skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet another reason to simply pirate everything. That way, When the company changes it mind about hosting that content, you still have it.
Swiss' have not a real direct democracy. They, too, feed fuckin' politicians and their political idiocy. And the swiss bureaucracy is as bloated as in Germany, too.

And of course as a german Untertan you do not know what self-administration is.
That's Aether.
To me, a couple times ever is unacceptable.

Especially when there's an unsubscribe link, which I assume is a just there to confirm my email address is active.
> it doesn't matter at all if it's always right or only 80%

People get fired every day for pasting code that is 80% right and worked on a couple test-cases.
I think most modern disks just never design with sudden power-lost safety in mind (some enterprise disks do have such guarantee, by adding a battery or a capacitor to buy time for properly flush the cache to disk).

A disk AND an UPS is probably the minimal combination that you can guarantee that your data is actually persisted.
A notary in the UK is a type of lawyer (although not necessarily a solicitor) and requires special certification and training. Their job is to make sure all the paper work is in order and to sign off and legally certify that is in fact so.
Wild to see such unironic bootlicking. What, you want to advocate for slavery next?
It is bizarre that you don't think safe workplaces are a right. The life situation that leads to this view is equally fascinating and concerning.
I have published a project to interact with house alarm systems manufactured by a local company [1]. It is a hobby project, I have it for my own use, don't expect it becomes a money printing machine.

Yet, since many users request features well outside my use cases, and I have only one sample of the many alarm models that use the same protocol, I thought I'd be successful in getting some help from the manufacturer, from lent hardware (at pessimist side) to some small monetary contribution (optimist side). I got no response at all...

People are also fast to point things that are "wrong" but don't want to submit a PR at all.

[1] https://github.com/elvis-epx/alarme-intelbras
> And if it's "easy" to verify what AIs say, then it should be "easy" to teach AI to verify before it speaks

Sure, if that's the only thing you want the LLM model to be able to do, you could do that. But there are other use cases beyond getting facts, that these models usually also want to support.
I agree and the difference is commercial rights and intent. Parody, jokes, etc are fine. Using this to replace him on a documentary, not okay. Fair use already covers this all they have to do is extend copyright protections to peoples likeness and voices
Sounds like a business opportunity if I’ve ever heard one
Recommended video from Distro maintainer who advocated AppImage and didn't like Flatpak a few years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WuYGcs0t6I

Its a recommended watch.
I think there is more to it and should not be dismissed out of hand.

Upload a photo of this proposed system in action. Prove it doesn't look like a mess. See if the wastage at start and end of rack is problematic. Then upload a video of putting a random clothing item in and also removing one.

There is a reason people don't do this, try it and see.
These aren't LLMs...
I mean, the same exact argument can be made for public transportation (e.g. subway/rail) construction in the US. It's too expensive to be realistic!

Well, sure. But why is it that expensive? It's expensive because we decided it to be so.

If it became an existential problem for society you would see the cost per mile of rail plummet 10x or more.

The same goes for nuclear. The expensive bits are almost all societal constructs. Much like all large projects in the developed world. Once the shit hits the fan so to speak, those costs tend to mysteriously evaporate and society magically gets stuff done in record time. See: historical shifts to wartime production.

If your only argument against nuclear is cost, I'm afraid it's not a very compelling one to me.

Now, renewables may surprise me and somehow we crack the storage problem. But I will continue to posit nuclear power plants are the best grid-scale battery tech we've yet to invent. I say this due to the costs. Not the monetary costs, but the return on energy invested cost which is really the only thing that will end up mattering in the end.
Yeah, what's with that? I looked into enabling jumbo frames on my home network (just for fun, I don't really need it) and it seemed horrendous as those packets could end up on the internet and probably wouldn't work.
My personal experience with VR is 1gbps is plenty, the issues with VR more boil down to things like latency (for instance, streaming a quest wirelessly with VR desktop basically requires Ethernet, with regular wifi the experience is just awful).
> The buyer doesn't bear the cost at all, so why not utilize that convenience?

The buyer is (typically) the only one bringing money to the table at closing. They're paying for that convenience one way or the other. (To partially counter this, I negotiated a rebate of the commission I was paying [as a buyer] on our current house purchase. IIRC, the check I got back was four figures and started with a 8.)
Just to be picky the correct term is data gram, which describes layer 2 segmentation. Packets describe segmentation between switches, which is layer 3.
Right now my shortest path for anyone on this debate, is to

1) Ask what you have built
2) What is the error rate and hallucination rate - ON your production data.
Oh I want to play!

What if Google has an actual GAI that is so good they’ve secretly turned over all strategic decisions to it, and it is directing this “appear to be behind” strategy for reasons known only to itself?
Excellent Idea. But why email? Just use a webform that charges 1 USD via paypal to contact you. Trust me, I wont!
Anyone who wants to change the legal system to deliver a specific outcome instead of follow a specific process is always going to be my enemy.

I would be happy to die for habeas corpus, the right to face your accuser, the right to a trial by jury, freedom from ex post facto expropriation, public trials, the right of appeal, and countless other things which literal wars were fought over for a good 700 years of hammering out common law.

To be ignorant of the protections this brings and the costs its absence imposes is legal nihilism, the focus on a single outcome in the present with no provision for the future.

I hope the prosecutor makes their case well and the jury follows the judge’s instructions and returns a verdict favorable to tenants. But if the prosecutor drops the ball or the jury makes a decision that baffles me, upholding that process is more important to justice than any single outcome.

Many Americans are not only willing to die to uphold this, but part of their job is also to kill in its defense. The pseudo-heidigerian stuff about government having a state of being just reads like you’re gearing yourself up to rationalize imposing your beliefs through nominative positioning.
It’s not funny because it’s “aligned”. You can’t be funny with all those restrictions.
So this is basically an article about a new university who supports Israel and is saying students shouldn't go to Ivy leagues and Stanford because they didn't comdemn Hamas.
this is an interesting statement, are you involved in LLM research?
> they will generate text that is super-persuasive without being intelligent

> What we need to regulate is the bullshit.

Feeling bit threatened, are we? We have complete democratisation of "BS" (marketing, propaganda...). Now every scammer with Nigeria can compete with top universities and think tanks, without being "intelligent".

Something like that happened when Samuel Colt invented his revolver. Every person could defend themselfs. Overnight it become very unwise to randomly attack people! Total democratisation of violence!

"Intelligent" people will have to drop their shilling for latest fad, will have to build some credibility, reputation and personal brand!
The submission strategy doesn't seem to work on hackernews. edeyab's karma is at 0. Usually that means a lot, if not all, upvotes to the submissions have been automatically stripped by anti-bot anti-voting-ring algorithms.

I'd remove the 'featured on hackernews'. It wasn't ever featured.
It's like if you live in a quiet suburb, and someone walks up to your window every night and starts yelling obscenities for an hour or two.

It can be ignored, yes, but the worst offenders go beyond a polite discourse and will send emails to whatever email they can find, DM you on Twitter, Mastodon, etc., and drop weird and annoying comments anywhere they think you have a chance of seeing them.

Some people have thicker skins than others, but it's just a bit tiresome no matter how much you can deflect.
Because open source projects are not products per se. If you use mostly a proprietary software, open source project can be perceived as "poor quality product".
lets watch foreign drama in ENG Subtitles
First of all, no. Everyone using ChatGPT does not know that verification is necessary. I'm sure you know, and so do many other people. But there's also a lot of people who clearly do not understand this. Including some of the people developing products based on this stuff. And that's a problem.

Second, the fundamental issue here is that as long as verification is needed, this technology is only ever useful for domains in which you're already an expert. That severely limits the technology, and yet this keeps being touted as some kind of general knowledge base when clearly it's at best a very narrow one.

And it seems to me like this is unlikely to be solved in the current paradigm. This is just intrinsic to the architecture of LLMs. There is no getting away from it.
> Plus, I doubt that somebody would stock a counterfeit Hyundai at Amazon warehouses, so commingling isn’t an issue.

New, repackaged Hyundai. Hit a bit on the side, a crack on the windshield, looks like new. /s
The problem that isn't mentioned in the article is: at what cost to the Portuguese people this achievement was done?

We're already a poor country, and we're kept in mediocrity because we keep getting crushed by rising prices.

So the question is: if we don't get anything positive out of it, other than a green drop in the ocean of pollution which won't change that tide of events, why are we paying a premium for it?

Shouldn't we be one of the last European countries to perform these achievements, until we got the means to do it? Or is Portugal going to collect a tax from those countries that are not performing?

With this, I'm not saying this isn't a positive achievement, of course it is, but the Portuguese people are so numbed from an economic point of view that at least I, and my circle of family and friends, don't rejoice.
> If “getUserByID” returns a fake user

Logically, getUserByID returns nil when there is no user, not a fake user. The caller can then check for its nil-ness without needing to consider the error value. nil is a useful value. For better or worse, nil is how Go convention represents the absence of a value. In fact, convention sees error also rely on nil to be useful in the very same way.

It's funny how people completely forget how to write software as soon as they see the word error. Why is that?
Humans aren’t special. I wish I could be a cyborg how cool would that be
Deterministicly?
Now I am confused.
Intel needs to stop gouging customers for 10GBe NIC cards because they've got all the patents on the technology. Greed is _so_ ugly.
It's easier to list the reasons not to pirate.
https://archive.is/BjbaZ
The Sphere and Our "Immersion" Complex
Well, I don't begrudge people doing it -- I'm doubtful its useful. More-so dangerous, maladaptive, pathological, etc. People will eventually acquire a more accurate mental model, like using search engines in the early days.

What riles me is the grubbiness of the commercial pushers, and the foolishness of the press which repeat their marketing material as-if its science.

People should not rely on computers in the way they rely on people -- and any inducement to doing so is unethical.
> In addition to the jail time, both convicts had to forfeit multiple possessions related to their crimes, including bank accounts, several pieces of real estate, and cars.

Sounds like the money was already spent.
Google shutting something down? This is unprecedented! Unheard of!
You also need to have 2.5GB capable hardware in all of your home devices though.
They're a form of lossy compression. I suspect they are doing less than we think they are. They might be fooling us into thinking there's more intelligence there than there really is in the same way fractals can fool us into thinking "the whole universe must be a big fractal!" by their uncanny ability to replicate complex shapes.
We’ve bought two houses, sold one, bought a lot to built a house for my parents. We’ve never hired a real estate agent. The seller had an agent for the first transaction, none of the other counterparties had an agent. Paying a lawyer by the hour to handle things is simpler, cheaper, and a random lawyer is dramatically more competent than a random agent (the most complex transaction ended up costing us maybe $4k in lawyer fees-the standard 6% on that sale would have been $40k!)
How do you expect to face competition from general-purpose, high-resolution E-Ink displays appearing on the market now? They are getting to the point where it would be within the ability of an average computer hobbyist to mount one on their wall along with one of the many 'HDMI stick' computers.

Your product looks very polished already, and is considerably cheaper than such general purpose displays right now. However, the E-Ink display market is (finally) becoming mainstream, which makes me wonder where you'll go from here.

No problem if your response would be too sensitive to share in public; good luck with your business in any case!
I'd love to hear all the disruptive, trendy, innovative and blockchain-focused tech that'll cost me a fortune instead of relying on cheap ethernet.

^ The '/s' is implied.
I find the project and title very intriguing, but the presentation really turned me off. The script for the video is all over the place and most of it doesn’t have to do with the topic at hand.
Can actors audio-visually mimic their characters with increasingly convincing realism, and can they be artificially scaled, duplicated, extended, and applied for just the cost of a bit of hardware and electricity?

It is not sensible to hand wave the "human like" learning process and ignore economic reality. This area requires careful thought about how our notions of individual rights apply to new technologies, and what kind of economic system can exist as a result.
If you're interested in the early history of Ethernet, the Bob Metcalfe oral history from the Computer History Museum is a great read:

https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_Hist...
Sure. The only reason image generators aren't deterministic is that you inject randomness. Set the same random seed, get the same image. Download Stable Diffusion XL and run it locally and try it.

There are models that can be run in both directions. Take a source image and generate a token stream prompt for it. That's your compressed image. Now run it forward to decompress.

CPU intensive but massive compression ratios can be achieved... like orders of magnitude better than jpeg.

It's lossy compression, so we're not violating fundamental mathematical limits. Those bounds apply to lossless compression.
Depends on the queries and the application.

Even just the case of sitemap access alone can very well read half a database's tables and many of each table's columns in the act. That being done dozens of times a week between various search vendors and yeah your egress from just SEO can exceed the size of your database alone. Just depends on the nature of your data.

Then consider paging views, infinite scroll.

Then toss in something like Algolia or other third-party tools ingesting your data.

But it really boils down to your application. You might have NONE of these and egress is just crumbs.
I think LLMs have revealed that we have at least two ways of thinking.

One is analogous to how LLMs operate and is essentially next token prediction. Think of your mental state when you’re very engrossed in conversation. It’s not a truly conscious act. Sometimes you even surprise yourself. If you’re a child, or childish, you may just confabulate things in the moment, maybe without realizing that you’re doing it in the moment.

Now think of some very difficult problem you’ve had to solve. It’s not the same, right? It’s a very conscious act, directing your focus here and there, trying to reason on how everything fits together and what you might change to fix your problem. Odds are good that you’re not even using language to model the problem in your head.

LLMs are doing the first thing, and are exceptionally good at it even in this early stage. The surprising thing to me is how far this can get you. If you have an inhuman level of knowledge to work from then in conversation mode you can actually solve some moderately difficult problems.

I think that maps to our own experiences as well. For the things that you have deep knowledge on you will sometimes find yourself solving a problem just by constructing sentences.
They were thinking that they were making a new medium to propagate a signal. Wifi is not a medium but a protocol.
Ethernet is a protocol, it has nothing to do with the cables. WiFi operates using a slight variant of the Ethernet frame
Just yesterday ChatGPT thought it was possible to use sizeof in C preprocessor macros. I called it out on this and it doubled down on it.

Edit: #if directives, like static_assert.
Yeah, no. You live in a bubble. Most consumers are not above 1g even on fiber. It's probably not even regional, it's very location specific.
> Yes. Exactly! That's the point - it restricts the ability for extensions to monitor, snoop, and steal content from every website you browse.

Does it though? The webRequest API still exists in MV3, but as read-only. So if you're interested in snooping everything you still can.

> That’s because Manifest V3 doesn’t change the observational APIs available to extensions. (For extension developers, that means Manifest V3 isn’t changing the observational parts of chrome.webRequest.) In other words, Manifest V3 will still allow extensions to observe the same data as before, including what URLs users visit and the contents of pages users visit.[1]

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/googles-plans-chrome-e...
I agree and disagree with this.

Contracts (which is what I assume you're talking about) are only "boilerplate" in fair-weather deals. But if literally anything goes wrong during the escrow period, then the wording of that contract suddenly becomes critical. When tens of thousands of dollars are at stake, I'd never rely on AI-generated output.

That being said, I also agree with you as for the value of agents, because they're the ones who write these contracts and to be honest, most of them are pretty stupid. We really need real estate lawyers to be drafting these things, not relying on templates. A good contract is worth a hefty fee.
Debian makes newer kernels available for Stable via Backports. I believe 6.5 is currently the latest available.

There are also Nvidia flatpak packages available that will install based on the driver version installed.
Awesome, great work! I know some people who will find this very helpful. Cheers.
Such a system has been proposed for copyrighted works in general. The general idea is that you change copyright law so that making copies does not require permission of the copyright holder, but you also put a tax on something that correlates somewhat with copying. The government would then distribute that tax money to copyright owners in some manner dependent on how much their work was copied.

Even Stallman has suggested such a system [1], with the amount a given copyright owner gets for a work being proportional to the cube root of how much it is copied.

A common suggestion for the tax is a tax on internet access.

For entertainment such as movies and music and games that could probably work well. Probably also for closed source software. For open source software it might be too difficult to figure out how to allocate the money.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-versus-community.en...
It already works to select "English (Europe)" as the region. The bloatware isn't defined for that region so it doesn't include it.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2023/08/06/you-can-install-win...
That sounds like some great tax policies in favor of long term home owners.

I was surprised that taxes ended up being over 50% of the total cost of home ownership, at least in New York (not NYC).

Bought my first house in 2021. My mortgage payment is less than my annual school + property taxes. It’s quite insane.

A big problem is my town’s property assessments arent done fairly. Anyone who hasn’t bought or sold their house in the last 10 years are enjoying extremely low assessments (e.g. a house down the street sold for $800k while the assessment was $270k). The tax assessor seems to wait until a specific house is sold before adjusting the assessed value.

Meaning grandma’s $2 million dollar house is still paying taxes based on the value of the house 30 years ago.
Well, they are not invincible but only possible alternative are Chinese cars. That are a no-no in EU because of they are allowed, entire EU auto industry immediately goes bust with much much bigger labor and economic consequences.
ORLY? That's your plan? Tax evasion?

And what about when you want to spend that money? At some point you have to declare that income and be taxed and the government doesn't care if you were paid in euros, bitcoin or seashells.
Crisis Communications Playbook
TIMTOWTSAC makes me feel sad for the cats of the world. Can't we have something nicer than that?
Yep. My future is cloud offboarding and cost mitigation consultancy.

Been through the fad cycle three times now and worked out where to make money :)