skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.

-- George Orwell

> If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to "demand" its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.

-- Hannah Arendt

The people who say "this is too hard for you, don't bother, let me do the heavy lifting", dream themselves the master of those they say that to, and unwittingly are also sawing off the branch they themselves are sitting on.

> It looks as though the historical pasts of the-nations, in their utter diversity and disparity, in their confusing variety and bewildering strangeness for each other, are nothing but obstacles on the road to a horridly shallow unity. This, of course, is a delusion; if the dimension of depth out of which modern science and technology have developed ever were destroyed, the probability is that the new unity of mankind could not even technically survive. Everything then seems to depend upon the possibility of bringing the national pasts, in their original disparateness, into communication with each other as the only way to catch up with the global system of communication which covers the surface of the earth.

-- Hannah Arendt, "Men in Dark Times"
If so if uber was forced to employ all of their workers how else would to expect it to work than that?

Certainly your ability to reject jobs or even to select the time you want to work would be severely limited (but let’s ignore that..)
I wonder if you could train a model generally across a lot of languages, then specialize for a specific one with a different tokenizer / limited vocabulary? Here's the reference I've been using for llama 2 tokens:

https://huggingface.co/mlc-ai/mlc-chat-Llama-2-7b-chat-hf-q4...

it looks like if you just limit it to English it'd cut the count almost by half - further limiting the vocab to a specific programming language could cut it down even more. Pure armchair theory-crafting on my part, no idea if limiting vocab is even a reasonable way to improve context handling. But it's an interesting idea - build on a base then specialize as needed and let the user swap out the LLM on an as-needed bases (or the front-end tool could simply detect the language of the project). 3B or smaller models with very long context which excel at one specific thing could be really useful (e.g. local code completer for English typescript projects)
I use Reddit, albeit less than before. Reddit’s not falling apart at all. 99.9% of subs aren’t noticeable different, and nobody likes u/spez but that drama is now in the background.

On the bright side, Reddit alternatives (particularly Lemmy and kbin) are way better and more popular now than before the protest. Not as popular as Reddit: according to lemmy.world there are ~450,000 users (https://lemmy.world/post/2923697). But before the site was all but unknown and dead, now there’s regular content across many categories. The infrastructure is also getting more reliable + optimized and there are new clients for mobile.
Depends, did you do anything more than "Hello world"?
Vastai would rent you those for about $.50 an hour so gives you an idea of what it costs. Assuming the GPUs memory can be stacked
https://archive.is/Wu1rW
no I didn't see that in there, I just agree that robots.txt makes sense for web crawlers but not archival purposes
I had this exact question a while ago. Closest answer I could find was this stackexchange post: https://superuser.com/questions/1708946/why-do-bluetooth-pac...
Pre and Post Op Surgical photos are considered part of patient's medical record. I don't know about laws in the Canada, but in the US HIPAA provides how medical information must be treated. Specifically the HIPAA Privacy Rule sets the standard of how Personal Health Information must be protected.

Even if the images are altered to make them impossible to identify the individual, the patient still "owns" their medical record and if that patients medical information is not being used in the course of treating that patient, then informed consent must be given before it can be used for other purposes.

Edit to add:

It's going to be very difficult to explain why a doctor posting their patients pre/post op photos on TikTok without consent is not a violation of HIPAA Privacy Rule.
“we estimate that transformative AGI by 2043 is 0.4% likely”

Not enough significant digits to take seriously. Now if they had said 0.39785% they might have some credibility.
Thank you for your kind words and feedback. I think you would be surprised by browsing on r/lonely on Reddit and see how many people want to vent and ask people to talk to them. It can be incredibly lonely when you feel like you are never heard by anyone, and I think this platform can be very helpful to those people.

And there might be a time where you feel you need to be heard, or even find someone who might be going through the same thing that you previously went through, and you can offer help!

Plus, this is the first iteration of the app. We do envision creating a platform for the general public not just for lonely people to discover meaningful connections that you wouldn't have been able to with other apps or just by bumping into strangers in real life.
As a programmer --

Hell yeah go get that money!!
https://archive.is/XMw2W
> I did enjoy your post. It has just the right amount of snark, but plenty of substance too, so well played, it's a good read.

> And yes, we make mistakes occasionally, none of us are perfect.

> To be successful and get an offer, you will need to be both outstanding, and a little bit lucky. That's life.

haha. it comes across kind of salty to me.

never going to use ubuntu again.
https://archive.is/NNJGe
- Fucked up predatory remittance money shops, and forced them to lower their fees and actually start competing.
- Offered a more stable unit of exchange for people in places where fiat was not usable.
- Cheaper alternative method for fast, large transactions. Forced big banks that traditionally accommodated these transactions to innovate.
I was too concerned with which version of DirectX I had. I thought it was much more important than what it turned out to be.
https://archive.is/aMWE3
and yet we gotta wait till ARM versions of Windows are released on the M series macs, ok

something doesn’t add up
I get four top results for paying a parking ticket in Chicago, a city I’ve never been to.
Freelance writer are essentially gig workers and therefore slaves or underage factory workers according to you bizarrely nonsensical analogy
100% agree... I've been using super base for a new project for a few months and while overall I'm impressed, there are just too many bugs and partially rolled out features. Here's my current gripe list:

- features/ui missing from local development

- more secure triggering of edge functions from database (currently have to hardcode key in SQL)

- template URL support for edge function

- source maps are broken in edge functions
A point about the UI:
Starting the first time on my iPhone, it oddly reported: no connection, please restart. Odd, because I’m connected. And bad, because there is no UI-element to try again, not to mention of an automatic reconnection. An ordinary user might not know how to restart an app.
> But ‘trust me I have been teaching people to design spacecraft for decades’ doesn’t really count for much when during those decades no new spacecraft designs were actually getting made and launched.

That's an excellent point. Not until Space-X started launching Falcon-9 boosters was there a significant US advance since the Space Shuttle, for which design began in 1969. The Russians are still launching Soyuz. China has been developing and flying new boosters, and is now flying the Long March 7 and 8, with the Long March 9 in development. NASA, though...
https://archive.is/P0jKL
It took me a long time--three decades; more--to get over my parents' expectations for me.

You are not them. You are not them. They are not you.

They have no right to try to live their fantasies through you. No right at all. Block them. They have failed.

If you can, get far away. You need a lot of space to heal, and then learn who you are.

You do not have to have a job at a name brand corporation. That's something you don't need.
That is an interesting point. I feel like there will be people telling me that I am exploiting people's loneliness if I ever make a penny from this.
I do not plan to put the current experience behind a paywall ever. This platform should be available to everyone as they need it. But I was thinking of providing cute premium features like stickers to enrich their experience. Would you say those are a no-go as well?
Drugs can be classed into two categories. Those we know the mechanism of action and those we just know what effects it produces. A lot of mental health meds fall into the latter category.
I like the fact that Andrew is very transparent and honest about his experiments.

Although he didnt explain 1) how did the Fe impurities get localized into certain regions of the overall batch. 2) Were the impurities quantitatively enough in the magnetically susceptible shards to cause the half levitations he demonstrated.

Hope he keeps running and reporting some side experiments, instead of completely going back to his day job.
Wow, I'm officially old.

When you started, "when I was in college..."

I wasn't expecting "I used to work Uber" to follow!

Uber still feels new to me. Haha.

Anyway, on a serious note, that is frustrating...

I'm surprised there is no arbitration...

It's scary to think that someone could knowingly use this against a driver as a cruel joke, or to save face.

I have a mobile app on the Apple app store that makes a little money each month.

I'm anxious that despite thousands of personal investment, Apple can unplug me in an instant... like flushing a parasite out of the Matrix.
However they would have no incentives to hire people who prefer highly flexible work hours and would force his dad to work fixed shifts which clearly not something many gig workers prefer (and I’m sure many of them would prefer higher grade pay for instance than whatever you’re proposing).
https://archive.is/oQVej
Confessions of a TDD Fanboy
Gosh I loved that program so much. Nothing like it to this day even.
Thank you for letting me know!
We will make appropriate update to prevent that from happening, at least less often. I think it happens when the websocket fails to make connections on the first several tries, which is quite annoying...
you need to qualify that with “that is actually available”. :-). A100s I hear are harder to get in bulk. But I have modest needs!

I have been using modal and vast. Vast is cheaper. Modal has some a free inclusions of $30 but that is probably $8 to get the same power in Vast. Modal resell AWS/GCP at the moment. GCP direct seems cheap enough. As does Lambda labs.

With vast some machines don’t start, so you just need to bin them and try another. For learning and non private this is acceptable. For serious stuff I think Vast lets you filter for data-centre GPUs. Modal tends to just work and lets you store the model for later more easily.

Overall: just go with vast. You boot it up and run SSH. It is a familiar experience. Very little time needed on RTFM stuff!
Most of his guests are quite intelligent. His style generally works well with people who have expertise in something or are just generally deep thinkers. He also picks interesting guests that people are generally aware of (sometimes). The mainstream guests are the by far the worst interviews, the PG one being a great example.
They are champions of democracy but the leader of the most popular party is being railroaded in false cases their silence more than anything tells us what is going on. How come they are not saying anything apart from it being a countries internal matter when a democracy is being destroyed but had statements about human rights every week against the previous democratic government.
ah shucks.... Could you change your default browser to Chrome temporarily and try the sign up process again, while we still work on fixing this issue?

Sorry that we did not catch this earlier :(
Which Countries Will Win the AI Revolution?
Didn’t Firefox use to have something called live bookmarks where you could bookmark a section of a page and be notified when it changed?
Edge computing would ensure that latency is the same in all regions: eg. if they could get it down to 30ms somewhere, they could get it to 30ms everywhere (kind of, ofc).

Your singular case does not really prove much: maybe you are just in the same area their DC is?

Still, a full, customized web search result in 200ms (though, first byte is not really indicative of that) would be impressive.
Why is this article focusing on TikTok when it is obvious that Instagram is the worst when it comes to vanity, celebrity worship, teenage angst, eating disorder, fad health influencing etc.?
The minds of the people who depend on it will atrophy. Will they accept that and leave the rest alone? Will they even be able to understand what they lost? A casual glance at the world around me tells me no, of course not.
I have similar feeling. This could be maybe worked around with some local ai model that modify you voice slightly and randomly.
Contract maintenance software is a valuable tool for businesses that want to simplify and streamline their contract management processes. With the help of advanced features and custom workflows, these systems make it effortless to handle legal agreements and maintain lasting business relationships.
Are you asking why executives aren't decreasing their own pay?
I know plenty of open-source projects who list and thank every individual contributor. The website could do that too!
Considering current labor shortages it wouldn’t be at all unreasonable to conclude that many gig workers do this because they actually prefer the flexibility these app provides to working fix shifts with almost no way to influence tour schedules yourself. All these champagne socialists seem to ignore that for some reason..
Workflow engine for easy json data tranformations
https://archive.is/Muje2
I managed O365 for my last employer and we enforced exchange login. Granted we were part of the defense industrial base and would fall under your exceptions, certainly. But, if a company is making even a minimal effort to prevent company data ending up on unmanaged devices its a nobrainer to disable imap, as much as it sucks for the end user.

In the end we did have to make singular exceptions for certain developers because outlook’s absolutely pathetic plaintext support was causing issues when they were contributing via the LKML. But that was a significant business justification as opposed to a workflow optimization.
Doctors and Nurses are some of the worst to have as clients in IT. This does not surprise me.
Making helpful content requires time and money. Slashing staff and using AI generated content [1] is not the way to do this.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/cnet-slashes-10-staff-says-c...
A lot of drivers I see are on multiple different gig apps they use interchangeably. There are like 3 food delivery apps and then 2 ride sharing apps. Anyone doing gig work full time is probably on all the apps. Also I don’t think they permanently end the relationship until they’ve investigated it. No way they permanently cut drivers just for an accusation of a rider.

That’s obviously a bit different from a regular job.
Why not make a GPT implementation rephrase every article once a week or so. Then it appears new from a SEO perspective
How is fixed shift work any better in the regard? Does Amazon treat it’s driver better than uber?
I register my domains for 10 years time and I try to keep a few months of funding in the VPS account, so hopefully a few months, but I wish it could last more.

Some of the site will show up in Archive.org.
The only reason Uber exists to begin with is because they:

- have unlimited VC money (35 billion in operational losses over 10 years)

- offload things like medical insurance, depreciation, equipment costs etc. onto people who work for them

- screw over restaurants

I can't see how it's a net benefit
Apparently it was beef wellington pie
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/10/victo...
Harbormaster is a small and simple container orchestrator
He should have got the death penalty the first time around according to Chinese law.

They were being nice, and the second time they said, fine :)
For the Playdate? It's not out yet.
> Here is our privacy page: https://bubblic.co/privacy/

Ok. I wasn't able to find it myself because AFAICT, it isn't linked from your homepage. To quote https://gdpr.eu/privacy-notice/ (emphasis added):

"Every organization that maintains a website should publish their privacy notice there, under the title “Privacy Policy,” and it should be accessible via a direct link from every webpage."

> Do you suggest that I put my home address there?

I suggest that you speak to a legal professional to answer that question. You are collecting some very sensitive, highly intimate data from users. I'm not sure whether such an enterprise lends itself to a "run from home" setup. You should definitely get advice from a competent professional as to what regulations apply, and which information you are required to provide.

But you haven't answered my first and most important question: How are you planning to monetize this? As you are no doubt aware, businesses that start out with good (or vague) intentions have a tendency to turn to the dark side once their userbase is big enough to be of interest to data miners. In order to prevent this, you need a steady revenue stream that covers your costs so you can avoid selling your soul to VCs and tracking companies. Where will that revenue stream come from?
Thought I'd seen everything from Rich but I somehow missed this. Thanks for sharing! I enjoyed the insight into his process rather than just the fully formed idea.
This is what Cloudflare already does, and it's hellish for users.
I have never had a shipping company pay import taxes and then just drop the package off. They have always rung the doorbell to get me to accept it in person, or if I was not at home, tried delivery again another day. They come up to the door with credit card reader in hand, expecting you to make payment then and there, and will not give you the package if you don’t pay.

The exception is if CBS takes a long time to determine actual value, and therefore, taxes. Usually on used items with unclear but significant value. It’s happened a handful of times that they made delivery with no notice of brokerage fees or import taxes. Then, suddenly a few weeks to a month later, I got an invoice in the mail: they had paid the import taxes for me after delivery due to a delayed judgement by CBS, and so I was on the hook for both those taxes and brokerage fees. I still went to CBS with my BoL and paid the taxes directly to the government in order to avoid those brokerage fees.

> It would be similar to showing up at your house, cleaning your windows and then sending you bill. You never asked for that service, in the case of UPS you never agreed for them to act as your broker to clear your package.

But you did agree, by choosing them as a shipper. Certain fees can be implied as required in order to complete the transaction. In order to get your package across the border, the shipper needs to do what is necessary to get the package in your hands. Dealing with CBS and paying import taxes is the step needed to keep the package moving. If they waited for everyone to pay on their own then there would be billions of packages stuck at border warehouses, gumming up the works.
Firefox is the same.
There is no way these part time workers would ever have as much flexibility as they have under the current model though.
Showing only half of the truth (which I guess that's what cherrypicking means, no?) means you're not telling the truth, meaning you're not correct, meaning you're telling OP's numbers were not correct. Come on, gaslighting is not for HN. The quality in here has indeed come down in the last few years, but I had hoped that not by that much.
https://archive.is/dBvw4
This was my first thought. The drivers will just get less work, undesirable jobs, lowest rated customers etc
Taxis are extensively price regulated. That was my point, thank you.
Open-Source Kanban board with Markdown support, image support and local storage
When Lettuce Was a Sacred Sex Symbol
Still drilling for oil though, just looking to perhaps extract lithium from 'waste' brine water as a sideline.

In ballpark related battery tech news:

Vanadium could be the next lithium for big battery tech

Thu 9 August 2023

Big batteries across Australia could one day be powered by a little-known element called vanadium and manufactured onshore, an industry leader says. The silvery-grey metal is the latest “pit to grid” sensation for electricity system operators, although most people have never heard of it.

https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/digger...

( Diggers and Dealers is one of the regular global mining industry get togethers, this one held in Western Australia )

Australia's first commercial vanadium-flow battery storage completed in South Australia

Fri 23 Jun 2023

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-23/vanadium-flow-battery...
>>By Tyler Cowen
As the AI revolution proceeds, which nations will benefit? Of course artificial intelligence will be good for nations that make and sell it, with the US taking a clear lead. But what about the effects everywhere else? How will AI alter trajectories of economic growth?
Broadly speaking, most economic endeavors fall into one of two categories: those with known routines, and new projects. AI will favor nations that excel at the latter and hurt those which rely on the former.
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Very short, light, and unconvincing. I'm not betting against it, though.
https://archive.is/zuWgu
This template would suggest such a release is trivial https://eforms.com/release/medical-hipaa/

In fact I could see an unscrupulous doctor being able to write one vague enough to do it without the person knowing it's going to be in social media. No idea where that would go with ethics boards and such, though.
We lose a quarter, or two, on the dollar, but we will make it up on volume! ;)
No, haven’t you heard? They’re literally slaves/indentured workers.
Myth tested: DOS can't multitask
Uber has already lost 35 billion, and somehow still exists. Uber has never been a viable business
But they will happyly use american parts. Some people never learn.
I could imagine CNET‘s SEO team got an average rank goal instead of absolute SEO traffic. So by removing low ranked old pages the avg position of their search results goes closer to the top even though total traffic sinks. I‘ve seen stuff like this happen at my own company as well, where a team‘s KPIs are designed such that they‘ll ruin absolute numbers in order to achieve their relative KPI goals, like getting an increase in conversion rates by just cutting all low-conversion traffic.
Package delivery drivers are certainly highly skilled and trained and it's great that they're getting high compensation, but part of me thinks that this is mostly the leading indicator of an inflation wave that will eventually push tech salaries into the half-mil range. Time will tell.
They spent $200M, the most expensive political campaign in CA history. Go on though…
Don't forget to read Mark Shuttleworth's answers in the comments. That's the first time he's used his reddit account in 7 years.
Japanese Holdout
Further reading on the alternate theory of gravity that this observation supports
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics