skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true in everyday conversational English usage of the terms, but in the context of philosophy, they acquire additional meaning and connotations.

It's kind of like how when we (programmers) say "functional programming" we have a very specific concept in mind. If a lay person read and interpreted that phrase literally, they would probably not have the same concept in mind. They might even ask "What is functional programming? Isn't all programming functional? How can there be non-functional programming? etc."

What we mean when we say it is a style of programming that is often contrasted against object-oriented or procedural programming styles. We have supplanted the ordinary English meaning of these words and attached additional connotations and meaning to them. It's the same thing happening with the terms above in philosophy.
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Indeed, it seems iVentoy uses NBD to present block storage devices (eg: ISOs) to the DHCP client. I just installed iVentoy 1.0.08 in my lab on a Debian 12 VM (via VMware 8 server). From there, I created a new VM and booted Linux Mint 21.1 via UEFI boot. Linux Mint install went well with no noticeable issues.

Overall, first impressions are looking good. Found a few bugs that need to get worked out including:

* UEFi boot requires iVentoy to have 2 vCPUs (see forums)

* Restarting the iVentoy script resets the IP Boot config (specifically the Subnet Mask and Gateway)

From their release page, iVentoy supports a bunch of Linux and Windows install images, and you can even inject custom auto-install scripts to the ISO for unattended installs. Very cool. Finally, the iVentoy discussion forum seems very active, and the developer seems engaged.

I will probably support the developer ($49) because he was able to leverage NBD to overcome some iPXE issues I struggled with for a long time. I know how much time/effort goes into making iPXE booting look seamless. Kudos to him/her/them
I don't get it, GPT-2 is (one of the few) open models from OpenAI, you can just run it locally, why would you use their API for this?
https://github.com/openai/gpt-2
You could push the clocks on some of those boards quite high, but the rest of the system still had limits: 8 or 12 Mhz for the ISA bus, for example.
IBM used to make some genuinely great end-user stuff.
Are there plans to make it e2ee?
An unfortunate characteristic of data fuzzing is that given sufficient alternative sources of information it's actually reasonably easy to filter out the noise. A key issue is whether the noise refers to subjects which are entirely generated or which exist in the world, though even this only incrementally adds to the noise level.

Take the case of contacts. If I were to use a random ID generate to create contacts and feed those to an app, then with sufficient independent sources of data the app could choose to reject any contact which appears only once. If you happen to be the One And Only True Friend of an Orphan Hermit, then yes, that rule would exclude that data, but if you happen to be personal BFFs with Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, the system could not only independently validate that such a person exists, but even that your own reported contact information is, say, directly personal rather than a mass-media point-of-contact.

The other problem is that even with generated data, so long as that is intermixed with authentic data, it's often possible to tease out signal from noise. A case here might be with browser history. There are Web browsers which generate spurious traffic. This is "real" in the senses both that it refers to actual online Web resources, and represents traffic generated by your browser, but is generated in the sense that it does not represent volitional activity on your part. However, so long as both activities are present, your actual browsing patterns exist (so that if a concern is that you did in fact visit <https://example.com/xyz>, it would be possible to determine that some entity (genuine or simulated) did so, and that if the URL were simply randomly generated or visited, odds are reasonably low that that URL would appear within a browser history.

Similarly, in a combination of actual and faked contacts, if the question is "did the subject include Known Individual in their contacts", that fact can still be determined, and if statistically improbable, particularly amongst a group of individuals all including Known Individual in their contacts, the general inference of an actual relationship is strong.

The case of being able to entirely separate actual and generated information changes this dynamic ... slightly, but not overhwhelmingly.

My own upshots:

- Data chaffing and fuzzing are hard.

- The signal one wishes to obscure often leaks.

- Entirely-fabricated data is usually reasonably evident, especially in aggregate.

- Whilst some degree of chaffing has some value (signalling, protest, cost-increasing), the most effective course of action is likely effective privacy legislation and regulation.

I really wish there were more effective individual actions. I increasingly feel that there aren't, other than opting out entirely. (Something I increasingly practice myself, FWIW.)
Hard thing with bikes is they're so light, that regen and battery system will add significant weight and rolling resistance to the bike. It's a saturday so I'm not doing the math to see what the function for tradeoff is :)
Jellyfin vs Plex vs Emby: Which Is Better?
logicalincrements & pcpartpicker are excellent resources

Other misc thoughts:

Don't try to save a few dollars getting a cheap, low-quality PSU.

One upside of PCs is modularity. If you're on a limited budget, one option is to select parts where you plan to upgrade and replace components in a year or three. You could start with a CPU with integrated graphics (e.g. AMD-Ryzen-5600G) with the option of replacing that with a better CPU and a dedicated GPU in future -- but for this possible future upgrade path to work you'd need to pick a motherboard and power supply that would support the future upgrade: CPU socket, size & version of PCIE socket, PSU with enough power to support future CPU + GPU -- otherwise upgrading will require also purchasing a new motherboard and going through a complete disassembly & reassembly.

If you're trying to get RAM running at a high clock speed, you need to find RAM sticks that are mutually compatible, and compatible with your motherboard. Mixing sets of RAM sticks from different manufacturers that are all rated at some high clock speed X probably won't work, and you'll get a system that doesn't boot and only communicates the symptom with pc speaker beeps and blinkenlights. This is more an issue when upgrading and adding RAM to an existing system than when starting with a new system. There are some resources online to help with this, if you search for "RAM <brand> compatibility database" etc you may be able to find lists from manufacturers of RAM with RAM+motherboard combinations they have tested and confirm work.
In their earlier years, the Symbolics 3600 series machines included a Motorola 68K series Front End Processor (the "FEP") for booting the main processor. And the assembler for that was written in Lisp.
I think they just don't have any need/pressure to be more efficient than that
Python type annotations were added to be used by an external type checker, so no they are not enforced by the interpreter itself.

This was an explicit decision: https://peps.python.org/pep-0484/#non-goals
two:

Directive (EU) 2019/790 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market and amending Directives 96/9/EC and 2001/29/EC

Digital Services Act
> is that pretty much all of them require OpenAI.

They're not here to release an actual product. They're here to release part of a CV proving they have "OpenAI" experience. I'm assuming this is the result of OpenAI not actually having any homegrown certification program of their own.
Gödel, Escher, Bach, and AI [by D. Hofstadter]
>Directive (EU) 2019/790 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market and amending Directives 96/9/EC and 2001/29/EC

>Digital Services Act
Maybe.

I can picture wanting to do nsfw stuff locally...

But also this is a fortune 100 company that has the airgapped computer with the confidential stuff. Its big bucks.
Analog, Radio and television were both developed before digital electronics was.
>whatever the fuck US is doing.

-20 is better than -30 but still far below 0. That's why I said "EU either."
Oh that's it, I was reading some wasm articles last month.
It's not nearly usable. It's functional in that it spits out a response. Can that response be used for anything useful? No.
ChatGPT is excellent at comedy. https://www.aiweirdness.com/

For anything other than comedy, which is not equally well done by typing your query into your favorite search engine, it seems that this kind of "AI" has no "I".
Spain and UK warn against sending cluster bombs to Ukraine
In all of those cases I’m pretty sure you can’t in fact be arrested just for the act as described. You need to be in some way negligent or malicious in doing so, and in most countries at least you have to be extremely negligent to get prosecuted for anything done while rendering aid to an injured person.

Even more generally, some form of harm needs to be shown to prosecute. Unfortunately there’s an increasingly broad definition of “harm”, at least here in the UK, but for now you do have to really screw up in any of the cases you’ve listed.
That's interesting. "Agree to disagree" means "you aren't going to persuade me, I'm not going to persuade you, conversation over." That's one kind of debate-ending cliche.

There are others that are "you're wrong, conversation over". Calling someone or something "X-ist" is often that.

I guess both of those can serve as thought-ending cliches, because now I don't have to think any further about what you say. But in terms of what they do to the conversation, they are not equivalent.
String concatenation is probably the most reasonable result aside from a type error given how + is used in JS for concatenation elsewhere, but JS actually gets funny.

"1"*2 // => 2 (not "2")
"1"*2+3 // => 5
"1" - 2 // => -1
"9"/3 // => 3
"9" + 3 // => "93"

So some mathematical operators will convert string parameters to a number, but not +.
I didn’t realize how unique my circumstances were until I started reading r/experiencedevs.

I’ve had 8 jobs over 25 years and over that time, I’ve mostly done green field work, including at my first job out of college.

I’m not even sure I have the skillset to modify a huge existing code base.

Even at one job where there was a large codebase that I was “modifying”, it was mostly to add new CRUD features to an API or website and I did my own vertical “slice” that didn’t involve modifying existing code.
Do not forget Pearl.
Something something "Mark of the Beast" etc.

TBH though evangelicals should be pushing hard for it, theoretically they won't even be around for the fallout.
Can you elucidate on what those signs are? Thanks in advance
> Billionaires" are the few people who can afford tackling large projects

I disagree: What billionaire "tackled" the Manhattan project, or the US interstate highway system?

Even if we exclude governments/taxpayers for some arbitrary reason, that also leaves corporations consisting of lots of sub-billionaires.

If it seems like only billionaires can do such things these days, perhaps that indicates that other options have been politically neutered by somebody for some reason.
I think the simpler solution is to design the code around some kind of pdf generation library that is linked to, instead of making a heavily abstracted mini-framework to squat on the application.
>the poor thing never gets to do anything other than displaying GUIs in my case...

This is kind of my point.

What actual CPU stuff is done in 2023?

Its why Apple's marketing focuses so much on battery life. For a year, they won a competition that no one had cared to win.
> I have carefully read through the text generated by GPT-4. I would say that that text, in sharp contrast to what I myself wrote in the book’s 20th-anniversary preface, consists only in generic platitudes and fluffy handwaving

~~~ Douglas Hofstadter
Space Traders
> but the culture pushes this mindset on people who cant afford it as well.

so the problem is with consumerism isn't it?
I'm good at excel but I still can't get a job
How is it possible to offer unlimited storage?
100% private? Hmm. I think with the amount of paranoia that the folks in power have about local LLM’s, I wouldn’t be in the slightest surprised that the Windows telemetry will be reporting back what people are doing with them. And anyone who thinks otherwise is in my view just absolutely naive beyond hope.
Sponsorblock[1] works pretty well for the creators’ advertisements.

[1] https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock
>Probably wasn't normalized as perf per watt.

Of course, that is a marketing metric, not something to genuinely care.
There are options to do things other ways, but most of the time I just use venvs and pip for everything.

Is it because people have to use venvs that people complain about it?

I’ll admit being able to install via an OS package manager, vs pip, vs anaconda etc etc can be confusing, but is any of that really Python (the language)’s fault?
idk about 'least worse.' Better than US, probably, but EU and US aren't the only two places in the world.
You are not creative enough. A banking app can run without an account by showing you interest rates for deposits and mortgages, and show you a map of their branch locations. An online game can run without an account by showing you a tutorial and videos of other people playing the game. The Twitter app should show you tweets without an account.
The social web today is entirely about the attention economy.
No analogy is good when you dissect it to pieces. Being perfect encapsulations of reality is not the point of analogy, they are simply there to increase understanding.
I’m curious - who gets screwed over the most here? Is it investors who got tricked into over valuing? Or langchain who now can’t meet their expected revenue targets and will be forced to pivot?

Speaking in hypothetical terms of course. I’m assuming the langchain folks are probably paying themselves pretty well and not working super hard (at least not on engineering stuff)?
Turing Test Chat
How'd that work out for John Henry?
The only embeddings I currently see listed on https://openai.com/pricing are Ada v2, at $0.1/million tokens.

Even if the alternative is free, how much do you value your time, how long will it take to set up an alternative, and how much use will you get out of it? If you're getting less than a million tokens and it takes half an hour longer to set up, you'd better be a student with zero literally income because that cost of time matches the UN abject poverty level. This is also why it's never been the year of linux on the desktop, and why most businesses still don't use Libre Office and GIMP.

I can't speak for quality; even if I used that API directly, this whole area is changing too fast to really keep up.
The Global Homeopathic Medicine Market size was estimated at USD 25.85 billion in 2022, USD 30.95 billion in 2023, and is projected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 19.89% to reach USD 110.41 billion by 2030.

We have absolute proof that homeopathy is grift.
But by your logic, You ask people engaging in grift whether they have consensus
Unless I don't want to hook my Insta friends to Threads.
My mistake. Apologies for misunderstanding which side they were on. So, the fee was paid by Twitter to them, at the point, or just before he acquired Twitter and all its assets and obligations?

Did he acquire knowledge in company papers which might show a basis to recover his payment?
And it looks like there's a lot of psychosocial maladjustment in GenZ where to not get drowned out in the crowd a lot of them lead with being obnoxious, WRITING IN ALL CAPS, spamming out 1-3 word messages with broken sentences, calling themselves stupid (which never incentivizes me to bother to help them?), etc. Not exactly trolling, but obnoxiousness to try to get attention and engagement. It seems like they're drowning in how complicated technology has gotten and how impersonal social media has become.

And reddit has just turned into the same hundred jokes repeated over and over again with the same desperate-to-look-clever pun thread at the top.
Okay Homeopathy is a better example -it’s great businesses
Uhuh
Thanks. I feel so much better knowing that it's merely a journalist that's lacking objectivity, not a scientist.

/s
Thanks for sharing!
Does this teach one how to design circuits too?

Also, someone suggested ‘basic electronics: theory and practice’ by Westcott & Westcott [0] for learning hobby electronics. Could someone familiar with both explain how they compare?

0: https://books.google.com/books/about/Basic_Electronics.html?...
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The US Army had plans for the invasion of Canada until sometime in the 1930s, or so I have read.
Using Kubernetes is a skill worth learning and is pretty straightforward to pick up.

Running a Kubernetes cluster, in a shared environment (e.g. not just a hobbyist or single-purpose cluster), is much more involved. I'd never say developing a skill isn't worth it, but it is a deep subject with lots of unintuitive and frustrating corners, and you won't pick it up in a day or without scars. There's a reason lots of small- and medium-sized business just write a check to their cloud provider.
ClosedAI has freaked me out with how much power they have, and how irresponsible they are with it.

I'm so horrified that they are going to take away the ability to ask medical questions when the AMA comes knocking at their door.
I still think it is brutal we let our industry rookies learn complicated programming concepts in complicated languages like Java, python, js or god forbid anything functional.

I still think it is a huge mistake be Microsoft to let Basic rot away and that our industry should focus teaching on something like Pascal which does not stand in your way
Is it going to send my personal data to OpenAI? Isn't that a serious problem? Does not sound like a wise thing to do, not at least without redacting all sensitive personal data from the data. Am I missing something?
You’re being downvoted (clearly by multiple people) for having a valid opposing opinion in a subjective debate. Hate to see that kind of behavior on HN. Upvoted you to balance it out.
What amazes me is how consistently people are celebrating the lack of ads on Threads, when I've seen countless posts from brands like Wendy's saying "so what's ur favorite burger lol"
ROFFFFFLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL.

OMG this is brilliant
It sounds like in a bigger project a simple linter which checks that front end htmx and backend htmx tags have a match would solve that issue.
The general thrust of your argument is correct, but you missed a key part of the evolution.

People see that the operating system is insecure, so they run the operating system as a virtual machine on top of a hypervisor. The hypervisor operates the system as a bundle of virtual machines and provides shared services to them. People realize the hypervisor is just a operating system, so they target the hypervisor API instead of the kernel API and thus unikernels are invented.

The question then becomes: Why unikernel on a hypervisor instead of a process on a operating system?

The standard answer is that hypervisors are more "secure". However, this is total nonsense. Any technique that made a hypervisor "secure" could be directly applied back to a normal operating system as they are solving the same fundamental problem of multiplexing a single machine to run multiple programs.

To quote Theo de Raadt: "You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes."

The actual answer is that everybody sucks at multiplexing hardware, so everybody knows the old stuff does not work. However, they do not know the new stuff does not work yet, so they bet it all on the new stuff. Unikernels on a hypervisor are a strictly inferior solution to a process on a operating system, but people think hypervisors are better than operating systems, so they develop unikernels. The truth of the matter is that you just need a better operating system so you can develop processes which is a strictly better model.
Back in the day, I played the Amiga port of Larn with little graphical tiles. Lots of fun. There was a graphical Amiga port of Hack too, but it was too buggy.
Am I the only one who doesn't need to search across my data? What are the use cases here
Nice read. I do the same, but with 3-6 year old laptops. I recently bought an HP ProBook 440 for 450€, you can still buy it new for 1050. The “used” one was brand new, there are people that buy such stock from companies and when they say “No signs of usage” they mean it, I so far got 2 spotless machines.
We’d have to assume that due to the greenhouse effect , the earth was also hotter then ?
This. Digital is not that "discrete" as it looks, but just a threshold of values. FFT works on this pretty well, it's the basics.
Context for people who weren’t there: Perl was created by Larry Wall, who became an O’Reilly employee. The camel was the unofficial logo because it was the picture (presumably from the Dover pictorial gallery) used for the book Programming Perl co-authored by Wall and published by O’Reilly.
https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb
Let me push back against that a bit.

My phone is not a fashion piece. AFAICT the blue bubbles will show up with an old 4S just as well as with a 14 Pro Max.

I have an iPhone - which I got after many years with Android - because iMessage is an essential app for me. I live in the US, so my business partners do not have [choice of alternative messaging app] installed and they are not going to install it just for me. I'm a doctor working in a hospital that has two complete dead spots for cell reception, and whose IT department blocks WiFi calling. So I can't make phone calls on either service, and only on iOS can I get messages that are really, really important over the hospital WiFi.

I could talk until I was blue in the face about how other methods are better. Or how Apple is being a gigantic bunch of assholes by not using something other than vanilla SMS if you're not an iMessage user. But it's sitting at about 30:1, and you can either go along and be aware of important things going on, or you can be left out.

When business decisions are being made over those conversations, I'd be a fool to ignore it. I don't much like the iOS way, having gotten used to Android and LineageOS, but after my experience with the Nexus 6P that suffered the infamous "battery goes to shit overnight one day" problem that Google wouldn't fix, as well as being dropped from updates after two years, five years of security updates from model introduction sounded pretty nice.
> OpenAI not actually having any homegrown certification program

A bit off topic but where are certifications (e.g. Cisco, Microsoft) useful? I am sure they are useful (both to candidates and companies) because people go to the effort to get these certs, and if they were useless everyone would have stopped long ago. I don't assume people do it for ego satisfaction.

But I've never worked anywhere where it has come up as an interview criterion (nobody has ever pointed it out when we are looking at a resume, for example). Is it a big business thing? Is it just an HR thing?