skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For my two cents; the goal of our human pursuit is to advance our technologies and systems to the point we can all live carefree lives where the focus of our pursuits is self defined.

It is not to "own more rights" to shit. Sorry, but no one actually owns what they create, that's the point of creation. And if you take issue with the term create, that only reinforces my point. We're all influence machines, input and output, the future should not be about preserving some peoples rights to limit our collective advancements over their personal wants. Tough shit.
You bring up an interesting argument: is it healthier to live Urbanely vs Rurally? I see many advantages & disadvantages for both.

Having grown up in a city, and tried both, I plan to live somewhere in the middle:

On the outskirts of a small city (For me, about 30000-80,000 seems to be the sweet spot, preferably with a university, and with large enough parks for a 2 hour hike, and/or a river) while also being within 45 minutes from a large city.

I work remotely, and I am interested in living closer to nature and keeping a few livestock.

At a 45 minute distance, a 2-day-hybrid work week wouldn't be too bad, especially since that city offers things I can't get in my town (specialty groceries and IT meetup events).
It might be possible to do sheet metal with 6013 (and I've tried it) but it's so miserable I wouldn't wish it on my worse enemy. The thick slag that forms makes it impossible to see the puddle. MIG is significantly faster, easier, and requires less cleanup with a grinder for thin metal.

For thicker stuff, I've always liked 6011, but MIG is still a little faster and easier. I know for large scale industrial use (IE ship building) flux core wire feed with a shielding gas is faster that stick, simply because the welder doesn't have to stop and get a fresh electrode.
I bet that uncensored models also give more accurate answers in general.

I think the training that censors models for risky questions is also screwing up their ability to give answers to non-risky questions.

I've tried out "Wizard-Vicuna-30B-Uncensored.ggmlv3.q4_K_M.bin" [1] uncensored with just base llama.cpp and it works great. No reluctance to answer any questions. It seems surprisingly good. It seems better than GPT 3.5, but not quite at GPT 4.

Vicuna is way way better than base Llama1 and also Alpaca. I am not completely sure what Wizard adds to it. But it is really good. I've tried a bunch of other models locally, but this one the only one that seemed to truly work.

Given the current performance of Wizard-Vicuna-Uncensored approach with Llama1, I bet it works even better with Llama2.

[1] https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Wizard-Vicuna-30B-Uncensored...
That seems like a very unergonomic API.
Do prepaids not have ZIPs? So many things demand this info (heck, even some gas pumps…) … what do people enter at those prompts?

(I left out name; I assume name isn't matched against, given how fuzzy of a field it is. Most sites don't even prompt for the information accurately enough to make a match anyways.)
Generative AI for images and music produce pixels and waveform data, respectively. I wonder if there is research into "procedural" data; so in this case, it would be SVG elements and, perhaps, MIDI data respectively.

I know training data would be much more harder to get, (notwithstanding legal ramifications), but I think that creating structured, procedural data will be much more interesting than just the final, "raw" output!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_%3D_PAT

The impact of human activity on the environment:

I = P × A × T

The expression equates human impact on the environment to a function of three factors: population (P), affluence / consumption (A) and technology (T).
That and maybe an iPhone and an iPad or two (do Macs also get bricked if you can't login using the connected account nowadays?) so $1000s at least.
Does personally targeted advertising even add that much value over contextual advertising?

I occasionally click on AdWords ads, or look up a company I see on an ad in the subway station, or follow up on Internet ads that I know are contextually targeted. But I generally have no idea how AdSense ads came to me.

Amusingly, since I started making an effort to improve my Spanish last year, my partner's started getting a lot of ads in a language she doesn't speak inserted into her English-language podcast episodes.
Thx for the encouragement! Right now we don't have relationships with a lot of these providers, but we do use the only charge when a patient shows up thing as a selling point when selling to providers - providers HATE getting charged for no shows. We wanted to list more providers (even those we don't have relationships with) because with only a handful of providers the shopping experience doesn't really work.
There seems to be a really strong disdain on HN for AdTech in general, which I think is misguided, and comes fundamentally from a "web consumer" mentality. I think that it would be valuable to reframe the question from the producers point of view:
1) I am a niche small business - how do I let people know that I exist?
2) I run a website and would like to monetize it - how can I get paid for the content that I produce?

The ad-tech solution is actually quite elegant in theory - if you can show ads only to the people to whom they are relevant, then, as a small business you can let people know you exist without blowing your ad budget, and, as a content producer, the more valuable an ad-view is, the more you can charge for it.

The current movement to avoid tracking is an extremely powerful centralizing force. The large platforms know a lot about you already - Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, etc. So, in a way, "we're not going to let AdTech track users" = "we're going to make only ads on large platforms effective", which means that both content producers and advertisers will prefer them, and then people ask "where did the old internet go"?

The AdTech system isn't ideal, but it would be great if the people who criticize it came up with something other than "fuck the small businesses and content producers".
I live in the part of Arlington that this article talks about the most and it's so fascinating to learn about the history of how the area got developed. It really does feel like the county has nailed the the development of Ballston and Clarendon. The only thing I'd complain about is parking. Street parking has costed me over a thousand dollars lol (my car got shot by a bb gun and insurance didn't pay so that's mostly why, but otherwise it feels super safe here)
Sure, there's jargon. But these words don't describe the music. They describe words associated with the kinds of people who would listen to it (according to the biases of the language model). As a description of the music, it's meaningless. If a person was asked to name some "environmentally conscious" music they could just as easily veer over to hardcore straight edge.
> I don't think many people understand... ...you're just buying a license to that product and it can be taken away at any time.

And if that was a one-off sort of thing than I'd say "caveat emptor" but it's not a one-off, it's something we hear about all the time which makes me say "Holy shit sounds like fraud to me."

If so many people are walking away from a transaction with a complete misconception about what it is that they transacted I question whether or not we can call what went on as a 'meeting of the minds.'
The boxing match one is almost as bad as the Genesis one IMO. Not talking about dangerous things, fine, not knowing quotes from Titanic, unexpectedly poor output but the model is small. Llama 2 will agree the boxing match is not impossible if you start by explaining they have already agreed to it, but it still insists on saying how great our billionaire overlords are instead of commenting on the matchup.
In American dollars that is -261.67F, a little chilly for room temp.
I don't understand, jobs don't become pro bono if there's UBI lol. Salaries still exist. Actually, if anything, they become more valuable.

And tbh, the kind of person that would study medicine for 10 years is probably not gonna be the kind of person to settle for the survivability-level income of UBI.
Same with mines, which is what the Hazard, Kentucky economy was built around.

This is not just an economic crisis but also a crisis of meaning. The mines and factories provided stable, decently paying jobs. People could feel they had a place in the world and see a future for their children. Now what?

I fear that the college-graduate white-collar work that has provided meaning, stability, and economic sustenance for most of us on this site is headed for a similar pass with AI.
Exactly, you have to be a certain level of cynical to be able to even suggest such a thing. It's a new form of colonial abuse, not unlike the way low value goods were exchanged with native peoples the world over in return for very high value goods or even their lives.
If they have your device pin code and your device, they have control of your entire digital life.

We’ve never been more vulnerable to petty crime.
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Yes. if a non-profit receives most of its finding to end homelessness for example, the last thing they want to actually do is end homelessness, because their funding then goes away. What they want is homelessness to remain somewhat constant and claim reduction in growth, or appearance as a success.
Remind me when I asked a bot once “give me a criminally underrated movie?” And refused to answer, after some tweaking it said “Coherence” and it turned out to be a good oneb
As a thought experiment, could a witness protection program (i.e. an arm of the government) issue a new/fake SSN? Yes.

Could they change your retina? Maybe some surgery exists to do this, but it sounds risky/complicated!
I was imagining something like a KVM switch too, maybe if someone packed an RPi compute module and an RP2040 into a Framework expansion, it could have a button on the side that would 'type' the commands needed to make the switch from host to guest pc (I guess there's a little more plumbing needed though to get access to the laptop hardware - maybe it'd be usable if we just got VNCed into the guest...)
https://nitter.net/lipez400/status/1686793608626663441
The first comment tells (from the professor talking in that video):

> In order not to misunderstand everyone, let me say that it is below 110K, and 0 resistance is observed at normal pressure.

Google translation, but I think it's clear that it's below and not above. At least normal pressure ... that's disappointing but still an improvement
That would be not accepting the premise that deployments are irresponsible. I guess there could be a situation where every researcher thinks everyone else's deployment is irresponsible and theirs is fine, but I don't think that's what you're saying.
Sharp EL-361D
Pronouns are Rohypnol
Related to this, Cory Doctorow's appearance on Future Tense podcast (Australia) is truly excellent.

After being introduced, he goes on an 8-minute disquisition. We should all aspire to rap tech like Cory Doctorow can.

https://pca.st/yr3hd7f9
If employers were in fact willing to swing major policy and spending decisions based on +/- 10% knowledge worker efficiency, offices would look very different.
credibility of LK99 claims is very very high. What are the medium term practical implications for all these potential applications?
I think most people would rather live in a world that is 5 degrees hotter than one without oil.

You are ignoring the important part of why he divides people into "China" and the "UK". It's not an arbitrary distinction it's the unit with which laws get enacted and have affect. And China can set laws that affect all provinces. If the UK cuts climate change by enacting local laws it'll make the UK worse off, and the rest of world marginally better off. So the smart thing to do from the UK side is not to focus on local laws that reduce carbon footprint but on items that have global reach, such as treaties and technology.
Even if we lived in a world without zoning, occupied residential land is going to take far longer to densify than basically-empty former-commercial/industrial stuff.

All the suburbs building the same sort of multi-story mixed-development to replace what used to be strip malls or warehouses or whatever also have single family housing and existing residential - it's just worlds easier if you don't have to deal with as many property owners or with people who don't really want to move.
This isn't a web framework, it's something to get you up and running ASAP. It's probably not worth it for anything other than utility/one-off, but there's nothing wrong with that.

No offense, but the play framework docs are objectively worse, it feels very "enterprisey" and too many clicks (the "Hello World Tutorial" spans 3 pages)
You can use evil-mode and you’ll have the Vim key bindings in emacs. I use this and it’s great.

Also, an ergonomic keyboard can help with pain; I had pains on my right wrist and using the Kinesis Advantage has helped me tremendously.
The kickstarter page is much more informative than this article: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-internet-c...
Unfortunately, the marketing and branding departments would all have aneurysms over this, but I do love and share your dream.
> The example here seems like a particularly stupid (from the company POV, even) place to put an in-office mandate.

Doubly or triply so considering the travel times to their field sites, just look at the timeframe differences quoted for that office meeting vs when he leaves for the survey site otherwise. What an incredible gain in productivity!
I do have insurance because that's the game. I don't like it though. Btw my Insurance Premium is $24k/Year and $5k/Year for deductible. So I am almost $30K out of pocket BEFORE insurance pays a dime. If thats not a scam, what is.
Small claims court, I once got n-times the money frozen in my paypal account.

It works, because big cos almost universally settle. Attorneys cost many times more than your acc.

And another moment, small claims court judges are rarely some ideological cranks.
This is an evolution and merger of the Autodesk Standard Surface and Adobe Standard Surface.

Edit: removed mention of subset/superset since his post corrected the typo

But yes there’s overlap as there will be in any PBR definition and I think the glTF spec can be considered a subset of this, closer to the preview variant.
Thanks. Phone keyboards are hard sometimes.
Pagy – A website builder that works like Notion
Hey all, I recently launched Pagy, a website builder that works like Notion.

It’s still early days (just recently added support for multiple pages), but it already covers plenty of use cases.

I’d love to hear if you have any thoughts or feedback.
Elon might be a fascist, but Henry Ford got a medal from Hitler and would complain about Jews when hobnobbing with Chuck Lindbergh. So shut up and buy a Tesla, amirite?
Look at the balance sheet 10K and 10Q filings. Additional Paid-In Capital is basically all the accumulated equity investment. Add in the current long-term debt. That gives you an approximate number for the investment capital to date (though it doesn't include any long-term debt that was repaid).
Companies just putting “open” in the names of non-open things to make hn and the press automatically love it
The community fine tunes. I doubt Facebook used chatgpt.
In the Resistance-Temperature graph (https://twitter.com/Lipez400/status/1686793608626663441/phot...) the resistance starts increasing from 110K
1) There's a range of speeds that are possible depending on what you assume the turning angle of the jet was. That range doesn't go anywhere close to the speed of sound.

2) The burden of proof is on those who make an extraordinary claim. There is a perfectly mundane explanation of the cause of apparently fast-moving object which is supported by available evidence. Even if that depends on some assumptions, you would have to demonstrate those assumptions to be false before a less likely alternative, i.e., that it was an extraterrestrial spacecraft, should be adopted.
Adtech will not collapse because it is too useful as a surveillance tool. State actors will subsidize the ad industry as much as needed to ensure that the user activity data stays collected by the private sector in countries outside their realm of network control.
Sort of (Java still doesn't have value types), and even then you still have most of the cons of a big runtime.
>the stuff i hear is real. Perhaps you meant 'are not from the actual source you think they are'?

*my favorite is always the nightclub scene that goes real quiet when the actors act using their voices (which are real, but may be dubbed in afterwards).
> 1) I am a niche small business - how do I let people know that I exist? 2) I run a website and would like to monetize it - how can I get paid for the content that I produce?

The thing is, this isn’t my problem. The fact that someone wants to market their business doesn’t entitle them to my attention.
"sell me this pen"
The Crisis Report – Greenland Melting and Sea Level Rise
I still don't understand what this is saying.

There was 0 resistance below 110 Kelvin (-165celcius)?

But not at room temperature?
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>Through nutrition, detoxification, exercise, writing (and other autism-friendly forms of self-expression), reading (allowing me to alleviate loneliness in private, without distress), cannabis, change-catalyzing psychedelics, meditation, and practice, I’ve become much less autistic since high school and college. I estimate I now range from 30 to 98 percent more autistic than my peers, depending on the hour, day, week, and month; every symptom varies, I’ve learned, depending on sleep, situation, inflammation levels, cultural consumption, mindset, and hundreds of other factors.

It was more than eggs an honey. Also looking into him a bit, he still seems very autistic despite being "cured."
Why would other teams be observing floating at room temp? Is it possible to have a diamagnet that becomes a superconductor?
Pittsburgh! Cool working class people and the personal accessories are usually the local sports teams.
We tell them to build. There are planet scale transformations underway and we need another incarnation of the WPA to help mitigate the impacts.

For example, the pine bark beetle is ravaging the forests of the Sierra Nevadas. Millions of dead trees just waiting for the next PGE power line to drop or lightning bolt to strike so why not head out with a few thousand young bodies and start felling that timber and getting it to mills?

What about some sea walls? Forget waiting for giant cranes and pontoons, how about people start dropping cement rubble in the ocean around coastal communities, one dinghy at a time? The coral is on its way out, time to reinvent some of that Roman cement and mitigate the hurricanes' impact.

How many roads could use some form of a retaining wall in the event of a deluge? There's got to be thousands of spots in the US alone. Wire covered rubble? Gabions? Deadman walls? Whatever works!

The list goes on and on.
That makes sense and I empathize with your situation. Rejection sucks, the first job is the hardest to get, and it's going to suck until you get the first yes.

A trick that has sometimes helped me is to think of each no as a success, getting you closer to a yes. So rejection stings, but every rejection means you completed on application, and statistically speaking you're going to get a yes at some point. Or, at the very least, if you've gone so long and have gotten N hundred rejections you know it probably won't work and you'll have to make alternate plans.
From earlier HN threads, it seems that:

- When you contact government offices to ensure you're paying the right taxes on the right things, it's very difficult to get a real answer. Many of them just outright do not know, and rely on "a good-faith effort".

- The situation is so convoluted that their are specialist companies which sell you the idea that they can take care of it for you, yet want you sign a contract that says they're not liable for any problems.
> and comes a fundamentally from a "web consumer" mentality.

Because literally all of us are web consumers, so we're hostile to things that are hostile to web consumers. This is like saying there's really strong disdain for leaded gasoline which comes from a "human being breathing air" mentality.

> I think that it would be valuable to reframe the question from the producers point of view: 1) I am a niche small business - how do I let people know that I exist? 2) I run a website and would like to monetize it - how can I get paid for the content that I produce?

I don't fucking care. This isn't my problem, and I'm really annoyed that we've build a giant world-spanning surveillance apparatus out of people trying to make it my problem.
> How do you compensate those that will come dig in human manure, sometimes for hours, to fix a house’s clogged pipe?

Same as today, with money.

Unlike today, someone receiving poverty support who does this won’t lose nearly as much in poverty support as they make digging in shit, so the marginal return on digging in shit will be greater.

UBI (under some different names) was initially proposed as a conservative alternative to means-tested poverty support, specifically because it relieves perverse incentives and reduces duplication (with the tax system) of function in means-tested benefit programs.

> In that “without working” society, who digs into human manure? Who comes to pick up the trash? Who comes to fix a broken AC? Who wants to spend 12 years studying medicine to save the lives of those who aren’t working?

Being able to minimally survive without working and not being punished by having the support rapidly, at a high ratio, reduced when you have outside income separate from the basic support does not mean not working is the norm in society.
Ironically the shame is what hides this too. The Grandma trying to hide her shameful addiction. The part of her family that takes care of her shamefully hiding it from the rest of the family, for fear that they would not be seen as good care takers despite doing their best. The shame of the others that see it but pretend they don't, because they themselves don't want to admit that grandma is an addict. Justifying it away. No, the junkies on the street are different, they chose that life, but grandma is a victim. While yes, there can be people who made those poor choices, if grandma is a victim, then why should it surprise anyone that there are others. Others who are less fortunate, who's children aren't as responsible and loving as you.

My mom died of cancer in her 40's. My mom also died an addict. Two of her sisters also had cancer, found because of her diagnosis. Both became addicts as well. I don't see how they couldn't have. Chemo is rough. It is a long and painful treatment that we _should_ be giving painkillers to those receiving it. But it is shame that makes it difficult for people to get treatment. It is shame that prevents people from even admitting they need treatment in the first place.

The hard truth is that grandma is an addict and she needs to be unashamed of going to the methadone clinic.
> I think the training to censoring of models for risky questions is also screwing up their ability to give answers to non-risky questions.

I’ve heard this called the “alignment tax” or “safety tax”.

See [1] for pre aligned GPT-4 examples.

[1] https://youtu.be/qbIk7-JPB2c
The Babylon Bee easily nabbed the torch from The Onion in the last few years. Surprisingly more edgy, too.
We're not allowed to have been wrong about him?
Will you support a self-hosted version?

Any chance it'll be open source or at least source available?