skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So long as there’s demand for contraband, there’s a utility for BTC

Drug money... while that was true at one point, you have to be the stupidest MF'er in this planet to deal with DNM tx with BTC at this point unless you have secure OPSEC (something most who operate DNM couldn't even do, see SR1/2).

The truth is BTC has more usecases than you are lining out, go look at Ukraine's Bitcoin address, that was what was using to fund early escape missions during the attacks of Russia when the central bank failed to operate and imposed liquidity collapse in the onset of the War. This was what led to the realization of United24, the official Ukrainian governments solution for continued fundraising (using not just BTC, but other alts too) for support in other critical needs--like invincibility centers that provide food/water/shelter in these war torn areas.

Want an even longer use case? Go look at Return Alive's BTC address going back a decade now, we as a community have been proving non-lethal aid to Ukraine since the Maidan Revolution in 2013 when the collapse of their currency and capital controls and rapid inflation took over.

Really I can go on, and while I don't deny our past (in fact I'm quite proud of our origins as a means to transfer value freely on the Internet) you are misled to believe it still operates much volume towards those ends these days because of the analytics and monitoring that is being done 24/7 by intelligence agencies and 3rd party affiliates for just this. Hell, I bet there are more scams/hacks by the North Korean cyber military than there is in drug money.
Would it make sense to use this for backup/redundancy as well?

If not, what would better approaches be
So they're saving them from a fate worse than prison ... being a java developer.

I had to say it sorry (҂◡_◡)
> It is simply unbelievable that the company was even able to get to the point of diving to such depths with humans aboard.

Yes, my impression is that this feels naive, especially if reflects a more general viewpoint of surprise when organizations do negligent things. The law of large numbers combined with human nature seems to statistically all-but guarantee such failures over a few decades.

> ... The tacit assumption seems to be that there is an agency, a government, an organization, that would review and approve such endeavors.

No. You made that tacit assumption, not the commenter before you. This assumption makes it easy to setup a straw man.

> But that's just not how the world works. You can't stop people from going to sea, or sending contraptions to the bottom. It's a very big world, filled with mostly ocean, and plenty of thrill-seekers who will attempt anything half-way reasonable. Even 10% reasonable. You can't stop that...

This is a false dichotomy. A more apropos question is how to reduce undesirable outcomes.

> ... To get it you'd need a nanny state ...

"Nanny state" is loaded language, "... rhetoric used to influence an audience by using words and phrases with strong connotations. This type of language is very often made vague to more effectively invoke an emotional response and/or exploit stereotypes." - Wikipedia

> ... that snoops on everyone ...

More loaded language.

> and steps in to stop you "for your own safety".

More loaded language.

> It's easy to imagine scenarios where this gets out of hand.

Are you using the slippery slope fallacy? I'm not quite sure.

Regardless, wise public policy is not exclusively based on such an approach of imagining things getting out of hand. There are better ways. To name just one, scenario planning is a powerful way of combining probabilistic decision-making across potential scenarios.

You aren't explicitly stating your political philosophy, but I'd bet it underlies your thinking here. I just hope that you are open to hypothesis-testing and avoiding dogma.

## Useful Responses

There is a wide menu of public responses and/or policy instruments available to reduce undesirable outcomes and promote desirable ones.

It is an interesting question, I think, not one that should be quickly dismissed. Legally, jurisdiction seems to be a good place to start. Culturally and economically, what motivates such negligent underwater attempts? Maybe it isn't the top problem in the world to solve, but I think too many tech people have a huge blind spots and pretend to know more than they actually do. This example is newsworthy, fun, tragic, and not particularly politically charged, best I can tell. So why not use some good reasoning here and discuss it?
They removed it for a reason. Hard to imagine having the rabbit hole effect while avoiding all the negatives of it too.
Does the first sentence here help narrow it down?

https://oceangate.com/about.html
The beauty is the idea of fanfic derived models doesn’t require distributing the LORA directly, just the trainer and a scraper with URLs. Perhaps today it’s unreasonable to fine tune on an average persons machine but I have a feeling a) this is the way of the future, more so than closed models in closed gardens, and it’ll drive an impetus for more better cheaper consumer kit, b) efficiency of these processes are absurdly bad. They were designed by ML engineers. You get the hard core game engine nerds optimizing these things and you’ll see stuff like vLLM news constantly.

I realized pretty quickly this could be used for anything - paw patrol, Star Trek, or all sorts of fan fiction bases. I think even more commercial, for better or for worse, is making a LORA based off alt.sex.stories.

Anyway I have cleaning up to do but it was written in rust and used diffusers-rs and llm-rs, and can do fine with base OSS models for almost anything. My Lora models do well for making specific characters and situations more prevalent and a better tone, but the base 13B models out there do fine. Stable diffusion 1.5/2.1 also do fine, but do even better with anime or rpg Lora. I plan to release it at some point as OSS (it’s a fork of ttyper-rs)
(2007)

Previous discussions (with >25 comments):

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9039537 (67 comments)

2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30564287 (121 comments)
> Narf.

<in an Obi-Wan Kenobi voice> Now that is a word I have not heard in a long, long time.
Ask HN: How does everyone keep track of user reactions to their LLM output?
For example: If you make a chat bot and let the user regenerate their responses; then there is an implicit preference ranking of the chatbot responses. Do any of you keep track of this?
This was a hell of a way for me to learn that my Google Domain account will be transitioned to SquareSpace. An email would've been nice (unless I missed it).
Yes, 100% agree. What I find unbelievable is how many people casually throw around the idea of approval process to prevent bad thing X that just happened, that few even knew existed.

We have laborious and very expensive approval processes for airplanes, ask the 737 MAX inspector from the FAA how well that guarded against bad engineering.

If even the bad engineering is at fault here (unknown as of writing this).
From the article: "When we started working on Fleet, however, Jetpack Compose didn’t exist, and thus Noria was born."

On the one hand, it seems like a significant waste of resources to duplicate efforts between the two projects. On the other, I wonder if Noria has any desktop-centric advantages over the mobile-oriented legacy of Compose.
Guides die on Everest more frequently than the rich tourists they haul up and down the mountain. At least this submarine didn't take a bunch of sherpas with it.
I would love to be able to hide Shorts for good instead of having to do it every 30 days. I wonder what technical issue is preventing them to accomplish such task.
"At the meeting Lochridge discovered why he had been denied access to the viewport information from the Engineering department—the viewport at the forward of the submersible was only built to a certified pressure of 1,300 meters, although OceanGate intended to take passengers down to depths of 4,000 meters. Lochridge learned that the viewport manufacturer would only certify to a depth of 1,300 meters due to experimental design of the viewport supplied by OceanGate, which was out of the Pressure Vessels for Human Occupancy (“PVHO”) standards. OceanGate refused to pay for the manufacturer to build a viewport that would meet the required depth of 4,000 meters."

Well, that about it settles what happened.
> In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with a person, but with slogans, catchwords and the like that have taken possession of him.

Just so -- it's as if you're debating with the ideology itself, really.
The bud light boycott is great. It's exactly how people should respond to things they don't like. This isn't even cancel culture, it's just people no longer wanting to consume a product because of the association.

People who never used a product or watched a show going out of their way to make a 3rd party take away something other people like is what's annoying.
It's interesting to compare Google's strategy with AWS's.

AWS SimpleDB has been a dead product for years now. Afaik, nobody is developing it, nobody is advertising it, and I believe it's not been launched in any new regions in ages. Even internally, when I worked there, it was not a product you should use for anything.

Yet it's still supported. Customers are still using it. Somewhere, there is a team in AWS keeping the lights on.

Because AWS knows that customer trust is more valuable than whatever it costs to keep that product alive.

Google does not understand that.
In this situation described by the author, it's simply a matter of priorities: job satisfaction vs. avoiding divorce. It's unclear what "traditional masculinity" has to do with this.
Absolutely not. All cities have rougher areas, because cities need workers that are only paid enough to live in affordable hosing and affordable housing inevitably clumps together.

But it doesn't automatically follow that a rough area is "bad" in the way it is in San Francisco. Plenty of cities in Australia, for example, have their share of upmarket and downmarket suburbs. But the lesser suburbs are rarely dangerous and their poor reputation is largely socio-economic, relativistic and/or historical prejudice.
https://www.ussvirginiabase.org/sea-trials.html

Last paragraph:

"This ship is exactly what the Navy needs, when it needs it," agreed EB President John P. Casey, who was on board during the trials. "There is no substitute for the Virginia-class submarine."

Testing included its first dive to max depth.
I am a lazy Twitter hater. Thank you!
As far as I know, AWS has never shut down a service. They've stopped offering some services in new accounts, but if you already had it you still do (like SimpleDB).

Microsoft and Oracle are both well known for extremely long term support and creating easy migration paths.

I would only ever use GCP as an offsite backup or use some of their AI tools as part of toolchain that either operates on a copy of the data or lands its output on another cloud.

In other words I would always make sure to design in a way where I could exit Google in 30 days or less.
There is no way to disentangle TI from gcp
Saifish on Sony Phones should work like a charm though.
Just make sure I can install a fully AI-free version, please.
Very recent father who asked to have his son seeded after a unplanned c section here. Iv followed a lot of recent micro biome research and it does seem weird to think there is any downside to doing this given that a vaginal birth contains a lot more of the same seeding microbes. GBS seems overblown but you could still pre test for that earlier in pregnancy if you want to play it that way.

Baby Koalas literally cannot digest eucalyptus leaves unless they get the microbes from eating their mothers faeces after birth. Mammalian microbe seeding during birth, is likely critical to our evolutionary history.
Can you buy off the shelf emergency beacons that can surface from 400 ATM or broadcast through 13000 ft of water?
> cheap off-the-shelf components

Your car is filled with cheap off-the-shelf *car* components. There's far more scrutiny given to car parts, even though they're cheap stuff.

But to get back to the controller, while it's not necessarily the worst problem, it is emblematic. That's why people reduce it to that. It signifies immediately what kind of company they were. Emphasis on were.
Google is completely rudderless. Sundar has completely trashed Google's once impeccable reputation and killed all innovation. I really don't understand why they have't fired him.
Vector search is not always the right tool. So why do VCs pretend that it is?
No, no, no. They can't have. Right?
Wait... Is it not that within our current understanding of physics gold can only be manufactured artificially from an already heavier metal? (which are already more expensive than gold I think).

I don't know the details but, basically, it's not because we can manufacture synthetic diamonds that we'll one day be able to manufacture non-radioactive synthetic gold.
Is there such a significant problem with disk IO going to docker for Mac over vagrant?

Now there is overhead for mounting local volumes into the container, but I’ve found them to be negligible on my Apple Silicon Mac’s in the last year or 2. (Apple seems to have been the one to fix it with their new virtualization framework which docker for Mac supports).

Now back when they first added their APFS file system things were atrociously slow when it came to Disk IO (as in 10x slowdowns or more) and there were various workarounds but it seems resolved to me now.
There is no technical issue, they realized that shorts make them more money, so they are pushing that.
You mean it doesn't quote arguments automatically, it is safe so long as you always quote the command

defer 'touch "a b"'

(a usability pitfall I know, but probably not fixable easily)

edit: maybe escaping could be added though, using sed?

DEFER="; ${DEFER}"
for arg in "$@"; do
DEFER="$(printf -- %s "${arg}" | sed "s/'/'\\\\''/g;1s/^/'/;\$s/\$/'/") ${DEFER}"
done
What to do if your house is overflowing with books
US power is really 240V with a neutral. It’s wired to most outlets and circuits as one 120V leg (against the neutral). But you can absolutely wire a 240V circuit using both legs and major appliances (air conditioners/heat pumps, electric driers) use 240V. My Tesla charger is on a 240V 60A circuit.
This is awesome! I have a powerful desktop ( that I'm using as a host ) and I can finally use my Macbook Air M1 as a dev machine.

Thank you.
What efforts like Purism should do is greatly reduce their scope. Make a device that does the basics which would be phone, text, basic web, and maybe a media player or support in the web browser for this use case. At first anything else could be accessed via the web, and maybe look at introducing PWAs as a way to do basic apps.

Keep the GUI as simple as possible with the smallest number of options and features as possible and focus more on perfecting what is there. Ship a more minimal better polished product. If you don’t have the resources to perfect it, drop it.

Make anything more custom or advanced configurable via ssh, but make the core features entirely usable without doing that. At first you might not even have an App Store, just a CLI package manager you can access from a PC with ssh.

It’d basically be a hackable minimalist phone. Someone who just wants a privacy oriented minimal phone could use it as is and power users could ssh in and hack on it.
It's wild to think that biology is basically built through molecular additive manufacturing. Converting nature's 3d printer into a technology that we can leverage for the fabrication of materials and structures seems inevitable.

Drew Berry has done some mind-blowing animations of how these systems work.

https://youtu.be/IvJrDsRuWxQ - Kinetochore and Mitosis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT5AXGS1aL8&list=PL04jnTG4d1... - Playlist of respiration
How does one do this without reforming academia?
On the other hand, there is a large contingent - probably the vast majority - for whom no amount of rigor or proof would be sufficient. Flat Earthers can be shown evidence for days and reject it all, for instance. Because it isn't really about the facts for most folks.

I also think - and suspect TFA agrees here - that taking lunatics (or, more likely, the intentionally dense) seriously emboldens them, and lends their ideas the unearned merit of your efforts. Sartre had something to say about that, too.
Ah, so it might have been a fluke. I took "4 out of 5" to be a ratio, but now I realize you mean just for this list.

You really should should re-ask it a few times to see. And then if it's not a fluke, try with a prng to see if the results are similar.

It may very well not be a ChatGPT thing, but an easily guessable thing just by stringing random numbers together.
Oh government likes to step in alright. Doesn't mean they should, or that it helps as much for 'safety' as people would like to believe. Just as often rules can cause safety issues as not. But always more expense.
...You're still not answering the question. What are the ACID properties? Why is SQL, a standard for database query languages, not supported?
Google’s CI/CD and internal monorepo ecosystem building against latest have a high cost to maintain legacy code. You can’t just let something rot with minimal maitenance at google.

While fine for a customer tech ecosystem facing security threats, it’s really not ideal for enterprise offerings.
Technically not a regular expression, as (intuitively) the backreference has to “count” the number of 1’s that were matched. Regular expressions are equivalent to finite state machines, which cannot count arbitrarily high (any state machine that can count arbitrarily high needs an infinite number of states, since there are infinite natural numbers).

The 2022 discussion has a more formal proof using the pumping lemma.
Nitpick: it's CO2 scrubbers, not O2. A scrubber primary mission is to absorb CO2, not generate O2.
Gruber spotted this delightful bit of surrealism, in case you’re using Gmail.

> Turns out that even though I used an @gmail.com address to register the domain, every single email from Google Domains was being flagged as spam. So Google’s own email service considers all emails from Google’s own domain name service to be spam.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/16/google-domains
Nah, you typically don't cut just one corner if you're cutting risk costs.
I wrote a personal browser extension that hides them. They are obnoxious.
This type/class of wireless controllers are noticeably less dense and flimsier. They are not necessarily built worse, but this is "get what you pay for" product, which is to say it's great for undergraduate robotics projects that Microsoft or Sony designs at ~$65 is either an overkill or too complicated to interface with.
Nope, no emails have been sent. There is just a small banner when you into the domains.google admin console.

Hoping Cloudflare move faster on .dev and .app so I can migrate before the inevitable fuckups happen with the transition to Squarespace.
I doubt it's a technical issue. The current YouTube CEO, Neal Mohan, has made a big push for Shorts. This is almost certainly a business decision.
> . I think even more commercial, for better or for worse, is making a LORA based off alt.sex.stories.

Oh, that was being done even before LLaMA.

And the optimized frameworks are already there, the dots just havent been connected yet.
there's a ublock list that specifically hides shorts : https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts
Ask HN: Calculating Compute Needed for ‘N’ Developers Using LLMs
Hey HN,

I’m trying to figure how much compute that I’d need if I would want to run something like StarCoder or StarCoderPlus in inference mode for `N` developers.

- Let’s say that I have 10 - 20 developers who would like to use StarCoder within their VSCode, like CoPilot.
- How would you calculate the number of tokens/s one would need to be able to produce for it to be a viable service?
- What version of the model would you be using?
- Would you use a compressed model that was generated via quantization?
- Would you be using GPU / CPU?

I don’t know that much about this, but i’m trying to gather information and am willing to read what’s needed to understand what’s needed, but truthfully, there’s so much that’s getting published every day on this, i feel like i’m drowning.

Any insights would be great.
What are you using VSCode for that the stable JetBrains IDEs don't do well?
>(Government regulations cannot kill it; they can only drive it underground, as with gold.)

>Anyone who predicts Bitcoin's demise must explain precisely how and why its network would stop functioning.

This can be done pretty easily, once enough countries ban and condemn it for its contribution to the climate crisis and to crime. There's no need to catch every transaction, just to ban it enough to shrink the mining pool. Once the active network has shrunk enough, the transparent permissionless structure ensures we can ran the obvious attacks on it.

Since it's now underground and these actors aren't the nicest of people, coordinating the forks to resist the attacks will be difficult and costly. People give up after each attack, which makes running another attack easier and so on. Eventually maintaining the network as is won't be worth it to anyone.
James Webb Space Telescope hints at lower number of habitable planets
Does this mean that Logitech is a reliable brand?
Some partial substitutes depending on what subreddits you frequent:

https://programming.dev/

https://slrpnk.net/

https://tildes.net/

https://raddle.me/

https://scored.co/

https://lemmy.world/

https://lemmy.ml/

https://kbin.social/

https://squabbles.io/

https://saidit.net/

Reddit migration directory: https://redditmigration.com/
Isn't a leak at that depth one of the main causes of implosion?
Mainland China has had those for as long as I can remember (going back at least as early as 2010).
Quite excited by this whole line up, the Pioneer ( https://milkv.io/pioneer ) looks interesting too.

I really hope they can pull this all off. I've ordered a couple of the MlikV-Duos should arrive in the next week or so, let's see how things go!
But risk can be mitigated with proper engineering, testing, and manufacturing process control. These are all quite well understood just seemingly not well implemented by this company.
Engagement is a nuanced metric for that reason. Am I engaged because I am enjoying the product or is it just taking me longer to achieve things because the UX is bad.
>although of course there will always be skeptics who distrust all academic data and are immune to changing their mind

Vaccine skeptics mostly fall into this category. I mention it because the author of this blog appears to be one of them.

I agree that more effort should be put into the "fringe" research to disprove these things, but I'm concerned that no amount of proof could ever help, which ironically is the point of this quote.
Yeah I know they’re there - but I think they’re just the beginning of the optimizations. Just working through the stable diffusion code it looked like there were eye watering improvements to make.
I think you would need a way to trigger the cast either way? Eg concatenate with a string?

Otherwise, maybe a function and a generated column (Ed: in a VIEW i guess, if it chokes on the raw enum)?

https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/276477/immutably-con...
Implosion should hit sensors though. Maybe they just took on water and drowned.
It's not news unless it is regular. Try it a bunch of times and see how the "4 out of 5" stands up. It very well might. Or you might also not ever find another one. You won't know until you try it.

Put it this way: you can find the same sequence of numbers in the decimal digits of pi. That's not news - that's the definition of random in action.

It would be news if it was predictable and repeatable, but until someone tries it enough times to rule out it having been a total fluke, we'll never know.
Must be fairly young yet.
Kinda sort nix?