skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only made it through the first three trade paperbacks. I loved it, but wound up going overseas and lost touch. Thanks for the ping; I'll have to pick it up again.
here comes the slew of rust people claiming you’re using it wrong and that anything another language does easier or more concisely is an antipattern
There are plenty sites that do that.

And if you're determined to scrape [a website], sometimes it needs proxies, rotating user agents and some rate limiting.

Using a full blown browser sometimes helps prevent you hitting those rate limits, but they're still there.
Maybe the absence of a strong unified church which is separate(-ish) from a strong state, as the Catholic church related to European states? Like, there were religious institutions in classical Chinese civilization; the government did participate in it ("the role of the emperor is to maintain harmony between heaven and earth, he rules with the mandate of Heaven" etc); there was lots of "worshippy activities" in temple-ish buildings; the closest things to "official religion" were a bit syncretic but Christianity was also pretty syncretic in origin just presented later as something fully formed in unity; mythology overlapped with history in that mythological power structures resembled real power structures and government etc. One big difference seems to be the absence of Christian-style religious services in which a large audience listens to a preacher / regularly participates in a long shared ritual like Mass, but this is from the anecdotal perspective of comparing (very little) experience in modern Catholic churches vs received information and visiting historical sites in China
A librarian friend explained to me that books they distribute need generally need some extra tagging, bar coding, perhaps cover wrapping to make them more durable, etc. Libraries also curate their collections because they only have so much shelf space.

For a library the money from selling donated books is more valuable than a bunch of (more often than not) filler that'd need to be prepped for loaning (the barcoding, etc) and sorting through to see if they are worth adding to the collection. That money can then be used for books or other library programming.

(Not to mention the awful state some donated books are in... Missing pages, all sorts of things inside of them... Porn stored inside... Wrong covers because of people pulling things... Imagine having to flip through every book to check them out prior to doing all the other prep. It's far simpler to acquire the books from known sources.)
Exactly. A library update that requires 1 minute of code writing to fix breaking changes is still a breaking change.
> The single biggest problem with America today is the presentation and consumption of national news, political commentary and public policy as entertainment. The media has figured out that America is the ultimate reality TV show and they present it as such.

> Cable TV and the internet are to blame for this. I don't know what could be done about it. But we'd be way better off if "the news" was something you could watch from 7 PM - 8 PM if you were interested, or something you could read in a printed newspaper if you were really interested, and otherwise the general public could ignore it.

No, it's television in general. People were famously making that exact same point in the 1980s, before the widespread adoption of cable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death. tl;dr: the medium is the message, and the message of television is entertainment, even when the news was only a half-hour a day.
Shouldn't have any limits here. Can you let us know how it goes?
This is something that bugged me for a while. Characters rarely seem to encounter hamlets or small towns as well.
Thanks Andre!
I'm not saying this is a "live" update, but all usage is collected and used to inform later offline training or fine-tuning.

Whether they are used directly with the positive/negative signal given from users, or whether it's something more abstract, doesn't really matter. The important thing is that feedback is used to improve the responses over time.

As for whether a version is immutable, it seems this research may have been done on a previous version. But also I'm not sure if the model and weights are immutable, or whether it's just the model structure. It's clear the model is not stable so it's not like there's an API contract being met with fixed weights.

Edit: others are suggesting that the author used GPT-4 via ChatGPT, not by pinning the model. This would suggest that at least the ChatGPT tuned model is being frequently changed?
The MBE exam is mostly multiple choice elimination, and these multiple choices are filled with legal jargon and case law. GPT-4 picks the best predicted answer and can mimic reasons for the choice. This ability to mimic reasoning is good enough to receive a passing score on the MBE and many other exams.
Why are we comparing a system that just has 4 stops on the Las Vegas Convention Center campus plus one at a nearby hotel to the much much much larger entire NYC subway system?
Most folks can't even access the article because it a pay wall. So by design, the pay wall creates avoidance.
https://archive.is/apvZO
Depends if there are tariffs that incentivize purchase of more expensive American chips.
> EDIT: Doh, I can't believe I messed up the joke

Well, it is a hard problem..
W3schools intentionally placed themselves as a representation of the W3C (similar to what Fedex does with its name) and sold, still does I'm sure, certificates under that misconception. These were worthless. This is in addition to the other complaints.
SnapEDA (YC S15) is hiring AI lead for electronics copilot in Bay Area
You should look up what oat milk really is, and then switch, but use less.
UPS has, for me, been the most consistently atrocious.

One anecdote:

During the later part of the Covid hysteria, I had a large check arriving overnight. It was in the truck of a driver who supposedly got exposed to Covid. They left the truck parked in the lot, filled with packages. I went to the distribution center counter. The envelope I needed was literally 100m away in a truck I could see behind the fence in the parking lot, according to their internal tracking system.

Rather than simply going outside to get the envelope (that contained a huge check from cashing out a 401k to buy a house,) instead they said that there wasn't anything they could do until that driver returned from a two-week quarantine.

And to top it off, I didn't get a refund for the "overnight" shipping costs.

So if that's "union," then I want no part of it. I have had minor issues with all shipping companies, but compared to UPS, they've been minor. DHL, FedEx, and Amazon -- they consistently perform much better in my experience. Amazon drivers are a bit punk-rock in that they aren't so polished and can be "sloppy" -- but my stuff always arrives on time and I've never had a damaged package. FedEx is quietly consistent for the most part.

This idea that "unions make it better" is just false.

It's also interesting that UPS wanted to force FedEx to be reclassified under the NLRA in order to harm FedEx. FedEx was formed in 1971 and since their original focus was air freight, they were under the Railways Act, while UPS was formed over 100 years ago as a trucking company, thus putting them under the NLRA. UPS doesn't like that because since the Teamsters run the show over there, FedEx had an advantage due to lower costs.

The Teamsters union has annual revenues of almost $200 million and have over $300 million in assets. How does an organization that simply negotiates labor contracts accumulate that many assets? That $300 million isn't pension fund money. That isn't money going to the workers, that's money going to the union. That's money that customers are paying, employees aren't getting, but the union is getting. It's essentially a private tax that benefits the few at the expense of the many. That the Teamsters has a long history of corruption and organized crime involvement is no secret. Why would anyone support such a corrupt organization?

FedEx driver salaries in Texas are $34k-52k, while UPS drivers make $30k-43k. Additionally, the UPS driver salaries also have deductions for union dues. So how exactly is a union benefitting UPS in Texas? Competition for drivers is extremely fierce, especially in long-haul trucking.

Here are some thoughts on unions from readers of the Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/06/unneces...
Catalog of 3D-printable Assistive Technology Devices
I just learned that the Assistive Technology act provides funding for all sorts of cool, free, assistive technology for Americans. For instance, this is a library of helpful 3d-printed assistance devices that you can request for free if you live in Pennsylvania!
I don't care about the heap. Load up a page, the content is either in the DOM or an external asset. Just a case of seeing how a site works.

99% of the time if it's not in the DOM it's an XHR request to a standardised API with nice, clean data.
lifestyle marketing. goes hand in hand with the AI stuff, really.

if 90% of the market is bullshit, the key is to find the people you trust and want to be similar to.

"This is who I am, and who I'd like to be, and this is what they do and use".

And admittedly, a lot of these oft maligned influencers are actually trying on the makeup on camera, eating the food, etc. Not a random bot but a human.

We'll see if GPT and Midjourney are able to hack that, too.
https://archive.is/Eb2MS
I am sure we can build something around that. Going to take a look at it. Thanks for mentioning it.
Yeah it makes sense they don't want unions, but that's not the point of it. Anti-union behavior is still mostly illegal, isn't it?

There's a difference between expecting companies to help unions vs actively engage in shady behavior to avoid them.

In this case, we're describing what I consider a loophole, but it's still wrong (even putting aside the morality of it).

OP said the framing was weird, but expecting companies to not be that shitty is perfectly normal in my view. After all, we sometimes forget that at some point a human decided this was the right move.

The alternative is to normalize it and assume every company is the shittiest possible. On second thought that might be a lot closer to reality though.
But it's still more (or at least fairly similar to me). Far from "old American disease of not ensuring competition".
It doesn’t feel like it here in Canada (Ont) so far, mostly cloudy, rainy, and even tornadoes unlike any near past summer.
This comment seems abnormally toxic for what's being discussed.

> Yeah, but the goal of this isn’t “use this instead of Python to hack up a model”

This was never said.

> You know, those hugging face guys kindaaaaa do know what they’re talking about.

This was never challenged.

> Python is a pain in the ass in production environments.

This is "I don't like python", but phrased adversarially.

Language flamewars suck. Some people don't like certain languages in certain contexts. I see Rust's syntax (having written a small to medium amount of Rust) and feel pretty confident I wouldn't task my data science team with writing or maintaining Rust codebases. We can squabble over "But eventually you'll get it", but ultimately that's more of a priorities comment than a language feature.
Like any good trolling site, a mix of both. See Poe's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
You're assuming that the civilization that succeeds us will take shape in a way that we'd consider progress from the values we hold today, like respect the accomplishments of the people that came before us.

That's very much not a given and societies have gone back and forth in that.
Forgetting to add `foo := foo` in a for loop tends to be bigger trouble. =)
Hey John, I love that we are in the same threads on HN so much :-D

> I'm not sure what you mean here, though. People who object to ubiquitous surveillance don't seem absurd to most (even those who aren't so upset about it), and they certainly aren't changing their position.

Yeah good question/clarification, I'm referring to the CCTV cameras in the bank itself (such as in the vault, in the lobby, etc).
I mean, when I'm talking about stealth techniques, I'm not talking about what I'm seeing in my own server logs, but rather about what I find built into various bits of, ahem, "anti-detect software for affiliate marketing" tech that I dredge up from fraud Telegram groups, carding marketplaces, etc. that the attackers I do catch seem to frequent. (Gotta stay five steps ahead!)

I suppose there are verticals where the data is so valuable, and the garden around it so walled-in, that you could build a whole IT business with a custom scraping stack just around extracting that data to then resell it. (I presume that's the business you're in.)

But for most verticals, the "attackers" you'll see in your logs aren't people building a data-broker business, and so aren't building their own secret-sauce anonymity from scratch; rather, they're end-users who want to do an end-run around your rate-limits, commit promotion fraud, etc., and so want to buy anonymity as a product, script-kiddie style. And "anonymity as a product", sold publicly (rather than through high-value contracts) tends to suck. It's script-kiddies buying from script-kiddies, with no real engineering in sight.

> I work in this space and we just use fingerprints we collect from actual users over the previous month.

Are you sure you're not in a citogenesis cycle? How sure are you that some of those "real users" aren't your peers' stealthed bots, who in turn picked up those fingerprints from unknowningly observing other stealthed bots in their logs, who...
Well I agree with VRAM restraints, I don't think low-cost hardware is the real barrier, although certainly part of the equation. There needs to be a true competitor to nvidia's AI stack cuda. ROCm is not supported across all of AMD's consumer range GPUs nor has feature parody with Cuda. The biggest issue nobody's matched the developer experience of Cuda.

I'm not sure about the state of intel software stack or hardware. Amd hasn't reached hardware parody either with some of the specialized execution units that are available across all most of nvidia's products. Perhaps that's low hanging fruit for AMD?

I'm looking forward to the day that somebody fully upturns this market with products that are available to end the consumers.
Climate change is already having the bigger impact on Pakistan - aside from 48C Karachi, last year saw incredible flooding.
Using ESA WorldCereal to get global farm locations
Hey guys,

The European Space Agency has just recently launched it's WorldCereal System - a cutting-edge project that uses satellite data to classify cereal crops globally at a 10m resolution. Before this, the best information we had showed us these locations at 10km or ~5km distances. WorldCereal gives us this information at a 10m distance, making it 1000 times more precise. It's even more detailed than what the USDA provides.

Accessing this data is still pretty difficult for many (in part because it's stored in many rasters), so we (Streambatch - a remote sensing data company) thought we'd share a tutorial on how to generate point samples from this dataset, and store it as Parquet or Geoparquet.

Having the locations of these farms is useful since analysts can use it to monitor regional/global food production (e.g. knowing where to gather weather, satellite-derived vegetation data for). Hope you find it useful. Thanks!
This paper is not even reproducible lol. It makes a nonsensical claim it can't even back with results. Look at multiple comments here actually trying them out.
If it's server side rendered then you don't need a browser.
Releasing Swift Transformers: Run On-Device LLMs in Apple Devices
> "There is no information provided about her condition at noon."

> "... However, without direct evidence, it is impossible to say with absolute certainty."

GPT is correct in both cases, she might have died just before noon and been resuscitated after noon. After all, the fact that we know her blood pressure suggests that she might be in hospital, so it's not even an unlikely scenario.
Pedro from Huggingface has a major release for Apple devices today!

* https://huggingface.co/blog/swift-coreml-llm
* https://twitter.com/pcuenq/status/1688921868722724865
Aaaand now it's back
Yes, I like to build my castles on solid ground rather than on quicksand.
You are essentially saying that we should have to ask permission from large corporations to be able to effectively run a website. For all practical purposes that means no free speech on the internet.
I'll be blunt...what's in it for me. your not selling the sizzle your selling the steak. I have no idea who you are, why you want my email and what these 50 tools will do for me.

create a blog article titled "10 types of tools every startup needs" or something like that the pitch the tools list. make me so concerned I can't start a startup without these tools. maybe even go into how to research and find all these tools. now your just saving me a bunch of hours. also add a bio at the bottom so I know who your are why I should trust you.

use chatgpt to create a title you like but you get the point.
I'm also curious about this. Spotify has refused to add AirPlay2 to their desktop app for years.
For good or bad, this is why I have the Privacy Pass extension installed.
I feel like the news used to focus on things we didn't know, and has shifted to telling us what we enjoy hearing. A great deal of it is in the form "<person you dislike> did <exactly what you'd think they'd do>", and what the reader gains is not information but a fresh opportunity to disapprove of their outgroup.
> “This app does not support purchasing of this content”.

Apple really want that 30% cut.
Not Blocked in Switzerland but in Germany
I'd argue the biggest problem is the leveraging of all forms of mass media to psychologically manipulate the public.
Yeah, I’d agree that React development has been a major disappointment starting with hooks. I’d like to move on, but to what? I want a framework that fulfills the promise of React: efficient DOM updates derived from state paired with something that is just JS under the hood - no templating language/DSL.
You're absolutely right. Though I don't understand why this idea persists - even in academic scholarship. It has been proven decades ago that non-meteoric iron was smelted in the Early Bronze Age. Though the main reason bronze was used for so long appears to be because it was actually cheaper than iron. Smelting iron required the burning of an absurd amount of trees, which was extremely expensive.
Now I understand why some of the banks wanted people back in the office as soon as possible. Trying to support their commercial real estate bags is likely another.
What about the AstraZeneca sending "best effort" vacc doses to the UK with ~100% but "best effort" the EU got ~30% of what it ordered? (sure I guess the EU will not again sign contracts that contain "best effort").
Thanks for the comment! You can also find our pricing information here: https://stellarsleep.com/faqs

Given all the feedback, we're thinking it might be useful for us to create a separate page just for pricing as well.
Is there anything a union can't help with, in your estimation?
What do you mean 'continue'?
Trump got more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016, and in both cases he got record numbers of votes (though fewer than his opponent). There are surely some people who left the party, but not a significant number. Not enough to make even a blip in the party's overall policy.

And honestly, I've got little sympathy for them if they really are drawing an equivalence between being called names, and a party who is on a path to re-nominate a candidate who conspicuously violated national security and spread conspiracy theories about the election. (The indictment is quite clear that he was told they were false.) They just don't seem even faintly on par, and it's frankly dishonest to suggest that the name-calling is Democratic policy.

Even most of what they supposedly believe about "small government" is partisan lies. The Republican party hasn't even pretended to make a significant cut in government spending. They just point at a few culture-war elements that amount to a rounding error, and then balk at actually authorizing debt for the massive programs their own budget calls for.

Right now those people have a choice of at least trying to make a difference -- either within the Republican party by insisting on the nomination of non-insane candidates, or by trying to transform the Democratic party. They'll find a lot more moderate Democrats who believe very similarly, and who are much closer to the levers of power than the most extreme elements who are the only ones that make Fox News. But right now it sounds like the people you refer to are heavily invested in partisan propaganda, even if they're not willing to actually vote for it.
I made an edit to my comment above. It may explain more my position.

We live in a society and there aren winners/losers in a financial sense. But we all have to live together. That 10 people have as much wealth as 150 million people is obscene and immoral. Taxing such wealth to use for the betterment of us all is right, just, and sound policy. Obviously we disagree on this. I hope your view does not win out in the long run. It has won out in the U.S. in the present and the effects have been bad. Such is my view.
> It's capitalism's fault for valuing workers only for the cost of their labor and nothing else.

Sigh. The value you're talking about here is the cost of their labour. This is like a business owner saying that employees should value their jobs differently to their salary.

You're right in the sense that capitalism is fundamentally "people make agreements and decisions within what's available to them" but what's the actual issue you want capitalism to solve, that doesn't create one of the massive downsides that any of capitalism's former rivals has?

E.g. monarchy can reward loyalty, but then so can capitalism. Monarchy can just also tell you to go die on a field if you don't kill the other king's people.
> homonyms

homophones
I'm a recent convert and enjoying it quite a bit for webdev. There's lots of books out there, but I found let's go and let's go further to be great project based books
As usual, it's from people pushing their beliefs and/or their products on the public to serve their own purposes; further, as with so many modern ills, we can put some of the blame on Edward Bernays.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/nov/28/breakfa...
>Although it took the view that “Pay or Okay” could be permissible in principle, it found that the approach taken by the news outlet didn’t comply with the law because it didn’t provide the option to specifically consent to certain purposes

Not illegal then.
> It seems the premise is that those with a computer should be able to access others servers wholesale unconditionally

No, the preimise is that a server that offers an HTTP endpoint should provide the same behavior at the endpoint regardless of the nature of the device or software that is accessing it.

Obviously, we have some exceptions already, hence robots.txt

But the idea is that if I am a user pointing something with a reasonable functional distance of "a web browser" at an HTTP server, the server should not alter its behavior based on an attempt to verify the internals of my browser.
Homo Sapiens is indeed extinct, and has been replaced by Homo Sapiens Sapiens, i.e. us.
Where I was the US, 7pm - 9pm was prime entertainment time, and the news would start at 9pm or 10pm depending on the channel (which I think was partially so TV would become boring to kids right around when they should go to bed). Don't remember how long it ran, though my guess would be an hour before the late-night shows would begin.
https://archive.is/TWupb