skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean by "doesn't really exist" or "fiction" though? We use words to describe things and there is always some abstraction involved (when you say "this is a rock", by rock you mean a complex combination of other substances that I do not describe, but have these general characteristics).

When talking about cultures, cultures are represented by the people and their actions and both the people and the actions do very much "exist". Describing it "exactly" seems something impossible (same way you don't include in the definition of the word rock how many molecules it must have).

So if your point is "language is fuzzy", sure. But saying "culture is a lie" seems just beyond reasonable fuzziness. The definition of culture implies a lot of summarization which in my opinion excludes an exact definition.
Ya, but you see, what they did is went ahead and replaced all of the Chlorine with perchlorate... So it's fine. Everything is fine.
Not OP but "Wandering on the Way" is a great collection of later daoist writings

https://www.google.de/books/edition/Wandering_on_the_Way/dpF...
I guess one could phrase it like this - his work in linguistics was important and somewhat falsifiable. The rest, not so much.
Do you have example threads where you found it useful?
I’m an introvert. I previously only used writing long notes to myself to think before engaging with a coworker. Now I’ve unlocked “voice without social dynamics” to do that which is a whole other dimension.

Team dynamics now for extroverts mean instead of waisting and hour of phone time for them to slowly talk through basic ideas and catch up to the introverts who could prepare for the meeting on their own, now extroverts have a way to think through and prepare for meetings so the meetings become more valuable and the extroverts (at least to me) become less irritating to work with.
Off-topic but:

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I mostly recommend it to my colleagues so they don’t keep bugging me on how to do things. This has kept my productivity (thinking about stuff) sky high.
I hadn’t heard of Nanoleaf, so I checked out their site. Immediately a GDPR notice filled my screen, which is no surprise, but they make it pretty hard to opt out. Most importantly, though, it states that they share _identifiable_ data with TikTok. I think I’ll be avoiding that brand.

> We use TikTok Ads to promote our products and services in various countries.TikTok shares information with advertisers and third-party measurement companies to show how many and which users of the Platform have viewed or clicked on an advertisement. If you use the TikTok Lite version of TikTok, information is shared with advertising networks to display personalized advertisements to you on the TikTok Lite app and elsewhere online. TikTok stores and processes data in accordance with their privacy policy.

> Data is Anonymised: No
> Data Storage Locations: United States and Canada
> Data Usage Purposes: Marketing
If asteroid mining succeeded in retrieving a really large supply of some now rare and expensive mineral, wouldn’t that cause the price to drop dramatically? When mining in the Americas expanded in the 19th century, prices for those metals became unstable.
>Where did I say that is how I think physical borders should be defended?

Where did I say you said that? Indeed, had you, I wouldn't have asked. But surely you see the similarities: Blocking non-domestic Internet stuff is imposing restrictions on what information/systems citizens are able to access, effectively curtailing the digital equivalent of a right to travel.

>In any case, even in a largely "free" country, I'm not entirely free to leave when and to where I might want.

What "free" country imposes routine restrictions on its citizens leaving? That you may be denied entry anywhere else is a related but separate issue.
Their defaults can be a tad fucked up straight outta the box
Its helpful to do boilerplate in languages or legacy code you touch less often, e.g. React class components.

But also, it can reasonably set types for the inputs of say a React component, just based on an example (made up) usage of some props you give it. And you can even, if you are very uncouth, simply generate the sensible props for a certain kind of object given a description by say the user.

It can do things like generate controlled form state management etc, which was quite error-prone to do with macros when things get complicated.

It can summarize commits for documented code accurately too, especially if you comment what you've done for some reason or another. This saves a good 2-3 minutes an hour I didn't know I could save, for the average of say 1-2 commits I'd do usually per hour.

Notably GPT-4 is needed to do these consistently well.
Future ai, thanks for the good laugh:)
Does that relate to Plato's world of ideas?
Sometimes you have some boilerplate-ish code with complicated but repeating patterns, but it's only like 3 or 4 sections, so figuring out how to combine it isn't really worth the effort compared to spending 10 seconds for copilot to write the other 3 instances and checking the result.

Another example could be that you would really like to use macros/templates for something, but you can't due to external requirements, like Unreal Header Tool being unable to parse those if you want to export your classes to the engine. So you get to write the same code multiple times for different types. Amazing!
Is this a date? Using ML to identify date formats in file names
Here's why.

https://medium.com/geekculture/is-facebooks-prophet-the-time...
I think it's fair to guess that he didn't prepare his meal as part of his plan to be assassinated that day. A post-attack meal might reasonably be something out of the ordinary, but a pre-attack meal is unlikely to have been informed by the attack. (On the other hand, it's quite likely to have been informed by his plan to cross a mountain pass.)
You still have to write the code for the macro. With ChatGPT you can just say “write a mapper between these two object in C# 11, make the target members uppercase and skip X, Y and Z”
I've had this drive me crazy.

The required lines were different between the Pi 2 and Pi 4 I was using at the time, and the documentation was not updated (or I'd found old docs).

An exercise in trial and error.
Possibly the article is poorly written? It doesn't seem to make sense. Either Chomsky is saying something quite academic or the article hasn't captured the point.
The growth of Unity into the most popular game engine in the world
Recently Unity made the headlines for some sketchy changes to their pricing policies. They've since walked back on those changes. Being a game developer, I took the opportunity to look into Unity, the company, and understand more of its history.

I compiled a timeline of their headcount since 2004 based on old articles, and more recently their SEC filings, and used Yahoo Finance for the "U" ticker stock value.

Sources for the events are referenced in the interactive annotations.
Ah yes, Michael W Smith. Famed contemporary christian musician. On hacker news front page for some awful reason.
For student reports, you could potentially whip something up to pull out each paragraph and evaluate it - giving you a form of score to investigate further. When you're marking 200-400 reports and you only have 5-10 minutes to mark each, something like this could be a game changer.
There is indeed lots of uncertainty, and all Milky Way mass estimates are model dependent. Also, the ~10^12 solar mass figure referred to above is an estimate of the total galaxy + dark matter halo mass. Stellar or baryonic mass estimates are closer to ~6 x 10^10 solar masses. I'm using "~" to mean uncertainty to within a factor of 2 or so.
Show HN: Cloud Benchmarker: See how fast your cloud instances are for real!
I'm a big fan of super discounted cloud instances (VPSs). I just want the most powerful machines running Ubuntu for the lowest price, which means I'm drawn to providers like Hetzner and Contabo. On the surface, these look like unbelievable deals compared to AWS and the like-- for under $35/month you can get 8 cores, 30gb of RAM, 1tb SSD, etc.

The problem is that these providers-- depending on the particular data center, or the time of day, or their aggregate customer demand-- have a habit of "overselling" their physical capacity. Of course, they don't generally announce this to you-- instead, you have to discover it by your machine acting far, far slower than it should be given its stated specs, which often causes your applications to fail in bizarre ways (this is doubly true if you're making a distributed/decentralized application!).

After having this happen to me one too many times, I decided to make this tool to systematically track the real world performance of a fleet of cloud instances. I didn't want to reinvent the wheel, so I just used sysbench and its battery of tests for things like memory, CPU, disk, etc. performance. What makes my project so convenient is that it uses ansible for everything: you just specify an inventory file containing your machine IP addresses and SSH key, and it will automatically connect to each machine, install the required software, run the benchmarks, extract the key values from the reports, and send them back to the control machine.

It schedules another benchmark every 6 hours by default, but you can easily change this in the .env file to whatever you want. This lets you get a good sense of how fast your machines are in practice over time, without placing undue load on them. I believe that you can't really know how your machines are performing without putting an actual big load on them!

Anyway, the control machine (the one running my python project) then assembles all of these benchmark reports into a single file, and processes it to arrive at a single normalized overall score for each machine between 0 and 100 (this is a relative score, with the most powerful instance getting a score of 100). All of this data is stored in SQLite, where the data points are enriched with the IP address and machine name. This data is then exposed via a FastAPI REST API with a Swagger page so you can easily get the historical benchmark data and use it in your other applications. You can also download the historical data as a csv file. Most usefully of all, it provides a nice web page with dynamic charts showing the historical data in various ways using Plotly.

This has already been very helpful for me, and hopefully it will be for you, too! Let me know if you have any questions.
They were meant to be heard, not read :)

Also, some effect is lost in the translation as well.

Cicero's letters were meant to be read, I suggest you try them. They kind of feel monotonous at times, but it's hard to ignore how good a writer he was.
This would limit you to just connect SSDs. Their solution opens up more versatile access to other PCIe devices.
I don't see any mention of it in Wikipedia - just that he was out of his house during December:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hart_(New_Jersey_politici...
You mean the "sufficiently smart compiler"?
It's not even vegetarian much less vegan.
So could it be behind this dead zone? ''The largest such dead zone in the world is in the Gulf of Oman, a strait bordered by Iran, Pakistan, Oman, and the UAE. It occupies a whopping 165,000 square kilometres of the water body, an area bigger than even the state of Tamil Nadu (130,060 square kilometres). https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/news/latest-news/science-and-techno...
Meta case brought to the European level
I worked for a company that was making windows software when I was 17, and writing an installer for one of their apps was given to me as a small project.
He is pretty open about it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_genocide_denial
The only definition is "most people recognize it" and there are people who disagree about it or don't recognize it at all.

How does it differ from something that exists subjectively then?

I'd say arguing that colors are like morality is pro-relativism stance.
It’s silly to ignore Covid. This was going to happen regardless due to an unstoppable pandemic.
Totally disagree. I’m happy to be standing on a Metro platform right now for my commute instead of dead stopped on 95.

Is it perfect? No, but neither is DC traffic…
I’m also looking forward to having voice gpt participate in zoom calls to cut the extroverts off when they’re dragging on their out loud thinking so we can all move the call forward.

As an introvert i find it difficult to cut someone off mid thought because I assume like me everything they say is well thought through and important. I can’t guage when it is and when it’s just stream of consciousness from them until they’re finished and yield the floor and by then it’s too late.

the current status quo of “this meeting could have been an email” or “could have just read and commented on my doc instead of waisting an hour of ten people’s time” is not good for team dynamics or morale. And we finally have a solve for it
That is the irony of the whole thing, it starts out: The Dao that can be talked about is not the Real/Eternal Dao - then proceeds to talk about it for 81 chapters. He was just funny like that.
> from nations where masks and vaccines were championed by opposite political sides

I think it's so strange how political masks and vaccines became. I'm not sure many people remember, but there was a brief period (February or March 2020?) where wearing masks was frowned on in the Bay Area — if I recall correctly, I think it was initially widely claimed that masks were not helpful against Covid and that a run on masks would take away supply from medical workers who use them as part of their daily work. I already had a box of N99 masks that I bought for the wildfires, so I wore one out anyway and got dirty looks. A short while later, everyone in the Bay Area was wearing them, and I no longer got those looks. But then I moved to the southeast and got dirty looks again for wearing a mask, because the politics of that region were different.
Tell, who? Monsanto closed up shop five years ago.
Here are some of the things I have used ChatGPT for:

# Writing

- I've had it rewrite some of my blog posts to give them more style

- I've asked it to help me with some business letters

- Rewriting my letters to city counselors state / state legislatures

# Admin

- Explaining some parameters for NetworkManager

- Helping me figure out why my rewrite rules in an .htaccess file weren't working as expected

- Asking questions about different versions of PEM certificates and using openssl to convert them

- Restoring some software RAID arrays with lvm

- Journalctl filter options

- ffmpeg commands

# Coding

- I was working on a side project in a new language (to me) using Vala and Gtk4. ChatGPT was mostly wrong on everything, but sometimes lead me in a useful direction.

- Generally I haven't found ChatGPT useful for my work coding

# Other

- Explanations on Double Entry Accounting

- Guidelines on helping my sister talk to her 3 year old out expressing empathy for their dog

- Writing Haikus for my wife. This was an interesting back and forth where ChatGPT starting asking me more questions about my spouse, our relationship, hobbies, and so on.

- Help writing personalized Dad jokes for a father's day card

- An examination looking at the imperialism/militarism in Star Trek from the point of view of the Federation and from the point of view of the other society

- Questions about recipes (replacing items, using fresh items instead of canned/jarred)

Overall, I've found coding to be the least successful aspect of ChatGTP (granted I'm still using 3.5). Possibly, this is because I tend to use less popular languages (work is all elixir/erlang). But even trying to do some python/pytorch work, I found it constantly gave answers that didn't actually work.

However, I have found it really great for explaining topics. It can give pretty good metaphors and you can have it explain its answers. I've also found it being really helpful in writing. I think I am usually able to express my idea clearly and organize my thoughts, but my writing style is very pedestrian. ChatGPT is able to take my outlines and fill them in with my desired style quite well.
Only if I touch them. And a single button I can cover with a bit of painter's tape.
RWKV literally didn't really exist when Llama was released.

> It’s a great embrace, extend, extinguish play by meta.

Meta released Pytorch, Pytext and even built ONNX with Microsoft to avoid an EEE situation. What more could you possibly want?
You seem to mix things up?

He has been very critical of "socialist" countries, especially towards their underlying political ideology.
… to be fair in the typical cheap setup people set up the WiFi router in the corner of the house that the cable comes in and wonder why the reception is bad on the other corner.

The minimum amount of Ethernet you can lay to improve performance (get over the idea that running Ethernet is something your grandad would have done back in the war) is from the place your network comes in to the center of your home, which increases the signal strength to the far corner 4x if you do the math.
Ah, I saw a great tweet that captured a lot of my feelings about this the other day: https://twitter.com/InsightsMachine/status/17018601232984842...

>“Data is the new oil.” Clive Humby, 2006

>“Most of my career to date seems to involve redesigning legacy reports to make it easier for existing users (if any) to see that they contain absolutely no actionable insight with a lot less effort.” Jeff Weir, 2023

For my perspective:

In general, I find most users can't actually say whether they need any given number/visual on an ongoing basis. So large amounts of work go into building dashboards that are used for a very short amount of time and then discarded. Probably we should do a better job on one-off analyses and only dashboard after the fact.

Many users don't actually want a dashboard, what they actually want is a live data dump into excel where they can pivot table it. Maybe, maybe a bar or line chart.

In general, I find people always ask for more filters, more slicers, just endless options to reconfigure the data as they please. But they quickly become trapped in a swamp of their own making, now nobody knows how this should be sorted or sliced, does it even make sense to do it this way? People think what they want is a 'data democracy' with hundreds of dashboards with hundreds of options with hundreds of users and so they ask for and usually receive it. But they usually just end up coming back to the data team and asking - 'so what's the answer?' What many orgs need is actually a data dictator.

On the other hand, dashboards do allow you to establish really good feedback loops within the business so when you can identify an ongoing constraint, figure out how to track it and then force people to receive it on a regular cadence and be accountable to it, you can make a lot of headway. But that's a more niche use-case than how they're frequently used and the skills involved are different - less visualization skills, more business analysis - and you need to be positioned to make sure someone is held accountable.
My experience reading ancient Greek philosophy has been indeed that many philosophers use allusion and metaphor and are focused on leading a good life.
Fingerprinting would be my guess. It could give at least one extra bit of data about your device (has motion sensors or not).

Could also help detect agent string falsification: why would a device claiming it's UA is legacy IE have motion sensors?
I guess I don't take my moral code from animals, else I'd be saying it's OK for people to do horrendous things like rape, murder, torture, eating each others' children etc.

We have higher-order thinking as well as choice - can use those to choose not to cause terrible suffering to sentient beings where we don't have to.
Probably yes… but making and maintaining good templates is hard. It doesn’t get done because probably the person who needs to make the template is different than the user of it.

So the AI gets the benefit of having a template without the trouble of getting someone to make and maintain each one.
My physical card doesn't need to be connected to a backend. My bank had an app that was able to work like a card - I could be offline and still use it. They had to cancel that app because of PSD2.

Destruction of a good amount of civilization indeed! Now Google gets my payment data, I have to be online to pay with my phone, and I have to tolerate Google spyware on my phone instead of using a clean AOSP without any Google apps/services like I used to.

Thanks EU, you're keeping my data safely in Google's hands!!!
If you’re coming to this thread to say how great or how terrible it is, can you share a positive or negative example use? So much of these discussions is people talking past each other because the interactions with the product are non-public and siloed, but at least with ChatGPT, chats are easily shareable!
C’mon. It was a judgement in the form of a facetious question - even ChatGPT could recognize that.
Use GPT4
> I hope we’d all agree there’s objectively a color red

We don't. For starters there are colourblind people, for seconds there is no specific colour that can be called "red". There is a large and fuzzy category of red-ish colours like blood-red or rose-red.

Even if there is some academic "these light wavelengths are the ones" definition of red that is arbitrary. Aliens might have drawn the lines elsewhere.
The idea of light bending around gravitational fields is so fascinating. I wonder if there's a part of the night sky where some photons that bounced off the earth billions of years ago are being directed back at earth.
The word you're looking for is ideology.

https://bigthink.com/the-present/slavoj-zizek-ideology/
I don't know how the N95 and N100 compare, but I picked up a Beelink mini PC with an N95, 16GB RAM and 500 GB NVME for $195 on a sale the other day.

The Pi 5 looks to be $112.

By the time I buy a PSU, SD card, case, RTC battery, etc, I'm definitely not saving money buying a Pi.

Disclaimer: Canadian dollars.
Also, if I have a question, I no longer use a general search engine, and instead go straight to ChatGPT.
You may benefit from learning about the importance of red meat and dairy in human development. Stringently depriving children from these nutrition sources should probably be considered child abuse alongside childhood obesity.
Movement is an abstraction that connects discrete events.
It’s eliminated a mental barrier to building products where I was worried before I had limited time to work and needed to focus on things that drew from existing familiarity.

Now I’m able to focus on the product/outcome even if what’s involved is outside what I’m familiar with and at least get started building.

The net effect has been I can build a wider variety of things in a wider variety of tooling with more enjoyment and less drudgery.

- text summaries

- sysadmin stuff

- debugging stuff

- boilerplate stuff

- unblocking writers block

- integrating disparate stacks

- data transformation and algorithm stuff

- most marketingy stuff: copy, images, campaign/activations
LSASS.exe would crash with about 5 minutes of IBR (Internet Background Radiation). I cant remember the name of the worm. XP SP3 fixed this.
The chance of a child seeing anyone under 60 die of covid was incredibly small, because the vast majority of covid deaths were concentrated in people aged 80 and above; the median age of covid deaths is around 80. In contrast, 100% of children had their learning affected by school closures.

The deaths were also not "preventable" by school closures; the stringency of lockdown measures had no impact on mortality: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hec.4737