skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Magicians of The Gods by Graham Hancock. But I will not finish it. It is boring and long-winded and he's more a travel journalist than researcher or scholar, so no real breakthroughs and a sprinkle of Daniken-like sensationalism while stretching the facts quite a bit. But what killed the book for me eventually was his unfounded attack on Sitchin. The previous book I read from him was Fingerprints of The Gods, that one was better but still had similar issues.

I would like to finish reading Hitler's Mein Kampf. I had it for years, started it twice but never finished it. I have no other books to read so I think this will be my next.
For a career in operations, I would recommend learning from the bottom up: Networking and Operating Systems.
Whether or not you think it’s a fad, ChatGPT has close to 200 million users actively using their product. No crypto company was ever close to that.

Whether OpenAI’s API is a viable or risky product is a secondary and separate question. Yeah, there are a lot of wrappers out there. But that doesn’t matter with regards to the usefulness of LLMs generally.
It's true it's not high-quality chocolate. The appeal seems to be to people who get into hobbies like this for the exclusivity or exotic nature of the items. The same kind of people who used to buy "limited edition" Supreme bling and then post it to Insta. Essentially hypebeast kiddies.
> There’s been plenty of debate about why Russia’s invasion of Ukraine never devolved into the full-blown cyber Armageddon

No there's not, it's not possible.

Of the little lamer stuff they might be able to do like hack a billboard it's far more productive to use those nerds on TikTok/Facebook/X bot propaganda farms or ransomeware to avoid sanctions.

It's not rocket science, outside of a war no one is blowing up powerstations but lots of hackers are tring to hack one. They are already stress tested.

Old analysts who've watched too much Hollywood cashing in on middle managers who've watched too much Hollywood is a whole industry.
I don't think MDMA is "legal or decriminalized" in the Czech Republic...? Sure, consumption of _anything_ is decriminalized here (you are allowed to possess only a tiny amount for your own consumption) but other than that, owning, offering, selling, importing, etc. MDMA is very much criminalized here!
NetBSD 10.0 RC1
Most of the time this will be a Github or Gitlab URL. (Or similar.) Then domain name expiration isn’t a problem, but you do need to protect your account.

Using a personal domain name should probably be discouraged unless you’re sure you know what you’re doing, and even organizations might want to think hard about whether they’re really want to maintain a website indefinitely.
Internet journalist trashing generative AI with less research done than GPT3.5.
Facebook marketplace has basically supplanted gumtree as the place to buy and sell things in Sydney. Its the only reason i have an account
Jane Street just entered the room:
https://blog.janestreet.com/oxidizing-ocaml-locality/

This part specially about closures:
https://blog.janestreet.com/oxidizing-ocaml-ownership/

https://blog.janestreet.com/oxidizing-ocaml-parallelism/
And yes, their changes introduce quite some additional syntax.
I’ve never had one. Never had an IG account. I’ve sadly not been able to escape WhatsApp.

An interesting side effect of this: I don’t have contact with any childhood friends. I have no idea what anyone became.

Creepy thing: I was once made aware of an IG account with my usual online handle and my first and last name. No pictures, and seemingly completely inactive, but it’s there. I tried to reach out to IG, however they didn’t care.
I think it's somewhat of a stretch to say our "base model" had billions of years of evolution. Billions of years ago, mammals didn't exist and the only things around were more like plankton or algae and had nothing like a "base model" we could say we somehow inherited. The earliest ape-like creatures appeared around 10M years ago.

The first mammals appeared around 225M years ago so you could potentially argue that our "base model" first started evolving around then but I still think it's something of a stretch to compare this kind "training" to the ways we are training modern neural networks. The "base model" at this time was simply survival, eat, reproduce, survive, and enough circuitry to manage your base biological functions.

We are essentially running the entire volume of human knowledge through a neural network through billions of iterations and the model itself has 175 billion plus parameters. Humans nor any of our evolutionary ancestors never received this kind of "training", it's simply not comparable at all. Our mammalian ancestors were exposed to "basic" natural environments, they were not "pushed" into artifical situations to learn tool usage or language.

If we look at when apes first came about (10M years) ago and let's say since then the average ape or humanoid lived to 30-40 years, and estimate the average generation length for apes at 20 years (which is roughly accurate according to the latest research). This means that since the first recorded apes there have been about 500'000 generations of apes and humans. (12'000 generations for humans only).

So now if you compare how we are training our models, GPT-3 at 175B parameters and billions of iterations of training, GPT-4 we don't know. And again, extremely focused and specific training, feeding the entire human generated corpus of language, mathemetics, logic, etc etc into it, and we get something that does pretty well at human language.

Humans have a "base model" as you put it which really hasn't been trained for many generations and has been mostly exposed at random to external stimuli in an ad-hoc, unfocused way, and no single individual has ever been exposed to even a fraction of a fraction of a percent as much stimuli as a GPT model. So there is something different going on with our brain and neural networks and I think it can't really be compared at all: the mechanisms, numbers, and crucially, the results, do not match up in the slightest.
Wasn't logged into mine for couple of years, finally deleted it completely 2 months ago. Was still using messenger, lost couple of contacts there. No biggie
I just started Daemon from Daniel Suarez.

Very cool techno thriller.
The cyber truck was partly, maybe even mostly, a publicity stunt to divert attention away from some of the other troubles tesla was facing at the time. At least according to the book Power Play, although some have said the book isn't very accurate
> there's no way to make your data anonymous and usable by the third party at the same time. The

This is absurd hyperbole, here’s a trivial proof. The US population is 51.1% female. If you live in the US your gender information is included in this data point, but it cannot be de-anonymized. It is however useful for determining TAM for many products.

Anonymity is a spectrum, and there are many points along that spectrum which are solutions to usable data which also respects privacy.
Hype != vacuity. As long as Google, Amazon, and basically every huge tech firm are following their lead on LLM's and multi-modal but failing to catch up, there's only reason to be bullish on OpenAI
Thanks for mentioning this. Just installed it and it’s just what I’ve wanted. Been using vimium in the browser for a long time but I was always frustrated with every other app that I couldn’t use my keyboard to navigate.
For those who want to read further:

https://llvm-mos.org/wiki/Welcome
That’s correct, you pay for what you use and don’t pay for what you don’t. It’s irrelevant as to how much something someone else chose to do benefitted me. My lemonade stand doesn’t owe the cinema you decided to open up next to me any money. The only case where you ever have a right to force me to pay you is if we both voluntarily entered an agreement to transact. The “indirect” talking point is something some people like to say so that they can arbitrarily increase someone else’s tax burden by claiming they benefited from an infinite list of things without needing to quantify anything. Simultaneously they can arbitrarily decrease their own tax burden by choosing a threshold of income above their own at which they decide these “indirect benefits” come into play. I’m not interested in that argument. Pay your fair share.
I think better answer would be it is no longer cool to have Facebook account specifically for people on HN. So even if we have account we would not come and accept.
Far left woke people aren't really tolerant though. At least not universally
It’s part of our overseas propaganda efforts to use American linguistic hegemony to void cultural and historical ties with countries we aren’t friends with. The language is Persian, not Farsi.
Tracking free version of your first link: https://archive.ph/nnaIH
This is the only tech related fictional book I recommend anyone ever. Great read. I might have to reread it soon.
Likewise here in Victoria, BC. I don’t look at anything other than what I’m trying to sell. Unfortunately, other means of selling locally are virtually dead.
https://www.redhat.com/licenses/Appendix_1_Global_English_20...

Unauthorized Use of Subscription Services. Any unauthorized use of the Subscription Services is a material breach of the Agreement.

Unauthorized use of the Subscription Services includes: [...] (d) using Subscription Services in connection with any redistribution of Software
Countering FIMI: A Critical Imperative for Mission Safety
"We have targeted the minds for far too long using blunt facts, and perhaps more often than not ignored the hearts. We need to deploy our own positive emotive narrative and reclaim dominance in the cognitive domain."

Please no.
Sure, but that's just Popper's old paradox of tolerance: tolerating hateful people makes a hateful society. Anyone who is fine tolerating hate isn't working towards a tolerant society, they're working towards a hateful society. You don't need to look any further than e.g. the contemporary indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinians to see this. Or the deep fear and lack of empathy americans have towards the poor.
This is a largely academic discussion - I assume over 95% of modules are hosted on some kind of "forge" (mostly GitHub nowadays), so the users don't have to worry about keys/certificates, just about the forge's continued existence and their account not being removed. Any attempt to switch to code signing would raise the barriers of contributing to the Go ecosystem quite a bit, so (if at all) it should be introduced as an alternative or supplement to the existing system, not a replacement.
I have one but only use WhatsApp and Messenger. When I opened Facebook.com recently it asked me if I want to subscribe to go ad free for 10 bucks a month.
I'm reading Against Method by Paul Feyerabend. It makes the case for more anarchy in science, that observations are shaped by the paradigm and that therefore new theories sometimes require respite from a lack of support in current evidence. It's a refreshing critique of Popper coming from within the analytic school. Like a Foucault light.
Building is a very expensive way of finding user needs, especially since you might rely on luck to start out even in the right ballpark.

I think of innovative products as the combination of a user need insight and an innovative solution. I think there’s a lot of time wasted when teams focus too much on iterating on one without the other.

If you’re a technologist who sees the potential in a particular technology, you need to start by thinking about how to navigate towards applying it to a real user need. The flipside happens too, where a team sees a need and gets stuck in circles because they lack the tech expertise to build a solution that delivers & is competitive (but surely less commonly in the HN crowd).

Someone good at one of these things but less interested in the other should find a co-founder who’s good at the other perspective.
I'm a guy who recommends the first book to almost all newcomers to fantasy, even though I know that Rothfuss is never going to finish it. The reason I recommend NotW so much is because it probably has the best prose in all of fantasy. And it's not like the plot is bad too. Rothfuss is still talked about in the fantasy books community, sometimes more so than other authors who are still writing like Mark Lawrence. Hell, he has more Goodreads followers than Brandon Sanderson!
I have one now. I started helping out at a local sports club and facebook is one of the channels of communication. There's an email list too, but that isn't discoverable.

I feel like this is what FB is good at and should be - there's posts about the group and about the sport. And that's it. I don't post anything on my personal feed and I don't read anything from anyone's personal posts.
"The Second Law of Thermodynamics: Heat cannot, of itself, pass from one body to a hotter body."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYZyipx01tc
https://pypi.org/project/parso/ is what I settled on when digging into this.

It's been something like 8 months, but iirc tree-sitter would not emit anything I was able to discern as recoverable. I recognize they do implement a pretty robust error recovery, but the returned error wasn't clearly differentiable from a strict failure in a way I could program against where as for the same partially incomplete code parso would return something different than if it was unrecoverable.

I can't remember much more than that and it's entirely possible I was missing some type of configuration to make tree-sitter do the same. Unfortunately it looks like I never pushed my playground code for this idea off of my server which is currently packed up as part of a cross country move I'm on the tail end of otherwise I'd get you the code verbatim.
Forgot lazygit :)
> Where are the types?

OCaml supports type annotations practically anywhere, if you want to add them. Alternatively, you can use an editor that supports querying or showing types for bindings. VSCode and Emacs support this.

> Remember recursion? How about linked lists?

A lot of beginner material uses List to introduce algebraic data types, inductive and equational reasoning - but you don't have to use them. In fact, the standard library encourages Seq instead over List.

It's a shame the author did not get past the basics, as there are many interesting comparisons to be made. For example, OCaml 5 effect handlers are a very interesting alternative to Rust's Async.
NYC's high Gini coefficient I'd wager has more to do with it being the economic center of the world and its disproportionate billionaires than bus line vs. subway line disparity. Likewise Boston and Chicago, their inequality is driven by the economic force of the peaks, not the middle class/lower class.
This may be the reason I eventually break my hiatus
Unfortunately, the people in charge of these systems have enough money to hire people to do all of this crap for them. They don't do their own taxes, they don't open their own credit cards, they don't negotiate their own mortgages or car loans, nothing. They just tell their butler or financier or real estate agent or whatever "Go get me an X" and that other person deals with all the shit. Being the target of identity fraud just means they hire another gofer to deal with it full time for six months which costs them so little money, relative to their wealth, that's it's not even worth thinking about. And they're not even using their own credit, most of the time, they're using the "credit" of some shell corporation or limited liability corporation or trust or whatever other financial bullshit they hired a dozen lawyers to set up to commit tax fraud. So no, they experience none of the shit they perpetrate.
Specifically for medical stuff Costco lets you through.
I'm in the younger generation where Facebook never really gained users, so no, I never even used it. I use Whatsapp daily though.
The problem is in how you judge hate, seems to me they don't judge it very well. And their reaction to what they consider hateful is also hateful which I don't agree with.

I remember listening to stories about a black preacher that converted a KKK leader and he did it through tolerance and compassion not by screaming hateful things back through a megaphone
It’s to prevent markups from scalpers
Backspace is sufficient to go to the previous.
Yes basically to create some level control for guided program generation.
Not really, GP was talking specifically (and exclusively) about the ease of decoding the native ISA.

Yes, modern x86 are wide from the uop cache, but this cache is made of simple, easy to process uop and not native instructions. The native part is still "only" 4 wide. The whole existence of the uop cache is to avoid repetitive native instructions decoding and replace it by dealing with simple uop. That's because this native x86 decoding is expensive and hard to widen, which is exactly GP's point.

You're saying the uop cache makes this a non issue in practice: maybe (cost/efficiency of this cache vs a simpler design? I don't know ;), but that was not the point GP was discussing. The point was only that the C extension is easy to decode, with as practical proof the width of existing implementations supporting it.
Fruit flies can live for well over a month. The hours belief is a myth.
> I remember listening to stories about a black preacher that converted a KKK leader and he did it through tolerance and compassion not by screaming hateful things back through a megaphone

The fact is, nothing in society was won by polite persuasion, but the compulsion to make people comfortable is the core of white supremacy. You might want to check your own judgement on hate if tolerating hateful people is your litmus test.
My "solution" is a $5 mug heating pad that pulls 16W. It only heats when there's a weight placed on. Probably accounts to 10kWh for the whole year to keep a warm cup of coffee ready for the whole day.
Just a warning, I clicked on the virgin killer link to Wikipedia. I wish I hadn't done that. That album cover could be illegal in the UK where I'm based. I'm genuinely worried.

I'm now trying to figure out how to remove the image from android Firefox history. Not sure if deleting history will remove it
The problem I have with Nix is that it adds a lot of abstraction/complexity on top of everything. This is fine for power users, but I don't see it ever being used by anyone else. Silverblue also imposes some additional complexity, but it's way closer to vanilla Linux than Nix is, and I believe the usability aspect of it is limited mostly by flatpak. I have used both quite substantially, and they both are good solutions. I love how easily I can reproduce my system in Nix from just a config file, and the ability to nix copy (with the entire dependency tree) to another Nix system is awesome. But I personally think Silverblue is an easier sell to most people.
There’s a joke going around that a few years ago, when NN employees used to introduce themselves, people would correct them “Did you mean Novartis?”

Now, it’s Novartis employees who are being corrected.
I'm curious how well that works. There's plenty of "epic", "anything goes" space opera already. What made The Expanse special for me was the gritty, realistic solar system period and not the things where protomolecule based tech was in full swing already.

I'd gladly have taken prequels actually, with only human tech and stories from the period before the protomolecule appeared.
Yup. We have more than enough harnessable solar power to allow every single person a clean energy budget higher than a typical American, offset all other industrial carbon production, and start to unwind the last century of humanity's carbon impact.

But instead of working towards that end-state, a lot of people (even people on this site) seem to be more interested in shaming others into using less energy, and attacking others for "immoral" uses of energy.
Yeah maybe but we're talking about Teslas limited models, not if we can kinda sorta half squint and hand wave and say maybe if Tesla had twice as much it'd round to half as much
Cancelled in 2021 having not used it at all for 10 years. I put in a message to say I was leaving and folks said they would miss me. I think that says a lot.
Never had one, I guess mostly because the people I know use other platforms.
Yes and then people claim the social credit scoring system in china is a dystopian hellscape. I happen to think it’s far less dystopian that privately run financial credit reporting agencies.
I really enjoyed both books in this series. It was much more politics than space opera though.
Playing Games with GPT
I closed mine out in about 2014 and never looked back.

I don't have many... any friends from my early life, specifically from school. In fact I haven't kept any friends from before 5 years ago. Maybe I'm a dick? Maybe people naturally drift apart? I dunno. It makes me wonder. I've never been great at maintaining relationships over time or distance.
Another fairly high profile one is Taylor Swift re-recording all her old songs and re-releasing them. When someone asks Alexa to play "Love Story" should they play the one that gives more royalties to Taylor or to some music publisher? If someone wanted to rank songs by popularity, you probably shouldn't treat the versions as different. Etc, etc.
He just released a new book. Design for a better world. Reading this now.

https://www.amazon.com/Design-Better-World-Meaningful-Sustai...
What exactly should they do instead? The fact there is even a debate over this is an indictment of C.
That’s not even the biggest advantage of styles - they have a semantic meaning. Eg headings show up in Word’s navigation pane or auto generated table of contents; or if you convert a word document into an epub using calibre and you used styles correctly then eg each top level heading will be a new chapter.
> but the compulsion to make people comfortable is the core of white supremacy.

Sorry, what? Then woke people are just white supremacists by your account. What's the point of the comical micro aggression complaints if it isn't to make woke people comfortable?
Sometimes it's worth doing things that are compassionate, moral, and expensive.
> This is why it feels colder on a cloudless day or night.

This is not entirely true. It's not because your thermal energy is radiated to something colder, but rather because clouds contain and reflect the thermal energy that would otherwise be lost to space.
>That's very subjective.

My whole comment is a private opinion.
kijiji is decade+ popular in Ontario and Quebec. It may be there, too.
The Evolution of Expert Communities
I’ve started doing escape rooms with my brother. I was skeptical thinking it was going to be shit, but it’s pretty fun.

Other than that, I’ve just been getting back into long distance running.
They don’t, but this is specifically a charging network designed for rivian vehicles. It seems confusing for rivian owners.
problem is: what to use instead? They don't really have an alternative, either
Older models had little understanding of geography. Do you know if that has been addressed?
Haven't used mine in ages but during Corona it was super useful. My local town has Facebook groups with over 10% of the population of the town. It's super useful to get local knowledge and details on new events etc.

So, yes. Still popular here.
I wouldn't know where else these communities would form at the moment.
I think it is more readable than most pages.

One of the few pages where I don't need to scale up at least one step in my browser.
My compliments for a very good 10 minute talk! I don’t think I would have clicked play on an hour-long presentation.

Also, I particularly like how they hacked the LLVM workflow to deal with the registers. I don’t know LLVM at all, its just a toolchain option to me, but it was interesting and engaging.