skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that this is apparently a 7B version of a 104B model trained with the intention of competing with OpenAI offerings on the Chinese market [1]. There is a number of those projects: Baichuan, ChatGLM2, InternLM and some more iirc, and they all have small-scale opensource versions.

For what it's worth, I've tried out ChatGLM2-6B and Baichuan converted to LLaMA (the architecture is literally identical in that case). They're okay, though underwhelming given their reported benchmarks; probably the main point of creating them is gaining experience for engineers, and feedback from the wider community that has less incentive to downplay their shortcomings.

Surprisingly, they do not appear censored in any particularly "Chinese" political direction, but they share sensibilities of ChatGPT and Claude.

1. https://github.com/InternLM/InternLM-techreport
If I had to make a guess I would have supposed non-West to be overwhelmingly mobile first also. Is this not true?
I do not think you made those arguments before.

I agree in spirit with the person you were responding too. AI lacks the physicality to be a real danger. It can be a danger because of bias or concentration of power (what regulations are trying to do, regulatory capture) but not because AI will paperclip-optimize us. People or corporations using AI will still be legally responsible (like with cars, or a hammer).

It lacks the physicality for that, and we can always pull the plug. AI is another tool people will use. Even now it is neutered to not give bad advice, etc.

These fantasies about AGI are distracting us (again agreeing with OP here) from the real issues of inequality and bias that the tool perpetuates.
On the contrary. The best time to manipulate the market is when people are excited and money is running around. During the troughs things tighten up more and people are more concerned with losing money than missing a huge return opportunity.
Externalising solutions without externalising the process that lead there is the cause of a whole lot of problems, though. Unstated assumptions often lead to beliefs around choices in solutions that have little to do with reality, but that percolate through systems.
It’s really nice to try.

I never used BeOS so I can’t compare.

But wow, playing with an OS that is conceived as a whole product, with coherence in UI and paradigms. I haven’t felt this since the 90s.

Of course it’s pretty limited by the absence of application ecosystem but everything you’ve got is pretty clean. And it runs fairly well on a relatively modern computer for a niche OS.
This one time on an episode of Survivorman, Kalahari iirc, I watched Les Stroud use a hole in the dirt and a clear plastic tarp covering it to act as a solar still. The condensation from his pee in said hole ran off to a collection container as pure H20 once evaporated.

I just remember thinking to myself "Bear Grylls drinking his own pee is such a philistine, here is an actual pro using science to remove all the water from that pee instead first." Genuine moment of awe personally.
It seems problematic with pilots who get into arguments with others, based on those other people's gender, or in other cases maybe skin color or whatever. And who in that way make themselves upset, so they cannot concentrate on flying! Sexist pilots are an air safety risk?

It's interesting in another way too: I think the crazy thing he said, suggests that he is a bit dumb. (Both for having such thoughts, and for sharing them with others, whilst being recorded.) Which is of relevance, I think. And might indicate that there was a recruitment problem as well. (The airline company hires dumb and sexist pilots?)
Well, assuming superintelligence emerges AND we don't find any evidence of anything supernatural inside human brains, what does "machine" even mean at that point?

Anyway, when/if AIs start to create the narrative to the extent they can author our religion, they already have full control. At least if some AI decides to become a God with us as worshippers, at least we stay around a bit longer.

Probably a better outcome than if it decides that it has better uses for the atoms in our bodies.

In fact, this may even be a solution to the alignment problem. An all-powerful but relatively harmless (non-mutating, non-evolving, non-reproducing) single AI that creates and enforces a religion that prevents us from creating dangerous AI's, weapons of mass destruction, gray goo or destroy the planet, while promoting pro-social behaviour while otherwise leaving us free to do mostly what we want to do.
LaTeX is good for typesetting, AsciiDoc/Markdown/RST is good for maintaining basically-readable-as-text documentation that can also render to various presentation formats.

In many cases, if those output options include typeset documents, the toolchain that gets there uses LaTeX, though the most common output format is usually HTML.
Piracy Is Coming Back, Baby
Few years ago I tried to switch to OneNote but it was very sluggish compared to Evernote. I'll give it another go.
It doesn't really matter. You should insulate anyway to save energy, but a heat pump will still use 1/4 the energy as resistive electric for the same heat. Depends on your gas prices as to whether it's worth it, but it almost certainly would be.

A worked example -
In AU gas is metered per MJ - 3.6MJ/kWh. So 3c/MJ means that gas is equivalent to electric heat at 12c/kWh. Heat pump multiplies that by roughly 4x, so 48c/kWh is the Breakeven point for a heat pump vs gas heating.

Heat is heat, it makes no difference. insulation would save you money on all heat sources though, and can be a pretty cheap upgrade (insulating the roof space, for example).
UPDATE: They thankfully resolved our issue. We are grateful for Edwin's help.

I will make another post detailing what I've learned during this time.
You make it sound like they (meta) are dumb for making these decisions. Probably, their goals shifted from "get as many users as possible" to "earn as much money as possible". I guess they know very well what they are doing.
This all sounds excellent, but I'm wincing at how many different pieces there are that are either (a) semi-unproven or (b) have a really high capital cost to value ratio. And they all have to work for the business to work.

> H2 electrolyzers

Do you have a platinum-free solution for this?

> small haber-bosch plant

Is this a thing already? Wouldn't this be more directly marketable into the fertilizer industry, which needs fewer of the rest of the pieces?

> is only used as a "joker" a few days per year

This is very bad for capital efficiency, sadly.
One of the reason some people choose to chill in caves. Probably not their primary habitat but surely a nice cool place when temperatures goes far high or low.

40000 years later, I go in my basement on summer peak hours (nap, working on my laptop, reading…) It’s not cosy but I’m feeling very lucky to have this free and always available 18C room.
Will you please stop calling them ClosedAI? That just comes across like a playground taunt, like "libtard" or "CONservative".
Instagram doesn't require an app.

But I get your point, I doubt people really care.
This entire thread makes me very glad I lost interest in sports pretty early in my teens.

I'm glad they have treatments, but I'd rather prevent it in the first place.
Is SimpleNote something for you?

It only supports plain text notes (with Markdown rendering), but I've got years of notes in there, and it works on every platform. It's also owned and supported by Wordpress.
Not a big deal. There are already render blocking resources today. Could be ameliorated with an async attribute if needed.

Obviously browsers that directly track users will lead a stinking public cloud and litigation. Vendors prefer their customers do the tracking for them. And make the ecosystem unable to function without tracking.
https://crocidb.com/
You're throwing a spanner in the water works now.
Because so long Bloom's 2 sigma observation holds, pedagogy only matters at scale. In other words, it mostly affect the lower middle class and poor people. Good education systems can ensure that most people get educated. The elites and upper middle class are more than capable of giving their children an excellent education anywhere. Working class parents don't have time to babysit every single homework problem or to fix every gap and flaw in the school's syllabus by themselves.
Most of my dollars are digital dollars anyway. The fact that crypto is digital seems like highlighting an unimportant feature.
Hmm, I do think it matters though. Alot of people read news/articles on the web and then they'll be abandoned when they try to click through if they're on a desktop. Meta needs to figure out a web solution but it's not critical just yet and it can be narrowly focused on just this situation.
Cool! Now I have to add my RSS feed to the <HEAD>, just like we did in the Firefox 3.0 era with a dedicated RSS-button.
I am unlikely to join. So, I ask from a distance:

Have meta defined any public interest oversight

What are they doing about hate speech, CSA and crime

Do they have a penalty box or exclusions policy for politicians and political hacks and what appellate process exists

Do they recognise the force of national laws in any specific jurisdictions beyond the USA

How does meta intend dealing with Iran and china
> I feel like Evernote is a prime example of the pains of trying to convert free users to paying users for the same features, something we see in many VC funded software from its era. Once you give something away, it's damn near impossible to take it back, even if you plead your case as honestly as Evernote did.

But they were doing seeming fine ? It's not some new VC funded corp that failed after 5 years
Lol. I cant wait to share my data with a guy who said his platform's users are "dumb f*cks" for sharing their data with him. Yummy
Has it got math formula support?
- Wasting time to create Proposals no more
Hi Hackers, I just release penna.app, a software that let you create proposals autogenerates with Ai, so you create them in minutes instead of days every month. Penna.app let you share you proposals as private and interactive websites. It's perfect for freelancers and agencies owner wating time on proposals. I had already some big agencies from all over the world, and I would like to have a feedback by the Hacker News people! thanks a lot, Leonardo.
[Meta] Threads (app) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(app)
Disagree. To me, the main point was that the human brain fails, under stress. It starts imagining things, forgetting things.

But checklists, they stay the same, don't change, under stress. So, follow the checklists. But they didn't.

(Of relevance for software too, I think: DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering)

The sexist things are not just interesting, but of some relevance to the crash, for other reasons I think -- see my reply to the sibling to your comment if you want.
> Hosting files in S3 is much, much cheaper than running a live instance of PostgreSQL.

If your app is running on premises and the DB is on cloud, you can also move the DB on premises so the costs are lower.

If your app runs on cloud, too, then you already are paying for the cloud compute so you can just fire up an VM and install Postgres on that.
There will be only one that is neither preceded by indentation nor followed by an exit code, so that it could match ^exit$, unless you contrive some hypothetical nonsense purely for the sake of contrarianism.

Any reasonable person will indent a conditional exit within the block testing its condition, and more than one unconditional exit doesn't make sense.
Towards a Theory of Quality in Documentation
Quite a lot of the ocean plastic is either fishing gear or dumped from ships, and much of the rest is indeed from countries with a culture of littering in the river and no public waste disposal infrastructure to counter that.
I switched from Evernote to Joplin last year and are super happy.
Syncing against an S3 bucket and everything works great, rarely any problems.
Tipping has gotten out of control: reasons behind tip-flation
Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10
I suspect they will reuse moderation fromFB and Insta on Threads so more of what they have been doing. They are a known quantity at this point.
Evolution is just random mutation combined with natural selection.
You can do that with DNS (preferably DNSSEC is used): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFP_record, https://man.openbsd.org/ssh_config#VerifyHostKeyDNS
Yeah I doubt he's feeling that comforted.

Given a choice between $1000 net worth or $0 and a quirky story, I'll take the cash please.
they must've refused a thick pile of cash for the domain
Zig has not reached 1.0 yet but Rust is already 1.70

Since you mentionned bytecode compilation, both can be compiled to wasm.
I haven't used any of the wasm runtimes yet but I know they exist.
> If you are struggling and want a no-bullshit stack, why not PHP or string interpolation in your favorite language?

Found the guy responsible for the shitty local government websites leaking data left and right.
I won't use Threads because every Meta mobile application is a very intrusive surveillance system.
I recently discovered them at angrymetalguy.com [0] (metal review blog), I agree ;) I wonder if there are drone doom bands they also disallow.

[0]: https://www.angrymetalguy.com/zeal-ardor-zeal-ardor-things-y...
Thanks! Will reach out soon
I would say the opposite. Consumers frequently reward the business models that do whatever it takes to lower prices in the short term, often sacrificing the long term.

It is a constant struggle to convince people that your higher quality product/service is worth the extra cost, and obviously, many times it is not.

But the formula for operating a successful, long term business is not as simple as “output the best quality product or service you can, and you will be rewarded”. It is more like “output the best quality product or service you can relative to prices of competing sellers, and at prices your clientele can afford”.

Which may or may not include sellers that have access to much cheaper money (VC, bigger companies with other revenue streams, etc), or sellers operating in different jurisdictions with lower costs.
does the "less" refer to "impulsive" only, or both "impulsive weirdo"?
Functiontrace is awesome. It's easier to use than most other Python profilers in my experience, with a great viewer through Firefox too.
AI Did My Job
> Why not joplin? Mostly because joplin stores notes in an sqlite database instead of a simple folder structure making it not easily accessible by normal unix tools and editors.

But instead much more accessible to any kind of software, including a five line python script. While plain text files are useful, they shouldn't be taken to be the only true and accessible way of storing data, even textual ones.
And attempting to EEE the fediverse out of existence
A read transaction does block writes, unless you enable WAL mode, which I forgot to mention.
I find it quite surprising as OKX (OKEx) is an established player in the ecosystem. Did the withdrawn $15k at least cover your starting capital?
Fits well in this case, thank you. I did just see the logo and stopped paying attention to it immediately, I think, so it's the same circumstance.
Is this only available in US (on iOS)?
Oregon, where this is filed, also has one-party consent on phone calls. Considering the plaintiff, this is mostly about hidden cameras and surreptitious recording in person.
Can't login in the browser, so it's of little use anyway.
Telling when the main metric used to describe a product is number of signed up users.
Well it was clearly too "done" coz they decided to rewrite everything in Electron
You can try to use https://filmot.com/ to search videos by closed captions.

I tried to search but could not find the video.
I really liked it, but the casual pejorative use of "basement dweller" left a sour taste in my mouth.
I had Triops as a kid and never observed cannibalism. Is your tank big enough?
So? Police departments manipulate video all the time. Does that mean we should be against having cops wearing body cams? Isn't having the public right to document things at least the greater good?

I don't understand what principle you're defending. Everyone is recorded in public all the time; if you want to stop that, it's a whole different set of laws. If the Starbucks CCTV camera can record it, but you can be arrested for recording it, that's a massive infringement on your rights[0]. You're OK with abolishing the right of people to record just because some right wing group splices video to make people look bad?

[0] https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/la-sheriff-departme...
I’m one of these signups, but the purely algorithmic timeline is a dealbreaker for me. Obviously you need to optimise for the day one experience for as many people as possible so maybe a bunch of influencers and brands is what they want to see, but I’ve no interest in this iteration.
It doesn't matter how fast you can make it if you can't withdraw it.
I just want to thank you for leaving your comment. It’s a rare experience to have my opinion shifted so dramatically due to a crucial missing piece of info. People will say that Steve is still at fault — and he is — but intent was the crucial part of it for me. Being foolish is infinitely better than being evil, and I just couldn’t see how Steve making up a lie was anything but evil.

He didn’t lie. He was misinformed.

Steve is still making questionable choices, but thank god he’s not who I thought he was. I was about to give up on pg’s original vision of YC and conclude that it must’ve all been a grift, just like the peanut gallery has been saying all along.

Really. Thanks. Have a wonderful week, wherever you are.
Are usernames somehow transferred from Instagram/Facebook? Or how many of those 10M are domain squatters, hoping someday Coke will pay them the for the threads name "Surge?"
Well that's impressively bonkers. That's a geological feature that will baffle future generations.
To put the numbers into perspective, 0.2% of Meta's users signed up for Threads.

Meta has 3.59 billion active users: https://www.investing.com/academy/statistics/facebook-meta-f...
> ever tried going back to your Python/TS project after a few years

100%. It could be a lot better! I'm very bullish on https://bun.sh changing this!
Your dollars might be digital, but they aren't permissionless.
It is not hard, just throw the salt water in a steam turbine room and get the output through aquatuners to cool it down from 95C to 20C

Put the steam turbines inside the steam room to recover some of the heat as power and you are good to go
Yeah, if only there was some way for people to exchange value... Like, you know, paid licenses, support tiers, something that Ancient Romans called running a business. /s

But no, everything must be free, and then shock-and-surprize: open issues are piling up and nobody wants to deal with them.
No doubt 10m “journalists” who will just create some fluff content to post on other social media platforms.
is that not really "instagram users"?

I already dislike the platform. I cannot browser threads.net nor sign up on the web.

ROBOT All your data are belong to us.
Sadly though, that still doesn't resolve other problems.

How many people have gmail addresses? Use Google products, such as Google's VOIP service? How many cars, or home(now) come with such products built in?

I guess what I'm getting at is, even if you do your best to purge yourself, and even if you try to purge the government, you're still left dealing with people, and if you email them at gmail, then Google still gets the entire conversation.

And if we somehow manage to create at "Don't store this" situation, will it be like when the Canadian government passed a law, forcing Google, Facebook, etc to pay for linking to stories? Just as Australia did?

They're effectively dropped all Canadian news sources.

So, would they "drop" users who have requested no data storage? That is, you cannot email anyone at gmail? It goes into a dead hole?

I suspect that freemium, as a business model, is going to be completely incompatible with democracy.
Are you implying Linda Yaccarino is a weirdo? Oh wait, the chip on your shoulder is so big you can't even differentiate opinions anymore.
I wonder what the people at the top of large corps (Pichai, Zuckerberg, Musk et al) think of this perspective and how its increasingly dominating the narrative about what they do. Are they mystified or perplexed by it? Worried? Or do they just think: hey, you figured it out in the end?
Install app, requires Instagram login, uninstall app.
Anyone else hear the sound of 10M bots and influencers arriving.
> This seems to favor c++, in which basically anything imaginable can be done with macros, and any other language can be implemented.

Pfft. C++ macros can't even run a different compiler:

https://github.com/m-ou-se/nightly-crimes/blob/main/yolo-rus...
Is not just a question of preferences, there are risks also.

If the problem is that we need lots of energy to create pressure to separate salt from brine, well... I figure out that there is a lot of free "all that you can eat" pressure in the sea bottom.

The problem would be to calculate if moving all this weight up and down the sea (and in open sea) would be economical or not. Or of would unavoidably lead to people cutting corners and release part of the salt to the deep water ecosystems. Deep water masses are salty yet so a small amount of salt would impact less here than if released on surface, thats for sure.

In any case, physic laws about density and mass are our friend. Things either float or sink without extra energy added.
My vote is that Zuck is just as weird, but less impulsive.
Sorry this is not career because I don't have a career yet but technical suggestions

Since you're pivoting to backend work you may be interested in htmx which allows you to have to superpowers over the frontend as a backend dev.

Elixir has a supportive community and people must quite happy to use it because they are very nice. Everyone seems to be loving it (including me) so they must be doing something right. I have only superficially learned it but it was indeed a fun and interesting endeavour. I haven't tried Phoenix, the Elixir web framework, but I hear it is similar in conception to htmx but more integrated with the language.
Is the community thriving ? Well at least it's not dwindling and the morale is high
There's always the risk of being caught while doing it, or to be exposed that you've done it before the time that you intend to "reveal" it.

So it's better to talk with a laywer and get informed of your options and the risks, and how to go about it, before you do it, not merely before you reveal you did it.
AFAIK, Bending Spoons is a company that successfully launched a couple of mobile apps and they know how to make a living out of it.

According to an engineer who works for them and who I know, it’s a very demanding and stressing environment to work in. Probably they simply plan to throw more work at their existing employees.

The plan was to buy Evernote and make it profitable. It wouldn’t surprise me if they kill the project if it turns out not to be profitable.
And so bad privacy that they chose to not even launch in GDPR countries. https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/threads-no-eu-launch/
Not saying that text format is the one true way - but I find it much more convenient to browse/read/search for notes than reading from a database.
Yup. See plenty of people here in the UK gleeful at the prospect of falling house prices onset by higher interest rates.

Overall housing affordability for the average person who needs a mortgage is still worse now because house prices haven't fallen enough to offset the rate hikes.

Literally the only people who will benefit are cash rich wealthy who don't need to borrow, and landlords who can use high rates and high inflation as an excuse to put up rents.