skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love when ads mistarget me because I am then not tempted by them. I would much rather get my current untargeted swath of ads ranging from military contractors to industrial manufacturing supply chain equipment to bras for all sorts of body shapes to [checks random site] bulk supplies of the little adjustable knobs you put on the end of stool legs. I'm not tempted by any of those nor do I think about them after seeing them beyond a good chuckle like this. Now, if I were to be bombarded with ads for the new indy rougelike or rts or modular solar setup or self-mapping LED systems, those things would invade my thoughts and eventual actions. So, I block ads wherever I can and depersonalize them everywhere else.
The one about pop is funny. I am quite fond of Pepsi Zero Sugar, and it’s the only one I don’t personally see ads for. Weird. Never thought of it until you mentioned it. I seriously see ads for Starry and Coke constantly.
I just found out today that Firefox does not yet support the css has() selector, while Chrome has supported it for over a year now. I get that there are a lot of reasons for this, but it surprised me, I guess.

I use Firefox because its fullscreen mode is far better than all the other browsers I've tried on Linux, but it does seem like it's clearly slower to perform and slower to be able to adopt new web 'quasi'-standards.
Choose the one you're most excited about learning, then go all in as deep/energetically as possible to stand out. The determining factor isn't the job market; it's yourself becoming demotivated when the going gets tough.
Marcan's post contains apple ticket numbers... presumably you show them those.
> so I throw them all into a pool (with defined redundancy) and then I allocate file systems and vdevs (for iSCSI) from that.

That sounds backwards. Don't you have to manually define the layout of the vdevs first in order to establish the redundancy, and then allocate the volumes you use for filesystems or iSCSI? If you just do a `zpool create` and give it a dozen disks and ask for raidz2, you're just creating a single vdev that's a RAID6 over all the drives. There's an extra step compared to the btrfs workflow, but if you're not using that opportunity to micromanage your array layout I don't see why you'd prefer that extra step to exist.

> and I can't have multiple file systems (well, you can have sub-volumes but you can't avoid a big file system in that collection of devices).

Isn't this a purely cosmetic complaint? With at least btrfs, you don't even have to mount the root volume, you can simply mount the subvolumes directly wherever you want them and pretty much ignore the existence of the root volume except when provisioning more subvolumes from the root. You can pretend that you do have a ZFS-style pool abstraction, but one that's navigable like a filesystem in the Unix tradition instead of requiring non-standard tooling to inspect.
Africa is not a country. It's a continent with 54 countries which in turn have dozens of provinces/states/subdivisions each.

Also, France, Brazil, US, UK, Italy, Türkiye, Saudi, UAE, India, Pakistan, Qatar, Egypt, South Africa, and Russia all have stakes and investments all over Africa that outcompete Chinese investment (depending on the country).
Regularly when doing anything that touches online. And even stuff that doesn't touch "online", these days, normally involves trophies that you can cheat your way to getting.
Tufte pulling his hair out is such a good criteria for picking a visualization tool.

And it's a surprisingly high bar!
I use Digital Ocean's App Platform which has free hosting for 3 static sites. CD is setup through integrations with GH/GL/BB, if I recall correctly. No particular reason why I chose this, other than I had a DO account open already for a few latent domains. It's proven to be simple enough & batteries included.
How does it compare to vanta black?
They've got TikTokifyied.
Is this a milestone I should be thankful for, or a problem I need to worry about? Or is this other people's life choices that are none of my business?

Edit: If you click through to the sources PDF, you'll find "The percentage of all births to unmarried women was
40.0% in 2021, down 1% from 2020 (40.5%)".

The number is trending down. Good? Bad?
With respect to the impact it made, this is the free market working as it should. WeWork needs to die and something more sensible rise in its place.

I've had to work out of WeWorks in many cities due to my employer, and have grown to hate the horrible echo of every single meeting room, the pointless phone booths that don't isolate any sound, and the steady degradation of all of the facilities. All that glass, all that echo, all the inane slogans and annoying "New York trust fund" hustle culture without substance.

This might give peace to the generally lovely staff that worked there, if not account for the major chunk of their life given to the faux equity dream. May we not see another like it.

PS: cue a16z tripling down on Adam in 3... 2... 1...
They also build profiles on people who do not have Facebook accounts, and in that case they were absolutely never given consent.
No, it stopped for the Intel switch, I believe.
This is brilliant. I also created a ChatGPT plugin using only GPT-4.
Aardvark AI (Search for Products on Google Shopping in Real-Time, No Ads, Only Trusted Stores)
It current gets around 6000-8000 search queries each month.

BTS: It uses Google Shopping API to get real time results.
It feels more like "is civilisation as we know it even going to survive for another 30 years?"
You really haven’t added anything. You’ve just restated that people that own the mortgage want title insurance to protect them. It isn’t for the home owners protection. It’s the same with PMI. That’s another insurance the lender requires a buyer to purchase to protect them.

Title insurance is relatively cheap compared to home or auto insurance. It’s a one time purchase cheaper than the 6 month premium of either of the others.
Do you think that people should be concerned with their privacy?
If the value is in AI, and if your prompts can be uncovered, because its domain-specific, then its very likely somebody else can steal your lunch. The usual suspects of scale, similarity to other businesses, or simply being better apply.
I feel exactly the same way - this idea of a lambda monolith seems applicable to hobby projects only.
That AI is transformative for development is not in doubt any more. Just this past week, I've been able to build two medium sized services (a couple of thousand lines of code in python, a language I hadn't used for more than a decade!). What's truly impressive is that for the large part, it's better than the code I'd have written anyway. Want a nice README.md? Just provide the source code that contains routes/cli args/whatever, and it'll generate it for you. Want tests? Sure. Developers have never had it so easy.

One thing to note is that for code generation, GPT4 runs circles around GPT3.5. GPT35 is alright at copying if you provide very tight examples, but GPT4 kinda "thinks".

Another piece of information from experience - GPT4 32k contexts fail quite often. So if you're generating let's say 10k tokens or more (around 30k characters), you'd have to give it a few tries. Another, ChatGPT is not the ideal interface for non-trivial work. You should use the API directly, or use something like Azure OpenAI Chat Playground which lets you use 32k contexts.

Shameless plug: I have this open source app which automates grunt work in prompt generation - https://github.com/codespin-ai/codespin-cli
AI School Tools Aren't Just for Cheating
No. Not a ministry: Name is not the same as "is"

> The existence of the document does not necessarily indicate that its recommendations are being considered by Israel’s defense establishment. Despite its name, the Intelligence Ministry is not directly responsible for any intelligence body, but rather independently prepares studies and policy papers that are distributed to the Israeli government and security agencies for review, but are not binding.
> you can, however, decide that the rape of child is wrong and intervene

I don’t know why you are latching on to this scenario when it aligns with my point. It is illegal to rape a child, you are agreeing with me. This is black and white.

Now, there is some person out there who thinks this is okay, are they allowed to judge this is okay, break the law, and do it because in they judged the child is mature? No. Okay. We agree.

That same exact reasoning applies to other laws that we, as a society, have deemed necessary for public life. Because you don’t get to judge those laws as inapplicable. If you do not like them you can try and have them changed or you can leave to a place that has different laws.

Where I live it is illegal to have a dog off leash in public places, this law exists for a reason. People should not decide the law doesn’t apply to them because they “discern” their dog is not a threat. If someone cant accept that law, they need to move somewhere where they can have the lifestyle with their pet that they want.
It was fine for what it was - a Switch prototype & a stopgap to hold space in the market while the Switch was finalized.

The Wii U was a chump blocker, basically.
The site doesn't render properly in Firefox. Looks like an entirely white page with no content on it.
Can you give us the link? I m curious.
Humans are bipedal.

It's not perfectly true, but that doesn't invalidate the natural and normal case.
Try 600 million. It's supposed to shrink by half.
>I agree Git Blame is useful, but squash on merge is great, and having atomic commits for whiteline changes is overkill.

FWIW this is something you see commonly on mailinglists. Each line you modify in a given commit is assumed to be specifically related to the change described in the commit description. It's just easier for reviewers when you break whitespace changes or non-semantic text changes out into separate commits so that they don't have to try and figure out which lines are semantic changes and which aren't.

Given that people who work with patchsets tend to do a lot of rebasing in their workflows, they are generally familiar enough with rebasing to just split out a set of changes from a given commit into two commits in a minute or less.
The greatest crime? What? We are literally pumping plastics and carcinogens in to the air 24/7, poisoning the ground, and deforesting the planet.

Some light pollution is unfortunate but it’s essentially trivial in comparison. It causes no long term damage and doesn’t really do anything but make the sky less interesting.
Well I agree with you there, I don't think Israel's response is justified either.
Perhaps a long shot analogy, but let's say there is a trend to plan ahead and write everything you need to buy in the grocery store on a piece of paper. It works very well, shopping become more efficient and you don't end up with items you didn't plan for.

The grocery store doesn't like this and want to start making it illegal to enter the store with any notes.

Their argument is that they have laid out the store in such a way that it expects people to get distracted and buy things they don't need, so planning your trip to the grocery store harms their current way of doing things.

To me at least, this sounds insane and extremely arbitrary. Arbitrary because it __feels like__ I can just keep the list of notes in my head instead. It also __feels like__ I'm being denied behaving in a certain way.

Perhaps it's a personality trait, but when something is this contrived it's easy to feel vehemently opposed to this.
I think those textbook algorithms make you think about efficiency. But all of them suffer from being short. In reality I design low level algorithms doing real business spanning 500 lines at minimum, and the point is to utilize and alter multiple of those textbook algorithms. Sometimes you need to add more operations in the middle, sometimes you need to extract the data from the middle of one algorithm and pass it to the others. But when you equipped with those knowledge about algorithms, you know what to do immediately instead of confusing.
How Shopify Built Its Generative AI Products
And of course, in a beautiful show of irony, it comes in clamshell packaging!
Government technology is famously bad. It doesn't have to be
"Even if the technology is promising, deploying it takes money and talent. There are challenges with procurement and integrating new systems with legacy tech. There are the realities of budgets, bureaucratic red tape,election cycles, and ever-growing legal complexities."

I think procurement is a big problem. Though, surprisingly little research on this matter.
"already purchased by people" Better talk to the EU that just forced Apple to negate a decade of iAccessories by forcing a switch to USB-C (which I support)

And even if "eventually controls will be circumvented" is true... making the barrier to entry harder gives them time to make back their investment (yes, the company deserves that). IE: DRM that eventually gets broken but not for a year can be the difference in the copies of a game sold being enough to make it a success or not.

The DRM also gives companies a path to suing companies that break the DRM. IE: Nintendo or Apple suing companies that jailbreak their stuff. Or you can be someone like Sony who has a PS5 that hasn't been jailbroken yet - making their platforms more resistant to cheating and thus more attractive to players who want a level playing field.

"won't solve anything anyways" Depends on your definition of "solve". If it takes 5+ years to fully jailbreak a PS5? Then that's successful. So even "broken" jailbreaks can be seen as successful in the long term.

There are negatives to these moves... but it's plain ignorance at best and dishonesty at worse to say there aren't justifiable reasons for companies like MS to take these steps.
> the information firehose is absolutely overwhelming and draining

holy shit yes. And also contains only trace elements of usefulness. The problem is having to sift through the mud to find the hidden shinies. That's the draining part.

I've taken to ignoring most of it until it reaches "stage 2 importance" at which someone will direct message me or come and talk face-to-face about it. Only then has it reached a worthy level of priority.

Trigger warning: I have 2,957 unread emails in my 14-month-old mailbox (they stay unread until I've actioned them appropriately).
Passion and shame. Shame to know too little about something, this push me real hard.
It's not in the posted link, but the author gave an interview to hackaday and addressed this. https://hackaday.com/2023/10/31/black-4-0-is-the-new-ultrabl...

> “Black 4.0 absorbs an astonishing 99.95% of visible light which is about as close to full light absorption as you’ll ever get in a paint,” said Semple. He notes this outperforms Vantablack’s S-Vis spray on product which only achieves 99.8%, as did his previous Black 3.0 paint.

Also, you yourself can buy Black 3.0 and 4.0 whereas one person owns the worldwide artistic rights to Vantablack (who is also banned from buying Black X.0)
A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials
Should the link be http://rattlecad.com/ instead of the archive?

Looks pretty cool. With a recent release. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RattleCAD

Summary: it's a bicycle design tool, went from open source to proprietary in 2019.
This still sounds a lot like 'the industry's "I'm right and you're wrong" motto'.
It's from a different article, but the author gave an interview to hackaday and gave a comparison there. https://hackaday.com/2023/10/31/black-4-0-is-the-new-ultrabl...

> “Black 4.0 absorbs an astonishing 99.95% of visible light which is about as close to full light absorption as you’ll ever get in a paint,” said Semple. He notes this outperforms Vantablack’s S-Vis spray on product which only achieves 99.8%, as did his previous Black 3.0 paint.
It is a tricky question, especially if you don't remember the precise definition of combustible/flammable. I believe only the fuel (the thing getting oxidized) in the reaction is considered combustible/flammable, not the oxidizing agent. So oxygen isn't flammable.
It does make me wonder where that sort of money goes. That's roughly $275k per day.

At $1k per person per day you can have 75 staff doing whatever they do (maintainence etc) and still have 200 left over. Computers? One would have thought they'd have on-site processing as part of the build cost. Electricity to run said computers? Food for the cafeteria?

Presumably we can ignore accounting things like depreciation.

Not that it matters I'm sure it's expensive to run, it's just that $275 k per day seems like a lot...
No, it’s not necessary to "deny the existence" of people. This is the kind of disingenuous rhetoric that makes transmaximalist advocacy so alienating to many people who might otherwise incline to whatever degree of tolerance. Rather, one can recognize the existence of people but hold that their self-knowledge and will is flawed. We have, after all, had philosophical frameworks and vocabulary to deal with these things since the Greeks.
How do you see CoT as "giving hints"?

Isn't the whole point that the hints are being sourced from the model itself? Which is precisely why a more robust model has compounding gains on generating intermediate steps over a less robust model?

And what are your thoughts on the various papers over the past year looking at transmitting capabilities from larger models to smaller models using synthetic data from the larger models?

Rather than considering the 'emergent' (I agree not the best term) gains as a result of more parameters during operation, wouldn't this indicate that markedly better performance in larger models is the result of better network optimizations in those models developed during training, and that these optimizations can be successfully transferred to smaller parameter models by generating more optimized training data vs a broad basis training set?
The crackdown on English only began around 2020-21, yet even in much more laid back times in China there wasn't much cultural exchange outside of the elites.

WhatsApp and FB used to be popular for a hot second (and still were in Xinjiang and Tibet until crackdowns in 2016-18), and it used to be easy for non-Chinese nationals to join WeChat or SinaQQ until 2017-19, yet most American commentators wouldn't go on there to get a feel of discourse on the other side, or go to a Tier 2/3/4 city, while Taiwanese, Korean, and Japanese tourists, journalists, and businesspeople would.

People forget that most Asian Americans would could bridge the gap tend to be on the younger end (10s-30s) but most decision makers are in their 60s-70s. It's the same issue across the Pacific in China as well.
For me it's the DC Lau translation. Straightforward and clear, or as clear as you can get with this thing.

For the real deal, see https://ctext.org/dao-de-jing?en=off
Yeah, and the people at Woodstock grew up to run the DEA.
> Highly unlikely. Two-letter (non-IDN) TLDs are strictly reserved for country codes.

What's a "country" here? .eu? .um?
> Journalists aren't sent abroad as much anymore.

when the CCP arrests people for reporting things they dont like, it's no wonder foreign journalists don't want to go there.
Sorry, I thought in the context it was obvious that I meant the existence of internal moral guidance.
the archive.org page says:

> Since release of rattleCAD 4.0 it turned into proprietary sotware, all the old source and binary files has been removed from its page on SourceForge, and a new official site has been launched.
> Historically, though, focusing on performance per watt is a technique that hardware companies use to distract from otherwise not very impressive concrete performance improvements.

Before Apple came along and made people realize PPW is pretty damn important in the mobile/laptop space.
I'm using Brave with rewards, vpn, wallet disabled and around 20 flags modified. It works faster, better extension support for me with fewer bugs, less memory usage when fewer tabs are opened. I chose brave because it can sync.

I'm impressed with Firefox and tried a fork called floorp. It has some useful additions and find it better than regular Firefox while still supporting sync and was using ungoogled chromium before.

https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp/releases

Unfortunately some websites still work better with chromium browsers in my experience. This is anecdotal but I also feel some negative fingerprinting from Google owned websites on Firefox, more memory leaks as well. It's only a matter of time before I change to Firefox (forced manifest V3) but I will stick with brave for now.
I’d think up to a point and then it flips. Highways and suburbs tend to have a lot of lighting and vehicles so the air pollution would be peaked, but then you get to the dense city areas where there is much much more lighting but not much capacity for vehicles so I’d think you’d see a dip.
You are right about the context window limitation.
I exclusively use Azure OpenAI
GPT-4 32k version and it's been a game changer when coding on complex projects.
I am baffled by Toyota's EV strategy. They should be Tesla's biggest competitor. Instead their faffing around with endless concepts, hydrogen cars and this thing.

For what it's worth, I loved driving manual when I drove an ICE car. And I relished the sense of accomplishment that came from mastering it. But when I switched to an EV, I realized that what I really wanted from a car was not control but responsiveness. I want my car to go when I tell it to*, and not at it's convenience (which is how automatics always feel to me). This is just a busybox, the kind of toy you give to infants to keep them amused. And fake engine noises? Good grief.
I wonder how much of these are powered by GPT.
That's true, but another property of culture wars is that there generally is no authority or standard that all sides consider independent. Only in the most clearcut cases can you get away with saying "it's not up to me, I'm just following the law." Often there is no law or it's vaguely written, and it really is up to you.
> don't give dopamine to ChatGPT, it's contraindicated with paperclips

Upvoting it is essentially dopamine long term. Would be nice if it had effects more immediately like in living beings, so you could punish it until it got things right and reward it when it does well.
well said. The timing may be perfect for this in some markets. Then they could really become the SaaS (+services?) company they always pretended to be.
> without religion, there is no such thing as morality.

Would you agree that non-human animals aren’t religious? Because we see moral behavior in animals. For example [1]:

> In another experiment with rats, researchers find that if a rat is given the choice between two containers—one holding chocolate and one holding a trapped rat who appears to be suffering—the rat will try to help the suffering rat first before seeking the chocolate. Experiments like these show that animals make moral choices and that their behavior cannot be explained through natural selection alone.

There are lots of other examples, like animals that call out to warn their group of an approaching predator, placing themselves at higher risk.

Also, it seems like you’re arguing that an “external” moral code is The Only Way but then excusing people in biblical times for owning slaves because “that was a long time ago.” But shouldn’t their supposed access to this special moral code have been sufficient to conclude that owning humans as property is immoral?

> You wouldn't even be able to reason that murder is evil.

This is just downright silly. As a rational, thinking person, it’s easy to reason why murdering fellow human beings is not good.

> the Bible teaches the very opposite of sexism

Anyone can search for “sexism in the bible” to see what it has to say in its own words. For convenience, here’s one such link [2].

[1] https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/morality_anima...

[2] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Biblical_sexism