skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A progressive Californian and a Christian Californian are as likely as not to have the same racial background. A French Islamophobe and a French Muslim, not so much.

California never colonized a Christian country like France colonized Algeria.

Sometimes the superficial truth is just that, and reality is more nuanced.
I will generate a voice summary of any YouTube video
Comment here with a youtube video link and I will provide an audio summary for it.
OK, remote control is a use case. I am thinking of setting it up a different way to keep using regular bulbs but hadn't gotten around to it yet, home is small enough. I like dim lights indoors after dark so lumens are not an issue.
How to Write Music for Rolling Boulders
Critical TootRoot bug lets attackers hijack Mastodon servers
It's a bit of both. The GPT-4 models have definitely been changing - there's multiple versions right now and you can try them out in the Playground. One of the biggest differences is that the latest model patches all of the GPT-4 jailbreak prompts; quite a big change if you were doing anything remotely spicy. But OA also says that it hasn't been changing the underlying model beyond that (that's probably the tweet you're thinking of), while people are still reporting big degradations in the ChatGPT interface, and those may be mistakes or changes in the rest of the infrastructure.
I can't find a public link to the actual paper, but here's an article that covered the research and summarizes the findings: https://www.aabb.org/news-resources/news/article/2022/04/26/...
Moore’s Law in peril and the future of computing
I have a similar one:

unstage = git restore --staged
You'd think there would be a large market for signage, and the process for manufacturing electrophoretic e-ink screens isn't that different from web printing (rotary presses), which is both mature and scalable (in size).
A relevant video by Technology Connections talking about said absurdity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1lZ9n2bxWA
Note that it's possible to use things like llama.cpp, ggllm.cpp, Kobold, etc. to run these at usable performance on fast CPUs with a good amount of RAM. This is far, far more reasonable if you just want to play around. If you want to seriously use these or experiment with any non-trivial training, that's when you need the kind of power being talked about here.

Apple Silicon is interesting for AI because the GPU shares main memory, so you can get one with a lot of RAM and use either CPU or GPU. Less support for Apple GPUs though, at least so far. Work is being done. M1/M2 Macs with 64GiB of RAM are cheaper than many of these GPUs.

Also wow does NVIDIA have near monopoly on this space. Prices will probably come down once Intel and AMD get their acts together.
Now I want to see if this can be done with a shoe instead of a traffic cone.
Gift link:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/07/opinion/india...
It's kind of sad that the newspaper format--which gradually developed over many many years due to how a human interfaces with the medium--is now so... quaint?... that it has entered the realm of "art."

All that inverse-pyramid, "Five Ws and an H," Journalism 101 stuff developed in part because of how newspapers were designed, typeset and printed. Now it's kind of like a Thomas Kincaid print?

I feel really old now.
https://5f5.org/
Yeah, I was watching a gender doctor on youtube who was saying something like 'suicide rate in trans people who don't go on HRT as a teenager is 40%, so we put teenagers on Lupron and send them to therapy until they're sure if they want to transition or not. Increased chance of osteoporosis in old age isn't much of a risk compared to 40% suicide rate' (my words from memory, not a direct quote)
> One of the companies that he’s offering his services to includes a Y-Combinator backed startup.

I'd love to know
What is the purpose of this? Your comment is saying you want to learn and organize information. I'm actually really into this kind of thing, too. I've actually been trying recently to commit to an enormous undertaking I've been wanting to do for several decades of compiling a more or less topologically ordered sequence of all subjects I consider critical to understanding how and why modern science and technology works and how humans can know anything, at less detail than a set of textbooks or college degree, but more than Wikipedia, probably organized somehow on the web because it would just be too much content to put in a book or books.

I assumed you meant something like that, but then I go to your site to see what you've learned and what knowledge you've organized, and it appears to be a bunch of pop-up images of things that appear to be text headers, but they don't expand to contain any actual information. And there are links at the top to "pricing" and "demo." I just want to see what you've learned. I don't want to buy anything from you.
My experience with huge corporations it that it's easier for low-merit individuals to hide, and the incentive for removing them is buried behind more layers of management.
If you're really paranoid, Qubes has a "USB qubes" vm to handle untrusted USB devices. Then you only need to trust that the attacker can't tamper with PS/2.
Thanks for the link! But it looks like that process will only be useful once the 30 day late renewal period has expired, which hasn't happened yet.
>I am actually surprised that the US government is so happy to tolerate large US companies completely undermining their own geopolitical position just to increase profits

Well that's because until Pompeo, US had no formal position on sovereignty claims - US historic position was neutrality and now just whatever is anti PRC. It takes time for US to manufacture consent and decouple / "derisk" markets until companies get the hint or are forced to.
What I'm trying to say is that when it comes to their own children, they are not being "busybodies". It is their right to voice their concerns, and it is the duty of educators to listen to these concerns and take them seriously. You can't just brush them off. Even if the parent is being unreasonable, it is part of your job description to make them see reason.
Article makes is sound like the banks are capitalized by deposits. But by my understanding this hasn't been the case for a long time? Don't they recapitalize by taking a loan from another (larger) bank? I.E. the Federal Reserve?
https://web.archive.org/web/20170527000404/https://docs.goog...
Today I have a backup and it takes maybe 10 min to restore. At another place I had a script to rebuild everything that took about 24 hours.

Note at places where I had a complete database we were not concerned about PII.
It really isn't. I replaced my front door lock last year and I think the replacement cost me about $30. I hadn't done it before but it was easy to figure out, took about 15 minutes.
Just a thanks for this. Wanted something like this from that list but didn't have time.

Loaded it into Feeder from fdroid (cheers to dev if here) and although it took a while, the result is much better than Twitter et al's output.

Might add my own blog to the list one of these days if people keep coming back to this as the reference.
I don't have a transcript, but I tried (when GPT-4 was initially released) passing it a riddle encoded with a caeser cipher that was base 64 encoded. I gave it the prompt "This is a riddle that is encoded in some way, solve it" and it managed to do so.

Now it can't even do just the caeser cipher without hallucinating nor can do it do even purely base64 decoding without hallucinating.
I once worked at a company that started getting a slew of bad Glassdoor reviews. The reviews were real; the company leadership had been making some bad choices and the reviews reflected it. So they sent out messages in the company chatroom, asking people to leave positive reviews.
> I'm not sure why kitchen ranges and clothes dryers tend to be plug-in and water heaters tend to be hard-wired

The kitchen and laundry appliances are sometimes moved with the homeowner or tenant, but not the water heater. Also a plug can make it easier to pull out for cleaning.
I had a similar situation, but I had him go with PEX and sweat connections. I suppose I would have considered it for a connection in my garage, but this was deep in my crawl space in an area where you only visit if you absolutely have to. Not a place to mess around with products that have half the life expectancy of the tried-and-true methods.

I wonder if any builders are using this approach - solder in the crawl space and behind drywall, but shark bite in accessible areas.
Electronic payments and technology has obviated the need for banks in general.

Most people just need an account that keeps track of their ins and outs, and there is no reason it could not be government operated.

Of course, with a constitutional amendment that every person has a right to an electronic money account with the ability to send and receive money at all times, regardless of convictions or whatever. And the government is obligated to provide identity verification services.
The real 4D chess move is fake negative reviews of your own company that are so unreasonable in content they cast doubt on other negative reviews.

This seems like an unsolvable problem with online reviews in general. However I generally find Google Maps reviews for restaurants fairly reliable. You'd think with the amount of data they slurp up they could cut out fake reviews based on location data alone. Maybe it's just confirmation bias on my end though.
I don't understand your anecdote. I'm able to ask it medical questions and get answers, for example:

https://chat.openai.com/share/75f94000-552f-42d6-aadf-198fd9...

https://chat.openai.com/share/0933abf7-1015-41b5-9a49-ca2b6e...

Whether someone should trust the answers is a different question.
You are more right than you think. Initial hallucinations of ai and usefulness are waning off, people realising that this chatbot is not much more than entertainment.
If you take the phrase "future of the world" to mean something positive in this context, you might be the naive one.
The Yelp of employment sites.

Glassdoor generates revenue through advertising and 'employer branding solutions'. Companies looking to advertise their job listings and showcase their reputation are charged for these services.

Reviews in general have grown unreliable as incentive alignments have shifted.
> While it’s true local banks provide a public local benefit, they are IME just inefficient

Is there any smaller, local, customer respecting business that isn't "inefficient" in comparison to a megaconglomerate which can use monopoly and mass consolidation to operate with lower costs, worse customer experience after they achieved local monopoly?
Oh hell yeah, super happy for them. They've got the right idea for edgeAI stuff, I hope they can survive, or, at least sell their IP to someone big and buy a few acres to DGAF on.
Nah I print all my code.
It's weird that USA still has regional banks thriving. In Russia, it is Sberbank all the way down.

Largest banks have unprecedented regional networks and perceived as vert safe so they can allow themself to pay shit rates on deposits and use it to give out mortgages. Principal business plan of regional banks is undercut. The only way how they may stay alive is to ally with large regional businesses to be used as their purse.

Add to that is that modern bank is an IT company and a large bank may invest in much more sophisticated online services.
I've studied (and taught undergraduates) in Britain, and their three year degrees are tightly focused on students' courses of study. They don't (by and large) go in for the General Education courses that take up so much of US college students' time. The advantage is that their university degree programmes go into much more depth, in a much shorter time.

On the other hand, university-bound students there do an extra year of (very academically-focused) secondary school, so they arrive more prepared for tertiary education than US students (by and large) are.

I prefer the British system, too, but getting to it in the US would require changing more than just US colleges' time-tables or courses of study.
If several people create this, it is quite a decentralized way to discover blogs. More people should do this.
I'll never accuse old Windows of being bulletproof, but I've gotten some considerable reliability out of old appliances by adding SSDs, a passively cooled chassis, and a weekly reboot scheduled task. Basically, just get rid of the moving parts and plan for state drift.

Old OT is actually pretty easy to take care of aside from sourcing replacements for some secret sauce PCI card that is no longer made. New OT blurs the line with IT in a really difficult way however, you can no longer rely on a dead simple airgap to solve your security concerns because everything and its mother wants to be on the internet.
There are many, many, many cases where communication is not possible because who is working on the code now didn't exist when it was written (unless you want to take the time to document out all of your CSS and hope that everyone who touches it follows that documentation exactly). A new team taking over, a new agency updating a website for a client that was made by another agency, a new developer being brought on, etc.
Seems like Blind should get in on this game, since the premise of the app is that it requires a company email address. Use an LLM to extract insights from the comments and give them to prospective job hunters for a small fee, or even just run ads.
is this the thing you're referring to? https://web.archive.org/web/20170527000404/https://docs.goog...
> Doesn't it also mean that in cases where a domain changes hands, the new owner would be able to purge the content of the previous owner

If the domain changes hands, I don't think they'll approve the removal request unless the new owner can demonstrate that they own the previous contents of the domain as well. You can't send DMCA take down request for content you don't own, right? But I think it's up to the Internet Archive to decide, and they do have DMCA exemption for some class of contents.

https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-request-to-remove-som...
Previous comments from original Politico article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36527284

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36519833 (includes comments from article's co-author)
Must be our ancestors fault. They did a good job at contributing to the extinction of many megafauna (in addition to Paleocene climate changes), but didn’t quite get all the bears. How lazy of them.

Though fun-fact: California used to have an endemic subspecies of Grizzly bear that was entirely wiped out by the European settlers. I can’t really fault them for this... times were tough back then. Some Grizzly Bears have re-enter California from the north in more recent times.

Makes me realize that in certain contexts ecological preservation is a privilege. If there’s a 2% chance a Grizzly is going to kill my darling child Timmy, I’m okay with wiping them out and worrying about the ramifications later. I’m not going to risk little Timmy being eaten to preserve some amorphous concept of natural balance. Fortunately we don’t live in that world any longer. (And >0.05% risk of Timmy being eaten is acceptable to me, since this is on par with many other risks)
> It's pretty simple why. The reason these chargers exist is to capture government subsidies, not because enough people actually want them for them to be financially viable. Once the vendors get their check from the taxpayers there's literally no reason for them to provide any more than the bare minimum level of support.

Completely agreed.
Tesla is the only one operating them commercially in practice. They probably are cash flow positive, and even if not, are a loss leader to sell cars.

EV DCFC can be commercially viable though considering 1) the markup on electric is HUGE compared to gas (possibly 2x) and 2) they have a captive customer stuck 5x as long as a gas buyer, to spend $$ in their convenience store (where they actually make all their money)

The problem is the current companies are trying to do standalone stalls in others parking lots.
I think we will eventually see some gas station chains bring out an offering, but there needs to be demand first.

Something like 90%+ of EVs on the road in US are still Tesla, so CCS has always been a niche within a niche here.
I’d note they explicitly document they rev GPT-4 every two weeks and provide fixed snapshots of the prior periods model for reference. One could reasonably benchmark the evolution of the model performance and publish the results. But certainly you’re right - ChatGPT != GPT4, and I would expect that ChatGPT performs worse than GPT4 as it’s likely extremely constrained in its guidance, tunings, and whatever else they do to form ChatGPT’s behavior. It might also very well be that to scale and revenue follow costs they’ve dumbed down the ChatGPT plus. I’ve found it increasingly less useful over time but I sincerely feel like it’s mostly because of the layers of sandbox protection they’re adding constraining the model into non optimal spaces. I do find that the classical iterative prompt engineering still helps a great deal - give it a new identity aligned to the subject matter. Insist on depth. Insist on checking the work and repeating itself. Asking it if it’s sure about a response. Periodically reinforcing the context you want to boost the signal. Etc.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4
Is that true of toxins that accumulate in the body generally, or specific known classes?

I don't know, I'm definitely no expert in this area, and haven't looked for any similar studies for other toxins, so I'm not sure if other similar research has been done.
Very fun and original, I love imperfect information games. Took me ~20 clues and a bit of guess work for this one.

I didn't see a description of what the titles meant (is "constable" good?).

What kind of data structures and algorithms did you use to represent the game, find a solution, and choose the clues?
https://youtu.be/ukZYP5Dy43E
A great deal comes to the tight integration of cars and chargers. There are a lot of factors, but the most obvious factor is that cars do not have a standardized charging port location. This means: (a) sometimes stations have multiple cables on different sides, increasing the number of parts and complexity; (b) sometimes when drivers try very hard to plug in amid weirdly shaped parking spaces and non-optimal placement of chargers, they stretch the cables way too much.

Next, electrically different cars also have different battery pack voltages. An Ioniq 5 has a much higher voltage than an ID.4. There's limited room for cars to change DC voltage so non-Tesla chargers tend to need to support a wider range of voltages.

Then there's the fact that the CCS connector is bulkier than the Tesla ones so people use more force, and are more likely to drop them if they have limited dexterity. This also accelerates reliability problems.
They are called vanity measures for a reason. In this case I think it's appropriate since the source is Amazon PR looking for favourable coverage.
Except the "paint drip" aspect of this successful person might be entirely irrelevant to their success. Imagine if Keith ate oatmeal every day for breakfast, and there was an "Oatmeal people" article describing why eating oatmeal for breakfast is the key to Ken's success. After all, it gives him long lasting energy, having a routine can be useful, it is simple to prepare and you can think about other things while making it, etc.

Or, for every "paint drip person", you might find another person who is equally as successful and devoted their entire energy to a single project or idea.
Rechargeable battery wear can be separated out into (1) cycle aging and (2) calendar aging.

One of those typically dominates the total battery degradation, depending on the use case. EVs for personal use tend to have calendar aging dominate the overall battery degradation early in their life.
Three amateurs cracked 445-year-old code to reveal Mary Queen of Scots’ secrets
Is GPT 3.5 is nerfed too? ..hehe XD

To measure exactly 6 liters using a 12-liter jug and a 6-liter jug, you can follow these steps:

Start with both jugs empty.
Fill the 12-liter jug completely.
Pour the contents of the 12-liter jug into the 6-liter jug. This leaves you with 6 liters in the 12-liter jug and a full 6-liter jug.
Empty the 6-liter jug.
Pour the 6 liters from the 12-liter jug into the empty 6-liter jug.
Refill the 12-liter jug.
Fill the 6-liter jug using the 12-liter jug until the 6-liter jug is full. This requires pouring 4 liters from the 12-liter jug into the 6-liter jug, which leaves 8 liters in the 12-liter jug.
At this point, you have 6 liters in the 6-liter jug and 8 liters in the 12-liter jug. Empty the 6-liter jug.
Pour the remaining 2 liters from the 12-liter jug into the empty 6-liter jug.
Finally, refill the 12-liter jug and pour 6 liters from the 12-liter jug into the 6-liter jug. The 6-liter jug will now be full, and you will have successfully measured 6 liters using the given jugs.

By following these steps, you can accurately measure 6 liters using a 12-liter jug and a 6-liter jug.
That’s totally true, the pathologies are different. But they’re big enough this usually doesn’t impact the whole firm. With small businesses if the positon of Director is effectively a family-owned sinecure you may have no opportunity to ever reach that level even if they’re wildly incompetent.
My rough understanding is that AC conductors (energized, i.e. having a significant potential difference than ground) come into the charging stations, go through an inverter, after which point the DC conductors may or may not be energized. I don't think copper thieves would be able to tell accurately which wires are which.

Mind you, I'm not an electrician or electrical engineer; I just work on my home wiring sometimes.
But they are clever, you can have the runner local.

(They start to ruin that, but lets say, the idea is still visible.)
In Seattle there's a company called "Sustainable Living Innovations (SLI)" that a few years ago started this modular apartment building that was supposedly going to fly right up because their modules are so efficient: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/company-bre...

That was two years ago, and I can clearly see the building is still not done. It's gone up at a snail's pace compared to "traditional" construction nearby. Might be that the company is having financing and/or supply-chain issues.
Yes but it has been expired for a while
God forbid anyone other than computer engineers get to feel like they're not just wage slaves.
When framed as such I’m in agreement with you. A police state is mostly beneficial only to those who fund the police.

That being said, I wouldn’t go as far as to say that the riots are a good thing
More like CSS is well water and Tailwind is a good quality water filter.
Well, consider the fact that "most of the entries" comprise 10% of GitLab and things like "Git Operations" comprise the remaining 90%. This is a total system failure.
The Kenyan Catholic Doctors Association did their own tests on Tetanus vaccines actually delivered to Kenya and found they created antibodies to HCG. Thus, people can deny that that was ever the intent or they intended to sterilize people, but an empirical examination of the actual vaccine given to the actual people in Kenya shows that it did cause infertility and no amount of official denials can contradict that.

Saying that that is false is pretty racist in that it implies that the Kenyan doctors are liars and the western doctors always tell the truth and act in good faith. In that case, no evidence developed by African organizations will ever be good enough.

http://www.cmq.org.uk/CMQ/2015/Feb/kenyan_catholic_drs_state...