skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not completely shocked by the comments on this post, but I'm partially surprised. Seeing it spelled out, the authors do seem pretty pissed about the unfairness of how AI companies trained and what they are doing with that training.
The point I intended to get across was that the post itself is unsubstantive; apologies for not being clearer.
> Did it make you stop asking co-workers for help?

That specific unreliable coworker who doesn’t properly qualify that they aren’t completely certain … I believe for most people, yes.

We tend not to trust bullshitters.
Bringing your own trust store to system https libraries is not often supported. Especially when you get into kinds of embedded environments Netflix supports. You also might not have the capability to bring your own TLS library either. If it's a limited environment, you might only get reasonable performance if you use the system ciphers, and they may not be exposed as primitives, and x.509 parsing takes up a lot of code space in the likely event that you've got limitations there too.
There is a big difference between copying and stealing. People who copy don’t get sued, people who steal do.

Although I am not exactly sure about the difference anyway.

Also, if you are going to make an argument, then please do it. I don’t exactly appreciate shallow comments when I have plenty of evidence to show as a rebuttal.
I worked at a rather large bank at the start of covid and we overnighted a bit of networking kit on a first class flight when everything was more or less grounded, I think there was a 50x multiple to the cost of the item vs the cost of transport for it, time is very much money
I have this issue with Zoom as well, when people have their perfectly selected picture from 5 years ago for so long, then at one point they turn on their camera and you can't help but see the difference between both.
It's a business hotel thing, oddly all the cheap chains will have free breakfast and wifi, but often something like the Hilton will be pay for both, likely because the clientele they're targeting is business employees who will just expense the whole thing.
Why use xrdp, and not x11 forwarding over ssh -C (compression)?

I can reasonably drive firefox over that link whereas anything bitmap based tends to just die.
Sure, but from a technical point of view I don't think the range of human facial expressions is that wide anyway. It's just movements of muscles.
Very interesting that this comment comes from you (pron is the guy giving the talk).

Is this something you know someone is working on? Maybe at Oracle? Or just a general thought? I follow the loom-dev mailing-list and haven't seen this topic come up.

SSD manufacturers have controllers that checksum the data and manage the blocks. One could even imagine going one step further by having the continuation being sent to the controller and filters and projections being done right there; saving also the SATA bandwidth. Some manufacturers are starting to get there [1]

What about GC in this context, though? Getting over the wire means execution is not guaranteed, the DB server can crash. Continuations stacks' content is scanned for references. Does that mean that the old copy of the continuation is kept there for the GC? And there's a timeout to collect the continuation if it goes silent? What if the remote continuation want to access something in the previous JVM? Should the continuation be scanned before being sent? Can that be a compile-time guarantee? What about exceptions and stacktraces?

[1] https://www.arm.com/blogs/blueprint/computational-storage
WSLg works really well, even for OpenGL 3/4, CUDA, and when connected via RDP as well.
Because recurring revenue vs no revenue or one time revenue is hard to pass up as a business.

I do think cloud based sharing/features do have their place in a tool like this however.
The difference between those past successes and this is that with none of the previous doomsday weapons has it been possible to cobble something together from COTS parts and open software. Nor have they had a large degree of crossover with your common garage tinkerer hobbies like drones and robotics. Nuclear material and chemicals are likely easier to put controls around or get names put on a list if/when acquiring them.

Applying controls to software and embedded hardware is a bit more difficult. Then you have things like precision GPS systems that might just be too useful for civilian uses to not allow free access to. It feels like pandoras box might already have been opened on this one without some backpedalling in certain areas.
I was a bit disappointed they didn't try swapping avatars with each other. Would've been interesting to see the effect of two people temporarily inhabiting each other's skin, albeit virtually.

I wonder if it could be useful technology in helping face transplant patients get used to their new features, in advance of the operation. A virtual mirror, with a reflection of the future.
I VERY much more trust a coworker to know things than I do this AI, especially given not just the subject of this thread, but the larger conversation around it. ChatGPT has a reputation already for just spewing out complete nonsense. Didn't Bing's implementation argue with someone about what freaking year it was not awfully long ago?

These chat bots "know" a shit ton and a half of stuff in that they are connected to the largest collection of knowledge known to man, the Internet. But "knowing" and "understanding" are two different things. The various search engines also "know" a ton about where to find things online, that doesn't mean they know shit about those things. And as we're seeing here: without the context to know that when someone wants an IP scanner, they want something good, that won't give their computer malware, that'll be reasonably priced or even open source, or even what platform, it just gives an answer based on a search.

You could just search for ip scanning software and gotten all the information BingGPT shared with the author of the piece.

And like, if you wanted to be charitable, you could say "well the author should've given more information about what they wanted" but again, that's not different from an existing search engine and more crucially: the AI didn't ask questions. Didn't ask for platform, how much they wanted to spend, if they preferred open source, or even something more general like what they were trying to accomplish. Nada. Just did a search, and reported results.
I suspect the "how" is that we just never got the regulation that would prevent it because the 'small-government and low taxes' are aligned perfectly with the large business interests which tend to fund all campaigns. The "low taxes" types want to maximize the sting of all forms of tax and this is a great way to do that. And the businesses appreciate the psychological benefits of being able to show the minimum possible number. Even if a "display only the final price" rule applied to all a consumer's options, we probably just buy things more when they're labeled as "$99.99" instead of "$109.99."

For extra fun, consider how phone bills attempt to "pass through" their own tax obligations, which have little to do with your own incremental usage, in the form of 'recovery fees' tacked onto bills. I suspect we'll eventually see those creep into all kinds of transactions, especially among other monopolistic/oligopoly businesses where you have little if any choice.
This article contains a lot of inaccuracies.

Based on your statements, like

> Qdrant stores both the vectors and the metadata in a sqlite database.

It looks like you have benchmarked local mode of qdrant.
It doesn't even use vector indexes and is not designed for any kind of production usage.

For anyone reading this article, I urge you to do your own benchmarks and not rely on claims that do not have open source code attached to them to replicate the results
According to reddit:

* Never go with a power purchase agreement (PPA) or lease.

* Solar loans are not really worth it (super high interest rate compared to home loans).

* Installing yourself is doable, but as with all other contractors, best to compare installers. This requires some research beforehand.

My rush journey to meet NEM2 date earlier this year in CA: 1) researching components (panels/inverters) based on /r/solar subreddit 2) picked a popular inverter manufacturer (Enphase) and went to their "installers" page 3) spammed 20-30 installers and compared the ability for them to meet the date as well as cost for the sizing/components I wanted 4) selected one installer and let them do the install. Before getting to (4) I did get a lot of "what you're asking for doesn't make sense" which I respected.
Relies very strongly on simple airgapping. Can't do anything to it if there's no wires in the direction you want. Can't remotely hack if there's nothing antenna connected that can talk to flight control. It has the luxury of not needing to do the "limited RCE" that is a modern web request
This is nonsense. If the OS allows sideloading, users typically can install ANY app via sideloading. Like you can install telegram on your macOS in that very same China that bans it for iOS devices. Why? Because sideloading means no one has control what should work on device but the user. And this is essential if you live under the oppressive government.
My argument is that it's not a precise technical term of art. There are many of those but this isn't one.The evidence you can easily see in thread and in pretty wide usage on the internet. Your argument is 'this is nihilism' which is mostly vibes and grumpy vibes at that.
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Comparing this to the Amtrak map side-by-side, Amtrak looks like some kids project started last year.
That used to be the case but it has changed now. Probably depends on the phone broadband chipset used.

These days you can passthru your WiFi or even a wired connection (via USB to a connected PC or a Ethernet-to-USB adapter) via a Hotspot.
It's fairly obvious Microsoft is ahead of its skis trying to lock down the new market. I'm glad they aren't building self-driving cars yet.

At this point I'm guessing anything in Azure Repos or private Github repositories are just a small oopsie away from being leaked by some accidental training mistake or misconfigured token.
Sure, but the same technology is what enables you to be a photo-realistic Kzin. Once you have eye, mouth, and body tracking, an effective way to transmit that information in realtime, and a way to apply those motions realistically to a model, then you can swap it out with any compatible model.
> Base it on say, Karl Popper and Media Literacy theory

How would this work?
Saying a comment is dumb isn't saying you are dumb. If you took personal slight from the phrasing, it wasn’t intended… not. And you know this argument is BS, you infringed the rules about civil discourse first, but now you're trying to use them so you gotta try something ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

> If you look at a modern economy car, it weighs more than economy cars of the past or non-approved models for the US, despite using lighter weight materials for comparable components. So where does the extra weight come from?

Ah yes, because your old car also had AC, electric window, and all the comfort a modern car has (including the car's form factor, giving more room for arms and legs, and less effort to get out of the car), and then the only difference must be safety…

> You also picked a different comment to illustrate the context rather than your actual post

Yes I took an adjacent comment in the same thread that you posted 5 minutes before your response to mine. So that must count as a completely different context, right? No, and you know it as well.

> If the data contains zero it means it ranges from saying the US cars are safer to saying they are less safe. Zero is contained because it’s within this range. In other words, you can’t make strong claims at all.

Of course you can make strong claims, and you're even making a strong claim yourself right now! The claim I make (which is ironically the same as the one you're making right now) is that the study shows that you can't make a strong claim about the US safety being higher than the one in the EU. Which was your argument!
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The problem in the US though is that once you get to your destination you are probably in a city dependent on cars because of such poor walkability and public transport, so now you have to rent a car as well.

Looking at travel from Austin to SF, taking a train is a longer duration trip and costs more.

One way on Oct 20th, Kayak has a flight for $119 and Wanderu has a train trip for $662 that is 3 days and 8 hours in duration.

If I could take my car on this train it might be worth it, from a cost and logistics standpoint train pretty much always loses.

I say this as someone who grew up enjoying the metro in dc and ny and use rail and ferry's when overseas.

Until infrastructure, subsidies and other externalities are addressed train travel will not be competitive, I have far more hope for level 3 self driving cars than I do for walkable cities and train travel parity.
They offered a more than 100% revenue share? How exactly is that not anticompetitive?
Hi mark
>> Qdrant stores both the vectors and the metadata in a sqlite database.
LOL
Guys, before developing a DB, learn to write and read code. Qdrant is not using any third party db solutions under the hood (besides Rocks DB for metadata) but written from scratch in Rust. What you benchmarking is the local mode, a client side implementation for quickly trying out stuff without starting a docker.
EvoDB, another "Database" written in PURE Python.
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>Iraq was not "annexed", but the west installed a puppet government to do what they want, and they attempted to brainwash the population with western values.

This is a lie. There was a legitimate democratic election in Iraq in January 2005 with 58% voter turnout. Because of the Shia majority of Iraq they voted into power a pro-Iranian Shia-dominated government which is the very opposite of a US "puppet government".
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> but the alternative is making a PCB that is much larger to accept a M.2 slot. It just isn't possible in the current footprint from what I can tell.

I'm not saying they made a bad choice; they're facing a lot of constraints and have a lot of IO to get out while staying hobbyist friendly.

> Also, other connectors for this type have surprisingly low durability. Most M.2 slots are rated for extremely low mating cycles.

Sure, but I don't -need- as many mating cycles for M.2, as it'd be screwed to the board and done. Whereas if I'm dealing with a Pi stackup and coming in and out of the case, I'm likely to get through the couple dozen cycles I'm allowed with FPC. And if I'm putting it on a vibration-intensive environment like a quadcopter, I need to be pretty dang careful with mechanicals.

> Again, this sounds overblown.

Everything's a tradeoff. Flex is cheap and small and offers versatility. It's also delicate and annoying.
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> So, no, not arbitrary at all.

Nothing you say conflicts with being arbitrary. Axioms are arbitrarily self-evident—they are "arbitrary" because they are the result of some person's judgement, not somehow produced with some other processes, and they are self-evident because they provide the basis for reasoning and cannot be contradicted within reasoning parameterized by the axioms.
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Entire page crashes with "Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information)." if HTML5 autoplay is disabled.
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it was a tongue-in-cheek joke referencing a meme.

You were meant to chuckle at it, not take it seriously.
It would be helpful if it was specified prominently anywhere whether this was a client, a server, or both. I've been looking at the screenshots to try to make an educated guess.
The irony of Windows 11, which is marketed as a secure operating system, is that it is riddled with links to Bing that are infested with scam ads.
>Read Kant.

Nah. And either way following such a reasoning would just tell you whether a statement meets a condition defined by an arbitrarily chosen axiomatic system. Whether someone chooses to call that moral or not is still subjective. Look, I can do it right now:

bool is_moral(string s){ return false; }
It is literally a quote from the community guidelines. The spirit of the comment was an exhortation to follow them.
You can on Android, and have for some time IIRC. This is how I get free wifi on my computer by passing it through my T-Mobile phone.
I used to do this on long flights, but most in flight providers have stopped trying to identify and shape specific protocols and now limit bandwidth purely by client. If you get a few people on all at once it thinks you are streaming video and throttles you.
Before ASCII, languages didn’t necessarily mandate what characters to use for operators and other symbols. They defined an abstract syntax, but left it to the implemention for a particular machine what chracters to use for a given symbol, because of the large variation in keyboards and character sets across machines.

I believe Algol and BCPL did it like that, and C was one of the first languages to specify the exact characters to use for its symbols.
I don't trust crypto people, but I also don't trust the New York Post. Hard to draw anything from this story.
I am not comparing this to an iPhone. I am comparing this to other photographers
The delays aren't really Amtrak's fault.

Freight companies manage the tracks and pay lip service to Amtrak's regulated priority. Until 2019 that enforcement was up to the DOJ, who didn't really do anything, but Amtrak was granted the ability to sue that year. https://enotrans.org/article/durbin-introduces-bill-to-allow...

Amtrak is currently trying to sue their host railroads but these suits take time. https://seekingalpha.com/article/4598703-for-all-rail-freigh...
I don’t see why video chat apps shouldn’t do something like this. Maybe the encoding/decoding is too slow.
You say "they like the lifestyle it brings", but that feels like a euphamism. Cannibalism is a lifestyle some might not want to give up, if they're into that. When your conspicuous consumption is on the scale of peoples' whole livelihoods just winking out of existence, it's clearly not about anything material anymore. I'd suggest rather they are addicted to the power and status, to having people fawn and grovel, 24/7. Their careers are likely the place they get to exercise power the most, so it makes sense to keep "working" well past your material needs to keep your lording-over-people addiction sated.
I think this is a common concept that people struggle to grasp, so let me offer a perspective. Those of us who have relatives who lived during the Second World War may have heard about famine, starving, and the like. But what you might have missed is that some of the people that lived through it look at food completely differently. There's no amount of food you can have at home where it feels enough, no pantry stocked well enough, because they remember, if the times get bad, they can get real bad. It needn't make logical sense, it's what they've instinctually learned. Money can work much the same way. If you come from a place of poverty then it can often be the case that there's no amount of money you can have in the bank that feels safe enough. This is of course only one way people can internalize concepts like this, peer pressure, family expectations, etc can all lead to similar ideas.
The author of the sample code implies it will run without prompting.
Of course they are: The parent's genes are mixed randomly. Every child is the non-consenting participant in a randomized trial. That the structure of the experiment being run is standardized does nothing to change this fundamentally uncontrolled character.

Which is ethically fine by me! I'm just pointing out that reproduction is one of the areas where the limitations of consent based bioethics are blindingly obvious.
> If the kids are put in state's care, well, current society can't take good care of existing orphans. How are we going to handle more parent-less kids?

I have two children whom I have tried quite conscientiously to not expose to the more toxic parts of our culture. They have, to my knowledge, never watched any of the sitcoms where some significant fraction of the comedy revolves around parents and other adults complaining about having children/families. None of the standup comedians of that ilk (supposing that's still a part of their schtick). I avoid anything that talks about how "your carbon footprint will be smaller if you just don't have kids". They weren't really aware of the term "overpopulation".

Most of all, I've always talked quite fondly and genuinely of having become a father myself.

And, now, even as teenagers, they seem to look forward to the idea of becoming parents themselves one day.

I don't have a large sample size, and it's hardly scientific, but the biggest problem I think is that our culture revels in how awful parenting is. The act of believing that idea causes people to be incapable of enjoying it. I also suspect rather strongly that it is more than just some arbitrary meme that bounces around in everyone's collective heads, instead the idea itself causes people to fail to enjoy parenting and to avoid it. It becomes this self-fulfilling prophecy, should they fail to achieve lasting childlessness.

Why should such a culture deserve to even survive? Your civilization requires that people continue to reproduce, but shows nothing but contempt for the concept. It shows contempt for itself. All of the very ideals this civilization embraces and exalts seem contrary to reproduction, and no one shows any awareness that that would have to change, let alone interest in making the changes.
Regardless of our thoughts on the solar, climate, and weather cycles.

We must do more to control unnatural pollution, water pollutants, forever chemicals, deep acquifer draining, lead pipes, go everywhere plastics, etc.
Here's my pet example...feel free to google around yourself on this.

Problem: I want an AWS CLI command line that requests a whole bunch of wildcard certificates from AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for a TLD.

Ostensible solution: the AWS official docs have a small snippet to achieve this, BUT -- the snippet on the official page is inadvisable as it leads to a browser cert warning.

So I (skeptically) asked ChatGPT for a command line to achieve what I was trying to do.

Try 1: got basically the snippet from the AWS official docs (but with the inadvisable flag set to the _Correct_ value, strangely)

Prompt 2: please give me more best practice options

Try 2: get back a bunch of new CLI options and their meanings. 3 are useful. 1 is hallucinated. 1 is deprecated.

Prompt 3: keep going with more options

Try 3: 2 more useful new options, 2 more options I chose not to use

As a skeptic, the overall experience was much more efficient that googling around or even reading a manpage. I put it all on the fact that context is maintained between questions, so you don't have to repeat yourself when asking for clarifications.