skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use materialistic in dark mode (the screenshots look awfully bright). Love it.
This still happens.
Calling Hugging Face Models from Rust
Passive DNS
Show HN: Horde-Client – Easy to Use Python Interface for Kobold AI
Introducing Horde-Client (v1.0.2)

Horde-Client is your Python-based gateway to the Kobold AI Horde project, and it opens up a world of opportunities within the Python AI/ML ecosystem, including seamless LangChain integration.

1. Harness Text Generation support for both crowdsourced and private Language Models.

2. Effortlessly integrate Horde-Client into your LangChain pipelines.

3. Asynchronous Client Support.

I've build this as a learning experience and to make it easier for developers to leverage some of the crowdsource projects to build intelligent apps.

Feel free to drop a note on what do you guys think about the project.
Remember Instagram was iOS-only for a good long while. So no need for Android developers or front-end web developers.
Yeah I don’t understand how he gets tagged on an issue thread like that and doesn’t say anything until it reached enough eyes. Definitely seems suspicious. He also could have easily pointed out some specifics instead of just saying it’s untrue and saying he’ll get back to it after vacation.
Off topic, but I’ve been thinking about doing the same, I’ve seen other people at my level take pay cuts of only 10%~ going from management to IC while erasing meetings from their calendars

I’m kinda jealous, the only thing that is keeping me in management roles is the fantasy that the perfect company will come along with the right product, right growth stage but that is looking unlikely in this economy.
Don't forget that when foreign leaders do something our leaders do not like, they are "un-democratic", even if their people have explicitly asked them to do such a thing by vote.
As much as I used to want an Apple Car or Apple TV (Set), Cars and TV are similar in that they are a low margin product and they dont share any of their current operation and supply chain.

And if low margin wasn't an issue the first thing I wish them to bring back would be AirPort Extreme.
Wow, I love Poland now.
Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality
It’s not that they made the same choices again so much as they just re-used Instagram code and infrastructure.
If anything, each chunk of code having its own distinctive structure would make the code easier to visualize. If all the code looks the same then you have no landmarks. Do you not visualize code?
Exactly, I’m all for readable code but this style guide stuff is cargo culting. The guides are the culmination of wisdom of past decades where IT became dominated by a few language stacks. Innovation happened elsewhere as computers got faster, bigger and use cases grew but did not transform. This changed and use cases and targeted platforms are different now calling for new stacks with new conventions. A typical developer is exposed to myriad languages and tools. Documenting small details in proper format never was enough but these days it has become ever more important to focus on communicating context and motivation.
The arguments are similar those made during during the height of the Cold War. Just substitute a different country name (or two). This is by no means the first time this situation has occurred.
It's theoretically possible the american public could reject both parties and elect an independent who isn't an old old man. The system is there to be used...
Corporate implosions of the dot-com era are fantastic reads. I was a part of the Northwestern Corporation, Expanets, Lucent fiasco. It was crazy the decisions that were made. I spec'ed a million dollar Sun Hardware purchase, my boss turned it into a $25 million 5 year, rental at a Quest DC in Denver.

We also had an entire floor of an Arthur Andersen building in Jersey where we were writing our new app. There was another floor that was off limits to anyone not a partner. A friend of mine saw trucks of document boxes come in. The paper shredders were working overtime there, we assume anyway.

Expanets didn't need to go down that way, greed and stupidity are powerful drugs.
The Blind Men and the Coin
Much of the debate around Crypto is confused because both advocates and critics have a myopic view of what it is. There are four key elements:

The Casino
The Movement
The Tech
The Product

And there is surprisingly little overlap between them.
This is quite an editorialized title... it makes the CEO look like they have an extreme viewpoint, but in reality it sounded like the CEO had a pretty based and nuanced take: never enforce remote, and recognize that different kinds of work require more in office than others.

The only thing that I disagreed with was the "we don't want to lose our stars" mentality. Your mentality should not be about pushing people as far as you can until you have retention problems. Rather, it should be to inform people and provide them with opportunities to be productive in whatever way they prefer, and cut them lose if their output is not sufficient. Make decisions by outputs - not inputs.
I think it’s more that a one (or even 2) axis political alignment chart is overly simplistic. The article lays out a definition of liberalism that is in opposition to communism and fascism so there is the very least a “triangle” of political alignment is necessary.
What difficulties did you run into?
The habit that I've found useful for myself is: learn everything from the bottom (reasonable bottom).

For example recently I had to learn MCU development. I bought some STM32 devboard, I learned ARM assembly, I learned how to use ld, as, gdb, st-util, st-flash. I wrote led blink with assembly and I can understand every single line in every file that compiles into final firmware, I can understand every byte in the firmware, I know where to find every ARM instruction. I'm not going to use assembly language other than reading some disassembly dumps, however I find it a necessary part. I'm not going to hardcode GPIO register addresses after those learning projects, I'll use CMSIS, however I need to understand the overall structure of manuals, so I did it with bare assembly and then bare C.

I know that some folks are fine with firing up STM cube IDE, autogenerating some template code and fill in missing parts, not even caring much about registers. That might be my way in the future, however I still think that it's incredibly important to have solid foundations and build knowledge upon this foundation, rather than some weak "magic".
Lithium isn't lithium like lithium is lithium.

Related:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37450915
All of the factors are important. This is what really trips up movie clips:

> Nature of the copyrighted work: This factor analyzes the degree to which the work that was used relates to copyright’s purpose of encouraging creative expression. Thus, using a more creative or imaginative work (such as a novel, movie, or song) is less likely to support a claim of a fair use than using a factual work (such as a technical article or news item). In addition, use of an unpublished work is less likely to be considered fair.

They also score really low here:

> Purpose and character of the use, including whether the use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes: Courts look at how the party claiming fair use is using the copyrighted work, and are more likely to find that nonprofit educational and noncommercial uses are fair. This does not mean, however, that all nonprofit education and noncommercial uses are fair and all commercial uses are not fair; instead, courts will balance the purpose and character of the use against the other factors below. Additionally, “transformative” uses are more likely to be considered fair. Transformative uses are those that add something new, with a further purpose or different character, and do not substitute for the original use of the work.

Using the exact same clip can be fair use or copyright infringement based on what’s surrounding it. A long discussion of camera angles in movies using the clip is one thing, the clip by itself is very different.
These points are certainly not specific to top %, maybe top 20%.
I guess what he meant was that big retailers colluded to increase prices simultaneously together in lock-step for no reason other than greed and profiteering, and simply blamed it on the Russo-Ukrainian war as being the reason for prices exploding.
I believe some new developments in that area are supposed to be hitting the market next year.
I can't quite tell if you're being sarcastic but that's exactly what hackernews is to me!
> So this works not that differently to an index

Yes, it's pretty much the same as a covering index is used

> There's also materialized views

Ah yes, that's pretty much the answer (if incrementally updated). Thanks.
I really enjoyed the time and writing style of this! I had a bit of a laugh when the author described how they read and think too much and wanted to take action - then the solution is a club who who .. meet to talk about taking action :)

I propose a different club rule: You can write/post/meet up/etc but for every one thing you do talking/thinking, you have to have already taken that action in real life! IE read a book about going to the gym? Don’t meet to talk about it, but go to the gym and talk about it after!
Thank you for the python-inline-source library. Are you still working on Tetra?
Traveling country musician :)
is there a printable template / instructions somewhere?

EDIT: my bad -- I skkiped over to youtube video -- see the instructions in liked blog post now. Thanks
ah, yes. a bragging club
Similarly can’t find it, but it’s something with when you set a goal if you tell people you have that goal you are less likely to achieve it, rather than if you didn’t tell others about it.
That's not the case everywhere. When I was young in the Netherlands it was pretty much frowned upon because conscripts would have nothing to do but smoke weed and clean some tanks for the 50th time. It was widely regarded as a waste of a year and a half. I'm very glad I was disqualified and it never was a barrier for me in life.

I guess in countries where shots are actually fired in anger this experience may vary wildly.
Why doesn't the market decide, if the bitcoin miners got 20,000% rate increases they would stop on their own for free. If the rate goes to zero, they will surely jump in an use as much as their hardware can burn. Why are payments outside of rate changes necessary at all?
You're actually right because casting my mind back, I can remember exactly the same kind of thing happening in places I worked for. I specifically remember discovering a race condition because they didn't understand about locking/trans iso levels.

Nonetheless if you're going to base your company's product around a database or anything else for that matter, you really had better get yourself sorted out WRT your tools, or it can become horribly expensive to fix or even fatal to your company.
>- Are you bad at regular expressions, but feel you could get away by just processing text with some loops and split statements? Don't. Use RegExes - every single time until you are good at it.

Ehh, i disagree about regex

Regex is great tool with shitty API, at least when used in code, not in config files

When things arent trivial I suggest writing parser, so your loops and splits instead of ugly monsters
In 1991 dos navigator had an integrated file manager and editor like no other console file manager has: you could alt-tab and copy/paste from editors into shell commands interactively.

In 2023 I still need two extra terminals for vim and for bash. And text selection is mouse-only.
I've been using Pushbullet[1] for at least 5 years. The Android app has some additional features like "copy to clipboard" when something is received. So useful for transferring tedious-to-type-on-a-phone strings that are not urls

https://www.pushbullet.com
Try it! The tools are publicly available. You might find that it's harder than you think. We are very sensitive for uncanny conversations. Analogue imitations and pitching the voice is much easier to work with.

However, my point is that none of that matters. After all, deepfakes are only going to get easier, so it is only a matter of time before it is as cheap as you describe. It is that imitating a voice have very little impact on the outcome of a phishing operation. Sure, it might not hurt, but other things affects the success of a scam. Don't rely on impersonating a voice, especially since a trivial callback completely defeats it, no matter how much resources you put into it.

Which is also why none of these recent media stories make sense. And when investigated, none of them has held up to scrutiny, precisely as expected. I have not done this myself but look out for follow up stories by respected bloggers and journalists.

Lots of people work with defending against these operations, and none of them spend any correctly identifying deepfakes for a reason. Don't believe my word, I am not in the business, but ask anyone who is if they find these details believable.
I feel like the fake accounts are integral to the operation of the system, at this point. This looks to me like the gentlest tap on the wrists for being caught doing what must be done. Perhaps I'm just poor and bitter that a bag of potato chips costs more than an hours wages.
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That's a whole EU thing I think. We have it in Ireland.

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/unfair-treat...
> The world ran on a depoliticized money for thousands of years: gold.

It ran on credit, at least for most people for their day-to-day life:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years

The very first instances in the written, historic record (clay tablets) were of credit:

* https://www.sfu.ca/~poitras/jesho_UR_14.pdf

Entire civilizations (e.g., Incas) ran without currency (they used gold for ornamental jewelry, not transactions).

> many countries have experienced hyperinflation, financial instruments have become monetized and bubbles have been pumped full of paper money, peoples savings are 1% of what they were when this all started, at best.

Please list these "many countries".

And of the ones that I'll bet you will list, they have specific causes:

> There are differences in details and emphases, but the basic story of outside coercion, losing a war/civil war, internal corruption, incompetent/bad economic education/bad policies on banking/currency, elite minorities clinging to power, foreign denominated debt, collapse in real production etc. are the same in Weimar and Venezuela as in Zimbabwe.

> As always, the “printing” is the result, not the cause.

* https://clintballinger.com/2021/01/12/the-myth-of-hyperinfla...

And there have been various 'incidents' ("bubbles) during the Gold Standard era without fiat / 'paper money':

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1873

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1893

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1896

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907

And in the pre-Gold Standard (<1870) there was the Tulip bubble, South Sea Bubble, canal mania.

> What is it about an "industrial society" that requires a government to control the money? This is glossed over, but is at the crux of their position.

It has been found (in the US) that it helps with financial stability, especially post-Fed creation:

* https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/why-the...

* https://archive.ph/FWKcL
As someone in Spain: those numbers are absolutely fake.
I dunno, sounds more like a problem with the news you read. Here, inflation and the price of groceries makes the front page on a very regular basis.
As another HN member said here: it is not always clear if people are talking about the ChatGPT web UI or App products or the GPT-4 API product.

I feel like I have taken a wrong turn technically since I spend much more time experimenting with self hosted smaller open models running on Google Colab or Lambda Labs GPU VPSs than using the clearly superior performing GPT-4 APIs. I have been paid to work in the field of AI since 1982, and I should be desiring to use the very best models and technology, but open AI that can be self hosted just seems more interesting. I was playing with a 6B model (link to a Hugging Face notebook where I removed some examples and boilerplate text): https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1fMmXOcLdBzke-8Z0zl3... - really the best results I have seen from a small model.
Professor Hilbert was unaware that other mathematicians had started calling infinite dimensional inner-product spaces, Hilbert spaces. In fact some of the foundational results were proven by Von Neumann.

The story goes that once Neumann was giving a lecture in Germany on such spaces with Hilbert in attendance. Hilbert had supposedly raised his hands to ask, Dr. von Neumann, I would very much like to know, what after all is a Hilbert space? Hilbert was quite underwhelmed by the definition, "is that all" he remarked.
Poland has still been hit by inflation, though. I have taken advantage of having a registered business in order to do a lot of my shopping at the wholesaler Makro, where prices still lag well behind ordinary supermarkets.
The situation in Austria is fundamentally different than in Hungary.
In Hungary the government kept prices of energy and food down by law for quite some time when everywhere else prices where rising. What they see now is the catch-up effect after those restrictions fell.
I actually do not know what is the reason why the Austrian inflation is still that high. Energy prices as are like before covid, but food prices keep climbing. Maybe because the largest retailers Billa and Spar have almost 70% of the total market share they can do what they want (with the clients and the producers)
I guess we also have to wait for one or two years that real estate/rent prices start going down for real (real estate prices are almost stagnating now, but rents are still rising). That may have a real impact on inflation.
Interesting idea. Strange choice to pick Bash as your default shell though. If you're writing a new OS you don't have to repeat the mistakes of the past.
> You cannot hide anything on the internet anymore, the full IPv4 range is scanned regularly by multiple entities. If you open a port on a public IP it will get found.

Sure but you might still host multiple virtual hosts (e.g. subdomains) on the same web server. Unless an attacker knows their exact hostnames, they won't be able to access them.
There is no reason to downvote a true statement, but it can perhaps be simplified somewhat in that Jefferson did not consider his slaves fully human, thus they can never be part of the natural aristocracy. Good enough to rape, sure. Good enough to cook his food and clean his clothes but not good enough to lead.
I believe the OP was referring to Far-right, pro-Russia parties getting their 'come-uppance' by the rest of the world, but I'd really like to know more details about that.

Not that I doubt that big corporations would use the Russia excuse whenever/wherever they can - I mean, who wouldn't - but I'd just like to see the details that tie the inflation to support of Russia a bit more clearly laid out.
They do not get what they want.

The theory is that 'populist' got in by being 'popular' NOT being 'good at governing'.

Work Example: It's a form of the guy that gets promoted just because he is friendly with the boss.

The people are the boss, and he got in because he sucked up to them. Told them what they wanted to hear, but can't really do it, or do anything well.
What do you suggest instead? What's wrong with bash?
In text, we don't often count in series, and it seems likely that we often choose a non-counting sequence: like 'I chose options 1, 2, 7' or 'my code was 0 1 2 5', whatever.

Unless training included line-level skips, rather than just next-word skips (like word2vec) or concept-level associations? At the line level, or paragraph level, ordered numerical sequences are obviously very common in formal texts or in code.

I've seen sentence based training, I suppose for code (which it seems GPT4 excells at) line-level training would be essential.

Anyone recommend a mid-level read on this covering different modes of training and such; I'm happy with a bit of code and undergrad level maths. Thanks.
To get better at writing code, stick to this rule: Never submit a first draft. Always make your code better before you submit it.

If you can see the difference between ugly, complex code and aesthetic, simple code, and you're willing to spend extra time to go over your code and make it better, you'll develop the skills to write it better in the first place.

This won't teach you taste (years of maintenance and exposure to other people's code will do that) but it will teach you the skill of living up to a style.
Jamais vu: the science behind eerie opposite of déjà vu
> Regular people (e.g. journalists) are often important in uncovering these kinds of things, and knowing who actually profits when someone pays for a given thing is valuable in that way.

Perhaps it is, but this doesn't mean it should be, nor that we can afford to leave it this way forever. It's a government agencies' job and we should rather fix them to the extent so they can do this job efficiently enough. Today the world has became so wild of information abusers that maintaining privacy/anonymity becomes a necessity even for a lawful good person to stay safe. This is why we really need trusted policing parties to be the only who have our data, this became important like never before and will only grow more important. Perhaps an alternative can be in creating licensed private agencies (to build competition and have agencies incentivized enough) and penalizing their wrongdoings severely so they think carefully before any move they do to make sure it can't destroy anyone's life unnecessarily. Even besides intentionally malevolent parties, any bullshit "journalist" from anywhere in the world can carelessly present your data in a catastrophically harmful way for sake of hype and click-bait and suing them (let alone neutralizing the harm they've done) will probably be nonviable for you.

> One sort of amusing example from recent memory: https://www.npr.org/2019/06/06/730375237/nyc-operation-meltd...

To me defrauding the New York City (a $886 billion GDP entity) for $4.5 million in fines it potentially could have collected seems harmless enough to leave it unpunished when the alternative is to endanger every single person to loose comparable amounts (even when they don't have this much so they go negative). To me it seems more important to protect an ordinary human (e.g. under $10 mil. net worth so they can't hire an army of lawyers, enforcers and influences and give them a carte-blanche) from their life being ruined than protecting a multibillion dollar bureaucratic entity which just didn't care to build a system reliable enough to prevent some millions in lost profit from leaking through its fingers.
Well, in Finland where I live, ToS and EULA are generally not considered to be "contracts", and for good reason.

I'm confused what you mean by saying that the employees of a business don't need to read these legal texts but that the "business" should read them. The "business" is not a physical life form that has the ability to read, only the employees of a business have that ability, since they are humans (unlike the business entity itself, which is not human). Perhaps your idea was that businesses should hire a team of lawyers whose only job should be to read through the various ToS and EULA legal texts that their other employees merely click-through?
One fun thing about all this is learning that “no moving parts” is a polite fiction when you have water at various temperatures over long distances (and solar heaters are long if unwrapped).

Temperature changes can cause glued pipes to move enough that they become unglued. What fun!

Modern PEX offers significant advantages there (hundreds of feet with no joints).
Are you implying that Singapore would have "died" without the $3.3 million?