skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finally, a site that's more usable, instead of less, when on a VPN.
That would be hubris
I've had to deal with this a lot and here are some things I did:

- Upgraded all my bookshelves (from 5-shelf bookshelves to slightly wider 7-shelf bookshelves)

- Bought more bookshelves for wherever there was wall space

- Bought a bunch of airtight containers and put books I'm less likely to read away in the basement (they're inventoried for easy search)

We also bought doors for all our bookshelves at one point, but that's more about book care than increasing book capacity.

Right now I actually have bookshelf space for more books, but I'll probably need to go through the containers in the basement and actually get rid of some books eventually. :(
Perl has experimental support for defer: https://perldoc.perl.org/perlsyn#defer-blocks
I wouldn't personally propose that, because I'm not an expert. And I'm not sure that would ever be written into regulation; I think the ability to assess the danger may be more relevant for the civil suits that will presumably soon be bankrupting Oceangate.
The Ford F150 Lightning does V2L through the 9.6kW of on-board inverters. Fairly sure it's not capable of sending that back through J1772 / CCS2 unless I'm mistaken?
I feel like it must be a bad business in general. The fact that Azure also has a weird setup with godaddy managing the domains.
I think the issue is less eccentrics hurting themselves as it is them profiting off endangering others
We've all known this was coming for years. Buckle up, kiddos. Those of us who have moved data centers over a weekend know what's coming :(
It’s remarkable.

I’m curious how long until people are just using training brains in a jar to compute.
You Deserve a Tech Union
Overall a very interesting result.

I’m not sure why they compare to a list of results for the MBPP benchmark but don’t seem to include these results which are much better:

https://paperswithcode.com/sota/code-generation-on-mbpp
It gets wilder. In a 3D printer, the commands come from a computer and the current state is maintained in its memory as well. In a multicellular biological system, that state is stored within the thing itself that is being built. And the commands come from it self-organizing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed3ioGO7g10
I've been wondering. What does defederation do exactly? Does it only block posting from the defederated instance or does it block both posting and browsing too?

Blocking interactions would be understandable but also blocking read-only subscriptions seem like a mistake.
The correct answer is "buy more books." Duh. The correct number of books to own is always n+x where n = the number of books you own today, and x = an integer > 0.
Banging sounds heard during Titan search, according to internal government memo
Submarines used for commercial use must be certified by DNV according to their safety standards.

It’s not that hard, and in any case complexity does not imply authoritarianism.
The value of gold is related to the amount of labor necessary to produce it as a commodity. Contrast with aluminum and iron -- because they are relatively plentiful, they take significantly less labor to produce as commodities.
I don't think it's so much about hiding debates as not seeking them out if the other side isn't arguing in good faith. In that regard, conspiracy theories like the earth being flat are a good litmus test that a debate isn't worth the time or energy; if you can't reach common ground with someone on well-established, non-controversial facts, there's no point in trying to debate them about more nuanced topics.
Very sorry, we did refer to some content on the Baserow website to inspire our ideas and product implementation. We realized that the similarity in the language was due to our negligence. We have immediately made changes to the content and apologize to you and Baserow. We will make sure to avoid such mistakes in the future. Thank you again for your kind reminder.
For this kind of thing? I would suspect 250k is too cheap to be good.
They had spare controllers. Part of the idea of using off the shelf components like this, is the ease of replacement. If you have a 100k controller, and it fails, you need to think how to fix it. If your controller costs 30 bucks, throw it away and change for a new one.
I completely agree that if the company lied they should be liable. Truth is essential.
https://typespec.com/ might know.
Sell, donate, give away to wherever (usually I do that to my local govt/public library) or whoever you can. If that didn't work, call the scrap dealer. I mean yeah I love my books but what the hell. Then I buy more books and repeat.
You’re conducting a technical analysis that overlooks the legal analysis around fitness for a particular purpose.
That's like asking highly paid people to do mechanical turk for free.

But wait, they already do it for free at Stackoverflow. Why wouldn't they do it for free for an LLM? Because there's a deeper social aspect to Stackoverflow when users know that they're helping another real human and that their work is read by other humans.

What you're suggesting is literally someone who is just cleaning data up for an LLM to ingest in exchange for a database counter to go up which represents "points".
I simply do not understand this entire line of thinking.

LLMs aren't useful. They don't solve problems. They don't substitute for real software. They don't threaten our jobs. They are absolutely irrelevant to my life. Why do you see them as relevant to yours?
It looks like they decided in January 2022 to sell it. You don't get a higher price by selling a beta product.
To answer the question: A lot of people care when they hear that people’s lives are in danger. They care about other issues too. Caring about something doesn’t mean you can’t also care about other things.
Having rules does not make you authoritarian.
Will Tom Cruise Be the Last Real Movie Star? (2022)
Any strategies for transferring over all the posts and threads to this new platform?
I don't think he thinks its trivial - just that its not some revolutionary new architecture. It's an immense engineering effort rather than a fundamental breakthrough.
There two approaches:

1) A moving window: you only calculate your updates from the values in the window (say the last n reviews). The downside of this method is that older values drop off precipitously.

2) A forgetting factor: there are many possibilities but one simple one is the EWMA (exponentially weighted moving average). This is pretty standard, and takes the form

Y_updated = alpha x Y_current + (1 - alpha) x Y_previous

with alpha in [0,1]. Applying this recursively, it "forgets" older values by weight alpha. This is also known as exponential smoothing in time series. The advantage of this method is that older values are simply weighed less and drop out more gradually.
Although general PCRE syntax has clearly won, that’s distinct from the infinite-memory-and-time matter. Engines that don’t use backtracking and can search in linear time (O(regex-size × search-text-size)) have been making a serious comeback in recent years, at only the cost of not supporting lookaround assertions or backreferences. For example, the re2 library, or Rust’s regex crate, both of which are very popular.
> Its trustworthiness is not near zero

It is, because it can give you correct answers as well as entirely stupid ones (like the infamous “horse eggs” example of a few month ago).

> basic science questions,

For math it's pretty much hit or miss, even for straightforward stuff (and I'm not talking about doing calculation)

> and widely known historical facts.

This is really something you should not use ChatGPT for, because it knows urban legends much more than it does know actual facts (for obvious reasons, because these are repeated as facts everywhere)

> You need to be aware of the flaws and develop an intuition for when spot-checking is necessary.

Every time you don't already know the answer beforehand, that's the intuition you should have. And keep in mind that cross-checking is a much more difficult task that looking up, because we humans are prone to anchoring bias and confirmation bias.

Want to use ChatGPT to learn something? Exploit its ability in understanding natural languages in order to get the actual name of the thing you describe (this is a pure language task, and ChatGPT is an enormous asset in that regard), and then search this.
Here's a ridiculous idea: photographic contact printing using a transparent LCD screen! A good result would probably require commercially made photo paper, but maybe this could work with a totally DIY anthotype process? And the LCD could be salvaged from an old computer monitor...

LCD contact prints: https://pierremuth.wordpress.com/2020/04/18/digital-picture-...

Anthotypes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthotype

Salvaged displays: https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Use-an-Overhead-Project...
You need to be the sorts of people for whom the highs make it worthwhile. For me, that's what I live for - adventuring around, seeing things, getting away. So I tolerate the stress, the costs, trying to find somewhere safe to sleep in a random forest after midnight, etc. Otherwise, it's a lot more hassle and getting the new camper doesn't just make it all easy. You're still vying for popular camping spots, still trying to get time off work when you want it, etc.
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Is there a way to have a simpler protocol for community discovery perhaps? E.g. RSS feed of other RSS feeds so people can search for other communities... so the more you Favorited a new feed the more you discover other feeds?
They still have that. You just can’t sign up for new workloads on it, but you wouldn’t want to because there are cheaper and better options now.
All the simple tools apps are good and the calendar is quite nice these days. You can sync with google calendar with it but it can be local only if you like. I sync to my Nextcloud server with Davx5 https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=907029638802258926...

Also helps they are open source and can be installed via F-droid if needed
I'm a Cloud xoogler (2015-2023), too, and I'm not sure whether that would have made things easier or harder. There were quite a few "shiny object" solutions Cloud commercialized from other parts of Google/Alphabet over the years, and regardless of all the organizational duplication, fiefdoms and chaos that accompanied having three Cloud CEOs in six years, I think the commercial interest via Google's "innovation story" and One Google pitches created a lot of value. As a third place laggard until TK was hired, Google Cloud didn't really have much of interest to offer beyond the legacy internal data products (BigTable, BQ, Spanner) and GKE/Anthos, so having things like Google Maps, several Verily products, a few things that emerged from Brain/RMI, Google Health, etc made a real difference.

That said, I think Cloud has matured enough that it would now be a good time to consider spinning it off, especially as the regulatory environment around Search & Ads is heating up again in multiple countries. It would be much better in the long term to have Cloud separate; not as good as if Search & Ads were separate but I don't think that's really viable without enormous costs and much difficulty.
I vote the title meme “… is all you need” end now.
How is it even possible that this can be an unanswered question?

How has there been so little and incomplete communication from Google about this?
Even with "strict" tracking prevention Linux is still in the user agent string. That's been very reliably IME.
That's neat, thanks for that information. This suggests such a buoy probably would be useful.
> using a selection of ``textbook quality" data from the web ... and synthetically generated textbooks and exercises with GPT-3.5

Is this common, training a LLM from another LLMs generated output? How do you avoid "bad code" from GPT, if not out right hallucinations?
I think the intersection of people who were outraged at Reddit’s API change and “average consumers” is very small. They honestly aren’t important to me because for the most part they’re lurkers anyway.

The people I care about are the power users, the posters, the creators. People put effort into building communities. Those folks are very few in number but extremely important. They can create a community anywhere they go.

They’re also willing to put in effort to begin with so it’s generally easier to get them to move to lemmy when the experience may not be as polished.
Is there any official guidance for how a company/product can migrate away from Firebase and onto self-hosted infrastructure - or something akin to “decomposing” a Firebase system so it can be incrementally-migrated to self-hosting? I know open-source reimpls of Firebase exist, but those aren’t official - and they represent mirgration risks. (At least Microsoft put the “Migrate to SQL Server…” wizard in MS Access - why won’t Google do the same?)

I’m asking, because I am genuinely interested in using Firebase for prototyping, RAD, and whatnot - but I don’t want to put all my eggs into one basket, especially not a basket that I can’t defenestrate.
More recent standards also fixes several issues with C++11 atomics, like the template definition for store/swap conversions were mis-specified, so they did not work, and atomics were not defined to be compatible with C11 and now are going to be. So there are further usability improvements that come with the later standards, beyond the initial standardization that C11 brought to the table. It is not like you had needed C11 to get threads either before, but it does make the code clearer and more portable now.
For a couple, might be worth considering putting a roof top tent on a 4x4, and put a kitchen set up in the back of the vehicle. Can be an affordable and efficient combo.
Well, you might also want to buy another bookshelf at some point, but otherwise I don't see the flaw in the logic.
I think you missed their point. Ironically you kind of illustrated it quite well though.
the CEO is drinking one with them
In the sealed containers in basement storage, is there any benefit to using silica gel? Or is there not enough moisture to matter?
The truth us that once you have shipped Electron, there's no way back, the cost of switching is too high.

This is not specific to Electron, it's a similar effect with every core technology, all the way to COBOL.
The Pentagon’s Ambitious AI Plans Look Less and Less Like ChatGPT
Cloud DNS is just nameservers. Google Domains is a registrar. Two very different things. There is no reason for Cloud DNS to be affected by Domains going away.
a fraction of the billions in wealth that had magically appeared during covid, largely because of government policy.
YEEEESSSS I'm an Electron user for 6 years and Rust fanboy, but this is The Way™
> and/or tried adoption but couldn't afford it

I don't really know what I'm talking about here, but why would adoption cost that much more than having a biological child? Just reducing it to numbers you already skipped thousands of pregnancy, delivery, early infancy doctor costs. On the other hand, adopted children may be more likely to need therapy or other care later in life.

Besides, isn't the government desperate for children to be adopted? The state has to pay all their expenses until then, and obviously it's in the best interest of the community for them to be adopted. I don't see why they would have any incentive to charge a lot of fees.
My apologies if I missed your point, but don't other free search tools do that?

Or maybe it is because I haven't used high-quality search, and I am blinded by it's true greatness.
AWS just killed OpsWorks.
There is no "self destruction", I don't really know why you think there is. The license requires you to provide source code for the MPL-2.0 licensed source code files regardless of how your software is built (that's why it is in fact copyleft).

What it doesn't do is force you to license non-MPL-2.0 source code files under the MPL-2.0, even if you combine the two into a binary. It is explicitly non-viral, but still enforces copyleft protections onto the originally licensed code.
Even "text" files can be encoded binary files -- it was a big shift in USENET.

I had a heated discussion with some Nostr advocates who thought that by calling servers "avocados" or something, then they wouldn't be responsible for what users posted on the "avocados".

I've not looked into ActivityPub or the Fediverse enough to know what is hosted locally and would (not) be protected by Sec 230, but it might drive some centralization toward corporations or other accountable organizations.
I suspect the person hasn’t had an opportunity to go apartment hunting in some time.

And I’m sure even a few months of homelessness will play tricks with your memory and thinking.
Apple's Vision Pro could be the next stage in UX design
Even without introducing new amino acids (which sounds very tricky indeed, as the article notes, this could really mess up normal biological structure and function due to codon usage issues, i.e. if you tried to devote some of the 61 available codons (64 - 3 stop codons) to unique amino acids, ribosomes might start plugging the weird ones into normal proteins with catastrophic results. Making a mirror-image ribosome seems like a lot of work... and with some issues, like escaping into the wild might be a problem, i.e. if a mirror-image microbe started replicating, what would eat it? Would it be the worst invasive species imaginable?

There are more standard approaches that are interesting, like extending existing biochemical synthesis pathways via novel proteins, such as microbes capable of standard chemical conversions of natural products, such as salicylic acid + acetin anhydride to aspirin and similar transformations of more interesting compounds. Usually these are small-molecule additions to large natural products, so you have to engineer the metabolism to make the small molecule at the same rate as the large molecule and then build a protein capable of the final synthetic step (using only the standard set of amino acids).
We have about 10 working walking distance of our house. The only thing that’s prevented me from putting one up myself is the number of Little Free Libraries around. I’ve been trying to come up with a fun alternative. There is a “little blockbuster” concept, but I feel like of mostly just lose my movies instead enriching the community.
The whole NLP field is full of memes. Just look at the model names: Llama, Gorilla, Jarvis, Falcon, Vicuña, Alpaca, etc.
Spotify's algorithm, and very likely YouTube as well operate on a bunch of ever changing factors to determine what trends. This shows how the model of what becomes popular involves a lot more factors and twists and turns than any prediction model can ever grasp unless it's maybe waiting for a new Drake song to come out.

There are tons of hit worthy songs that no one ever gets to hear out each week. What makes a tune a big hit now often involves thousands of dollars being dropped on social sites to ensure big industry music trends on front pages of TikTok, IG, and Youtube non-stop... This is what holds other music below it out of view. That is also why hits are often missing authenticity, because big industry music now is written by teams rather than individuals, and marketed with money, not organically or democratically supported by listeners.

You can MAKE a song a hit if it has the basics together and a catchy hook, and then if you drop $20k into google's a platform. Otherwise good luck... Indie music is doomed because they can't compete against big money music...

This is why "Cartel" music (by artists you've never heard of) is usually topping YouTube's charts along side popular (big industry) artists you may know every week. The music biz is not and has not been based on fairness for a long time now.
Literally every series study—and meta study—shows that social media platforms have a strong right wing bias, and have for years.

The right lives off a fictional persecution complex tho so… your comment is hardly a surprise, or original.
So the same is effectively true at Amazon? If a service in a version set isn't actively maintained then it'll eventually be unable to merge from live, and that means its dead code. Version sets do allow for services to exist in a degraded state (ex. can upgrade some dependencies, but not others) but without consistent maintenance services will fall off a cliff.
My parents (now ~70yo) ordered an expensive offroad trailer/caravan around the time COVID hit. The regular build time plus delays will put it at almost three years from order to delivery. For people who are not exactly getting more agile each year! I feel for them. They have very limited recourse against the delays also.
The greater fool theory?
> GPT-4: 8 x 220B experts trained with different data/task distributions and 16-iter inference.

There was a post on HackerNews the other day about a 13B open source model.

Any 220B open source models? Why or why not?

I wonder what the 8 categories were. I wonder what goes into identifying tokens and then trying to guess which category/model you should look up. What if tokens go between two models, how do the models route between each other?
Here are the official standards positions resources for Chrome, Mozilla, and WebKit:

https://chromestatus.com/newfeatures

https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/

https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions
OpsWorks is going to stop working next year.
The average annual rainfall in Miami has remained relatively constant since 1950.

https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/data/precipi...
Enforcing terms of service is not censorship. However stochastic terrorism is and you seem fine with that.

The irony.
I find it interesting that geohot says it is what you do “when you are out of ideas,” I can’t help but think that having multiple blended models is what makes GPT-4 seem like it has more “emergent” behavior than earlier models.
LLMs have crazy good emergent properties. Even the stupidest model you use for learning NN, you chuck a transformer on it and it makes a huge difference, and I have a hard time knowing really, really, really ... WHY? Yes keys/values/queries, words talking to each other and stuff. But why!
> I thought ROCm was in half abandoned limbo.

They have to join the AI race so it's back from the dead.
Education Is Always Changing: We Need to Define CS to Keep the Good Stuff
I like the design concept of SFML a lot, but it's been neglected for so long that it's way behind modern C++. I see they plan to move to C++17 in SFML 3, and start using std::unique_ptr and such.

Ultimately I just moved to Godot to get stuff done, which is not pretty C++ at all, but it's about as lightweight as you can get for a fully featured game engine, as opposed to a framework like SFML.
Here’s how I have done this at our home:
(I’m a tech entrepreneur)

- my study has books on business, tech, biographies, history

- our formal living has all the show off books (coffee tables, writings we bought but never read)

- our kitchen has all cooking

- our family room has stories, fiction, etc
This is too pat.

Treating people like children is exactly what many political leaders do to shepherd their own partisans into continuing to support them and it often works. Fearmongering, lies, emotions. Telling them they need you to protect them.

And are we pretending that the anti-vax movement is now perfectly transparent with information and acts like it's an adult debate where they simply make reasonable points? That this cause wasn't driven people who came into it already convinced, who never took the hypothesis of "this could be an effective way to vaccines" seriously at all?

Not every vaccine skeptic is spouting "it's going to rewrite your dna" or "they're tracking you with microchips" and "it's the mark of the beast" but the nutjobs are a quite significant fraction and none of them ended up there because they went looking for data on clinical trials and didn't find as much as they wanted to.
In a room with low humidity the fibers in the books will dehydrate turning the pages brittle.