skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No moralising here. I'm directly calling out developers who are completely okay with writing thousands of lines of code from scratch for a fancy new feature, but can't be bothered to directly lift proper directory handling code from other open-source projects and reuse it almost verbatim.

Like I said: it's easy to just dump stuff in $HOME. It's a lot harder to properly handle paths, but it should be done anyway to be a good citizen. Ideally: check for a legacy path; if it doesn't exist, check for XDG paths; if that doesn't exist, create and use XDG paths. If a legacy path exists, notify the user of a migration and either warn them to do it, or attempt to do it for the user.

I really wonder how many programs will immediately break if I suddenly set my home directory permissions to 0100.
Weird how you’re having this whole argument without regarding the one word (“cringey”) that was clearly the crux upon which OP’s entire assessment of certain personality traits was predicated.
AMD Inception Mitigations Can Lower Performance of CPUs by Up to 54%
Also show up in other series, Protreks have it for example. Althought mine is not great indoors and even outdoors needs a bit of finangling to start the sync
But what if it’s the computer system that sends the post? Is it actually more reliable?
Thirteen years later, why are most administrators still from 2005?
The Evisceration of a Public University
Twitter 1.0 had all sorts of complex policies that ultimately boiled down to banning people the owners didn’t like. Twitter 2.0 has zero policies and just bans people the owner doesn’t like randomly
This comment makes me feel as if I've been taking a wrong approach to using LLMs in my day to day work. I haven't been able to get much value out of them as a large majority of the work I do requires a good deal of context with some repo specific problems.

Our existing tooling and helpers lack modularity to begin with. I'm now thinking it would be a better approach to start with having it build smaller tools and patch them together in more useful and interesting ways myself as opposed to being upset that it can't deliver complex, context aware solutions.

Still not buying into the hype that LLMs will replace all software engineers by 2030 due to thinking the nature of our work is not to write code but to solve problems, regardless of the tools we are using, but I definitely see potential productivity gains from using the tool with a different approach to what I have previously attempted.
What even is the smallest primordial black hole possible to still exist here 14B years later?
Seems copyright works in part because of the effort involved in producing something that's similar to something else. You can't just copy and it takes effort to make something different enough, that gives the original a bit of a "moat".

If you take away enough of that effort, the investment in new stuff becomes unviable, perhaps.
You don’t need a fair use exemption for transient copies in service of licensed or fair uses.

Computers and networks have been around a long time. These issues have been given a good workout.
I also remember their NTP server being near-continously unreliable and having to change the ntp sync server on every install. I wonder if that's still an issue
Let's play D&D

And let's use our own intelligence to do so

Intelligence is practiced thought, wisdom is practiced intelligence, love is practiced wisdom
Probably you've already upvoted it, do you see 'unvote' in the grey text below the link?
Yes. I would select the like using my fast clicking skills, sort, and then find the selection. Ctrl trick is much nicer had it worked in all Windows versions and had I known about it.
Combining the power of SQL and vectors for your AI data workloads
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23623595

> We rename accounts for HN users all the time. 250 so far this year.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23623617

> We're always happy to delete or redact identifying information. We don't want anyone to get in trouble from anything they posted to HN. We don't do it by allowing wholesale deletion of account histories, because that would gut the threads the account had participated in, which would be unfair to any commenters who replied, as well as to readers and to the community.

> That doesn't mean we don't care about individual users' needs for protection—we care a lot about it, and help people with these requests every day. We just have to do so with sharper tools, and we have a big bag of tricks for taking care of these things. They include renaming accounts, retroactively assigning comments to throwaway accounts, deleting specific posts (especially if they don't have replies), redacting specific info from posts, and more.

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Neither GPDR nor CCPA require the deletion of the account or content contributed that does not fall under personally identifying information.

If there are comments that contain PII, that should be sent to HN. Make sure that it is clear that these are PII that contains information that is directly linking to a real person.

Though as noted, wholesale account and comment deletion isn't required and is disruptive.
Is it reasonable to imagine a future where most devices come with a, say, 500MB file used for decompressing?

Imagine the potential bandwidth savings. I bet this has applications as a modern "Dial-up accelerator" for people with slow connections and fast hardware.
OpenAI is pretty clearly using their work to make derivative content that in certain cases (CNET) is a direct competitor. Honestly, this seems open and shut
I'm also outsider.
Glad that you have gained something.
Cannabis is far less harmful than alcohol; it's not close.

It's not a technicality, it's reality. Most of my social circles feel the same way.

I have pity for those who swallowed that propaganda, but they can shove their frowns. That attitude is enabling real harm and needless suffering, like the alcohol they need to function.

In short, I wonder why anyone cares about their opinion. It's not based in reality.
There is a world that exists outside of Silicon Valley ex-FAANG startups.
Why do you think it's easy for most to have nuanced, dispassionate discussions about the ancient Assyrians but not the Nazis? Spacial/temporal/ideological proximity. We're not likely to become anything like the former, but we fear ourselves (or at least our leadership) becoming more like the latter.

Obviously it would be ideal to learn from the good aspects of even the most evil totalitarian regimes, but in practice it's easier to wrap the whole nationalist/collectivist/communist idea-space up in a bundle and throw it out as one, at least in conversations with strangers of unclear motives.
Not just for the LLMs
Slums are a substantial step up from people sleeping on the street. It localizes the issues, such that social services can be provided centrally, it keeps the more problematic elements away from the rest of society, and at the end of the day having an address and shelter is a huge step up from having neither.

If building slums eliminates homelessness, that's a net win. No need to let "perfect" get in the way of "better".
As I'm neither European nor a smoker, can you explain how this is in conflict with the EU?

I know Holland has "coffee shops" and Portugal has decriminalized all drugs, so I'm guessing the problem is in the German implementation details.
Berkeley charges about $11K in tuition (ignoring other fees) per year for California residents but non-residents (e.g. undergrads whose parents live outside CA) pay an additional $30K.

Unfortunately the total costs - including additional fees, living expenses, health insurance, etc.) add up, so in-state costs are around $46K total (or $33K estimated for students living with relatives.) Add $30K for non-residents.

Community colleges are usually only two years, but their tuition is something like $3000 for the academic year, and there is no hefty fee if your parents live out of state.
> Part of me thinks the solution to some of these trenchant apps is to make a FUSE pass through filesystem driver that has silent redirects.

LD-preload-open* can be used for this, but it has some potential problems: https://github.com/fritzw/ld-preload-open/tree/master#potent...

*: https://github.com/fritzw/ld-preload-open
Limiting screen time for some groups of ppl is a perfect foundation of social rating.
Neat. I tried it with print(), works fine.

Don't need return in a lambda. Assignment now has the walrus. Leaves raise and few other odds and ends.

Do believe you've cracked it! Don't think I'll use it much, but you never know... in a pinch.
> the macOS windowing system sucks

well that's certainly an opinion.
There was an interesting article about how the US convicted a Chinese spy largely because he did some spy work on his personal iCloud and Gmail accounts.

Not a fan at all of banning this sort of thing for private citizens, but I think banning it on government-owned devices is a decent trade-off between liberty and public interest.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-09-15/china-wan...
I don't know about Milo, but after looking at Wikipedia, it looks like Tucker grew up and so did his former audience.
Do you think OpenAI doesn’t subscribe?

I too load creative works into all sorts of temporary structures in order to read the paper. I don’t need to license it, I pay for a subscription.

Should I pay more if I memorize the paper? Should I pay more if I read it to my sick friend in the hospital? Should I pay more if I save copies to my own hard drive and grep for words in the files? Should robots have a higher subscription price?

This whole “they copied it into a gpu” doesn’t matter. People read and interpret. Robots read and interpret. I don’t want to live in a world where every specific device and use needs to be licensed. Especially ex post facto. That will suck so hard.
Sid isn't a rolling distro in a general sense
Most Debian users are advised against using testing and should use Sid instead if new packages are neeed https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/choosing.en.ht...
a year ago she posted a video about her origin story that may give some insights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9vW_MpXTfs
Amazon Prime Day event resulted in an incremental 163 petabytes of EBS storage capacity allocated – generating a peak of 15.35 trillion requests and 764 petabytes of data transfer per day.

The main thing that strikes me is how (seemingly) inefficient everything is. What do they possibly need this amount of data for in selling stuff? Are they taking high-def video of every customer as they browse for something to buy? I get that it's a huge company and this is (I guess) their business time, but how can the y need so much storage. Ditto for much of the other stuff.
Thanks, came here for this question (difference from OpenStack).
Southwest Airlines reaches tentative agreement with transport workers union
25 Countries Face High Water Stress
> Southwest Airlines Co (LUV.N) said on Tuesday it had reached a tentative agreement with the union that represents about 17,120 transport workers who handle ramp, operations, provisioning and cargo.

> The workers will now earn $36.72 per hour, higher than the hourly wages at United Airlines Holdings (UAL.O) and Delta Air Lines Inc (DAL.N), based on the tentative agreement uploaded on Transport Workers Union Local 555's website.

> The contract also meets the union's other demands such as improvement in retirement medical coverage, increasing the company's 401(k) match and additional holidays at premium pay rates.
In Fortran it's

count(ages > 17)

and storing the ages > 17 is done with

is_adult = pack(ages, ages > 17)
not to mention interest.

investments of either time or effort, let alone both, are far less likely without that.
There’s several kinds of corn, but if we’re comparing silage it’s 26 tons / acre vs 7 tons / acre for alfalfa. https://www.nass.usda.gov/Quick_Stats/Ag_Overview/stateOverv... Corn yields are normally measured in terms of grain, but it’s worth remembering the rest of the plant still has value when considering efficiency.

But, the reality is completely eliminating California’s water problems is easy on a legal and technical level but not a political one. There is little incentive to let water flow into the ocean so CA is always going to sit right on the edge of a significant issue.
Same with my pro-trek, aside from not working all that great indoors for sync.

Apparently Garmin have some Smartwatch that actually got low enough to also be pretty much constantly on Solar only power but after owning original Pebble I kinda healed myself from smartwatch hype before the fashion for them even started...
Seems like what I've learned about getting rich as a crypto currency founder/billionaire/whatever is that you are going to die shortly after. Seems not worth it.
> I’m shocked actually that you don’t get this kind of mentorship where you work. What’s your Director doing?

Bold of you to assume that every company has a technically competent director (or that higher-ups even care about mentorship).
I hated red hat, but its what I used in grad school until the post-doc told me to use Debian.

I haven't looked back since; Debian's been my desktop since 2011 :)
Not sure if it's my adblocker, but lately I'm unable to pass the captcha on any of the archive sites.
It's not about if it has or doesn't have nice properties. It's about going against conventional wisdom. Conventional wisdom is often wrong, so go right ahead, but you need at least some evidence in a public forum when you say things that are generally established not to be true.
>>> Depends on whether you think true statements made in good faith with the goal of reducing harm can be defamatory.

IANAL, but legally that's easy: no. Under US law truth is a solid defence against accusations of defamation. If the statements are true then your intentions don't matter.
There’s a pretty good museum close to there. If you scroll through the pics, you’ll notice Jewish, Arabic and Greek gravestones:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/ngTuWz4R4hLJ5zcw5?g_st=ic
Just film it and display the video on monitor with 1h/23h delay, easy! /s
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36998888 It seems they are still in the process of determining the most suitable license to truly make them an open-source project.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_coding
Turning off Wi-Fi makes your battery life worse [because the cellular radio uses significantly more energy and you'll forget to turn it back on when you're around Wi-Fi again].
I said 2023. Not 2013.
As another user, I do care, and I dislike the XDG directories. ~/.local/share/foo in particular is obnoxiously longer than ~/.foo, and the existence of the XDG spec means that if I don’t know where a program stores its files, I now have to check three possible locations (~/.foo, ~/.config/foo, ~/.local/share/foo).
They won't.

Birth rate in Germany is ~1.5-ish.

The West seems to be dying by a thousand cuts. This is yet another cut.
Look, I'll make a compromise with you.

I'll give you no AV/EDR/XDR/Mountain DewDR that'll use up your CPU if you'll grant me no external I/O ports at all on your computer. In fact, I'll throw you a bone -- no input devices on a fresh install and you can have all the output devices you want. And no input means no need to remember passwords!
I used "DCF77 Emulator" on android and had to get it very close to the phone's speaker to work
A bit of a tangent, but this time-checking heuristic reminds me of the game "Halo 3: ODST".

The story takes place in a future African megacity before, during, and after an alien invasion. Part of the game's story is shown from an AI's perspective who controls the city's operations trying to evacuate the Human survivors.

Whenever the story is shown through the AI's perspective, you can see an overlay of the AI's working memory including which suburb's cameras are being monitored, the emotional state of the AI, and the current running timestamp.

Some of the aliens end up withdrawing from within the city by making an FTL jump which causes extreme localised time dilation.

Immediately afterwards, the timestamp in the AI's working memory is frozen because it's not sure what the exact timestamp is anymore, each system it connects to gives it a slightly different time depending on how close it was to the FTL event.

It guesses a likely time and uses that until sometime later it is able to reconnect with other unaffected human networks and resumes the correct timestamps.

This time heuristic was shown in the game, but also makes an appearance of sorts in the announcement trailer (seen in the bottom right): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WroxHMo6B_k
It seems to resolve against 1.1.1.1 but not 8.8.8.8.

$ dig www.hackingbutlegal.com @1.1.1.1

...
www.hackingbutlegal.com. 1730 IN CNAME target.substack-custom-domains.com.
...
I think that's our disagreement: I think you can say, "maybe there's some relationship between what we have seen as colonialism and academic mathematics", without even thinking that it was about "stealing math", or thinking about colonialism determined everything about mathematics in some totalizing way.

I'm sorry if I come off as a little obtuse, so I might as well say what I'm really thinking. My thinking leans towards Eugenia's, and it's a lot more conservative: the question itself is worth thinking about, but it's a lot to think through, and the link may as well be tenuous. But, in my thinking, if NATO once funded pure mathematics (as Grothendieck once protested against), if DARPA also currently funds pure mathematics, then it is worth asking what historical narrative explains it, and whether it applies to the slightly more distant past, too.

Above all I don't believe that the academic enterprise has ever been a neutral and disinterested endeavor, either – it's a lot of public money, and wherever there's public money politics comes before or after. I don't think that's a totalizing way of understanding academia.
i keep getting that urge to click the X to close the window.
Should I pay more if I memorize the paper? Should I pay more if I read it to my sick friend in the hospital?

It's not even close to either of those things. It's "should I pay more if it infinitesimally affects my perception of english grammar or knowledge of a subject". The llm isn't, for any functional purpose, memorizing, it's getting weight updates as it learns from these examples which are teaspoons of information in a sea of trillions of tokens.
I do this with a $5 ESP32 and a reed switch and some simple code — in my case, listening on HTTP and returning opened/closed depending on the state of the reed switch.

Just throwing this $7 option out there though I recommend just getting some pre-built thing in this case.
It being hidden means the devs might not even know about it. And that support article has to survive the biannual website redesign.
How can I avoid this paywall?
> I wouldn't care about GDPR until I have a somewhat strong EU userbase. Try to respect the spirit sure, but it's not like it will be enforced on a small business within its first few years of existence.

This seems ethically wrong -

1. Even if your user base is not “strong” the privacy of the users you do have still matters

and

2. It should be about protecting them not just calculating enforcement risk like a Ford Pinto engineer.
In short, yes. Mainly because I keep it out of easy reach most of the time. I can still get to it, but I have to make a bit of effort to do that. Then, of course, there are those few hours that I sleep each night ... :-)
But you generally can't copyright the underlying facts, only the creative expression in the article/work itself. If they can get it to extract just the facts and how they relate to one another, that wouldn't really be protected by copyright. They might try to bring back the "Hot News" doctrine though.
The German team produced a crystal of pure LK-99 and tested it. From the article:

> LK-99 is not a superconductor, but an insulator with a resistance in the millions of ohms

And furthermore, the graphs from the original pre-print article are just graphs of the resistivity of Cu2S.

It sounds like there's nearly zero chance of any further science here (beyond confirmation).
> “(As an aside, it is quite obviously impossible to enforce universal adoption of more expensive carbon-free energy through, eg, mandatory carbon offsets, as higher gas prices are political suicide regardless of system of government.)”

LOL, what? This sort of seems to imply that Venezuela, where gasoline is sold for Pennie’s per liter, is better governed than, say, the Scandinavian county of your choosing.

I think higher energy prices are a perfectly valid public choice that a polity can choose to embrace if the costs and benefits represent an agreeable trade off.
Hey there! Co-founder of Gretel.ai here, and I think I can provide some insights on this topic.

Firstly, the concept you're hinting at is not purely traditional ML. In traditional machine learning, we often prioritize feature extraction and engineering specific to a given problem space before training.

What you're describing and what we've been working on at Gretel.ai, is leveraging the power of models like Large Language Models (LLMs) to understand and extrapolate from vast amounts of diverse data without the need for time-consuming feature engineering. Here's a link to our open-source library https://github.com/gretelai/gretel-synthetics for synthetic data generation (currently supporting GAN and RNN-based language models), and also our recent announcement around a Tabular LLM we're training to help people build with data https://gretel.ai/tabular-llm

A few areas where we've found tabular or Large Data Models to be really useful are:
* Creating privacy preserving versions of sensitive data
* Creating additional labeled examples for ML training (much less expensive than traditional data collection/ml techniques)
* Augmenting existing datasets with new fields, cleaning data, filling in missing values

Lots of mentions of RLHF here in the threads, one area I think RLHF will be super helpful is in ensuring that LLM data models return diverse and ethically fair results (hopefully better than the data they were trained on). Cheers!
How about “they copied it into a terrific text-to-speech engine and sold ads against the resulting podcasts”?
And could you use that file to compress itself?
Anecdata, if you aren't advanced user with new hw, Sid might be more robust, otherwise Arch is superior in almost any way. I wish it wasn't, I like Debian community more, it is less elitist.
Beer is okay. Therefore, weed is okay.

I follow your logic.
> Obviously if the function is on a hot path iterating and summing with a number is far more efficient versus filtering.

I got curious and checked this in Rust, the generated assembly is the same!

https://rust.godbolt.org/z/jhGWdYPz1
What you're failing to understand is I explicitly said this can work in urban areas.

Netherlands doesn't have a huge biking culture in the middle of nowhere, Netherlands.
The NYU Professor in question is Scott Galloway, better known now for his podcasts, books and general media appearances than as a professor.
Baldrick, is that you?

https://youtu.be/AsXKS8Nyu8Q

(Whatever other representations there are of "The Good Idea Fairy", I can't help but think of Baldrick and his "cunning plans".)
Question: Where do educated people frequently move to?

> The West seems to be dying by a thousand cuts. This is yet another cut.

Which system in your opinion is superior and will replace it?
y'all should open source the Kythe indexers for that and tablegen
Glad I’m not going crazy and when this was happening at DEF CON it really was someone doing research as I suspected
It's awful without a content blocker.
OpenAI Acquires Global Illumination
Interesting site. Not sure how effective it is/can be, but great work pulling it together. And, no, I didn't give it a go -- I can go long periods without touching my phone. Sometimes I forget I have one!
My thought as well. Not exactly "for beginners" in a literal sense.