skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problems it aims to solve seems like an issue for google or those that care if their ad is viewed by a human or not. Can someone give a counter argument of how this might benefit the users themselves?.

Chrome on android is completely unusable due to no adblocker, is this what WEI will do everywhere?
I just skimmed their FAQ at https://vast.ai/faq, and it seems like it could use an update. E.g., it says "Initially we are supporting Ubuntu Linux, more specifically Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.". That version of Ubuntu has been end-of-life'd for several years, and when I just tried vast.ai out, it seemed to be using Ubuntu 20.04. There were also a couple of words with letters missing (probably trivial typos) that could be found with a spell checker. The questions in their FAQ are really interesting though, in terms of highlighting what users care about (e.g., there's a lot devoted to "how do I use vast.ai + google colab together"?). I also wonder when vast.ai started? Sometimes you can get insight from a company blog page, but the vast.ai blog seems to start in Feb 2023: https://vast.ai/blog . There's a bunch of "personal experiences" with vast.ai from 3 years ago in this discussion though: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/hv49pd/d_c...

A comment in that discussion mentions yet another competitor in this space that I've never heard of: https://www.qblocks.cloud/ -- I just tried Q blocks out and the new user experience wasn't as good for me as with vast.ai: you have to put in $10 money to try it, instead of getting to try it initially for free; there is a manual approval process before you can try data center class GPUs; you only see that your instance is in Norway (say) after you try to start it, not before; it seems like there's no ssh access, and they only provide Jupyter to connect; neither pytorch nor tensorflow seemed to be installed. They could probably update their pages too, e.g., https://www.qblocks.cloud/vision is all about crypto mining and smartphones, which feels a bit dated... :-)
This seems to cover some of that workflow

https://github.com/rowheat02/osm-gpt
Standards are not laws, they are reasonably well-written documents describing behavior that is supposed to be interoperable. If, for some reason, that is not true (perhaps because the standard is ambiguous, obsolete or some other reason), ensuring that there is interoperability is more important than just keeping it to the letter of the standard.

See RFC 1925, The twelve networking truths:

(1) It has to work
It's (likely) much less expensive (in many ways, not just financially) to employ a larger number of python programmers than a smaller number of them skilled in a language more appropriate for the use case. Engineer flexibility, salary costs, maintenance/correctness concerns with implications for development time, etc., are all factors here. The technical choice of "python or not python" is rarely the only--or even most important--choice to make.
I am not too deeply experienced with Python so forgive my ignorance.

But I am curious to understand why you were not able to utilize the concurrency tools provided in Python.

A quick google search gave me these relevant resources

1. An intro to threading in Python (https://realpython.com/intro-to-python-threading/#conclusion...)

2. Speed Up Your Python Program With Concurrency (https://realpython.com/python-concurrency/)

3. Async IO in Python: A Complete Walkthrough (https://realpython.com/async-io-python/)

Forgive me for my naivety. This topic has been bothering me for quite a while.

Several people complain about the lack of threading in Python but I run into plenty of blogs and books on concurrency in Python.

Clearly there is a lack in my understanding of things.
I mean, isn't lawn grass non-native as well?
This is a "zachlike" programming game revolving around a fictional 8-bit, single-instruction (subleq) computer [0]. If you're familiar with TIS-100, it's like that, but using a subleq-based assembly language (and only one node).

I shared this previously when I added a Steam version [1] with achievements, music, etc. (the Steam version is also free). Most recently, I added native Linux support to the Steam version, due to feedback from players wanting friend leaderboards on Linux.

The source code is on GitHub [2], in case anyone is curious (but note that it's not Open Source--I'm still deciding how to license it).

Let me know if you enjoy it!

[0] subleq is "subtract, and branch if <= 0"

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2124440/SIC1/

[2] https://github.com/jaredkrinke/sic1
Onion addresses aren't CA-based TLS, but they aren't unencrypted HTTP either.
What? while this does look like a hard landing, it doesn't look particularly "out there" for strong/gusty crosswinds - maybe it is uncommon for London but certainly doesn't seem "dramatic"
You can debate that with investopedia if you think their definition is inaccurate, but I've never seen a definition of free markets that builds in a requirement for government controls.

Functionally we have few, if any, modern examples of free markets but the same goes for communism. Practically we never really implement either concept and we erroneously call what we do implement by this names, but that doesn't change the original idea or definition.
. What the hell is this? Concerted effort trolling? Low effort labeling?

Wtf is up with HN and trolls who can't deal with debating.
I'd guess that ship has sailed for many people. I never update my "consumer" software because every update makes it worse. I can't be the only one. Nobody is getting any kind of positive reinforcement on updating, best case scenario it does nothing, mostly it makes stuff worse or takes away freedoms.
About 25 years ago, after being absolutely blown away by Crime and Punishment, I gave The Brothers Karmazov a try, and was disappointed to find it was very soap-operaish. I really couldn't care less who was sleeping with whom or about the other petty melodrama in the book.

I also recently came back to Crime and Punishment, and found that while it has some of the greatest passages I've ever read in any book, passages that are full of keen psychological penetration and empathy for deeply flawed people, there's also a lot of corny, cliche material in it: the murderer with a heart of gold, the prostitute with a heart of gold, the consumption poor mother sacrifices everything for her chldren, etc...

These sorts of characters might not have been cliche in the 19th Century, but they certainly are today.
On the one hand, I firmly do believe that we need a proper way to verify identity globally over the internet. The Turing Test is over and AI is going to destroy every user-submittable form online.

On the other hand, it's infuriating that advertising is the first front in this war. I specifically don't want advertisers to have my identity. I'm fine with like my Mastodon server or a site like HN to know I'm me because I'm actively interested in interacting with them. I don't want to interact with advertisers, or for them to have my identity, but they're going to wall off half the internet for people who opt out.
Does it handle balancing the data it is importing to avoid bias in the initial data set?
Nothing is stopping you from just not using new features in your website.
House of the Dead and The Gambler are both highly underrated in my opinion.
I agree, GPT3.5 has been working insanely well for me when making overpass turbo queries. I guess there's lots of training data in the dataset for it. Made a quick 10 liner that takes in a bbox & search prompt -> GPT3.5 -> overpass turbo -> geojson

i.e. "banks in my area" a la google maps here: https://i.imgur.com/pSRn1xo.png

In my experience it seems like prompting for older technologies works much better on large LLMs, i guess it makes sense considering that there is probably more crawlable documentation out there

EDIT: someone in this thread linked a tool which seems to do this: https://github.com/rowheat02/osm-gpt
As a US Citizen with "western values" the CLEAR program was always suspicious for "slippery slope" reasons. Meanwhile, a wealthy South Asian man nearby who lives and does business completely in the USA, applied for and got CLEAR ID immediately when the program was made public, long ago. We speculated that since he is dark skinned with a foreign name, he was concerned about being singled out for security ? Post-911 was a bad time for the USA. The article here says in the fine print at the bottom that there may be little legal basis for a number of common TSA practices, but there is literally no choice. Combine that with scrupulous license plate readers and the "shoes off" ritual, it really does seem like an alternate social system.
Depends on what you want for the future. What are these savings for and when do you plan to use them?
The premise of this article is fundamentally wrong.

> On that Web, if you send a valid request with the right data, you get a valid response.

Explain DoS protection then.
It's not clear whether or not he talked to Sam Altman in his/her "pre-interview".

If I had a pre-interview for a job at Amazon, does that mean I have a Jeff Bezos story?
If the question is whether the state or the parent has the ultimate power to decide on what to teach their kids, the individual parent must almost always win in my opinion.
Yeah we aren’t going to let anyone book the whole thing for years. If we ever have to make the choice, we’ll choose the startups over the big companies.
I've started to think of LLMs as not so much AI as collective intelligence. An LLM aggregates a huge amount of human-generated information and thinking into one convenient semi-intelligent entity, without doing much really original thinking of its own (so far).

But this alone is potentially profound. Better ways to be collectively smarter could itself accelerate change. Vernor Vinge's famous essay "The Coming Technological Singularity" wasn't just about AI; he also suggested collective intelligence as a way the singularity could happen.

https://edoras.sdsu.edu/~vinge/misc/singularity.html
You shouldn’t need root, you should have another person with admin rights as a backup plan.

It is a vm so if you do something that would break sudo or all your users you should have a vm snapshot at your fingertips ready to restore from AWS interface.

Even if you are running bare metal you should setup snapshots first but nowadays no one runs bare metal web servers it is still som hyper visor with bunch of vm-s that are easy to backup restore or just delete and create fresh.
Thanks for that - that operator sounds extremely useful!
What mechanism prevents the government from “un-person-ing” someone if Worldcoin was used as the global identity system?
You commented on another thread a few days ago (which I also replied to).

I still don’t understand your distain for the idea of a 100% encrypted web.

Rather than saying “does this remind you of anything”, can you tell us what it reminds you of?

I guess the issue is, eventually, CA’s can decide not to issue certificates to certain people classified as malicious/nefarious/etc?

Can you clearly articulate your position on this point?
A wasm-only web perhaps?
I think you'd be hard pressed to argue improving safety does NOT improve dignity, but I see your point.
Parent does have quite a bit of experience:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Davis_(programmer)
Large and multinational companies (your extreme example) don’t suffer from this problem; nor do medium sized ones.

Many of the smaller businesses rely on dodge—by-cash or function just fine.

In fact, the audit problems caused by tiny, front/fake LLCs and paper companies lead to a real, criminal-level audit trail problem.
> safe assumption that professional researchers thought of it too

Research should be able to stand up to scrutiny. The scientific process depends on it.

Given the ongoing reproducibility crisis and plethora of garbage research coming out of academia, I’m not assuming anything about any research I see.
What made Feynman a great scientist was that he could explain hard things in a simple manner. If you can't explain it simply, then you don't understand it well enough.

Try to explain that to string theorist. No wonder quantum mechanics isn't making progress. These new scientists just want to prove how smart they are, and not how
little they actually know. Thus allowing them to make progress.
> I find that it would be super strange if I had to prefix my internal methods with DELETE or PUT based on do they remove or add to some Array. Using that logic, why do that in APIs.

It's true that POST ends up being a bit of a grab bag for all the non-CRUD API calls.

But I find it very useful when looking over someonje's API to find them using PUT, or DELETE. PUT in particular provides really useful signals about the nature of the resource we are dealing with.

And lets not get started with the in-built caching etc. you throw away by not using GET.
I just take D3 50K a week, what a doctor once recommended when I was tested and found almost with something like 6 ng/dL of D in my system.

BTW, did they tell you to back off or cut your dose? at 59 ng/mL you're in the danger zone.
Strangling your service with a Kubernetes misconfiguration (2022)
He is actually deficient, and 10k IU is not that unusual.
Sure, I mean if non-type writer fonts bother you, I’m sure other aspects of modern typography would also be off putting.
there should be a new specialization of "ML DevOps Engineer"

Do you mean MLOps? Nothing new about it. We have two full-time MLOps engineers at our startup.
I am of the opinion that AI is neither truly artificial in nature nor intelligent, in the way that we imagine intelligence.

But AI is capable of doing the things you mentioned, perhaps not on that scale just yet, but certainly in principle.

The reason being, that transformer AI in LLM models is actually just an engine for parsing human intelligence.

As the engine improves, it will appear “smarter”, but it is still just parsing its way through the n-dimensional memetic matrix that is human language and culture. …. Just like we do.

Unless there exists a superintelligence expressed in that data set, AI will not express superintelligence in the way we would expect.

AI does express superintelligence though. In its ability to carry on coherent conversations with thousands of people simultaneously on a diverse range of subjects and create documents and code at the speed of conversation.

Right now it is hobbled by limitations of the parsing engine and an inflexibility of not being able to aggregate new knowledge, but those things are improving and being worked on, just not ready for public access yet.
Yes exactly.

It serves very very few request daily, make no sense to have a full fledged server running it
Super interesting to read everyone's opinions about C&P. I too was force-fed lots of classics in school, and practically always resorted to CliffsNotes. For whatever reason, C&P struck such a chord with me, I "couldn't put it down", won a scholarship writing about it, and got to skip a bunch of Lit classes in college :)
Chinese electric cars ‘could bring UK roads to a standstill’
Here you go. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)
I see research on essential vitamins all the time on HN. It really makes you think. There's cohorts who will debunk the studies based on methodology or glaring flaws. There's cohorts who will provide anecdotal evidence in support. There's even cohorts who will bring up a history lesson/"conspiracy" we all forgot about.

It really makes you wonder about essential vitamins though. There's so many of these types of studies that continue to show benefits of getting the right amount of vitamin D, but there's equally enough noise to tell you that you don't need it.

But for countries like America, experts continue to weigh in that we don't get enough essential vitamins and minerals through our diets, so wouldn't it just be common sense that many people are deficient and therefore should supplement?

Wasn't this the entire controversy of Pauling for example when he pushed Vitamin C? That the RDA amounts are not enough and should be highly personalized?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK56068/table/summarytab... (Recommendations)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41430-020-0558-y (Deficiency Worldwide)
That's not true. It's not obvious what user you have that could do sudo. Thus it does improve security. I advice the same in my book (Deployment from Scratch) and I suggest that for both the host system and containers. There is little cost to not primarily using root.
Sounds like a moot point because cotton chafes and synthetic doesnt. I hang up my clothes outside after I exercise (and before I have a chance to wash them) and it makes all the difference. In general, odor is not about the acute sweat - at least anecdotally, exercise sweat doesn't really smell, it's about what happens when you bunch up your clothes and let bacteria grow in them. So getting them dry and out in the sun matters more than the fabric.
There seems to be some confusion here. The GIL is not an invariant of Python that makes your code thread safe. Python is not altering the deal. You can still use threads to write concurrent code in Python today, and you'll still run into all of the classic concurrency related bugs.

People just mostly don't bother writing threaded code in Python today because it provides no performance benefit. That may change, and it very likely will expose many threading bugs that already exist in many libraries that just have never been found.
Complete plays is a fair metric, if it doesn't take into consideration related traits like when I love a particular remix of a song that is very different than the original, the system decides that I loved the original song and is now going to recommend songs similar to or liked by other users of the system that liked that original song.

This is another place where Pandora really set themselves apart, the Music Genome Project. Any given track that went through curation has a (possibly very) large set of attributes assigned to it. This song you liked, it has a heavy bass-line, noticeable amount of shuffle, light drums, syncopated rhythms, etc. That's far better (to me) than "you might like other songs by this artist" or "other listeners of this artist also listen to", where the last one gets really sketchy when there's not a lot of listeners for the artist.

I'm also curious how it treats listening to a track on a Spotify station that is mixed, where they transition in to and out of the track late or early, so you won't hear the full track, does that still count?

Heck, sometimes I'll get almost to the end of the track and skip to the next just because the track has a long tail and I want to get to something that has more energy, not the dwindling remains of the rhythm or some soft piano fade out at the end of a 130 BPM track that had a lot of energy throughout most of it.

If they're going to make all of these sometimes seemingly arbitrary judgements of whether or not I like something based on these weird things like "there's a common English word in the playlist title that also shows up in all these song titles we're going to recommend to you", at least a list or chart of how it works somewhere would be nice, so I can make more effective use of the system.
Agreed, seems like an application note more than a white paper.
I wonder what lead to JRuby attracting support while Jython not? I know the Jython creator went on to other things (was it eg IronPython for dotnet?). I suppose it was the inverse with dotnet - eg IronPython surviving while IronRuby seems dead.

Is it just down to corporate sponsorship?
its hard to equate “quintessential Russian novel,” with the book Crime and Punishment, here... much closer to Kafka or Camus. Crime and Punishment is worthy literature for certain, but “quintessential Russian novel,” doesn't fit..
This graph shows that Britain changed from an energy exporter to importing about 35% of its energy after the depletion of the North Sea oil reserves. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.IMP.CONS.ZS?location...

To import energy, Britain need to produce things to sell. I can't think of anything the rest of the world wants to buy besides nostalgia e.g. "Downton Abbey" and "Princess Kate".
This is true, but workers do not broadly own or control the MoP in the US. Thus, the US is not socialist. It is not a "mixed" economy, because there is no such thing.
The underlying hostile technology is "remote attestation" and it's what we should all be fighting against.

People justify the latter by speaking about companies wanting control over employees' environments, but IMHO that shouldn't be allowed either. This is also why "zero trust" is problematic; they want to replace humanity with centralised control.
Most popular lawn grasses were created using selective breeding. People will argue about whether they are properly considered native to anywhere, or whether they belong in some third category of man-made organisms.
Does AWS have a domain registration service?
I'm currently at 399 apps that "neeeeeeed" to be updated.

I manually only update banking apps and the likes.

And if an app forces me to update (lazy API devs!) I usually delete it and find a new one.
What’s an example of a major breakthrough in philosophy in modern times?
Details aren't the issue and that's exactly my point.

There is no reason to discuss on average how many lightning rods we should place on each street and the necessary budget allocations and compromises that would need to be made and how this whole undertaking would be facilitated.

We have been doing just fine without these lightning rods on every street proposal Google made. We knew we could have it, we don't have it because we don't want it.
Use of sunlight noted. Any other ideas for disinfecting without bleach (just due to effect on color)?
>Because you donated huge sums to your nonprofit, it reduced your tax burden by a significantly high amount

You know what also reduces your tax burden by a significant amount? Not taking the money out of your business and putting your friends/relatives on the payroll. That it also doesn't get taxed because it's a business expense. I'm not sure what the point of going through the charity is.
You still go through metal detectors with CLEAR and can still be singled out for additional security at that point? Its just a fast pass to the front of the line, like TSA Pre.

I have both and I've sometimes waited for CLEAR kiosks/agents to open up, and got impatient and went to TSA Pre, and vice versa.

edit: okay from the article it suggests at one point they did let you skip security completely with CLEAR.
Free markets don't require any intervention, we choose to modify the model and have a free-ish market because we ultimately don't trust those invoked long term. That isn't the conceptual design though, ideally a free market handles monopolies on its own when customers simply walk away from the bad actor.
It already has done that. The four-color theorem was proved by computer all the way back in the 70s.
That's closer to my inability to spend US dollars in England. Different countries have different currencies.
You can do the same with reddit. They give you a bunch of CSVs in a zip file.
Such a great title, wasted on such poor writing.
I have a passable understanding of physics, but nothing really for philosophy. I can't even begin to understand what sort of fundamental work you could be referring to. Would you mind breaking it down a bit?
See Steve Keen, e.g.: <https://evonomics.com/steve-keen-nordhaus-climate-change-eco...>

Bad maths modeling, insipid correlative relation, ignoring of tipping points, etc., etc.