skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally get wanting to stray away from the empty signifier of "woke", but doesn't just calling it "social justice" make you kind of sound like the baddie if your opposing yourself to it?

"The scourge of social justice must be stopped!"

From a grim tactical point of view, it is smart to start finding ways to force an antagonism between your evil teens and regular liberals. I think that will work very well in the long run.

Because gosh darnit we must keep those statues standing up! Literally can't think of anything more important.
> I wonder what is going on at Twitter's anti-abuse department.

Twitter laid off a large proportion of their workforce, so there might not be much of an anti-abuse department left.
I love my zero 2w as a development machine. For web browsing I try to use w3m when possible. In headless model (using mosh to access), I can even disable 2 cpu cores with acceptable performance.

"Each part upgradable and replaceable" -> super agree this point. You can clone microsd easily. So if microsd die, you swap the microsd. And if the board die, you just insert the microsd to another zero 2w and everything comes back the same as before. It's just like a "physical" vps.
I left Ubuntu when they sent data to Amazon by default. Lately I'm pissed about how they push Snaps to the point of forbidding Ubuntu derivatives from using Flatpaks instead. It's one thing to promote your own solution, another to actively try to destroy the competition, that's Microsoft and Apple level bullshit.

But I thank them, they helped me move to Debian and I haven't looked back.
I spent a bit of time thinking over this for back end code but decided not to pursue the idea.

If you are careful with the clients you bring on it can be lucrative. But it didn't seem like it would be easy to begin delegating the coding work quickly. My wife and like to take nice vacations and that would be a big conflict. Additionally at a personal level I believe it would have taken me a long time to build the staff and actually free my time up as I don't have recruiting or management experience. At the start it would take up a considerable chunk of the day. Considering all this we agreed this was not worth it.

Maybe it will work for you, especially if you have the prior management experience or timeline to begin delegating.
How much additional global warming should we expect from past CO2 emissions?
I'm not convinced "moderation" is the answer to "What makes an adult?" It excludes a whole bunch of neurodivergent adults. Is someone not an adult because they have ADHD?
If you buy a Cybertruck, Tesla says you can't sell it for a year
Would appreciate anyone to help me understand how to flash Coreboot with external flasher, never did that.
Not politicians. Not many normal people either. And that presumes that most people even know what 'principles' are - which they do not.
Same experience with Dell Latitudes. Failures we've had: ethernet port broken, motherboard dead, bottom cover cracks, paint flaking off 5 minutes of being outside the box, battery swollen, touchpad buttons broken, USB C ports broken, heating up like crazy and draining the battery whilst in standby, keyboard missing keypresses, ... And that's just off the top of my head. After 5 years we're now using HP ProBooks and EliteBooks but already had to service some of those too unfortunately...
>The biotech startup I join 3 months ago have a pipeline written by one of the founders, who has experience in programing but not extensive so he used co-pilot and GTP a lot. The thing WORKS, it actually delivers! this is what got the startup going so it is amazing.

Indeed!

>On the first month of the re-write I was able to cut costs in the 100x mark.

That's clearly where this is all heading: AI delivering the rough draft, and humans applying what AI inevitably misses.

>And on the third month I was able to uncover some subtle bugs that affect the entire pipeline and fixing them is out of the realm of possibility in the current state of AI.

It's entirely possible that had you or another human written the thing in the first place those bugs (or equivalent thereof) would have still been there. As you said, "subtle".

>I have no answer whatever employers will continue to value what I bring to the table in 5/10/15 years time especially after AI will improve. I suspect many will not as they will have 'good enough' results from the AI.

I would be more optimistic based on your own account, for the reasons I mentioned above.

That said, I am glad that I am self-employed, with a business that I am quite confident AI cannot replicate, and code purely for fun.
You have to be educated to be educated (1997)
This is good. Was insane that it used to literally penalize your account if you interacted with sub 1000 accounts before.

Seeing how TikTok treats its creators really shows old Twitter management squandered something bigger by chasing only the desires of journalists and celebs on their platform.

Never seeing the bigger picture of what was possible.
What you’re calling “Christian republicanism” is just how the entire US was until the liberal social revolution of the mid-20th century.
Sure, Satan.
Google sues two men who weaponized DMCA notices to crush competition
I think it's kind of disingenuous maybe to claim such improvements in training efficiency when they rely on:

- Existing models for data pseudo-labelling

- ImageNet pretraining

- A frozen text encoder

- A frozen image encoder
The EU parliament usually does the right thing if you look at past votes, there was never any doubt.

Well maybe a tiny bit of doubt.
Not really. My skills have drastically declined over the years because I rarely get a chance to exercise them. On top of that, it seems I'm switching languages/stacks frequently. So it's more like I'm a carpenter for a little while, then a plumber, then an electrician.
Or phrased another way: we don't care about all the needless work we are causing because we can just bully others into doing it for us.
EU Parliament votes are published, so you'll be able to look it up.
I have to admit I'm not very knowledgeable about the process, so I thank you for correcting me. :-)
> We need some laws to swing our way; enshrine our rights to privacy in clear terms so implementing laws like chat control become a non-starter.

I think those are already in place - one major point against the previously suggested approach was that it would conflict with a bunch of existing regulation, and so it would never get past the courts even if it was passed.

Two convenient examples:

- Article 8 of the EU convention of human rights guarantees a right to privacy, specifically that "Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_8_of_the_European_Conv.... Clearly conflicts with "let's scan everybody's correspondence".

- The E-Commerce Directive defined the rules for online business in the EU back in 2000, and specifically prohibits states from ever imposing general monitoring obligations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Commerce_Directive_....

For all its problems, in areas like this the EU is actually pretty well set up.
>I wouldn't really want to start seeing people whom I have no interest in following in my timeline.

Use the following pane. It’s linear non algorithmic
States with legalized medical marijuana see decline in nonmedical opioid use
the fact that this thing needs to be discussed in the parliament in the first place is an absolute waste of time.
dont they have for a lot of time before, what changed now?
Unfortunately after a lifetime of being a Thinkpad fanboy to the point of absurdity, the T410s is the laptop that made me move to Apple and not look back since.

The battery life on that thing was something to behold. Couldn't even last for regular "office work" during a 3hr flight.

The T40 and T60 lineup has a very special place in my heart, and I have a few of those laying around still operating as "headless" servers. The integrated crash cart is great!
> I wouldn't really want to start seeing people whom I have no interest in following in my timeline.

My city authority(police, mayor, emergency services etc.) posts latest affairs and developments live on Twitter, so I use Twitter solely for these news(I don't follow any friends in Twitter because I am not interested in their political views or silly retweets). What helps me most is that, when I see an account trending too much on my timeline, I simply mute that account and somehow it also seems to reduce the similar other accounts showing up in my timeline eventually.

I mean no harm to anyone of course, but I want to see the news of my city(because keeping track of 10 different news portal is tough compared to live tweets from the source) but when these important things get flooded by random people posting why Taylor Swift should adapt keto diet or whatever, I have to mute the accounts.
The version of rigorous infinitesimals I've seen didn't let you have these identities, because e^2 != 0 (because it still maintains the field axiom xy = 0 => x=0 V y=0); but the argument still goes through by carrying the whole power series in place of these simplifications – you can write the higher order terms as e*f(x, e) and drop them when you evaluate st(...).
I beg any journalist reading this to test creating new Twitter accounts. With each account, do not post or follow or like any content. With these "naked" fresh accounts, I have seen most (and virtually all) new account Twitter notifications pushing far right messaging like great replacement theories. These promoted tweets often do not even have more than a few dozen likes (so they shouldn't be notable).
It's a numbers game. You can't convince everyone, but lobbyists are generally good at their job and know how to find people with malleable opinions.

I don't think there's a topic where lobbying doesn't work to at least some degree. Or do you have an example?
> I'm not sure why teenagers need to do anything other than learning about the world and going to school

Some teenagers don't have what to eat.
> thing this time

I'm sure it'll get reintroduced in a year or so, and if it doesn't get enough media attention, it'll pass.

They only have to win once, we have to win every goddamn time.
The Parliament can ask the Commission to table a specific law though. And it can dismiss the commission at will.

So it doesn't have de-jure legislative powers, but de-facto it does.
Before? or did we just not know it then?

Because I believe he was always like this, we either didn't know or didn't care about it, or worse, just assumed that because he liked/disliked X, Y, Z, then must also like/dislike A, B, C.

You can definitely pick and choose, mind you, you don't have to accept a personality whole, you can like some parts while disliking others, but you can't just eliminate parts of him, and his stupid tweets are a part of his mentality, whether we like it or not.
> So why is it not the dominant method of agriculture yet?

Define dominant?

I'll note that permaculture does not have an army of lobbyists, sales people, marketers, lawyers, pushing this into public policy, beating its drum across media, using threats of prosecution to lock people into expensive seed / fertiliser / herbicide combinations, and so on.

It's a bit like free software competing with lower-quality non-free software, or fresh fruit competing with plastic-wrapped highly processed fast food - the product is demonstrably better for the consumer and the planet, but the disparity in advertising budgets dictate which is more popular.

Apropos whatever you like ... Bayer is worth around 130B euro - having picked up Monsanto for USD $60B five years ago.

In contrast, you can go do your permaculture design course for around US$1k, or pick up the original - Permaculture One - in ebook format for around AU$30.

Anyway, I've assumed by dominant you mean pervasive or popular, rather than merely superior.

> And yet, they're a basic part of most humans' diet. How many people actually get _all_ their food from permaculture?

I think you're asking some interesting questions, but perhaps coming at it from the wrong angle.

I mean, it's fascinating why it is that we're still using the same handful of grains that were chosen about 12k ya at a time when health & longevity weren't major concerns, and obviously weren't strong evolutionary factors.

Grains are far from great, and arguably the move from hunter gatherer to fixed / agricultural settlements was a backwards step in terms of individual health, but you'd certainly live long enough to propagate genetic material on a diet of mostly grains, so in that sense you could say 'it worked'.

Back to the thrust of your question - how many people actually use Debian rather than Microsoft Windows?

Does this mean the latter is two orders of magnitude better, or just two orders of magnitude more dominant?

> Anyway one of the things Monbiot talks about in his book are new perennial versions of wheat and rice that have decent yields, so maybe they can become part of permaculture.

You should probably read some books on permaculture, because 'growing a better monoculture' is entirely not what it's about.

If you're stateside, Toby Hemenway's book is well regarded. (He once intimated to me that my reliance on metric meant I couldn't be as good a designer as someone familiar with both metric and imperial / customary / archaic
but nonetheless.) The original Permaculture Designer's Manual (600 pages) is hefty and dense, but definitely the canonical work.

I mentioned Joel Salatin earlier - he doesn't identify as a permaculturist, but his integrated approach to farming definitely aligns with some of the permy principles. I've only read his 'folks this ain't normal' and 'everything I want to do is illegal' but he's got an abundance of books, as well as some great videos available on youtube. He's the chap that featured in Michael Pollan's 'The Omnivore's Dilemma'.
Multi-year business contracts have lengthy renewal negotiations. Your saas provider can change rates, but it won't be overnight if you're a business.
Medium is the epitom of the internet most of us do not want. Where have all the wordpress-sites gone?
> this problem is largely solved for C and C++: Linux distributions like Debian package such a wide range of libraries that for many things that you want to develop or install, you don’t need any third-party libraries at all.

Even if it were solved on Linux (and it isn't, at least not for "our" dependencies), this doesn't help MacOS and Windows users. And no, Homebrew and Chocolatey (or whatever) don't háve all needed packages either.

Crates.io does have problems, the main one being non-existent namespaces.
Well one of these guys is Bob Menendez, who is currently indicted on his second federal corruption charges and who happily accepts cash and gold bars from Egyptian nationals.
Thanks for sharing nick-keller!
I will test this week using the 30-day trial.
ClickPy: Real-Time Analytics on PyPI Package Downloads
I think that there is a real point in talking about the security risk from having it too easy to fetch tons of dependencies. That's literally code that gets downloaded and run on the user's machine, I would always feel safer if the dev had at least an idea about the dependencies they pull.

You can also have a mixed approach, where you depend on the system libraries for those that are maintained by the distro, and build/handle the remaining dependencies manually. That is an incentive to actually use the libraries that are maintained by the distro, which is a good thing IMO: not every library gets to be distributed by Debian, there is some level of quality control there.
> It's pretty great at reducing the loneliness of solo programming though. Just bouncing ideas and seeing what it says helps a lot. It's not like other people would want to listen.
> organise a lobbying group greater than the NRA ($2.93M in 2022)

This is... a little misleading. They also have at least two PACs (here's the big one: https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs...)

Now, you could claim, though not particularly credibly, that money spent on PACs is not lobbying money.
The most important bits about what they do to make this happen:

> In addition to the causal self-attention integral to transformers, we also allow each query token to attend to a fixed number of “external memories”. These memories are stored in a non-differentiable cache. The choice of which memories to attend to is made using cosine similarity within each decoder layer and attention head.

[...]

> We create our external memories (at each layer) by passing those external contexts through our model, just like inference. Then we save the internal representations the model generated, and attend to them later.

What an extremely clever approach!

If, in a chatbot setting, you update the external memory cache during inference, this means the thing immediately retains memory of the discussion.

Maybe this is an alternative (quicker? more exact?) to LoRA finetuning, to give a foundational model some specific personality and experiental history?
Is that you Zuckerberg?
If you change /shorts/ in the URL to /watch/, it'll load the same video in the normal YouTube UI. I like that better because it allows for such advanced features as... changing the fucking volume.

(Shorts will keep the volume set as whatever you last changed it to in the normal UI, with no way to change it without going to a different ("normal") video.)
Basically me. I spend a lot of time with an old MacBook Pro 13” with non-retina 1280*800 screen, and I see no pixels and see very little actual difference with my workflow, while comparing to my other retina 13” MacBook Pro. Just watching videos is very different, all other tasks are the same to my eyes.
It would be worth reading https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Sneering, sarcastic dismissals of this type don't advance debate even if you disagree with the person.
But why should i waste time using a broken product when i can do it properly myself? To me a lot of this debate sounds like people obsessively promoting a product for some odd reason, as if they were the happy owners of a hammer in search of a nail.
X doesn't have a security risk unless you mistrust the software running on your computer, in which case you have already lost.
People don't care because they haven't seen what "advertisements from shady airport routers" even means. This has never been a real thing in most of Europe for example. I didn't care either until I traveled to US and had to check the homepage of my then employer. The experience can be compared today if you visit a ad-heavy shady news site with Ublock Origin on at first, then off.
It might be that your power supply can't keep up with the demands of wifi on top of heavy cpu use. What's your power supply rated?
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> I see from your post history you are operating with a definition of "fascism" that counts any highly capitalist state as fascist

A definition of fascism is the merger of State and corporate interests (according to Mussolini himself). De Gaulle was very much in that vein, via the Jacques Foccart State mafia (Françafrique) or the nuclear military-industrial complex among others.

From a less economic perspective, De Gaulle was actively involved in heavy repression in the colonies including genocidal policies in Algeria (see for example Frantz Fanon on the topic, or history books about Setif and other massacres), and deadly repression of social movements on the mainland via the police and military, and actual fascist militias such as the Service d'Action Civique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_d%27Action_Civique

Short anecdote of the day, De Gaulle and his government (eg. Maurice Papon, former nazi collaborator and prefect of Paris under De Gaulle) personally orchestrated the killing of hundreds of algerians in Paris on October 17 1961. A few years before in 1958, they went as far as to round up and deport thousands of algerians, in the very same spot the Vichy administration used to round up jews: the vélodrome d'hiver.

I am certainly anticapitalist but i would not equal capitalism with fascism. Adam Smith and other capitalist thinkers certainly envisioned a free-market along with free individuals, which was based on the absence of monopolies/oligarchies and the separation of State and market. The State defending and supporting the industry while letting the people suffer is certainly not capitalist in a traditional liberal sense. For an example of that, see the bank bailouts in USA or Greece where the government saved the banks for billions of dollars while taking from the people, instead of doing exactly the opposite.

I agree fascism is a nebulous concept and subject to debate. I would recommend reading the Wikipedia page on the topic. It may appear that western States usually depicted as "liberal democracies" have in fact more than a few fascistic tendencies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism
That's been my experience both with Tesla AP/FSD implementation & with LLMs.

Super neat trick the first time you encounter it, feels like alien tech from the future.

Then you find all the holes. Use it for months/years and you notice the holes aren't really closing.. The pace of improvement is middling compared to the gap to it meeting the marketing/rhetoric. Eventually using them feels more like a chore than not using them.

It's possible some of these purely data driven ML approaches don't work for problems you need to be more than 80% correct on.

Trading algos that just need to be right 55% of the time to make money, recommendation engines that present a page of movies/songs for you to scroll, Google search results that come back with a list you can peruse, Spam filters that remove some noise from your inbox.. sure.

But authoritative "this is the right answer" or "drive the car without murdering anyone".. these problems are far harder.
I felt the same before my eyesight went worse at some point :)
most impacted are technical consultants ( outside experts that merely provide high level consulting ) -- their recommendations will be scrutinized more closely
Prompt injection and data exfiltration issues with ChatGPT's Code Interpretor
Paris is the same.

The only difference is that California has human poop problem, Paris has dog poop problem.
640K tokens ought to be enough for anybody
> I'm not sure why teenagers need to do anything other than learning about the world and going to school.

A couple of thoughts:

1. Working is a way to learn about the world in a low risk way (losing a job as a teenager is often more a lesson than a set back, for example). It’s also a way to earn your own income, which is obviously useful.

2. Not every teenager has the luxury of living in a stable home with one or both parents/guardians. Even then, some teens are better off spending more time away from those people beyond time spent in school.
This sounds like something an ESP32 or other wireless-capable microcontroller could do. It would probably be easier to fit a system-on-module than an off-the-shelf single board computer in a crammed space.
Well written, and clear about putting forth ideas that are practical. Wish more thought pieces were written like this. Too bad this topic won't get more attention because it is deemed boring or 'too negative' often.
Would rather use D2 https://d2lang.com/tour/sql-tables for this task
How do you make a custom gpt which knows a specific code base? I have been wanting to do this
Is that low five figures each?
This only applies to the `cargo install` command to install binaries from crates.io.

If you work in a repository on your own project and use basically any other cargo command (e.g. `cargo build`, `cargo run`), the lock file is of course taken into account (otherwise it would be near-useless).
Canonical was (rightfully) criticized for Mir because they were yet again doing their own thing instead of collaborating with the rest of the community and then expecting everyone else to cover the cost of supporting their special NIH solution. Technical considerations don't even begin to matter at that point.