skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Take a look at the highly conspiratorial website https://www.opensecrets.org for an example of how i enquire by looking at sources and money flow helping me realise most politicians are bought by lobby groups working for the owning classes and vote thereafter, not "sincere belief in ideology".

Generally when I see people use this they're misreading it. For instance, they'll see donations from people working at Google to a campaign and think they're donations "by Google" to a campaign, but companies can't donate to campaigns. It's also unlikely politicians sincerely care that much about a campaign donation capped at $3000.

In general if you think things are about the money you should be happy with politics, because the highest-raising politicians are Bernie Sanders and crew with $25 Actblue donations. But what actually happens is that they raise more money than Republican politicians and then still lose elections in red states. Republican voters and politicians both actually believe what they're saying.
Yeah Bard is terrible. Get a subscription to cursor.ai and use gpt-4.

It's a bit pricey at $20 a month but totally worth it.
Ready for the AGI. Just needs some wrapping paper and a ribbon.
> This does not exist currently in the West.

WeChat exists because they have a de facto monopoly granted by the government in exchange for widespread surveillance and censorship.
First of all, every single article talks about 70% of revenue (not of the net income)

Revenue: 11,727
Fees to rights holders: 1,665

See my list of costs of revenue, all straight out of the financials. With 2 estimates. (all for Q3, not a full year). It added up to about about 720 without support employees, infra, software, hardware, no other cloud partners, real estate etc.

So yeah, that's more than 3B annualized

And some nice crappy disclaimer to further obfuscate their practices:

Auditing cost of revenue and rights holder liabilities was complex due to the number of royalty calculation variables in addition to complex IT systems and a significant volume of data. There was significant auditor judgment related to circumstances where rights holders have allowed the use of their content while negotiations of the terms and conditions or determination of statutory rates are ongoing.
Fair, but one aspect of functionality is highlighting local landmarks like schools, so a viewer can more easily get their bearings.
No, I agree that government investment in infrastructure is usually good.

My point is, when you're talking about investing in foreign developing countries, government programs will face the exact same failure modes as philanthropist-backed NGOs, with about as much accountability.
I tend not to think of Rocket Lab as an American company as it was founded in New Zealand. But considering that its is mostly growing in the US now, maybe it is after all.
I suspect that other options aren't quite better than Ikea
I have no idea why people say this. Airline baggage handling is incredibly robust and, if for whatever reason your baggage doesn't pop out of the carousel when you arrive, they deliver it to your hotel or office or wherever ASAP, usually the next day. Airport backends aren't dark warrens full of hiding places, they're well lit spaces. Suitcases don't just 'disappear' any more.

I've flown on at least 300 two-hop flights and never had a baggage issue in either the US hubs, the ME hubs or HK/SG hubs.
Main roads and buildings are both yellow? It would be better to make one of them purple or something.
OK, I wasn't going crazy then. I had recently used Google Maps for a road trip that I was planning and I asked my GF if it looks weird. My initial thought was if someone changed my monitor settings. (I use different one for just gaming) . The design and graphics reminds me of Apple Maps a lot(the mac version). The look and feel was slightly off and it felt dullish. Not sure how I can explain it.

The suggestions are definitely good in the post. I like to have a clean maps panel and rest can be hidden away.
The non-stick aluminium pans from MSR, and perhaps other brands, do clean up well from food after cooking. In my experience (hundreds of nights of cooking while cycling the world), it is enough to wipe them clean with a dedicated towel or wet-wipe in order to pack them, and then they can be washed completely the next time one reaches a convenient water source.
Why not just use the Mail app to access your Gmail account and bypass the inferior web interface altogether?
How expensive is a "typical" GPT-4 query in Azure pricing?

Edit: Oh I see: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cognitive-...
Even awesomer - the vaccine also helps prevent shingles - which many many people get after middleage.

Brian is at high risk of shingles, and Logan isn't. https://xkcd.com/1950/
> an attempt to regulate and control a technology that doesn't exist yet.

I’m not even proposing regulation. Just trying to understand the technology. You say it doesn’t exist yet, but many AI researchers (including Sutskever and Hinton, pioneers that know as much about the state of the art as anyone alive) think AGI could be achieved by scaling up the current architectures.

If there is a non-zero probability of AGI built atop transformers, we must invest more in understanding how transformers actually work. Even if it’s not that likely, it’s worth spending a lot more than we do now as a hedge. And I believe that if transformers do not end up being anything to do with AGI, it is likely that we will still carry over some expertise from catching up and understanding them.

For papers that are actually building our understanding here, see https://transformer-circuits.pub/. For example I think “Towards Monosemanticity”[1] was fairly widely considered to be a big step forward in the field.

There have also been meaningful results around steering models, which again relies upon being able to decode what features are actually encoding specific concepts.

I’m here for the idea that most papers are bunk, but isn’t that science in general? Really hard to pick good projects and researchers to invest in ahead of time, and so you kind of have to spray and pray at some level. Still worth it on net.

[1]: https://transformer-circuits.pub/2023/monosemantic-features/...
Yes I had that in mind although the black mirror version is kind of inefficient you can probably get a good approx without a full simulation like that.
Could anybody elaborate on what this does?
Required default response to all of these comments calling me a criminal (that is the implication of grift, intended or not): I have and will never ever pay one red cent to any company to watch videos for the purpose of entertainment outside of specific creators making high quality content that I personally enjoy. You can not make me. I have zero (0) moral compunction on the subject. I will explore every legal avenue. Weep and gnash your teeth. If every other legal avenue is exhausted I will imagine new Top Cat episodes in my head. You cannot stop me.
There's a difference between spyware and a library that sends the company usage details about how you use their app. Even apps with ads are only forbidden from using bespoke APIs (other than the built-in prompt "allow <x>" to track you across other apps and websites) to track users' activity and correlate it with other sessions.
I encountered this approach before (I think here on HN) and had a question since then: when video ads run faster, can't YT just compare the expected time to the actual time and flag the user, show an anti-ad blocking popup, etc?
SQLite alone doesn't help you get away with any of that. If you already know that a single machine is enough for you, then sure, SQLite is a fine choice. Availability needs alone often force you to run multi-node setups.
Did you (or to what degree) take epistemic soundness and logic into consideration during your analysis, or are you only coming at it from Bayesian perspective?

To what degree did you take the degree of rationality you've achieved into consideration (Rationalists aspire to rationality, though they often forget that) during your analysis?
If you have an enterprise deal I think you can.
It's only -€0.2/kWh, not that bad at all. I've been seeing spot price predicted to be -A$1/kWh in several states in Australia (which is the lowest possible bid allowed by regulation). Even in Europe, I recall seeing some post desperately trying to figure out how to curtail their solar export because the price was reaching -€0.34/kWh. Not sure an error of -€0.2/kWh is anything newsworthy TBH.
It's rather that it's more effective at converting energy to impulse, since the molecular weights of the combustion products are much lighter. LH2/LOx doesn't have a particularly large energy advantage over hydrocarbons, when you're also accounting the mass of the oxygen (as you do with non-airbreathing rockets).
I completely agree with you, but as you imply CEO-driven decisions can intervene.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-big-pharma-company-st...

Two vaccine candidates use the same adjuvant. One demonstrates high efficacy at curing a disease killing over a million people per year in poorer countries, one demonstrates high efficacy in preventing shingles. Guess which one was prioritized for the adjuvant.
Peloton 2023 Thanksgiving Crash
Where can I get info, how to make required changes to get software compiling and running on s390x? For example, some software requires CPU-specific assembler code. I can not get some code to compile correctly:

https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/s390x
I repeatedly got 30min long ads and they are so repetitive that I really wonder why anyone pays money for them. What's the point in showing me the same ad 50 times per week?
I‘m a lucid dreamer. You are describing the WILD (Wake-Induced Lucid Dreaming) technique. It’s basically entering sleep without losing consciousness by staying focused on some thing (usually your breath but anything works). It’s not an out of body experience. You were dreaming.

Hearing sounds (exploding head syndrome or other sounds), the feeling of spinning, seeing shapes etc. are symptoms of the hypnagogia (transition from wakefulness to sleep) stage. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

LD is a learnable skill. I can recommend resources if anyone wants.
BMW Ends Combustion Engine Production in Germany
It sounds like the poster means that people who buy one or the other are choosing between either "(nearly) absolute" security or freedom in being able to install software without the manufacturer's consent.
The traders have no place to store it. No method to retain, unless you pay rent, which puts pressure on your trade.
Because humans don't like sleeping on plain whites outside of hotels. They like to personalize their spaces, because, you know, human nature.

It would probably surprise you to know that a looooot of people get the 'ick' from hotels in general because of the idea that they're sleeping on 'someone else's' sheets.

These people, unsurprisingly, tend not to travel much, so you don't hear this complaint widely.
I think most of those things are implementable in userspace with the right combination of O_TMPFILE, rename, fsync, fsync(dir), sync_file_range and io_uring.

So all that's needed is encapsulating it in a library that provides those different abstractions.

Well ok, we could also use an additional flag for linkat() that allows atomically replacing the target to close that tiny window where a temporary file might get left behind after a crash.
Please stop trying to work around the application developers and relying on unaffiliated volunteers for keeping apps updated and secure.
> It’s about who gets the resources and who gets status and dignity and who doesn’t.

These three things are all opposing; you can't "and" them. And you shouldn't put the first one first, as people in the first world are generally too rich to care about it, and when they do care they never put any work into figuring out what would benefit them.

Thus you get votes for president based on gas prices, trust fund kids being communists, Mississippi continually voting 100% for the party that keeps them at the bottom of every state ranking, people thinking the Iraq War was for oil, people thinking the current Ukraine War is good for Russia, and so on.

nb when I said sincerely held ideologies I meant for the people in politics; voters largely have sincerely held nonsensical positions they haven't thought about much, or in other words are "cross-pressured".
This notion that medical inventions are the benevolent gift of billionaires' ability to accumulate wealth is just wrong. What medical advances were made by the process you imagine in this comment? Maybe if brian johnson's blood magic from his son works I'll cede a single point here.

Science is a communal, collective effort, more evidently than anything else I can think of. To need to say that here of all places is really unfortunate

To try and act like taxing the rich is incompatible with medical advancement is just wrong. In the 50's and 60's we still made advancements and google the top marginal tax rate then. Do you think research would even slow down if rich people were capped at 999m? Seriously?
Thanking chat is as important part of maintaining the para-social relationship.
That’s still not going to use 10tb. Maybe 2 or 3.
It being junk doesn't matter, if you like to watch it then it should be fair to pay for it. If you don't like to watch it then why do you even care what YouTube does, just don't watch.
You can indeed get S390X VMs from IBM cloud, either running z/OS or Linux:

https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-vs-profiles&interfa...
Anyone knows what tech stack peloton uses and what was the cause? How would you have done differently?
That's not "keeps funding". Which is what GP was objecting to.
>Read this[0] for a conceptual explanation of block multiverse interface and demo video

[0] https://generative.ink/meta/block-multiverse/
Bunker fuel isn’t used anymore.
They keep breaking zoom too.

The "enhancements" are reminding me of when Evernote went from their original UI to a new one, making everything take at least 3-5x more effort/tapping/clicking and I just gave up on it entirely.
I think there's something to knowning there's another human on the other side. If the content slop mill gives you everything you want all the time, it's somehow not as satisfying.
Nowadays it is mostly renewable subsidies without a clause for negative price, marginal cost is 0, if they are paid at a fixed price they will produce and dump it on the market, in Nederlands they big glasshouse turn on the light when the sun is at its peak and earn money. And there is also inflexible baseload, that can't cycle up and down at the rate of changing demand or renewable ramp.
Open Source maintainers can ask for

a) ssh access to s390x VM

b) web console access where it's possible to create and remove VMs, for example 2 VMs, 8 GB RAM per VM

With some distro like RHEL, SUSE, Ubuntu. One mainframe runs very many VMs. All access is monitored.
The ads for cryptocurrency grifts in the settings cannot be disabled.
Do you not get bored of spending ~10% of the total time you watch videos being spent on largely brainrot gambling / predatory game advertisements?
I'd be interested to see performance relative to Intel machines.
Googlers that were around when Vic Gundotra was a big player love trashing him. I was surprised when this blog described him in mixed and maybe even positive terms.
I worked at a mapping sw company (not Google Maps, but a 3p competitor) and the designers hated street name labels. I think they thought street names uglied up their carefully beautified cartography. Every time there was a conflict between a street label and say a POI icon, they wanted the algorithm to choose the icon. The PM also favored POIs, especially if the icon was $ponsored and brought in revenue.

All the map apps seem to be bad this way. Use Apple Maps and pick a spot with a lot of businesses like the Las Vegas strip. You’re not going to see too many street names winning the algorithmic decision of what to display.
Oh man, too much to list. But a few of the obvious ones would include:

Linux

Java

Python

Emacs

R

Firefox

xmms

Eclipse

Apache httpd

bash

gcc

glibc

OpenOffice

Anki
> If you’re required to install software on your phone for work then your employer should be legally required to pay for your phone. And then if you want your own phone you pay for it yourself. And if your employers IT team lets corporate devices get malware that’s on them. This is a weird edge case to get hung up on.

I'll support any sideloading regulation that includes all of these protections. As it stands this is only a law in some countries/regions and certainly not something everyone will be protected by if they happen to be outside of EU (and maybe US) jurisdiction.
Why haven't they started working on reusable rockets the second SpaceX showed us it could be done?
> which made Ariane 5 Europe's most successful launch system to date

Not for a holywar but to enhance my educatedness: in what sense Ariane 5 is the most succesful? Low failure rate?
I believe the continuum hypothesis is an example of an undecidable statement.

That is, we know that the integers have cardinality of “aleph null”, the smallest infinity. And we know how to construct the “next” level of infinity using something analogous to power sets. Call this “aleph one”.

Now the hypothesis: the cardinality of the real numbers is equal to aleph one.

It is known that we can never prove that hypothesis one way or the other. The US mathematician Paul Cohen established this in the 1960s.

There are probably egregious errors in my telling of this, but it could be a prompt for further reading.
https://astralhq.com/astral-projection-buzzing-noise/
We do fully understand how, and why, they work.
That’s how we can build and optimize them.

We can and do explicitly explain their inner workings in math.
But the real time price will be very expensive, it depends how the consumer contract is written.
> the post I was responding to starts with "Would you use the same justification for pirating movies? Or for stealing from large supermarkets?", that's what I was responding to

The post you responded to didn't say that those two were the same, it clearly shows those two as different levels of bad if you read the next line:

> "Not a pointed question, I just find it genuinely interesting where people draw the line."

So your point here is just you not understanding and reacting with a meme since his post sounded a bit similar to an argument you have seen before.
Not Radio 4, thankfully!

https://www.businessinsider.com/bbc-radio-show-may-be-preven...

> According to a prominent British historian, the broadcast of BBC Radio 4's "Today" programme is one of the official measures the Royal Navy uses to prove that the United Kingdom still exists. "Today" has been broadcast at around breakfast time since 1958 and is the highest-profile news programme in British media.
What matters is that so many people live in California that it wasn't worth developing policies for the other states.

It doesn't always work (NYT lets you cancel online in California but not other places) but it did here. We already know ISPs stayed net neutral.
FullControl: Unconstrained gcode design for 3D printers
In Finland, it is considered so either awkward or a faux pas to be out in the hallway of a block of flats at the same time as a neighbor, that people develop a habit of looking out the peephole before opening the door of their flat and stepping out. (A HN poster from Sweden said the same of his own country just the other day.) I think you would run up against immense social resistance to urban-dwellers having to get to know their neighbors, not because of "paranoia" but simple desire to keep to oneself. There has got to be another way for social services to check in and be alerted.
But it still doesn’t find bugs in my Zsh scripts. :<
ZhuSun Electronic
…Iirc circumin has some evidence for being active for many, many things, but is very hard to actually deliver/use.
> which branch on a remote is considered the default

You probably mean this place in code: [1]. It uses function git_default_branch_name from refs.c [2], which uses config variable `init.defaultBranch` I've mentioned above. But if it and other look-ups fail, it does fall back to a hard-coded "refs/heads/master".

[1] https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.43.0/remote.c#L2380-L2394

[2] https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.43.0/refs.c#L671-L705

Edit: removed mention of a deprecated Git feature to avoid confusion.
I'm working on that. The hardest one to cut out is Google Maps, which doesn't have an ad free option.

Anyway, the value they receive is incidental: if I like content, I'll tell my friends about it. Not all of my friends dislike ads. I "market" the content via word of mouth. The content markets the subscriptions. Or the ads. Either one.

If I stop watching the content entirely (due to it becoming harder to discover) then fewer of my friends know about it. So it's not quite as black and white as you want it to be. The "grifting" population helps content to spread to the paying population.
Then maybe they shouldn’t use fake reviews as a heuristic for termination?
Some people want more from a career than “not live paycheck-to-paycheck”
Randomly came across this company from a YouTube recommendation.

The recommended video was https://youtu.be/U_KYch25um4 which currently has 240 views.

YouTube recommendations are weird sometimes.
I guess service is actually fine. Calling everything a user can run a library is what messed me up. I don't know what a better term might be.
Sorry for missing this question. I personally use a mix of GPT-4V and uncensored Llama-2 70b running locally on my MacBook Pro. Professionally, I appreciate models that I fully control: Llama family models like quantized Orca-2, Yi 34B, etc.

For user-facing applications, cloud models are a nonstarter. Their LLMs lack basic, foundational service requirements:

1. Consistency - their models change frequently and without notice, so good luck getting reliable results even with low temperatures.

2. Reliability -- these opaque models have prompts/responses which are packed with landmines, found only by triggering them. SomeCorporation's models are exclusively aligned with SomeCorporation, never aligned with you. So make sure to align yourself with SomeCompany's tool, rather than the opposite. And also, hope that the company doesn't suddenly implode, because apparently that's a plausible thing.

3. Maintainability -- you get a handy black box around what's already a black box. So good luck understanding/maintaining/extending the model. Unless your needs never extends beyond filling out an (alleged) system model text field, or uploading a few files.

4. Security -- sending sensitive data directly to people with enormous incentive to (mis)use it is probably not a stellar idea

So I'm all in with open source. I'm eternally grateful for Facebook's charity here. I'll take "good enough" models that I control over the horrifying "intelligence as a service with builtin thought crime policing."
I think GP meant "1 would be worse".
By following this metaphor, a trunk would be the original commit, whereas branches are the tree branch tips.
Interestingly, Gmail seems to be the easiest major Google product to replace with an alternative, particularly if you’re willing to drop a few bucks a year.
There get to be points in some commodities where providers temporarily do want to pay for people to take their product. Electric power is one where supply is not particularly elastic and does need to be disposed of when there is too much for grid stability.

This has happened a couple of times with oil pipelines as well.

Markets tend to figure these things out quickly though.

Commodities contracts that settle in the actual commodity and not in cash are actual obligations on both sides to deliver and take delivery. At some point in order to get rid of the obligation to take delivery at some point people are willing to pay to get rid of their contracts. Sometimes this happens when speculators make crazy bets during instability.