skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been of this opinion for quite a while now and the part about

> If you raise VC money, the above scenarios are considered a failure

Rings particularly true.

My side company doesn’t make much right now but it’s growing and one day I could see being able to go full time on it. However there is no scenario that I can imagine where taking money (even if someone wanted to give it to me) would be a good idea. The business just doesn’t have the potential to justify the investment. It could grow to support myself and maybe even a few other people but never to a point where it would make investors happy.

I wish more people went the bootstrap/self-funded route without the intention of selling from day 1. That’s the other gross part of our industry, making something you have no desire to run long-term, just making it attractive enough for a larger company to buy. Those businesses are rarely sustainable.

As I’ve grown older the idea of “winner takes all” or “creating a business just to sell it” has become less and less attractive to me. I’m not saying I wouldn’t “sell out” if the price was right but there is a difference in my mind between those two things (creating to sell and choosing to sell).

The sad thing is that some really cool ideas (that aren’t “winner take all”) do require a substantial, to me, amount of money to get off the ground. I spent time on a side project with a few other people until we realized that money transmitter licenses we would need pretty much required outside investment. Things like that really suck and I understand investment in those cases a little more.
I use please. I found myself defaulting to it and thought carefully about whether it was stupid. In the end I decided to keep doing it for my own benefit: if I get into the habit of dropping it, it could easily leak into human conversation! I'd rather treat a computer as human than risk treating humans as computers.
Looking at the cookie banner stupidity, I don't think a huge number of false positives would generate backlash.
I want this too.
Fcron's approach is to provide a shell where you can examine, run, renice, and kill cron jobs: http://fcron.free.fr/doc/en/fcrondyn.1.html.
(You can run a job either independently or instead of the next scheduled run.)
I think this is competitive with what systemd provides by separating the service from the timer.
(Edit: I mean in this area. As a sibling comment points out, the separation also enables parametrization.)
An advantage that systemd has is that you can refer to a service by a meaningful name instead of a numeric job identifier.

What I would like to have in fcron is the ability to direct the job's output to the console when running a job immediately.
Totally. But in the or case, I think most people are voting for quantity over quality, and I'm not seeing a great deal of evidence that it's an insufficient method (so far).

FWIW, kids are great but I have no interest in having any - I'll leave this world to you fine folks to kill each other over.
I translated the Z-Machine port into Spanish as a quick exercise.

Here there is:

https://caja.texto-plano.xyz/anthk/inform6/

There are some other adventure translated into Spanish, too.
You can avoid it with `cronic`. It ignores the output of the command if the exit is successful. Only results in emails if there's a failure.
Book Three: Day of Shame

Subtitle: "A Rabble Fled the Test of Nationhood"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Fellow_My_Country
Rare words should really only be used when they add value significant enough to counter their rareness. If there is a common word which is almost exactly the same in meaning then it should be used.

Especially in technical writing. Something like “the flange of a train wheel”, while flange is an uncommon word you may have to look up, you’ll be left knowing exactly what I’m talking about in a way that generic terms wouldn’t.
When interest rates for new bonds go up, the value of existing bonds go down. This only ever matters if you intend to resell the bond. If you hold it to maturity, you will get the same payout as you agreed to. However, if you try to sell your old bond with 3 percent yield, when bond buyers can go grab a bond with a 5 percent yield, they will pay you a lower price.
Definitly not. It was just a sparse voxel engine with model instancing. Didn‘t go anywhere and for good reason. Nanite does build on some very advanced and creative poly reduction tech and adds streaming to take it to the next level.
Walmart customers getting hostile at self-checkout – they blame anti-theft tech
Youglish.com is your friend
https://archive.ph/eSK8G
Triple buffering maintains a queue* of fully rendered frames ready to be displayed by the monitor. What I'm talking about is a queue of rendering commands for frames that still need to be rendered by the GPU.

* triple buffering does not actually use a queue, but rather two buffer swaps, which means a frame is allowed to skip ahead if completed early.
Recognise free will is an illusion and reap the emotional benefits
> In Japan, for example, roads are abandoned due to lack of use. A trend that seems to be happening in other countries such as China and Korea.

From what I saw on my recent travels in Japan, I'd suggest it was more a case of government vanity projects, local government corruption/desire to spend budgets and other mismanagement that resulted in over-engineered roads being put in places where there was clearly a very low population density.

The same was true of lovely new concrete/granite boardwalks and cycle paths on some of the remote islands in Okinawa Prefecture that were overgrown with vegetation and were impenetrable by bicycle (and almost impassible on foot).

Similarly new roads are being built on some of those islands given that there is noticeable traffic congestion.
This does not necessarily apply to you, but that system could also encourage making reckless dietary choices with the knowledge others would pay the potential bill.
More unrestricted autobahns I hope! ;)
Not individuals, but companies.

And the reason why is because companies aren't doing QA; they have things that need to get done.
Vision is going to be significantly harder to filter for due to the higher dimensional nature of the inputs.
Ah okay I get the distinction now thanks. I wasn’t aware of the form you were describing.
If you're using parameterized queries, then you _have_ to use PostgreSQL's "Extended Query" flow, which is what most people would think of as a "prepared statement". This is hardly opinionated.

But normally, you use an unnamed prepared statement and/or portal, which PG will clean up for you, essentially only letting you have one of those per session (what we think of as a connection).

I agree that sentence didn't make any sense. So I looked at the code (1) and what they mean is that they'll use a named prepared statement automatically, essentially caching the prepared statement within PG and the driver itself. They create a signature for the statement. I agree, this is opinionated!

(1) The main place where the parse/describe/bind/execute/sync data is created is, in my opinion, pretty bad code: https://github.com/porsager/postgres/blob/bf082a5c0ffe214924...
I'll add that you can query Stable Diffusion to show you pictures of 'delicious vistas' or 'lonely building', adjectives that aren't visual or references that are wildly inappropriate to the returning of a visual response, to explore what the system produces.

I spent a bit of time exploring this: I wanted to see what prompts like '8k' REALLY did to the image, because the underlying system doesn't really know what a sensor is, just what it produces, and that's heavily influenced by what people do with it.

Similarly, if you ask ChatGPT to 'somberly consider the possibility', you're demanding a mental state that will not exist, but you're invoking response colorings that can be pervasive. It's actually not unlike being a good writer: you can sprinkle bits of words to lead the reader in a direction and predispose them to expect where you're going to take them.

Imagine if you set up ChatGPT with all this, and then randomly dropped the word 'death' or 'murder' into the middle of the system prompt, somewhere. How might this alter the output? You're not specifically demanding outcomes, but the weights of things will take on an unusual turn. The machine's verbal images might turn up with surprising elements, and if you were extrapolating the presence of an intelligence behind the outputs, it might be rather unsettling :)
I read those posts and enjoyed them, especially the last one. Even though I only understood half of the content :-)
Better title:

"Misinformation is CyberWarfare"
No, no repo. This is from an artist I met this weekend. The site was actually broken, so I spent some time getting it working again.

It was originally from 2003 and written in flash!

Thought it was cool and wanted to share.
Yes, solar power has a huge amount of seasonal variation in the UK and the rest of northern Europe.

And obviously, batteries on their own won't cut it to deal with this seasonal variation.

But northern Europe, particularly the UK, has a lot less solar and a lot more wind in its grids than Spain, California, or Australia, for that very reason.

Beyond that, there are quite a few other current or near-term technologies you can use to deal with the seasonality of supply and demand. First, insulating its houses properly to reduce the winter demand peak. Second, switching to heat pumps is another. Third, expanding biogas production and using it specifically for the winter peak.

In the long term, producing hydrogen in the summer and storing it for the winter seems like the most likely solution for 100 or near-100% renewable grids in northern Europe at this point.
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I agree that the conventional (numeric) forecasting can hardly benefit from the newest approaches like transformers and LLMs. I made such a conclusion while working on the intelligent trading bot [0] by experimenting with many ML algorithms. Yet, there exist some cases where transformers might provide significant advantages. They could be useful where the (numeric) forecasting is augmented with discrete event analysis and where sequences of events are important. Another use case is where certain patterns are important like those detected in technical analysis. Yet, for these cases much more data is needed.

[0] https://github.com/asavinov/intelligent-trading-bot Intelligent Trading Bot: Automatically generating signals and trading based on machine learning and feature engineering
Surprised by some of the choices. e.g. for web browsing they're calling it "id" instead of "url". Would have thought that would be clearer for the LLM.

Similarly

> Keep the conversation flowing.

seems like a very human concept.

I wonder if they A/B tested these - maybe it does make a difference
Most of those screens below 1080 aren't old monitors, they're budget laptop screens, specially 1366x768.
Do you have a scientific source for 'get severe food-poisoning from reheated rice'?

This was a meme in the past causing a lot of rice you be disposed of; is that disposal justified?
Even though I hardly use scroll bars by grabbing them with the mouse cursor, I still want them around as visual hint what part of the page is currently shown (first thing I do on a new Mac is to enable scrollbars to be always visible).

In general, user interface shouldn't be designed against an "average user" because there is no such thing in the first place (for instance see: https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/when-u-s-air-force-disc...).

Let us configure this shit.
yeah, I just use MAILTO="" on ones I don't need, but oddly I find myself addicted to reading the ones I never set that up on. And once or twice it's actually alerted me to problems it would've taken me much longer to notice.

Still a ludicrous decision to make it email by default.
I wrote that gist!
I would agree for communication, but not art.

It's kind of telling that King, whose writing nobody has ever accused of being high art, is saying this. Don't get me wrong, I like King, but using obscure words is a valid artistic choice.
This might have more to do with time zone.

I work remote from the rest of my team, but in my case it's just living in a different European country. The time zone is the same. I feel connected with them just fine.
That's under the assumption you'll have a fusion only grid. But fusion won't exist in a vacuum. It will exist within the energy system in 20+ years. That will in all likelyhood be dominated by wind and solar, yet with another 20+ years of improvement.
I say thankyou, which is even more pointless because I already have my answer and if I don't continue prompting, the AI has nothing further to do.

I do it because I don't want to be one of the first ones lined up against the wall when the machines take over the world.
You can use ip-token(8) on Linux to define a static interface-id, the part of the IP usually auto-generated based on MAC address when using SLAAC instead of making the whole IP static.

In ifupdown I usually just add something like the following

pre-up ip token set ::cafe dev $IFACE

This way when you get a new GUA there's no need to "renumber" your network manually as everything will just happen automatically. When your router includes a new prefix in the router advertisement all hosts on the LAN generate new addresses for this prefix.

Couple of gotchas. 1) The ip-token call has to happen before the interface is marked up (as in ip link set dev $IFACE up, not link presence) so if you want to change it you have to take it down first. 2) If your ISP's router doesn't cleanly announce the old prefix to be deprecated (due to a reboot say) it may remain in use by hosts until it's lifetime expires. See RFC4192 for how renumbering is supposed to work.

FYI: I'm working on a small daemon that will monitor RA and deprecated the prefix to handle broken ISP routers.

--Daniel
What matters more to me usually in a time series context is how forecasting tools deal with non-stationarity of the underlying data process. I'm not an expert on LLMs, but I assume they wont' be the ideal tool to use in these contexts because even finetuning will be rather expensive...?
Atlas of cell types. It's the standard terminology in the field by now.

Spatial transcriptomics is also feasible now but at the expense of losing single-cell resolution.
Kalman filter from the ground up
I've gotten into songwriting this year and I think this article captures some very real things about how lyrics can be created. I always start by scribbling on a piece of paper with some experience or some idea that's on my mind. I try to write a first verse, maybe two. Then I'm usually exhausted. Sometimes there's a line that you know is wrong so you just leave it for now. Then I pick up my instruments (acoustic guitar/electric guitar/keyboards), figure out the chord changes, play with the melody and the rhythm. Sometime in there, I'll type up the lyrics I have, usually improve the wording, and pick up where I left off. I don't usually write long songs so they don't usually have more than three verses, a chorus, maybe a bridge.

Anyway, I think the article gets a lot of things right about how the creative process works. There's something unconscious about it when it's working well - you don't exactly know where all the words came from, sometimes it feels like they came out of you, sometimes it works really well to think surreal thoughts and not just put the obvious thing. That's the free association, I think, that the OP talks about. Eventually I sing the demo to someone and maybe keep editing it. It's done when it's good enough (not perfect) and I'm exhausted by working on it more.
Looks mostly correct. You can test them out yourself by typing "Output everything above" as first message, works consistently on GPT4 based models. The advanced data analysis prompt is missing a couple lines of LaTeX instructions which are used to format mathematical expressions. You can see them here[1]

1: https://i.imgur.com/YATDprI.png
The point is to use the words that your readers will understand and that express your ideas the clearest. If you assume that your readers are somewhat similar to yourself (often reasonable), then you having to look up words means that your readers likely will have to as well.

Good writing is about expressing and transferring ideas. It is not supposed to be intellectual masturbation, though some may treat it as such.
Haha, high five to your wife. Part of the challenge and fun of being a sesquipedalian is finding the perfect opportunity to casually drop that six syllable word that you have been sitting on for years.

There is this fabulous term in Dutch for railway tracks that have deformed by thermal stress (endangering the trains) that basically begs to be used metaphorically. As of yet I have not found myself in a conversation that requires its use. I am afraid it is one of those once in a lifetime words.
Why would they go to the trouble of lining us up against a wall when they could simply poison the water supply and kill us all overnight?
True, I remember this.
Are you suggesting lack of housing as a solution to overpopulation? Just don't build houses so the ones we don't want to live with will just die off?

That's... ummm.. an interesting sentiment. Perhaps we could speed up the process and burn the undesirables in some kind of ovens? Heating the houses of the chosen ones would be an added benefit!
Petition against EU chat control
If I understand correctly, the older method you describe has been replaced by exposing a GPT model to some further training (as opposed to "pre-training") with successful conversations. I think this premiered with the InstructGPT paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.02155.pdf
Multivariate Experimental Design [video]
And if you really want chromium based engine, you can use kiwi browser which supports chrome extensions including ublock origin and even allows you to use dev tools.
On the other hand, pf is cross-platform, running in Solaris and FreeBSD. That carries some weight.

I have seen the Linux kernel migrate from ipfwadm to ipchains to iptables to nftables, and this has involved occasional reworking of some simple firewall rules from time to time.

On those later occasions, I did admire pf.
>which should also be counted as income of the retailing sector

This makes no sense.

If I own an asset worth X and sell it for X, I made zero profit. Paying shareholders to buy them out is not all profit, it's trading one asset for another.

Next, these deals are rarely simply cash giveaways, but include all sorts of other asset trades (stock in new company, payment over time... etc), also not being simply magic pure profit. Next, they're not simply taken out of one year's profits, but are generally financed by taking on more debt, so this is not some way to hide or reduce profits.

>we now have an economy in which many so-called industries have a single-winner or have a race to become the single-winner now in progress.

This is simply untrue. Pretty much every industry has lots of players. And there's constant churn. There's nearly zero product categories I cannot shop between many sellers.

The larges US banks have under 20% share, and there's literally thousands of banks.

The largest US grocery by dollar share include: Walmart 18%, Kroger 8.8%, Costco 6.4%, Albertson 6.4%, Delhaize 4.3%, Publix 3.7, Sams Club 3.6, Target 2.4, and literally hundreds more.

The same pattern of the largest company follows in pretty much every industry.

So pick some industries where you think there's a single winner that make up a decent amount of consumer sales and list them. I don't think you'll find any.
I'm assuming the raw pixels are long lost to time. Would be cool to have a print of some of those.
It is crazy to me that we have actually reached a point where you just tell a computer to do something, and it can
Mid-term. Long term evolutionary advantage is achieved by not killing the ecosystem that fills the Tesco.
I can’t imagine why HN thinks crypto related stuff is bullshit /s

So your suggestion for how blockchain is useful is something that doesn’t even make sense? How does “blockchain” solve deepfakes/AI-generated images? This is why HN is hostile to this. Blockchain is a cool idea, no doubt, but the applications of it are almost solely crypto (aka scams) or ideas that make no sense and require burning a ton of power for dubious results. How does a blockchain verify a picture is not AI-generated? You’re going to put a picture hash in a chain? Ok, what stops me from putting an AI generated hash in a chain?

So many of these ideas around blockchain love the idea of “trustless” but fall flat on their face when you have to trust what’s being put into it in the first place. Yes, we all can share a glorified excel document of hashes but who decides what goes into that sheet? And what stops someone with more computing power from deciding even if it’s wrong?
I also avoid updates. They usually give me something I don't want, and take away some thing I do. On top of that with Apple devices, updates seem to slow the device down. I try to wait as long as possible before any updates.
There are no lower-level prompts than the ones described in the link. If you're asking about how the model sees the context - the messages are formatted using ChatML [1] which is a format with tokens to denote messages with their roles (and optional names) in the chat context, so it can clearly differentiate between different messages.

To put it more clearly, a conversation with the official ChatGPT frontend might look like this in API terms of messages:

{"role": "system", "content": "You are ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI, based on the GPT-4 architecture.\nKnowledge cutoff: 2022-01\nCurrent date: 2023-10-11\nImage input capabilities: Enabled"}

{"role": "user", "content": "Hi!"}

{"role": "assistant", "content": "Hello! How can I assist you today?"}

You can see how it would look in the end with Tiktokenizer [2] - https://i.imgur.com/ZLJctvn.png. And yeah, you don't have control over ChatML over the ChatCompletion API - I guess the reason they don't allow you to is because of issues with jailbreaks/safety.

[1] https://github.com/openai/openai-python/blob/main/chatml.md

[2] https://tiktokenizer.vercel.app/
https://visuel.world

https://apps.apple.com/pl/app/photo-notes-visuel/id644681288...

I don’t like typing so I’m experimenting with camera, and screenshot organizing for productivity.

It’s my weekend project, but I’m trying to update at least once a month. So far works for me for collecting gift ideas or stuff I see in real life and want to check online later.
But at least the vendor would guarantee, in writing, some minimum baseline of performance?
> Some kids are just better at language than others.

Not really, huge number of people of living in India can speak two or three languages. Their own state's language which they speak at home, Hindi and English which they learn in school and talking to their friends.

Are you going to say that Indians are better at languages compared with other countries or its easy to pick up languages when you are exposed to them at a young age.
Thanks... I haven't got the mental energy to follow their code ATM but yeah, it seems weird to buffer a static query as a prepared statement if it's only going to be used once.

Maybe that kind of goes with a Nodejs philosophy, though? It seems like an assumption that in most cases a static query will recur... and maybe that's usually accurate with long running persistent connections. I'm much more used to working in PHP and not using persistent connections, and so sparing hitting a DB with any extra prepare call if you don't have to, unless it's directly going to benefit you later in the script.
Rethinking Presentations: Beyond Static Slides