skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to be more aggressive, you can pay a service like Kanary that Googles you, submits removal requests, and then does a deeper search across data brokers and people search sites and submits removal requests as well.

It's unfortunate, but useful if keeping your info off these sites is important for safety/security. We're advocating for the CFPB to tighten regulation so this isn't such a challenge for people (and companies).

If interested in the technical challenges of scaling this, we're also hiring.
She's doing all this while still being a student, unreal. I can't get over just how skilled some people are, and how far I myself am from them.
Define quality more accurately than the poster you're replying to. Their definition of quality included goods produced while accounting for externalities, and non-abusive/exploitative workforce treatment.

It is not okay for a manufactured product built on the backs of slave/child labor/conflict to be sold in a market. There's a reason Conflict diamonds are verboten. There's a reason why it should be a big deal when a large industrial actor is found to be using these things as part of their production chain.

We cannot allow those that would sacrifice other's humanity to participate in our economy. Once you accept them, you've set the bar everyone else will quickly clamber to meet.
Breaking Out of the Snail Maze (Sega Master System)
I do have a family. We often organize things. We do that in advance and stick to our plans. It works well.
You know what's astronomically bad? The website that tricks you into clicking on it by presenting newsletter subscription popup and then starting to load all animated videos at once.
It answers this in the 3rd sentence of the page.

"As with all our APIs, data sent in and out of the fine-tuning API is owned by the customer and is not used by OpenAI, or any other organization, to train other models."
50mph on a 65mph road may be "impeding the flow of traffic". 63mph certainly isn't.

I'm a bit confused regarding your insinuation of an "agenda" in my comments? I've been in enough situations where somebody behind me or others on the road was endangering everybody just because the car in front of them wasn't going the $safe_margin_above that they were expecting of everybody. So they go like 3ft behind them and put pressure and stress on people. It's a dangerous mentality that can get people killed. It's not the "slow person" (going at 63mph) that's the danger in that scenario.
Absolutely mad... Saw this and thought - what the hell.
I have to say moving away is starting to feel really tempting
To be clear, there are many types of meditation, each with its own goal (or none at all). Some of them are "merely" relaxation exercises, but that is also something that is very much needed in today's world.
FF is definitely my fave on Mac (containers/no history mode), but Safari isn't that much worse and I have almost zero problems with ads using Wipr content blocker.
MPS is a Metal shader library rather than a programming language, which would be MSL (like GLSL/HLSL).
Tell HN: Porkbun charges $50/hr to resolve unauthorized 3rd party access
In the Porkbun T&Cs, they can charge you $50/hr as part of the resolution process.

> If You contact Us alleging that a third party has unauthorized access to Your Account or domain names, We may charge You administrative Fees, currently set at fifty dollars ($50) per hour, for our time spent in relation to the matter, regardless of whether or not We return control over the Account and/or domain name(s) to You. You will indemnify Us for any reasonable attorneys' Fees and costs We may incur in relation to the matter, even if those fees and costs accrue as a result of defending an action, or responding to a threat of an action, initiated by You or a third party.

I am unsure why this condition is in there. If I'm seeking to recover my account from an unauthorized party, surely the last thing I need is additional stress?

Link: https://porkbun.com/legal/agreement/domain_name_registration_agreement
Well, lucky you, I only see an endless list of spinners.
In multiple orgs now I've had raw access to data warehouses (DB2 and SQL Server based) that had aggregates of petabytes of data from ETL that I was free to access via Excel PowerQuery, direct SQL tools, Python or R, or even PowerBI.
Yeah, it's pretty rare. Like now that I think about it, it isn't even that Zoom doesn't work -- it's that Zoom-in-Firefox-on-Linux doesn't seem to have the fake background thing and I need that because it's easier than cleaning my garage-office :)

And I'm guessing that's either deliberate or lazy on Zoom.
This will be a fun conversation.

I'll start: many of these are catchy, and even well executed. Many of them perform very poorly on my Linux VM running on a modest Windows host (VM ~6 GB RAM, 2x CPU, i7, no GPU).

That said, godly.website loaded very quickly and seemed to perform well.
Look I'm all for reminding people that the US government has done a lot of awful stuff, but..

No. It's not a measurement problem or a propaganda issue. It's just the truth. USG just literally doesn't 'disappear' US residents in modern times. It happens with nontrivial frequency in China.
Goes to show the sad state of web UI design. Most of these sites are barely two steps removed from default bootstrap.
Intel is still around, still innovating, and still profitable. It has a lot more competition than in the past, but they are still a force to be reckoned with.
Agree. Most of the presented sites are too dynamic for my taste, I don’t like when something on a page moves purposelessly.
Yep. But the LDS Church is apparently being very systematic and crafting the mission for a specific intent that is not what it purports to be.
Took me a while to figure out that real content of the website hides under whole page covering popup.
Getting Caller Speech, Identity Through Tiny Smartphone Ear Speaker Vibrations
And what are those? I have yet to encounter anyone using a extension that contains some sort of work secrets/api. I'm not doubting it exists, but I think it's a use case which is maybe in the 0.00001% (if even that).

On the other hand containers allow me to specify which ones to open on automatically and so I can use lots of different containers for different uses that I want to separate, e.g. Facebook, Gmail, HN... Something lots of people want to do, but you can't really do with profiles (well you could but it would be super annoying). Moreover I can use temporary containers so I have isolated tabs for all the general browsing (all websites where I haven't specified a specific container) with all the tracking information being deleted as soon as I close the tab.
>Basically Governor-General (the Queen's representative of a country) John Kerr did it without approval from the Queen.

What does this even mean? It's not like G-Gs the world over consult with Buckingham Palace before every action. Kerr acted as he believed was the correct course. You may or may not agree, but the 1975 dismissal was not a case of that Governor-General somehow cheating to get away with a flagrant violation of the rules G-Gs follow.

More to the point, Australians did not agree with your interpretation. The Coalition won the biggest majority in history in the federal election called one month after the dismissal. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_federal_electi...>

>We have the same system here in Canada but if such a thing happened here there would be riots in the streets.

The same thing did happen in Canada. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%E2%80%93Byng_affair> No riots.

Yet again, a Canadian (thinks he) knows more about other countries' affairs than his own. I can guarantee that Canadians as a whole were more aware of Trump winning the 2016 US presidential election by earning more electoral votes than Hillary despite receiving fewer popular votes, than the fact that the same thing (of one party forming a federal government by winning the most seats, despite winning fewer popular votes than another) had happened several times in Canadian history, such as in 1979. I doubt that this has changed even though this happened again in the two most recent federal elections to Trudeau's benefit.
The US government has all the same tools, they’re just called “tech companies” and state doesn’t administer them directly for the sake of appearances.
The vibe I'm getting is "glossy magazine"… though given I've not actually touched a glossy magazine outside of a waiting room in about a decade, it's entirely possible I'm out of date.

Glossy isn't my cup of tea.
It seems like I could write an output handler for the CLI app that is more terminal-appropriate. I'd like to abstract logging for functions shared by both (especially debug logs). Today I have combined the functions of logging and tracing/sampling into one package/function call as they are equivalent in my eyes.
At least another 5 years I'm afraid
Forget about the embarrassment. Irrelevant. Forget about the people you work with. There are great (and awful) people everywhere. But also forget about grit and persistence; that's just more ego talk, completely unrelated to whether your customers will buy from you.

Instead, ask yourself if you even want to be in business anymore. It's ok to pivot if not. You could always work a regular job for a few years, get out of debt, and build up some capital for your next venture.

Before you pivot, though, ask yourself: If this business was even slightly profitable, would I be happy to keep working on it?

If the answer is no, pivot. But if the answer is yes, you need to dig into what's not working.

You mention having $200k in debt. If you didn't have to service that debt, would the company be profitable? If so, there are many potential solutions. You could sell some stock. You could refinance the debt on better terms, telling your lenders it would be better to be able to pay them back in 5 years than to declare bankruptcy and pay them nothing.

How are you customers? Does anyone LOVE you? If not, why not? What would it take for them to love you, and thus attract others to your service? If you have at least a few customers who love you, ask them what they love about you, and considering giving your product/service a greater focus on those aspects where you're knocking it out of the park. Winning over your first 10 diehard customers is infinitely harder than the subsequent 100+ diehards.

If you have a product people love and can be sold profitably, but it simply needs more scale, look to marketing. But beware: Marketing is a results multiplier, not a results creator. You need to have something good to market. Great marketing will help a successful product succeed faster. It will also help a failing product to fail faster.

Finally, you have people on your payroll. Could you conceivably keep running the business without a few of them? Depending on how much you're paying them, that $200k of debt could be handled by simply eliminating some overhead. I know it sounds cold, but they'll be just as unemployed if you have to shutter your business. Better to chop off a limb than let the whole enterprise fail. And as much as you might like your staff, they won't be there for you if/when the business fails. They'll find other jobs and you'll be left holding the bag.

These are just a few ideas. But based on the information provided, I don't think anyone can give you good advice on whether it's time to close up shop and give up on your entrepreneurial dreams.
Fully agree with the article's content but the headline reminds me of the hype preceding the launch of It/Segway.
I remember at one point seeing ads in Boston for Icelandair that pretty clearly implied you might go to Iceland for a long weekend. It seemed a bit preposterous, but I was in Boston for just a couple days from San Francisco, and Iceland is actually closer to Boston than San Francisco is. And in the summer the Boston - Reykjavik time difference is only four hours.

If you google "long weekend in Iceland" there are articles (https://www.travelandleisure.com/weekend-getaways/long-weeke..., https://inspiralized.com/lifestyle/a-long-weekend-trip-to-ic...) that suggest doing this. It actually sounds not unreasonable if you can manage to power through that first day.
currently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37222191
Yeah, and they're one of the reasons the poor stay poor. Dollar stores are a terrible value.

Walmart made a name for itself with its "rollback" program, where products would appear cheaper than competitors' because the SKU contained one less ounce/gram/unit. Dollar stores takes Walmart's own game to extremes; you buy a quart of watered-down bleach for $2, where buying an entire gallon (4x the volume) of the real thing would cost you $3 at Walmart.

Or, $20 for a 14-pack of Monster drinks at Walmart is a terrible deal when they're "just" $3 (each) at the gas station!

You see the same thing with people buying individual packs of cigarettes instead of an entire carton. The math works against them. They don't understand it.
My oldest niece (who is my little sister's daughter) graduated college two months ago and wasn't born until after 9/11. I think that was the most recent thing to make me feel old. I'm class of '99 and currently rewatching Buffy the Vampire Slayer, depicting kids who were also class of '99, and I now identity with Giles the school librarian, and in fact I'm exactly the same age as Anthony Head was when he took the role. Charisma Carpenter and Nicholas Brendon have now both been over 50 for years and Alyson Hannigan will be 50 in 7 months.
> A hen and egg problem?

A lot of Why Nations Fail covers this - collapsing or failed developing countries deal with multiple runaway problems.

I do not begrudge individuals doing the best for themselves. But in the grand run of history, democratic free markets with robust middle classes are mostly historical accidents where there is a critical mass of people mutually invested in collective success.
Astronomical web design? This looks nothing like Simbad, HEASARC, or NED!
It's not included because it's really hard to make a high quality screen, not because of the battery tradeoff.
Good boy / girl. Bonus points if you imagined what it would be like to watch TV while you're in public.
Did work install any crapware on the laptop? Or is it bad even without?
> If you’re using them as home storage batteries once or twice a year it’s probably not going to hurt the lifespan too much.

For much of the world, the dim days of winter are much longer than a few days. Storage couldn't work for these places. Taking clean energy from distance places would be required.
They would need to store and load the model, even if I imagine that they are using something similar to LoRA to finetune their models.
I haven't said you can't discuss them, I was pushing back against the idea that this is easy.
```
When to use fine-tuning:

Fine-tuning GPT models can make them better for specific applications, but it requires a careful investment of time and effort. We recommend first attempting to get good results with prompt engineering, prompt chaining (breaking complex tasks into multiple prompts), and function calling, with the key reasons being:
* There are many tasks for which our models may initially appear to not perform well at, but with better prompting we can achieve much better results and potentially not need to be fine-tune
* Iterating over prompts and other tactics has a much faster feedback loop than iterating with fine-tuning, which requires creating datasets and running training jobs
* In cases where fine-tuning is still necessary, initial prompt engineering work is not wasted - we typically see best results when using a good prompt in the fine-tuning data (or combining prompt chaining / tool use with fine-tuning)
```
Well I think my point is that the reason he ended up at genocide was logical given the underlying beliefs. His core belief wasn't about genocide, that was downstream from the basic mistake.

Like Voltaire said: "Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." Hitler believed absurdities. The atrocities flowed downstream like water flowing down a hill.

Pol Pot and Mao also committed genocide, but they did it by incompetence of a very different sort. I am saying there's a unifying model where we can understand all of these.
Microsoft sells Activision Blizzard cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft
As part of its proposed acquisition, Microsoft is offering to transfer cloud gaming rights for Activision Blizzard titles to Ubisoft instead. Ubisoft says they will make those titles available on a variety of platforms, including Xbox, Playstation, PC, and Luna (https://news.ubisoft.com/en-us/article/6kzUNk6z4BnQTSxgoVHy4...)

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I really hope this will mean that Blizzard games will be more easily playable in the cloud, like on Geforce Now. That'd mean you can easily play Diablo IV and similar games on your phones or streaming tablets or Chromecast.

Currently you have to run them in a gaming VM (like Shadow.tech), which is way more expensive, with inferior UX.

IMHO this would be the best of many worlds... Microsoft gets a big catalog to compete with Sony. Activision gets a more responsible corporate parent. Gamers could cross-play these games by streaming them, regardless of the "host" platform. Everything can be virtualized and streamed and the underlying console or PC is less relevant.
When ginger was released (you know, the segway) it was advertised it would transform urban environments.

But the actual revolution is probably ebikes / escooters. The EV drivetrain is so easily scaled up and down and applied to so many form factors. You can shove the batteries in lots of different places, the actual drive motor is so cheap and small.

It is so much easier than having to do driveshafts / exhaust / fuel tank / engine / oil for an ICE drivetrain.

And battery tech will likely double or triple in power density in the next 10 years, and probably drop by 50-70% or more in cost.
Good point, Linux guy here, I always use Chromium -- perhaps this is a Linux thing but I always forget that there's a difference.
Are there any benchmarks/results showcasing the performance increase with fine tuning? Like showcasing a list of prompt and answers between a fine-tuned LLM and a non fine-tuned one. Could be with LLAMA 2 as well.

Even if it's quite specialized like in Medical/Legal, it would be great to see the expected value one can derive from fine-tuning.
I feel exactly the same about Apple's software. It's great as long as your preferred workflow matches the Apple-blessed workflow. But if it doesn't, you're pretty much hosed.

Desktop Linux is not as nice or facile or polished, but it feels like "my" desktop because I can modify it. When I use MacOS, it feels like I'm just renting somebody else's computer. It's a very nice computer, but it can never be mine.
I think the first thing you need to do is get out of the programmer mindset. The problem you are solving may be closer to resolving the anxiety of leadership, or build confidence. In reality, the situation is complex and our responses may undermine confidence and drive anxiety at different rates with different stakeholders If you ask some folks from other fields to read the StackOverflow link you shared, they'd provide some insights that aren't fully explored.

I don't think you can get there with KPIs, but at the same time, you can't completely discard methods like these which have some level of credibility with other stakeholders. As evidenced by many conversations on this topic involving programmers, KPIs get completely thrown out, or worse, undermined. Insufficient time and effort is given to actually making the leap to something that might be useful sustainable. Hence, many places never break away from KPIs and the complaints keep coming.

Measurement without particular targets can be quite useful when the organization is open to sharing data without punitive responses. This gives you different axes to explore with regards performance so that you can shape your messaging around performance provided you can contextualize it.

EDIT: My personal philosophy on how strategy should work and be implemented is closer to that of Mintzberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Mintzberg) than Porter.
Great article. I had the misfortune of writing a bunch of twisted code over a decade ago and I wanted to remind the author that twisted has a feature called "inline callbacks" that allow you to use yield. https://twisted.org/documents/16.4.1/core/howto/defer-intro....

So twisted code can actually look like:

@inlineCallbacks
def doIt():
responseBody = yield makeRequest("GET", "/users")
returnValue(json.loads(responseBody))

iirc `returnValue` throws an exception of a specific type. It's ugly, but it's also the logical implementation of async on top of yield/generators.
The parent commenter edited their comments several times, so the argument there now is different than it was.

My original comment above does not say that rockets should be the top focus on reducing climate change. It says they are a contributor to climate change, which they are. I don't see why we're wanting to send humans to Mars and doing so will thus needlessly increase the impact of rockets on the environment.

Yes, there are worse things than rockets, but the impact is definitely not zero, and more and more rockets are going off, so the impact will only increase. The rockets required for human flight are much, much larger than those for unmanned missions. Further, the negative affect of rockets on the local environment, that is local to the launch sites, is very underrated. As noted in the linked article from the NOAA, the impact of rockets needs more study, and the impact is different than airplanes and is estimated to increase the temperature of the stratosphere by degrees, and not a fraction of degrees. This has downstream effects that are not good and is again different than airplanes.

Lastly, yes, planes are bad, too, and we should absolutely reconsider plane fuel and flight use.
Scientists design novel nonlinear circuit to harvest clean power using graphene
Can anyone who's worked with fine-tuning models this large weigh in on how much fine-tuning data is typically required to be effective? Can 100k tokens (as mentioned in the docs) really influence the behavior of the base model that much, or was that just a toy example?
I now believe San Francisco’s worst enemy is itself. The bureaucracy is stifling.

Someone I know opened a gym. Took an empty retail space and made a few minor interior tweaks (like moving an electrical outlet). Well that required a “change of use”. No fewer than 9 city signatures, half a dozen trips to permit office, full on architectural drawings, multiple site inspections, plus being blamed for a previous tenant’s illegal bathroom.

If that’s what it takes for one small change, I can’t even imagine what a more ambitious plan would require. Someone with a lot of money, like a pet project of a billionaire.
> It's simple in theory, not so much in practice

In practice, there's so little waste that nuclear plants are burying it on-site.

Not the ideal solution, but that's just how little waste there actually is.
Yes.

Sometimes I like to frame it in the negative.

Because it rarely comes up as an option, that humans might not be 'conscious' either.

I don't mean in a solipsist way. More like in the 'controlled hallucination' framing from Anil Seth. We (human brains) respond to inputs, it is more of a Bayesian, math processing. We aren't really even aware of why we do things, we don't control what we think about. So are we really 'conscious'? And how can we say an AI wouldn't reach at least the same level of 'processing'.
to anyone considering Zig, note that its coming along pretty nicely, but still has some big missing parts. for example currently only TLS 1.3 is implemented, which means that HTTPS requests are going to fail with many servers:

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/14172

I believe a 3rd party TLS package is available, but something to think about.