skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Bitcoin right now has the bandwidth of a 28.8 modem

You're only considering the bandwidth to monitor/receive transaction confirmations in real-time and not the bandwidth to download the transaction history, which cumulatively grows over time, forever.

It's already at more than half a terabyte, which you certainly can't download over a 28.8 modem.

> At one point single transactions cost more than the space to store the entire chain.

The problem has never been about space, it has always been about bandwidth.

> Normal people don't even need to sync with the main chain if they don't want to.

Sure, but you need to put some bounds on how fast the main chain can grow to ensure that anyone (even the people, say, in El Salvador or the Central African Republic, both poor countries where Bitcoin is legal tender) can verify it if they want to.

> The actual numbers of bandwidth and storage of this argument are so far removed from reality I can't believe people still say stuff like this. It's pure propaganda.

Or perhaps you are privileged and you don't even notice, and therefore you are incapable of empathizing with others who are less privileged than you (in this specific instance)?

In any case, even if you were to ignore this, increasing the block size even by a factor of 100 would not fundamentally solve the problem.

It would still be a pathetically low transaction rate compared to Lightning and it would also certainly constrain Bitcoin usage as it was intended (as a trustless currency/asset).

That's not to say I would be against increasing the block size by a reasonably small factor, but I'm certainly not in a position to judge whether this should be done right now. I think it'd be better to ask the people in those countries, or even poorer ones who might one day make Bitcoin legal tender as well...
I went pretty much the whole summer, including most of August in the south of France, using very small amounts of sunscreen, mostly on face and neck and mostly zinc oxide based.

I spent June and July building up a tan gradually in my back garden (northern England) at lunchtime, 30 minutes at most, whenever the sun was shining.

By the time I went on holiday in August I could easily go without burning when exposed for an hour or two, but making sure I was covered up in the afternoon.

I’m not sure if this is a healthy approach or not, but I feel like I’m hedging my bets against both skin cancer and vitamin D deficiency by using a bit of tan, bit of sunscreen, bit of covering up.
Am I missing something or is this regulation as dumb as I think it is? It seems to have the effect of replacing a bunch of small trucks on the road with giant trucks that get much worse mileage overall.
You generally shouldn't set CPU limits. You might want to configure CPU requests which is guaranteed chunk of CPU time that container will always receive. With CPU limits you'll encounter situation when host CPU is not loaded, but your container workloaded is throttled at the same time, which is just waste of CPU resources.
In a world where being connected to the global financial system is an existential question, the lack of transparency and accountability for these hostile practices does seem to violate the spirit of due process.
I’m pretty sure this response was written by an AI, but not 100% sure…
Hah, did you really present broken glass to the UPS store employee for them to deal with? Was it wrapped or boxed in some way?
It's all about the bands and frequencies.
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Helping my cleaner get more customers. I'm helping him put together a letterbox flyer which I'm interested to do some a/b testing on response rates. I'll also systematically track which houses I've covered and when.

In Melbourne I see a lot of cleaning websites that use stock photos of people that don't racially reflect the cleaners working for the agency. I want to flip that upside down and have encouraged my cleaner to put a photo of himself on the flyer (he's Sri Lankan). I think this will show any potential customers that he stands out from other cleaners and is proud of his work and who he is.
> I was using "the EU thinks" as shorthand for "the strong consensus
view of the people running the EU".

Understood. And I was questioning the concept of "consensus" in that
frame.

> I thought (obviously wrongly) that this was obvious

Not at all. I don't think that is obvious. Interestingly some are
raising GPT as a metaphor for emergent organisational "thinking". Is
it a good analogy? I don't know, but we do see similar phenomena in
networks whether they be human brains, machines or other organisms.
And one feature is that we are not sure how to locate "consensus".
There's lot more than weighted sums at play. And despite official
structures and protocols, that's not really how things work, I think
we all know.

Thus the emergent identity gets a lot attributed to it, which it may
not be "aware of" in large parts of itself. For minds we have the
concept of the unconscious. Perhaps in neural networks we will come to
recognise something similar. But the concept seems sadly lacking in
organisational dynamics where it might help us to stop talking about
ideas such as "What Google says" or "What the market demands".

> because an organisation cannot think.

And yet we so often talk as if they can. We see Searle's "Chinese
Room" everywhere and wish to encapsulate and name too readily.

The "EU" is "mentally unhealthy" in that sense. in that it's simply
too big and disparate to be coherent and consistent. The article about
snooping on web TLS certificates could not more clearly contradict
other strongly held "beliefs" within the organism about "privacy".
Ok, fair enough, I'm relatively skilled and I've taught C (and some C++) to people, so I guess I'm biased.

On the other hand - extensive compiler warnings + non-MISRA general-purpose static analysis would probably cover those.
GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE
Hoping a native Spanish speaker can add to this. I don't like YA-style books, and would love to know if there's a quality sci-fi or fantasy with prose like A Hundred Years of Solitude (like Lord of the Rings does for English)
Our nation allows private companies to SELL PII. Our nation utilizes the availability of said PII to build their own spying apparatus. Law Enforcement uses harvested location data to track people without any warrants or due process.

You are ignoring huge parts of reality to be able to say those 2 points above.
You can dislike billionaires without making questionable ad-hoc diagnoses disconnected from actual knowledge about the disorder. Chewing scotch tape is many things, "out of the usual" certainly being one of them, but it's nowhere close to diagnostic criteria for psychosis.
This reply is overstating a bit, but it does sound like a lot of work simply to avoid saying, "here look at these methods in this file" and the unstated, and trace the imports yourself.

Not to mention just finding the right commit months later sounds like more work than that already.

Personally, even if I were to make the history absolutely perfect, I never get the code right (interfaces etc), the first time. It might be hours or days before I'm 98% happy with the final implementation. Sometimes big refactor opportunities come to me months later, e.g. where I move code needed multiple times into a more central mixin location.
Maybe it is product placement (advertising). If a popular personality has an interview, they can reach out to an ad agency (or vice versa) and be asked if they want to do something weird during the interview with a brand name product that would get people talking.
I don't think mold_time is a good example of citizen science done right. They have said multiple false things and refused to address or correct their statements when other people pointed them out. See https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NRrbJJWnaSorrqvtZ/on-not-get... and https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7iAABhWpcGeP5e6SB/it-s-proba...

It's been more than a year since I alerted them of the multiple falsehoods in A Chemical Hunger, repeatedly, and they haven't done anything about them.
A better example would be Brave or another smaller organisation.

Big multinationals have employees and assets everywhere that can be threatened.

However smaller organisations operating from a single jurisdiction can only be threatened by their local government (or at least with the consent of their local government).
GPT-4-turbo preliminary benchmark results on code-editing
For additional confusion's sake, I got it wrong - It's not an "Imperial" ton in the US, but a "Customary" ton. There's also a British "Imperial" ton, and sometime called the "Long ton" (whereas the US Customary unit is also called the "Short ton". The Imperial Ton is 2240 pounds, which if you're dyslexic is the same as the Metric Ton's 2204.6 pounds.

Don't forget the metric fucktonne, as well.
Media can be vultures for the click.
Sure thing. Useful, innit? I don't know how anyone browses with them on :)
Well, yes? Part of the government issuing certificates for people is that those certificates shall be accepted as proof of identity, including in browsers. I'm not sure how else you'd like to do that. Maybe they issue certificates but nobody accepts them? No, that way is madness.

> and ban them from validating the security of the certs signed by those CAs.

I'm going to need a source on that one, chief. Are you talking about this part?

> To that end, web-browsers should ensure support and interoperability with Qualified certificates for website authentication pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 910/2014. They should recognise and display Qualified certificates for website authentication to provide a high level of assurance, allowing website owners to assert their identity as owners of a website and users to identify the website owners with a high degree of certainty.

Maybe you are talking about this?

> For those purposes web-browsers shall ensure that the identity data provided using any of the methods is displayed in a user friendly manner.

Frankly, displaying the fact that a government issued identity certificate is used seems to me to be the exact opposite of a MITM, but what do I know?

Where does it say that if google.com has Angela Merkel's personal certificate instead of Google's one, the browser shall present it as a secure connection?
Diesel (also in Rust world) has pretty good mappings to SQL.

There are derives involved, of course, so that probably counts as macros.
This is a debate between sending 4x ACHs over 4 days (presumably from the comfort of your own web browser) vs a wire (often requiring a visit or phone time).
> The approach would then be to inform them that "We'll comply with MISRA, but you'll get poor code quality.

Which we did.

> Put yourself in their shoes.

Oh, I get it. I understand where they were coming from.

My complaint isn't with the customer, its with MISRA being a poor tool and ripe for this kind of abuse.

Because my customer needed to point to something, they point to MISRA, not understanding this isn't entirely helping them.

I loath tools that can be abused this way. Dumbs everyone in the room down. Next you get experts in MISRA that waste everyone's time talking about how wonderful it is.

I'm all for scrutinizing code, but don't waste my time scrutinizing code needlessly.
Different state and their local police are not interested in this sort of crime.
I mean if you care about safety you dont leave the house.

That’s how this argument sounds. Right along the argument that if your dont want your ip stolen dont put it online.
Man, all these graphical enhancements and they still can't design a proper camera. Off-centre camera systems, aka "over the shoulder" cameras make me motion sick. I need the player to be in the centre of the screen or everything feels lopsided. By all means, do the RE4 zoom thing when the player aims a gun or similar, but while moving the camera should be horizontally centred. Halo tried something similar with giving the crosshair a vertical offset and while it didn't bother me personally, a lot of people complained it made them sick, so they added an option to move it back. The visual system in a lot of folks really doesn't like being off-centre compared to the body it's tasked with moving.
Moore's Law is not really dead.

Even if you froze the datasets and software architecture in place right now, LLMs would get much better simply because compute costs are coming down. The cheaper training is, the more people you have chipping away at little changes and modifications. And you get more hyper specialized models.

Also, setting that aside, theres really tons of low hanging fruit to pick.
1,000 people won’t see you driving your Porsche. Forever on your profile.

It takes the normal signaling and amplifies it.

I mean, some news is good. News all the time makes people sick.

Seeing your neighbors car every once in a while is ok. Seeing it every day and the cars of everyone you know stresses people out.

There’s data showing that this stuff makes people have poorer mental health. Especially teens. And especially teen girls.

It’s similar, but just worse.
Ah that makes more sense! I was thinking in moral terms
This is an interesting premise that should pursuit further testing on base models rather than instruction-enhanced ones. The assumption that LLMs with all its knowledge is able to ballpark a potentially quantifiable guess is not illogical.
And yet, while almost irrelevant, Apple fawned over that aspect of it. As did all the other usual sites, including this one, that decided that any negative take on the topic was "a bad one". Thanks, Prolost.
It's widely regarded as "good" and has become
Rust had green threads prior to 1.0, and they were ripped out for performance and other reasons. Probably worth revisiting those discussions to see where this has been thought through by the Rust team
Yep. As any photographer or videographer will tell you, it's not the camera that makes the difference, it's the person operating it. Do they understand the importance of lighting? Can they get around the technical limitations of the device?

We all know that Apple demos take place under the most regimented of conditions. Jobs' iPhone demo had full reception bars hard-coded into it. I imagine the iPhone cameras were used in similarly generous conditions.
"Backup--very, very boring. Restore--very, very exciting."
If you can read this, it's probably not available for you. So sad.
Trial and error takes time. Potentially a great deal of time. A motivated fraudster will likely get caught and stopped several times along the way if they're attacking a particular bank.

It's worth bearing in mind that most financially motivated criminals are after easy marks. If you're too hard or expensive to hit, they'll find another target. If you're seeing like a bank, that's a victory and the protocols are doing their job by reducing fraud.
How does CogVLM compare to Autodistill?
It’s not just “over there,” I believe the numbers are similar if not worse in many Asian countries, and only slightly lower in Europe.

Teenagers don’t typically need to survive. Half of it is probably throughout the day at school, in class, in between classes and in public transportation. And the rest is likely at night instead of socializing/studying/sleeping.

We hosted two teenagers from UK and US this summer at two different times, friends & extended family. They both spent a major part of their time locked inside their room scrolling TikTok, then scrolling TikTok some more on the couch of our living room. One of them was open about it and recognized she spends on average 10h/day on it when she’s on holiday. It’s really bad, an entire generation is particularly depressed, desperate and doesn’t know how to stop the pattern.

They can be on holiday in a foreign country for the first time, and still struggle not to waste their time on the compulsion, scrolling for hours instead of enjoying discovering something new.

I think ultimately what we’re saying is people survive, but it results in ATH all time high rates of loneliness, ATL rates of intercourse, and surprise surprise less babies, less families. Just an overall slowing down of adulting and building one’s life. It’s quite sad.
Dude the delta between new and used cars right now is virtually nothing. You can get a 2012 tacoma with 200k miles on it for like 28k or a brand new 2023 tacoma for 35k.
New is a better deal just based on the projected mechanical life of the car. Dont need fancy features to sell it
I've used a few ORMs. I've even designed a commercial ORM, many years ago.

My personal experience is that the more they try to abstract away raw queries, the least useful they are. YMMV
Good idea!

There used to be constant crashes outside my house as it was a crossroads but not very visually obvious and with poor side visibility so they wouldn't notice the car coming at right angles till too late. An app warning probably would have improved things although eventually they re-engineered the junction with mini roundabouts which mostly fixed things. That was many decades into the junctions existence though.

That said rather than users adding information you'd probably get better data from motor insurance data as they probably log most accidents.
I’m arguing that the voting blocs who actually show up consistently don’t want more housing, yes. At least anywhere near where they live.

Because when you get down to the details, more housing would;

a) cost many of them a lot of money (they get income from renting out, and higher rents == more money) or hurt the value of their assets (more stock == less value for the house(s) they own).

b) lead to significant quality of live impacts they don’t want. More traffic, busier stores, more noise, crowded parks, more crime, more expensive cost of living, etc.

The gov’t structures follow that and produce the outcomes they want, and insulate them from blowback. Or the people in charge get replaced until someone does do that. The gov’t structure is the symptom, not the cause.

Grandma doesn’t like looking like the bad guy. Grandma wants to be comfortable. Grandma’s kids long ago moved out and live somewhere else, so fuck all the younger folks making noise and keeping her up at night. They should go live somewhere else and be someone else’s problem.

At least until the demographics have shifted enough that another group is able to tell the retirees to shut up and sit down. Which always happens eventually.

It’s pretty obvious frankly if you watch how things play out.
Sinclair's law probably applies.
This is the bill, right? There may be a newer version I didn't find. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

Can you indicate which parts are objectionable on the grounds of leading to a totalitarian surveillance dystopia?
It would still feel unresponsive in comparison. Just like normal physics would feel if you got a taste of breaking them in real life.
> E.g. crypto in eastern Europe.

Ah the crypto boogeyman! That argument is ridiculous. The CIA factbook estimates that the proportion of the GDP linked to crime worldwide is 3% to 5%: that's 3 to 5 TRILLION USD directly linked to criminal activities.

Cryptocurrencies do not even register here. It's not even a drop in the bucket.

Moreover public ledgers are what law enforcement and IRS' employeees' wet dreams are made of.
This is the kind of thing where a home server being hacked could be used as a proxy/dumping/holding spot with the homeowner not even knowing… until that knock. Proving you didn’t know on your own svr.. prob impossible.
Looks decent. I somehow missed the previous thousand discussions.

I’d love to hear from anyone running it in production.

I have always been BEAM-curious, but never felt comfortable running it in production, as it feels like a big black box, and I’m not confident that I’d be able to diagnose problems as readily as I can in .NET, Go, or Node. I’m not sure why I feel that way about BEAM.
Only 3GB, interesting to see how small SOTA models in other domains are compared to LLMs like Falcon-180B.
The KoolAid?!

China and Russia are both positioned against the US, and vice-versa.

Wherever you are politically, if you haven't acknowledged the quickly shifting geopolitics, then...no more to discuss.
Is it 69?

It's 69.
No, I don't need a banking license to loan my friend $10.
> There must be oodles of good "chess via text" in the training data. So they're pretty good at chess.

LLMs, including ChatGPT (including GPT-4) without tools, are notoriously bad at chess, actually. Papers have been written about it.
Since guns are easily available, it's harder to kill someone.. since they might have a gun.

In Europe, all you need to kill your enemy and his family is two guys and a baseball bat or a knife. In America, you atleast need a gun since odds are they have a gun at home.
Yep. Their owners run them until they die because there is no replacement.
Yes, but you must contact through a form or get someone from inside to show it to you. Unfortunately, I'm out of town til next week so I cannot offer it myself. Check out https://www.bsc.es/discover-bsc/visit-our-supercomputer

If you want to visit some other nerdy places, I suggest you to visit:
- CaixaForum: cool science museum
- Observatori Fabra: a very old telescope (no longer used for science) but has cool views of the city

These days there is a very cool interactive AI exposition at CCCB. I really recommend it.
I admire that.
Lobby is absent in non regulated environment. Only competition maters.

Bin empties a company that is payed for its job. Now it doesn't matter how much waste you produce, because its mandated and same for all for same price. But not all litter a same. Which makes inequalities. Same for health care (EU), education, etc.
Dragonfee: Paxful and Noones Secret Weapon: Deep Dive Insights. https://www.producthunt.com/products/dragonfee