skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was against it, even the afghan invasion, on day-1. Caught a lot of shit in post-9/11 NYC for that.

Protested in the streets in NYC, almost got arrested a few times.

Didn't do a damn bit of difference.

We all could have and should have done more to stop it.
This is an absurd proposition. How is one supposed to think critically when there's nowhere to go for reliable information? We'll be left just taking shots in the dark, what little amount of informed reasoning we had before will be replaced by pure conjecture. There won't be any increase in critical thinking.
> I realize a lot of people on HN are super privacy minded and a Ring is not for them, but realistically if you buy a Ring you WANT to protect your home/family in which case you would happily hand over footage if police were investigating a robbery next door.

I don't follow the logic. The police are not your friends. They are not the good guys. Their job is not to protect you or your neighbor. It's to put people (possibly you) in jail--as many as they can. Handing surveillance footage over to the police only makes their job easier. It does not necessarily "protect your home/family". In general, getting involved with law enforcement, even as a crime victim or witness, is fraught. Let alone as a subpoena target or person of interest. Best to be as invisible as you can.

I don't really think this is paranoid. Encounters with the police come with a non-zero chance of being put in jail, injured, or even killed. The upside is questionable.
I think as long as dupe posts are not desired, and there is no search to find dupes before posting, that it can't be called done.
> "you didn't do most of the work, you just altered it, and then want to claim credit (and legal ownership) for it wholesale" is a good description of all scientific research that has ever occurred.

And this is why we shouldn't allow copyrights or patents for broad concepts, only for specific methodologies/ implementations/ designs (patent) and exact works (copyright). But in this case they are not starting with a broad scientific principle like e=mc2, they are starting with an exact work/ book.

Learning the concepts taught in a textbook and then making your own textbook fro the generally-derived knowledge is ok.

Taking the textbook and creating a list of notes, and then making a textbook from those notes, is copyright infringement and plagiarism.

ML models are not learning anything about the concepts behind the works they analyze. They are creating patterns of metadata about the content of the work itself, not the concepts therein, and creating an approximation of the content from those patterns in turn. This is directly akin to the metadata notes approach.

A more direct analogy would be reverse-engineering of software.

Legal RE is entirely possible, but requires a strict non-analysis of the software content itself, only the inputs and outputs can be analyzed. Never the software itself.

If you examine the content of the software, even if you do not actually copy any code, you are (potentially) committing copyright infringement or even IP theft.

All ML models do the latter; they look at the book/ song/ art content itself, and then attempt to produce something with similar effects.

Is the case a sure win against OpenAI? Not at all; courts are notoriously non-technical, and prosecutors may also not have the technical knowledge to properly contextualize the actions of OpenAI in a way the judge(s) can understand.

But do I think that based on all evidence it should be a sure loss for OpenAI? Absolutely.
Coal and gas unburnt because of solar and wind generation is still energy stored. The rate at which you consume/burn it is less constant and if renewables deliver eg. 30% of power on average over a year, you need 30% less burnable stuff, which is a win.

No need for brownouts, especially in winter when solar is low already and fossil plants would already take most of the load.
Even the ones who were opposed at the time, myself included, should have done more.
Everything sucks in the context of future, yet to be implemented, improvements.

The problem is not marching forward and progressing. If you use everything sucks to turn your brain off and accept things for what they are, you will be discouraged from progress.
Everyone should check out the links to previous years on that page. They're all so thorough and well done. They strike such a good balance of being a joke, being a unique concept, and actual execution of the idea.
>plenty of criticism is done as part of a job, an enterprise to make money, a business

So what? The profit driven nature is still a factor in whether or not something is fair use. Just because it's not make or break doesn't mean you can say "Nothing in "fair use" is about the new work making money or not." There's more nuance to it than that.
The video on the blog [1] is what i'd show on the homepage. I had trouble figuring out what the product was.

Also slick website. I really like the "orb" animation. Would be cool to see a blog post on how that was made.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pelCnZpnGNM
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The foreground process will only get scheduled ahead of the background process if there is a shortage of CPU power. On today's many-core consumer machines it is much more likely that the background process will continue to make progress, with the only thing slowing it down being the repeated page faults.

Counting on CPU starvation to save memory seems like a very fragile solution.

I agree that commit peaks can affect foreground performance. I've filed bugs for an ephemeral 480 MiB bug in Chrome (caused by an errant product image), and I blogged about an errant 4 GiB allocation that wiped out the disk cache on my 8 GiB machine (https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/09/04/windows-slowdow...).

But treating working-set peaks as synonymous with commit peaks is problematic. I still believe that trimming of working sets will rarely save memory, and a working-set cap will virtually never be better than occasional trimming. The cap fails to address the higher-than-the-cap memory consumption in many cases, it just makes it more expensive.
> Have you protested?

I did. I even almost got arrested on multiple occasions for it.

> Written to your representatives?

Hell, I went to Washington DC and their local offices on multiple occasions and told them to their faces what I thought of them for doing what they were doing.

Didn't do a damn thing, could have done more. Should have done more.
From a layman that enjoys scifi, I always thought universe appears to be infinite because we are in a lower dimension. Gravity is a product of interaction between parallel 3D universes. And dark matter is just matter from other universes. Is there any basis to this theory or am I over simplifying it.
>freedom to work at the lowest level when we need to, while also giving us plenty of higher level APIs for most day to day situations,

Mixing of these two is why nobody really takes C++ seriously anymore.

If C++ dissalowed C style memory accessors, removed <reinterpret_cast> and everything was done through stdlib and smart pointers, it would probably be above Rust right now. A good portion of Rust borrow semantics were already built to the smart pointer system.

But with mixing, you not only have to deal with all the typing syntax, you also have no idea if you are just going to segfault because there is a C style dereference somewhere to a null pointer.
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I've seen the DOJ lose every antitrust case its filed recently. All they're doing is at worst generating bad PR for large companies and airing their dirty laundry.

The US Government might actually need to pass legislation if it wants effective anti-trust enforcement.
Exercise means significantly faster breathing and thus significantly more exposure per minute. Road cyclists can and should use a mask which helps vs particulates, but they can’t easily avoid these gasses.

Also, while most cars have some air filtration for the cabin the quality of that filtration can vary quite a bit. It can be well worth an aftermarket upgrade.
Radio Garden Live is free and amazing:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radio-garden-live/id1339670993

I have a list of all the apps I like, some are free, most not.
https://www.craft.me/s/X1IOuAjVCF7WPS
Speaking as someone who was against it.

Iraq was popular because we were lied to.

Saddam was behind 9/11 so we have to go in there in retribution.

Iraq has WMDs and is going to use them on us so we have to go in there to stop them.

Saddam is attacking and killing his own people so we have to go in there on humanitarian grounds.
It froze my MacBook Air m2 for a few minutes
I use we, and I also opposed them from day 1.

Could have done more to stop them. Should have done more to stop them.
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I don't see why it couldn't have.
Great work - I like this a lot
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This will obviously play into have fully automated production lines, sort of what Musk wanted to do at Tesla but the tech just wasn't there yet. Eventually they can train these robots to do every task on the line and they may only need supervisors and not employees. Guess the possibility is endless in every industry from farming to house cleaning to construction.
> Code is simply an unfortunate vehicle to do so.

Code is generally more efficient and definitely less ambiguous than natural language. Why is that unfortunate?
what about k8s?
I haven't read too much about it yet, but some standing points of confusion I have with OpenPubKey:

1. OpenPubKey states that it uses the OIDC `nonce` claim as its public key stuffing mechanism, but I'm not aware of many (any?) popular OIDC IdPs that allow the user to control the nonce in such a way (for misuse resistance reasons). The closest thing that I'm aware of is some IdPs' ability to configure a custom `aud` claim, but this typically comes with substantial restrictions (such as a preset allowlist of audiences, or significant length limits).

2. OpenPubKey appears to wave away the problem of key rotation on OIDC IdPs, which is actually a pretty serious one: Google or Microsoft could decide tomorrow to arbitrarily change their rotation periods, which would impact the reliability of any system that relies on OPK signatures. Sigstore essentially dodges this problem by introducing a trusted CA and transparency log; I think OPK could similarly dodge it by introducing a key transparency scheme for keys observed from public IdPs. But doing so would involve running trusted infrastructure, in turn diminishing the value proposition vs. Sigstore.

(I also agree with the privacy concerns: JWTs really aren't meant to be used in this way, and treating them as a disclosable token has potential privacy and security implications that need to be evaluated. Sigstore has similar privacy problems because of how it embeds OIDC claims, but it doesn't leak the JWTs themselves.)
You're not saying anything I disagree with. Technology will, and has been very quickly improving those limitations.
why is downloading a docker image and using docker from the command line less of a deterrent for you than downloading a model and using it from the command line?
10 mins does sound a little quick?

I can say from experiencing, 20 mins in the freezer for a bare 3.5 or 2.5 HDD would give about 5 mins of "quick, find important stuff" time...

>_last ditch method for pulling files off a dying HDD_
Before pulling it apart and and putting the platters in an identical donor drive. (Dam IBM DEATHSTAR drives back in the day!)
If you want to sort by any column and paginate on any column (so you can have your cursor), a BTREE (MySQL
index) is sort of the wrong structure in the first place. You probably want a document store for something like this. Scylla!

More pragmatically, just force bookmarked scans - limit the columns that can be sorted by - use a replica with indexes that the writer doesn’t have - pay for fast disks - use one of the new parallel query engines like Aurora or Vitess - just tell the business people to wait a dang minute, computer is thinking!
I am a musician and need to print sheet music for the ensembles that I play with. I personally like reading off of an iPad, but there are plenty of situations where that is difficult or impossible.

I've also printed a lot of maps for climbing/ hiking/ mountaineering.

There are a lot of situations where having a printed copy of something can be critical, either for performance or safety. I like virtual reality, but a lot of us are still operating in meat space.
Bullshit.

EVs do not stay plugged in all the time. So the idea that they will be free capacity is a pipe dream. But let’s say that they do. My EV has a 100kwh battery (when brand new). The average household power usage in Florida where I live is 1500kwh/month, or 50kwh/day (obviously few people charging EVs). So assuming 100% efficiency, and assuming the pessimistic California brownout length of 2 hours (average is 1-2 hours), my EV could power 24 homes during one brownout before being fully discharged. Less than one percent of homeowners own EVs, and only about a quarter percent of renters, so we’re looking at having well less than a quarter of the power we need just for residences, assuming every EV was plugged in. Add in commercial power usage and the fact that people will still want to get around and you’ll find that EVs are not a viable power storage system. And they couldn’t have helped in TX where the outage was up to 17 days in some areas.
Depends on the project. Sometimes I do use libraries and sometimes I don't. But either way, there's a huge difference imo between using libraries and using an LLM. When using a library, I'm still writing code myself. When using an LLM, I'm just doing a newer version of copy pasting stack overflow answers. If other people don't see it that way, more power to them, but I can't really find fulfillment in doing that.
exactly ! and imo, this is way better than toml :)
This letter isn't a legal demand, this is a request to people who are interested in the health of the ecosystem and community.

The way similar sorts of issues are often enforced legally is by using trademarks so that if someone forks your project, they have to be clear that it is separate.

In this case, it isn't a fork and it's hard to see how those tools would apply but the underlying issue of user confusion and brand harm are still similar.
This will unlock a ton of Enterprise use cases. I have met with a number of enterprises that have a hard no on sending much of their data into OpenAI, even on Azure. I think this will persist as the brand faces many hurdles with respect for IP, in public perception.
I know my list is sadly hardly complete. Its just the things I think most about and the things I happen to be saddest about.
Sure, but many phones are so wide that I can't reach elements at the bottom of the screen (but on the side opposite my thumb). I'm willing to not fuss about stuff all the way in the top-left corner, but I almost always have to hold my phone with two hands to use it.
> I also maintain that for a lot of the programming that makes the world go round, it's not that hard

Depends on what you mean by "makes the world go". If you mean the shopping cart of a website makes the world go then sure, but if you mean the underlying database engine or OS kernel or deepest part of the stack, then it is definitely not easy.

Ultimately, learning the fundamental concepts of programming is not hard at all and anybody can learn them. Programming is hard or easy solely depends on - what the program is supposed to do.
Honestly I was just trying to give you an opportunity to pitch to what I consider to be the top question whenever anybody makes medical claims. I didn’t really expect you to have a solid answer, especially regarding your app specifically considering it’s a new project. I do think you should have summaries of studies on the general concept of vagal nerve stimulation and what benefits that can provide.
>but became accustomed used to buying new PCs every six or seven years.

Why would they buy any quicker? The average laptop in 2016 was only maybe 10% faster than a laptop in 2010 thanks to that stupid Ultrabook shit (and Intel refusing to push out more than a 10% YOY improvement in their standard-voltage desktop lineup), which resulted in 2020's CPU lineup only being about twice as fast as one made in 2010. And, so long as you had a machine with an SSD, there's very little difference between a laptop from 2015 and 2023 if all you're doing is browsing Facebook (which is what most people are doing with them).

Plus, at the end of the 2010s, tablets started to become mature enough to supplant laptops as the household's only computer, so you'd either buy a tablet or get a new laptop, but not both.

Phones are a different beast in two ways- first, if you're buying Android, you're throwing your phone away every 2 years anyway because the ecosystem sucks; Qualcomm is even more incompetent when it comes to hardware performance than Google is with software performance and it really shows, especially since Android allows manufacturers to stack a bunch of other unremovable shit and skins that does nothing but take up storage space, enshittifying the device right out of the box like having 10 unremovable IE6 toolbars did back when people still used IE6 (Lenovo is less guilty of this than some but it's still not as clean as a Pixel is). Plus, financial incentives exist (for both Android and iOS) to trade in one's old phone for a new one at a steep discount, they get smashed up far more frequently than laptops do in ways that make them impossible to fix, and they're fashion accessories to a point and it's nice to have the new one in a way that normal computers don't suffer from as much.

It's not rocket science; the industry became boring and stagnant so people moved on (and good GPUs have been unaffordable for the vast majority of the last decade including in prebuilts, so...)
A "regular person" also can:

- start their own country and call it Edunistan

- bribe ICANN to take over the .edu TLD

- open a university in the new country

- spend 15 years earning a PhD at that university

- reserve ~/name and start posting LLM generated content
The Dick Smith Funway books were a gateway drug for this primary school nerd. They were so simple even a parent could participate.
https://archive.org/details/dicksmithsfunwayintoelectronicsv...
You will casually breach the GFW if the VPN you pay for is not blocked yet.
QUIC handles the packet ordering and retransmission of lost packets before it is handed to the upper layer of the application. However, if you are just sending one channel of video packets through the pipe, it probably won’t buy you much more. Where QUIC additionally excels is being able to send and/or receive multiple streams of data across the “single” connection where each is effectively independent and does not suffer head of line blocking across all streams.
It really feels like a system that could be simplified while all parties still get the financial effects they desire.
The Texas grid has been buckling because of extreme weather events and rapidly increasing load. Texas broke electricity demand records 11 times last summer [2022] and 9 times this summer.

The rapid deployment of renewables and grid-scale batteries is saving the Texas grid from brownouts and blackouts.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/texas-power-use-hits-record...

Grid-scale batteries have also been saving California from blackouts. Back in 2020, the California grid wasn't able to handle the peak demand of 46.8 GW during a heat wave and resulted in blackouts. But in 2022, thanks to the rapid deployment of several GW of additional batteries, California weathered a peak of 51.4 GW without issue.

https://www.icf.com/insights/energy/battery-energy-storage-b...
lol felt way worse than The Simpsons.
You know, I'm semi interested in firming up this bet, only because I'll be fucking THRILLED to lose.

Make it a hundred, though, so I can defend it to my dependants better and you're on.

(I realize that even if I win, I lose, but whatever, I'm more interested in talking with someone who has significant hope, enough to put money on the line.)
It's not actually that big of a company. They only made ~$200M last year.

But 10% of their revenue is $1.7B. It would cost them almost a decade's worth of profit, so that's how much they'd spend to prevent it, which is plenty enough to influence legislation. "Percent of revenue" fines are dumb and create crazy incentives.
Drink verification can to launch missile.
The Queen of Anatahan
Because it's impossible to get started as someone who has no background in ML. I tried earlier this year and also failed.

1. Obtain the Llama models. Apparently you have to sign up for access and get a download link? I don't want to do that, found some public download links instead. Ok, now I have a few hundred GBs of model files.

2. Compile llama.cpp. Missing dependencies, took an hour to figure out how to resolve.

3. Quantize the model? What does that even mean?

4. Install pytorch. Run the command in the README. Python exception.

5. Install NVIDIA helper libraries. Doesn't work. Try installing the AMD helpers to run on CPU instead. No instructions for how to do this. Eventually figured it out.

6. Try running pytorch again. Same exception.

I gave up after a full day of trying to make this work. The Docker image is for people like me.
There have been some very significant prizes for achievements of unknown feasibility that turned out well. For instance the Longitude Act for a method of precisely determining a ship's longitude lead to the development of very precise marine chronometers. (Granted, there was a bit of difficulty collecting the prize.)
lol reminds me of all the tech companies that tried OKR’s “because Google does it”

what a pointless burden
Seems reasonable for reducing friendly fraud. In the US you just get your money back no questions asked and it's up to the merchant to provide proof that they provided the services/product as advertised
And when I saw add in the start menu search on insiders a couple years ago is why I changed my default not to my Linux drive and started driving it daily.
That's very likely not true in the slightest. Only a very small percentage of suburbanites are close to a private school. And of that small percentage, most aren't close to being able to afford private school.
got it thanks for the explanation!

helps the command line actually work
It's as if just printing trillions with a two trillion dollar deficit while also raising interest rates with record inflation doesn't inspire confidence or something.
This. I ran ICQ on a machine with a single core 200 mhz processor and 32 MB (yes that’s an M) and it was fast with more features than Slack.
Lol, yes. Do you know why people use Electron, though?
What is the optimum temp? Maybe 4 degrees to avoid any moisture turning to ice. Or lower if you can really dry it out?
I also highly recommend trying LMStudio. It’s a nice interface for downloading, using, and holding LLMs locally
This was the game that taught me the name "Spiro Agnew" (being one of the choices to the question "Who was not Vice-President of the United States in 1973-74?")
Longitude Act
This has always been true. Antitrust failed hard until the Sherman Antitrust Act was passed. Courts can’t just do things without the law backing them up
The Venom GT was indeed what I was thinking of. 1451hp in a 2800lb car.
To me, "advance towards useless at a (possibly exponentially) higher rate" means that it makes it dramatically worse. Also, the convergence point is difference. At some point human-generated spam content is no longer worth it because the costs exceed the profits. With AI making the process cheaper, you get to a much higher ratio of spam.
I think you’re basically saying that there are still no good known use cases for blockchain (/s but only a little)