skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see the sweet spot for community-driven/social journalism:

- Get updates between the new cycles. If you can get the scores for the football match in tomorrow’s paper, why even need to see the game?

- Get more targeted information, i.e. my favorite pastry shop is where some stuff went down, was it impacted? Someone might have commented on that/taken photos nearby.

- Get an even more unbiased opinion. Both the right and left leaning papers might have the same sponsor they happen to not make disparaging remarks about, or the local government might be able to quash things.

Then again wherever you have eyeballs looking you’ll have people trying to push an agenda in the raw feed, whether it’s political, economic or clout chasing.
In the EU 1 in 4 adults smoke tobacco daily[1]. It sounds pretty normal to me. In practice when I commute daily, I always need to hold my breath several times each way, just to avoid the stench.

[1]: <https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-adults-who-smoke>
Any good recommendations for an alternative email service provider for those of us who don’t want to host their own mail server?
It saves it in the app. All previous questions and answers, conversations, are available later on. I can go back and see things I sent it six months ago, for example, just by scrolling.
Isn’t that called PyPy? Or is the problem that Meta has a lot of CPython extensions

Also Carbon is still very much an experiment and not used for much. Google has a lot more Rust in production now, especially in Android and Chrome.
You can set it to see only notifications from those you follow.
Spring is not Java. I haven’t worked on a Spring app in the last 10 years. There are other frameworks like Quarkus, Helidon, or Micronaut which all have a modern design.
Ask HN: Is anybody selling API access to HuggingFace models?
I've used the OpenAI and GCP chat-bison APIs with great success, but I'd like to put my money into more ethical companies with free-as-in-freedom-er models.

I don't want to fickle around with buying or renting GPUs or installing random LLM scripts that don't work 90% of the time.

I also don't want to pay $XX/month subscriptions, I want clean API billing like OpenAI and GCP.

What exists? Is anybody doing anything?
Exactly, it doesn't say AI open source assistant.
Everything mentioned after open source should be open source.
So let’s use drugs today and gamble everything I have at the casino because I know I am going to die one day and there is nothing to lose ? Sounds rhetorical but not practical
All defaults are opinionated defaults. The fact that you consider a particular default "bad" supports that claim more than anything.

To your point, setting the default to be unencrypted reflects the opinion "this layer of the stack shouldn't be responsible for handling encryption unless the user has no other choice".
I don't think it's feasible to have 1 decent developer micromanage a team down to the function and data structure definition. At that point it's faster to fire the lot and just let the one developer you have do the job alone.
There is zero chance of that happening. Guido van Rossum (and other key figures in the Python community) have spoken very candidly for years about the mistakes they made in the 2-to-3 migration and their decisions in the year since have demonstrated their commitment to not repeating these mistakes.
> for any company large enough to outsource "tier one" support to a call center overseas, the chat bot would actually be a big improvement.

More likely, a lateral move rather than a big improvement. But you're right -- companies that outsource the support to crappy call centers are companies that barely have customer support at all.
Thank you - I don't think I'd ever heard this one before.
I’m fascinated by how Americans are completely unable to distinguish between race and culture. It must be the poor American education system everyone talks about.

There’s obviously more to “history” than America’s experience with black people. My home country of Bangladesh exists because two different cultural groups didn’t want to share a country, and the separation worked out great. And of course even in the context of black people in America, lots of people are sour on integration. Listen to the podcast “Nice White Parents.” A consistent theme is how white parents want integrated schools, while what black parents want is for their mostly-black neighborhood school to be as good as the white kids’ school. Or read this article by a black New York Times columnist about the joy of leaving New York for Atlanta: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/opinion/georgia-black-pol....

As an immigrant myself, it sucks to raise your kids in somebody else’s culture. At least in America we have pluralism, where the cultural groups mostly agree to leave each other alone. I’d never want to live in France if it meant raising my kid to be French.
I have a hard time giving up FB because so much family and old friends are on it, but intellectually I know it's awful. Probably worse than Musk's Twitter, TBH. Zuckerberg has personally done a better job of not being public-crazy than Musk (just cringey), but his platform has arguably net-effects worse on society.

They crossed the line last fall when they put me in FB jail for posting a picture of my son at the beach in his bathing suit as "violating community standards", and then extended my jail-time further when I appealed and complained. The implication being that I was posting .. CSAM... because their image detection algorithm & moderation sucks... that's awful.

Meanwhile they continually try to show me far right or climate change denial material presumably to try to get me to "engage"; yesterday was a meme encouraging people to run over cyclists, complete with a picture of a cyclist being hit by a car, and when I reported it as encouraging violence they rejected my report.

Meta depends on outrage-engagement to make $$. Zuck talks a big talk about creating online community, but he's actually kind of created the opposite. Even the active FB groups I've been in around niche topics have become kind of awful in tone recently, like they're doing the same outrage engagement algos in them, too. Or people are just bigger assholes after COVID, I dunno.

They really are the worst, in actuality, and getting worse. I think I will delete my account ... but it means losing contact with a lot of friends and family.
The problem is, code that uses on a lot of 3rd party libraries that throws the ON-switch for nogil, will suddenly depend on all these libraries maintainers having worried about this.
Many languages have explicit access levels. Others have naming conventions. Library authors use them often.

I think more software follows semantic versioning than before it was codified.
> Thunderbird has PGP built-in, to the point where it's actually got its own key management stuff and everything

This postdates Proton Bridge, btw. But yes, probably we could do more to play nicely with it. But, when Bridge was created, using both Thunderbird and Proton to manage your keys was indeed not an expected or intended use case.
but they no longer need a mattress..
Motorway only, with eye tracking and disables if you aren't looking forward

So basically adaptive cruise control
> Life is misery by default, as a natural consequence of life itself. The never ending tyranny of the need to eat and avoid being eaten is the normal state of affairs.

Edgy, I would definitely have posted that on myspace when I was 14. Of course, that's not true. We are not hunter-gatherers, or pre-industrial farmers. We have abundance of all of life's necessities and even more.

>We only create misery by “helping” people that don’t want help.

You clearly haven't met any addicts, only observed them from a sneering distance and concluded whatever you wanted to conclude.

Suffice to say: I have. Several people who were on self-destructive paths, of whom you could have said "well fuck him, the fucker doesn't want help and is a burden to those around him, why should I waste money and effort with him?". With the necessary support they are now entirely different persons.

>Provide basic unregulated housing, not unlike squattable buildings. Set up AI monitored surveillance and prohibit attempts to form any kind of exploitative enterprise. Self registration with biometric access. Provide fentanyl dispensers. Come through once a day and dispose of the dead.

I sure am glad you don't make public policy, but you might have a future in dystopian fiction.
Going from React to Vanilla JavaScript
If you like Chris Morris material I can highly, highly, recommend Nathan Barley which was ahead of its time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqfkuc5mawg

Sad that his web site is now offline...
www.trashbat.co.ck
I don't believe this to be a necessary truth. Do you have any high quality studies that PCP, itself as a substance, does indeed raise the probability of someone doing something untoward? Might it not, in fact, be a problem with the people using PCP? In which case, why should it be restricted for people who would not become a nuisance? Further, why should people who do not become a problem on it have their rights taken away for the simple fact of imbibing?
This is measuring something different. If you want to become rich, the US is still the land of opportunity. In Europe, once you max out on education and try to climb higher, you start hitting glass ceilings and those glass ceilings are far lower than in the US.
I'm guessing you've never had any experience with addicts, especially at the late stages.. Just google what addiction does to you, especially to your brain.

You can't have it both ways.

These are either people with a physiological disease or people who are wilfully and consciously causing public harm.

These ideas aren't ridiculous, we just happen to live in a society where there is a loud minority of people who believes tolerance is an unimpeachable value to uphold at all times with no exception.

This goes completely against reality and when we meet reality like the (disproportionate) crime situation, homelessness, drug addiction, welfare abuse, mass (economic) migrations etc. These people refuse to do anything or let others do anything effective.
"a company we can believe in" should be the subtitle of Hacker News.
This might change as the thread matures, but the first 10 comments were all exclusively disagreeing with the premise of the post in ways that made it clear that 1) the commenters didn't read the post, and 2) their arguments were highly generic and didn't make any sense in the context of Sam Altman's life and path to success. So I would add one additional point to Sam's list: try to be a good listener.
It's until the end of 2025, about 2.5 years from now. The comment was by GVR, who is presumably adding up all the pledged time to estimate whether there's enough in total.
The only evidence the author offers are her personal experiences. While Im no fan of advertising and question its efficacy as well, I don’t really think this is a convincing argument against them.

Statistically, these advertising segments will be very fuzzy and there will be outliers (probably many of them?).
It's an alternative, does a similar job, depends on/abstracts over langchain for some things. It's easier to use than langchain and you'll probably get moving much faster.

They've aimed to make a framework that starts concise and simple, has useful defaults, then lets you adjust or replace specific parts of the overall "answer questions based on a vectorized document collection" workflow as needed.

This works well overall, but some bits have kept me scratching my head for hours. Partly due to huge holes in the documentation when it comes to specifics ("plenty of examples but little documentation" another commenter wrote and I agree). Partly due to the frenetic release schedule, this project is highly active even by frothy LLM craze standards and interfaces change rapidly.

Overall recommend, LlamaIndex has helped me make good progress on my project
Before reddit shit the bed, I wanted to advertise there, only to learn that the subreddits I wanted to target were too small to be able to be targeted. So much data wasted.
Oh, I didn't notice it was you sharing the article. I don't know why it hasn't generated more discussion! It's fun. How did you come across this one? How does this paper fit in with other works on children and criminal philosophy (hah)?

I recall something while taking Russian classes. Soviet children's cartoons would contain societal critique/satire that nothing else could get away with, because it wouldn't occur to the state sensors to look at cartoons (I have no sources).
It's good to point out this possibility, but outside of an institutional purchaser, people don't buy 2 mattresses with the purchases separated by a week.

Knowing that you bought a mattress is useful for the ML to find the mattress-purchase-likely cohort. Filtering those people out just saves the advertisers money. Hence the grift.
It's more like a toothless C. In that it knows a bunch of tricks already, you can't teach it anything new, it can't bite you, and it's mostly harmless.
ORM's I know

- Prisma

- KnexJS

- MikrORM

- Drizzle
Yeah, tough. I will wait to see if somebody more explicitly Linux-friendly makes a good workstation class ARM (or better, RISC-V even) laptop, because I've had nothing but problems with my Thinkpad Z13 Gen 1 Radeon/Ryzen and Lenovo is in my bad books.

I had a M2 MBP issued for work by my previous job and it really was excellent; performance and battery life. But I'd have a hard time giving up Linux, and I'd worry about installation of Linux on hardware like that always being second-class.
Not a developer but have found the T14s AMD Gen 3 to have significantly better real world (i.e. browsing) battery life than my X13s had.
> That's not a bold thing to say. There are plenty of areas that are really hard to study through experiments, but we can still learn things through experience. The whole field of psychology is just on the edge of being amenable to experiment, but it's not like we know nothing about human psychology.
Management is another field where it's more or less impossible to do scientific experiments to determine what makes the best manager, but again that doesn't mean we know nothing about management.

And yet in both these cases we at least _try_ to come up with quantifiable results of our observations. The point is that without them we are not really capable of coming up with any meaningful conclusions.

> Very occasionally there are great scientific studies of software

For me it seems the body of software available to analyse empirically is large enough now to start doing it and it is happening. What's important is that none of the empirical studies I know measure anything named "technical debt".

>> Talking about "technical debt" of software system is no more useful than talking about its scent.

> Why do you think talking about its scent is not useful?

Because it does not provide any meaningful insight into what should or should not be done to improve it.
Literalism has nothing to do with it. Over half the world identify as believers in Moses's God. Less than a sixth believe in Stochastic Gas. Under the Gas model, it would perhaps be strange for us to be at center. Under the God model it would not.

Regardless, to say one way "should" be the answer is a religious argument not a scientific one, and it has questionable place in a scientific discussion.
Are the companies at fault for not paying for something that is sold for free?

Or do license terms apply differently if you’re Meta?
I think in this case we —-the customers—- are the ice-cream and Facebook’s tongue licking all over us, as if they haven’t had enough taste of our metadata yet!
In my BS I had just 1 team project, so it wasn't a big deal.

In my master I had more… and yes there were people who didn't do anything, people who did much more than me, people who were good at writing reports but needed intervention because ultimately they didn't even understand what our project was about.

I asked the professor once to dump a guy, because he said we should meet on a sunday morning to do our assignment, then he showed up 2 hours late, I was almost done with it, and he started by reading the 1st slide of the 1st lecture (with the name of the course, the email of the professor and so on).
I knew about reading most recent reviews and reading the three star reviews. My trump card was searching Reddit for what they thought. But now Reddit is dead I don’t know where to read real reviews from actual persons.
> frozen mamallian bodies are completely dead

So fun fact: In mountain rescue they have a saying that you aren't dead until you're warm and dead. People do come back from frozen.

Here's some science about this: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24882104/

> Hypothermic cardiac arrest has high mortality and few known prognostic factors. We studied retrospectively 34 victims of accidental hypothermia with cardiac arrest admitted to The University Hospital of North Norway during 1985-2013 who were resuscitated and rewarmed by extracorporeal circulation. No patient survived prior to 1999, while nine out of 24 (37.5%) survived hypothermic cardiac arrest from 1999 to 2013. The lowest measured core temperature among survivors was 13.7°C; the longest time from cardiac arrest to return of spontaneous circulation was 6 h and 52 min. The only predictor of survival identified was lower blood potassium concentration in the nine survivors compared with the non-survivors. Submersion was not associated with reduced survival. Non-survivors consumed modest hospital resources. Most survivors had a favourable neurological outcome.

Can't find the very cool journalistic story where I learned the phrase a few years ago. I think it was one of those New York Times online features they used to do. Similar to the famous Avalanche story, but about a woman who froze to death and came back ... or maybe it was part of the Avalanche story even. Memory fuzzy
(Continuing this analogy)

Except that the icecream place is run by a group known for extremely poor hygiene, manipulating customers and lacing their other food products with nicotine to ensure chemical dependency issues.
I made a small playlist with playthroughs that each touch on more and more aspects of the level. Then just some notable other playthroughs n the music. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi4842O5fEfIQT6sti69A...
20+ years later, and billions of lines or python code later, the GIL discussion is still there. Kind of an amazing mess of a problem… mainly shows the priority of python being a ducktape type solution from the start.
Level 2 chargers stop at 7kW for single phase and 22kW for 3 phase. That’s fine for home or destination charging but woefully inadequate for long trips.

Beyond that you need to switch to DC chargers that go directly into the battery pack. This is where it starts to get complicated as different battery architectures need different voltages and max currents.
There is a very recent interview with Hofstadter on YouTube where he talks about how surprised he is that ChatGPT is so good at generalizing, etc.

Also: this article is behind a paywall, but I found it on Apple’s News+ by searching for the article title.
PyPy has a GIL, so it wouldn't solve this particular issue.
I am all for evidence-based decisions, but you are asking for evidence that sky is indeed blue. Like seriously, you want me to prove that math is actually used somewhere? How about it being used in the evidence you are asking for? And when was the last time you used long division? I am sure there are nuances that average student or parent cannot see, but the thing with schools is that they are so rotten that a long list of serious flaws is visible to the public along with corresponding solutions.

Your demands for evidence for the obvious are just a form of red tape intended to protect the status quo. This sort of behavior is the definition of bureaucracy: no action can be taken until approved by the bureaucrat (via curriculum, law, funding, or management decision). In the end, everyone in education just wants to be protected from the stress of change and the challenges of technology.
Do you have any high-quality studies towards these relevant measures? Because your proposition is: "I think this man might be on PCP. He is otherwise doing nothing wrong. He should be imprisoned." That is ridiculous. A sober person is equally as capable of becoming a nuisance. So your actual proposition is to jail people on your presumptions, values, and opinions.
I'll say: Oh, nice. What has your favorite contraption been? Sounds like you needed a break. What lead to that?

If I'm hiring you I need to assess three things:

- Can you do the work I need done?

- Do you want to do the work I need done for the time I need you to do it? (flight risk)

- Will you work well with others on the team?

In all of those answers I'm looking for: Will this person own their story and do I believe them?
I didn't (intentionally) say they didn't end up as dangerous, murderous criminals. I said that they were directionless people - they weren't criminal masterminds in a glamorous world of high-tech equiment and fast cars, they were tragic characters who got sucked into a farcial which saw someone blow themselves up in a shopping precinct while dressed as a chicken. It's a fundamentally humanising film which hints at the reasons people join those kinds of organisations, which are much less high-tech and organised than the security services (intentionally or otherwise) paint them as.
Horses on a space ship? Give me Wrath of Khan in the nebula any day.
It's both isn't it. It has to be. Have you ever been to a wedding or convention that is serving? Alcohol absolutely is a social lubricant
Many of the "free as in freedom" models are not trained or licensed for commercial use. For example, selling access to a LLaMA API would be a direct violation of the license the model was provided with.
That is a misconception. The GIL protects the internal state of Python. It don´t make all Python multi-thread code "safe".
The PEP 703 still preserve many actual characteristics such as access and writing to dictionaries.
> I think at this point it is better Meta to ditch python and invest in a new programming language that mimics exactly wording for wording of python

Wouldn’t that still be Python, just a different implementation?
We can set it up such that if a module imports modules that don't support nogil, nogil will be automatically disabled for them too.

So, library designers will be under pressure to update their libraries to enable support. We could also have code tools that detect patterns that aren't GIL safe and throw out loud warnings