMA-scale models are the future, not massive remote GPTs.

Granted, we are judging LLMs based on highly generalized training sets. What if a GPT was fine-tuned on all of the writing and speeches of figures whom are considered the most persuasive?
TLDR: "Others have a different opinion than me so I'm going to decide their motivations for them and attack them instead of defending my opinion".
I stumbled on this system several years ago and found it useful as inspiration for organizing my external storage.

My top level categories are `inbox` (stuff that isn't sorted yet), `Media` (stuff that other people made), and `Vault` (stuff that I made).

`Media` contains `Audiobooks`, `Books`, `Courses`, `Films`, `TV`, `Music`, and `Broadway.

`Vault` contains `Backups`, `Projects`, `Audio`, Video`, and `Photos`.

Anything one layer deeper is either a file of the type described by the parent folder name or a folder containing related files (ex: `Video/2023-06-12 makers.dev 119` is a folder containing the raw recordings and processed end video and audio for my podcast).

I've got about 10TB and tens of millions of files organized in this system. It works better than anything else I've tried.
Pattern matching alone is a huge feature and an absolute delight to use when the opportunity presents itself.

I’d love to see where Ractor goes but I worry it will remain niche, like with Refinements.
Is that case really a "power-mod"? The head mod was inactive for a year and then came back and shutdown a subreddit against the wishes of the active mod team.
That's fine. He felt a ridiculous way and acted childishly about it, and was fired.

Oh well. Hope he learns from his childish behavior.
And don't forget Bill Gates buying up loads of farmland.
I mean, I don't know how much Sweden fights with its doctors, but its doctors get paid vastly less than US doctors, and the US would have to fight its doctors really hard to get them to accept Swedish-style salaries.

And, like, it's always hard to get into the nitty gritty of why US healthcare costs so much, there's a lot of different things going on, but similarly you might say, "Okay, maybe the US has a 'coordination problem,'" but what does that cash out to? Hospital administration salaries? Again, are you gonna pick that fight? Providing extremely inefficient end-of-life care that still has at least some arguable benefit? Are you gonna pick that fight?
CSS scrollbars… those take me back to my middle school experimentations with HTML back when interactive web pages were called "dynamic HTML"
> full self driving cars are a reality

Full self driving cars are a reality. Waymo is giving 10,000 trips per week with nobody behind the steering wheel in SF and Pheonix.
The UK's Stagnation: What's Going Wrong in the Not-So-Great British Economy
easy guarantee. i wouldn't be surprised if i saw that within 5 days.
Government agencies are traditionally slow, inefficient, and incompetent. I'm afraid this will make them faster and more efficient, but do nothing to remedy the incompetence. Dark portents ahead.
Could the scene on the drinking cup be an allegory on the gymnasium?

They are building bronze bodies and there are “tools athletes used to scrape oil, mud and sweat from their bodies following a workout”. They mount a new head on a statue, which could symbolize the beneficial effects of sports on the mind.
Mongo is two helpings of Chesterton’s Fence and a cup of JBoss astroturfing.

They bought a company that had a better architecture and renamed it MomgoDB, true, but you can’t reward origin stories like this. Permanent banishment.
Wonderful resource!

I found many great volumes that will easily take days/weeks to read through -- to absorb.
Cost to borrow $100 from 15 fintech apps analyzed
Do you feel like a bad deal when you buy a movie-ticket for a group at say $15 x 6 (~$90 + food), when about 3 months later you can buy the same movie for just $10 and watch it in the comfort of your own home?

Games have values: the value goes up at launch so that you can play it before spoilers leak to the internet. Then, after it is a bit stale, it declines in value a few months later. After a few years, it might go up in value if people have fond memories of the game and it becomes retro, but otherwise it probably becomes completely worthless.
> It’s their unpaid moderator workforce striking in solidarity

It's a small subset of their moderator workforce. Most of them are, in solidarity I guess, continuing on as normal.
When it comes to human status, and group status dynamics. Surprised there isn't more references to Robert Sapolsky and baboons. If you are going to make an evolutionary argument around humans and status, think his work would be at least referenced.
True. That's the effect, not necessarily the goal. The tobacco industry doesn't want to give people cancer either, but it does.
Sign me up for this long awaited IPO…
In software engineering, some companies have much higher standards than others. I'm just guessing, but often this situation happens when you are trying to step up from a lower quality employer to a higher quality employer.

Money is more meaningful than titles. Would you be making more money as an Engineer II at the new company than as a team lead at the old company? If you aren't, then it's probably a step backward.

If you would be making more money, then this is a step forward. In fact, it's a great opportunity, because you can get even further in your career by getting promoted to the "senior" level at your new workplace.
Apple has the stubbornness and funds to drive this for a decade, and they will. Apple Vision Air AR glasses are coming even if they don't sell a single Pro unit for five years.
https://docs.sendgrid.com/ui/account-and-settings/billing may help, or you can try calling +1 (877) 969-8647 (phone number on the invoice).

If that fails, call sales, they always answer.
IMO, it tries to shift the blame a little. Pretend the price is reasonable and the developers who shut down the apps instead of paying are who took your app away, not the company. Killing them outright would make the blame very clearly on Reddit's side.

The other benefit is if anyone does decide to pay, it's profitable.
https://www.rtings.com/monitor is where you want to look for monitors over random people on Reddit.

Rechargable batteries seemed to me to be a complete commodity at this point that they really aren't even worth researching. Anker is my go to for anything USB chargeable related and regular batteries have been totally fine using generic brands in my remotes. I've actually had more problems with brand-name no rechargeable batteries corroding in my remotes.
I first coded using Monaco some 38 years ago. Time flies.
I’ve never seen a silly idea that I wanted more.

Based on a skim of the write-up, it seems like the author passed a respin of comic sans through a couple scripts, maybe you could start from where they started and try to locate a nice continuous “shittyness” knob to tune.
I'm watching Internet Comment Etiquette right now, don't judge, and the tone of those videos while reading that text had me absolutely cracking up. Just going to keep laughing while the dystopia becomes reality around us.
I often see tangentially related things like this brought up in astronomy related posts.

I think it's because people don't know very much about astronomy but they want to sound smart so they pivot to an opinion on a subjective but related subject.
Mostly but it does upload some of the vectorized data to insert into the prompt for context. When you do a query llama-index tries to discover content related to your prompt and injects it for context so its not entirely local.
I think Comic Code stays more true to the aesthetics of Comic Sans.

https://www.myfonts.com/collections/comic-code-font-tabular-...
> Naive people don't record every phone call.

This is the most important thing. Obviously in interviews he says "Oh I think they're nice people, if they want to patch things up I'm ready", but judging from how all of this has played out I think it's obvious that he's somewhat savvy. He's coming off as the good guy in this fight all while reddit continues to burn any goodwill they have from a not insignificant portion of their user base.
IMO the best solution is to disable 3P API access, but allow it with a reddit gold sub. Similar to what Spotify does (or did?).
Jeez I hate when dated blog articles omit the year. The only way we know that this was from 2007 was from the URL, at least that's what we assume.

The fake "this is more recent content than it really is" is some kind of error-of-omission dark pattern that happens all the time.
Thanks for these. The last one is my favorite format-wise. Very cool.
If you listen to the audio, it's much clearer. You can hear the dynamic / emotion etc in their voices.

Christian's post: https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w...

Audio clip: https://christianselig.com/apollo-end/reddit-third-call-may-...
Other than some of the funky capital letters, it's really not bad.
The first test cases are always the strongest ones; watch - it will spread.

It's an obviously choreographed play and Reddit is going to win this one.
“Attention the Universe by kingdoms right wheel”
To go fast, stay humble and use boring technology.
There are a lot. First of all, these LLMs do not learn in-situ. They are entirely static (apart from the prompt). To teach an LLM something new is an ex-situ process, more or less totally unrelated to the way it predicts. Contrast that with a brain: brains are constantly learning (in fact, it is difficult to imagine how a brain as we understand it could work without constantly learning).

In a related way, because we learn on-line and constantly, our brains have to also maintain goals, rewards and punishments, etc etc. We have neurons for all of the trivia of keeping us moving, seeking new input, generalizing it, throwing away bad information, etc. For an LLM all of that is external. The LLM doesn't have any reason to even distinguish between generation and training. All the weight updates are calculated by a (relatively simple) external process. Furthermore, LLMs are entirely _feed forward_. The input comes in, a lot of numbers are crunched, and then output comes out. There is no rumination (again, the analogy for rumination in an LLM is in the training process, which is not embodied in the LLM).

Much of the content of our consciousness is perceptions relating to all of these things. I think its possible that artificial neural networks may one day do enough of these things that I would admit they are conscious, but architecturally and fundamentally, I don't see any reason that an LLM would have them.

I also don't think even GPT4 is that intelligent (fantastic recall, though). It does an impression of a cognitive process (literally by printing out steps) but that doesn't seem compelling enough for me to imagine a theory of mind underneath. A model of text, sure, but not a mind.
Ding ding ding

The real reddit app doesn’t even have an option to block a particular ad account so when they serve you evangelical right wing ads all day you just have to swallow it.
Hi, great to meet another builder here on HN) Am I understand correctly that your product is like grafana_agent, but vendor-agnostic?
I always get the gut-feeling that stuff like this is bad, and will be abused, and is the quasi-abolition of privacy... but when I go to explain to my parents, or my siblings, or sometimes my peers why I feel uncomfortable about the implementation of stuff like this... I'm faced with a brick wall.

We are in an interesting pivot point in American sociology where the privacy/safety trade-off has never been easier for members of the general public... and I am not sure that there is much we can do about it.
> Considering the amount of media attention this has gotten from even mainstream sources including places like the BBC

Reddit moderators are uniquely privileged when it comes to making their opinions heard on reddit. The shuttering of subreddits is sensational and splashy enough to get media attention, but in itself says little about how most reddit users feel. A moderator revolt is like a strike of middle managers, revolting against upper management. They can lock the doors and keep all the common workers out, but that isn't evidence that the common workers have much investment in the strike. I think this whole thing probably follows the 90-9-1 rule; the 9 are mods and powerusers flipping out against the 1, while the 90 are probably oblivious or simply indifferent.
Actually looks quite nice, but when I try it for coding I find it a bit too dense, compared to Hack [0] which gets it just about right for me.

[0] https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/
You don’t actually buy an ebook, you buy a license to that ebook.
If you are the majority shareholder and that never changes, then sure.

The parent comment said “every single person in adtech is complicit”.

Most employees do not possess that level of agency about what happens to their work.
I tend to agree, gnome seems to be built with touch pad devices in mind. I like the convenient top-left hot corner to switch apps using a touchpad. I almost never use floating windows. When on the keyboard I can alt-tab or press the windows key to get the same overview quickly.
I don't quite get it. Where does one get the model from? Or is it just for people that can afford to spend the $ to train the models themselves?
Just to be clear: the startup culture is literally about giving up control, in exchange for a cash infusion and a chance to Make It Big.
> cheap commodity in a massively oversaturated space, and without a hook that makes the platform exceptional (innovative/clever/beautiful design)

instead do unimaginative, stupid and ugly design. Reddit will shut down old.reddit within the next 16 months and when that happens there will be a gap in the market to grab the most dedicated of reddit's audience with something that looks as ugly but works as great as old.reddit does.
> Please, people have been forced into cities.

This. I would ditch living in a city in a heartbeat if I could.
This thing has been blown way out of proportion. Few people use those apps
Or a camera pointed through a door or a blinded window that gets a few moments here and there over a month long period.
I much prefer Meta dumping billions into VR rather than targeting ads and worsening teens' depression.
Tipping in the United States has gotten out of control
I don't think so. It's called "showdead," right under email on the settings page.
Lemmy has been growing rather quickly.
Apollo should clone Reddit's backend instead.
Is there ANY evidence that "qualia" is a real thing? That sounds like vitalism that was debunked a long time ago.
What is the advantage over something like SES? It seems you need to do basically the exact same code for the same result.
Show HN: New Subreddit for AI Agents (top% in size)
I get the idea of wanting to improve longevity but I do not see how moving to a particular state would help. It isn't like they are going to avoid the laws they see as an obstacle. I see this much like the cultists that move to some ranch compound and try to create their own rules. History has shown these do not last long and things usually end very poorly. If anything it gathers all the like minded people into one honeypot.

To get real traction on their idea they should at very least have multiple decent .onion forums each run by different people that discuss verifiable and provable methods of health/life-span improvements and how to create the compounds and methodologies they believe are beneficial and measurable thus allowing everyone to bio-hack from home almost anywhere on earth so to speak. The moderators on these forums must have Mjölnir in one hand at all times while simultaneously creating something appealing to scientists that feel like they have been held back by the friction of money incentivized laws vs true health and safety laws. These forums would draw the ire of pharma and must be secured by people that know what they are doing. i.e. good opsec. Feel free to call me pessimistic but I do not foresee any of this happening.
No, DOCSIS is not better than PON. PON has been flawlessly delivering 10/10 Gbps for years. What is DOCSIS doing? DOCSIS networks are much more expensive to maintain (in terms of electricity expenditure, copper literally rotting away...) and the technology is lagging and will be lagging behind in speeds and latency forever.
All valid things to check but would also need to be checked for other OECD countries. I would not assume the OECD methodology does not take account of the aging. Also I would not assume this had much of an effect. The way it might would be if a lot of younger people moved to Sweden during the pandemic . In general cross border movement slowed during that time
Is this why that TikTok act opened the door for illegal use of VPN's?
Christian linked the entire phone conversation on reddit. It's available, and if you listen to it, it's clear reddit misinterpret his intention, was corrected, went public with their misinterpretation after stating they understood, and accused him of "leaking" private phone calls.

It's all horse shit and they know it. I don't claim to know the reason, I can only speculate. But, what I do know after reading Christian's posts and listening to the phone call is that reddit, and Spez specifically, are being super shitty.
I have this all the time in the US... I'm a landmark direction person, and giving directions I see the route in my head. I can't get used to street counting or compass point directions... I think a lot has to do with what the street layouts were like when you were growing up. In England there is pretty much no street counting because all the streets are higgledy-piggledy.
I was surprised how often my ticket was checked in Switzerland tbh
I use APL386 as my monospace font, has some comic vibe but looks better imo.

https://abrudz.github.io/APL386/
> a lot of small subs became active refuge for people

Uff i ve been trying to find them , and also trying to make mine more active but it doesn't seem to be workign ...
I wish the PO of my team read it.

He is so insecure to talk to customers and iterate with them that it gets on my nerves.

He always have an ideal of "finished work" that, very often, we end delivering something not finished and/or wrong because we didn't iterate enough.

Customers not always know what they want even though they say that they know what they want.
What I like about DEVONthink is actually not the “duplicant”, but the “replicant”.

My organization also evolved to a simple hierarchy over time, but the fact that files can live in several directories at the same time is very useful in some cases. When there is ambivalence where a file should go, it can just go in two places – but it‘s not a duplicate, so you don‘t run into uncertainties which one is the latest version, etc. So it’s a bit like tagging (which in DT you can additionally do), but also not quite…
It looks nice. In general I have nothing against "Comic-family" fonts. They look fun and unique. This certainly changes depending on how much you use them (e.g. an entire page in Comic Sans is... just comical.

Applying the same logic to this font, I feel like it would look good in stylized code snippets on a website, but I wouldn't use it in my code editor.
People always say language choice doesn't matter, but how many companies get stuck with a language where they resort to rewriting the parser for it?
> What kind of feedback can you get when the donation is not anonymous that you can't get otherwise? I really can't think of anything

I don't even know where to begin... This is like saying "what kind of feedback can you get when the products you buy are not anonymous." When I buy a phone or some set of products it's usually public in the sense that I go to forums to talk about it, or my friends see the products I use, etc etc and people see what I use and I get feedback of the "hey, there is this product that might do this thing you care about better"

Likewise, if what you care about is x and you just go and donate to some charity, nobody can tell you something of the form "hey, there is this charity that might do this thing you care about better"

Just like with products, de-anonymizing also increases trust when you see a positive review. Same goes with charities. It opens up a more worthwhile place where discussions can be held.

> yea, one can know if charity works without putting their name to it...

Totally true. Except you still run the risk of fooling yourself more if you keep it to yourself. I don't trust myself and prefer to defer to those who research charities for a living. I talk with these people a lot, tell them what my values are, and then get charity recommendations.

I suppose a counter-argument you might make is you can still engage with people anonymously and learn what you need. That I also totally agree with.

I think you and I might be using the word "anonymous" differently.

What I'm arguing against is a kind of charity that is anonymous where the person doing this charity is an island and doesn't talk to or engage with anyone or anything about it out of principle. I think a lot of people think this is a good principle to hold. I am completely opposed to it. Is there even one good reason to do charity in complete secrecy? Even if you prefer to be anonymous (which is completely understandable), it is still better to engage with people to learn why a charity is a "good buy."
Uhm so I was professionally setting up ML distros and ML containers for cloud deployments. Venv is not fine, especially if you've seen how other langs do it.
Is “can’t make a racist noise on a device you purchased” part of TOS? And is a delivery driver imagining a wrong part of the TOS?
I have considered tiling wms, but after watching few youtube guides decided that it’s not worth the learning curve and configuration. Kept using FancyZones* instead. It can snap windows to pre-user-defined areas and cycle an active window through them with win-arrows. All you need really and zero rocket science.

* windows-only, couldn’t find linux analog anywhere including forums.
I have a gut feeling that if this were happening, you'd start with things like purchase orders and very boring matter of fact reporting details before launching into the cloak and dagger type of conspiracy reporting.
> Same as always: I love building Apollo, and if Reddit is willing to to talk I'm happy to as well.

Got a source for that? He's made it clear that it's too late, and this can't be repaired. How can you trust someone that lied to make you look bad, and you have proof?
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