skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We have never applied this type of deployment so far. For example, fossil fuels -- we still can't control it.

Let's not forget that pretty much everything you consider nice and beneficial about modern existence - from advanced healthcare to opportunities to entertainment, even things as trivial as toilet paper or tissues or packaging or paint - is built on top of petrochemical engineering. Sure, we're dealing with some serious second-order consequences, but if we overcome them, we'll end up better than when we had "simple life more connected to nature".

> I'd argue that it's much better to live a simple life more connected to nature, even if that means more diseases and more manual labor.

Hard disagree.

> this life is at the expense of the DEATH of millions of nonhuman organisms

It's not like nature cares either way. Sure, we may be accelerating the disappearance of whole species, but even then we're more humane at the killing. It's really hard to do worse than nature, where every multicellular organism is constantly fighting against starvation, disease, or being assaulted and eaten alive.
Unfortunately the biking Layer also doesn't fix any of this. It only appears to highlight "cycling-friendly" streets here, but the results look random at best here.
You'd better specify a maximum line-length too :-|
In this context, God is probably too charged, I think that Demiurge [1] is better:

"...an artisan-like figure responsible for fashioning and maintaining the physical universe"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demiurge
Not suggesting your comment is not without merit. I can understand going from Photoshop to Gimp can be frustrating but I think we can pick many examples that follows the same pattern. I guess it is more about what you are use to than anything.

I am a software engineer, and familiar with Windows and GNU/Linux systems. There are a few good development software I use. However, If I was handed an Apple Mac Laptop for working on a new project, I am sure it will be a very frustrating experience for me. It is not because the 'apple experience' is bad. It seems like a well-though-out system but I am sure to be annoyed and wasting time trying to figure how to do things in the OS as well as the software I am using.

Now I do not call my self a graphic designer by any means. I do know enough of Gimp to do a number of things. I guess I am good with a working knowledge. I am sure if I was given Photoshop I would be frustrated trying to do X, Y and Z.

Maybe there is a bit of bias showing on my part. To have a package like Gimp (or Blender, Inkscape, etc) that is Free Software is just a huge win. Of course, maybe I can say that considering I am not an expert designer that needs to use these types of software 24/7.

With GIMP (and Blender) I am mostly using the keyboard shortcuts. Maybe this helps balance what is annoying UX? I dont know.
So what? 'AI' is just computer science finally growing up to match the complexity of innumerable other human endeavors such as biology. The normal state of human technology development is poking at things, just with progressively more calibrated sticks.
> US military spending today is (inflation adjusted) almost as high as during WW2.

Not in % of GDP.
I have a connection on LinkedIn who works in a leadership position in Microsoft who had recently written a post about why she doesn't send "thank you" email because she wants to save the world by reducing their carbon footprint by reducing the number of emails sent. I am a liberal at heart but I really wanted to comment "Shut up, please shut up, I am begging you to shut up." I want to say the same to you.
All design people live in Macbooks and iPhones, so every UI not following current Apple theme feels off to them.
The first humans were kinda dumb. Yet by interacting with the world and each other, humans got smart. I wonder if neural network instances can interact with a simulated environment and each other, they could become smart enough for practical purposes.

Kinda like alpha go zero but with "life".
This man is on a mission. I love it. The world needs more people like Aurélien.
Yes, it's a seminal work on the topic of "playing god".
Appreciated.

Stone him!

It’s been out for 18 months and missed the train for any success anyhow :)
Indicators are optional accessories :).
I am, and I'm currently working on my final project for cs50x!

not necessarily for a job, just cuz it's interesting...
Good challenge! This is how I understand the UK government's CfD[0] regarding renewable energy strike prices. As long as you don't go above the max, you can always sell.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/boost-for-offshore-wind-a...
Maybe for safety we need more than one ai to balance each other like with nuclear weapons... It's just a stupid short guess about what you're saying. However, it looks very doubtful..
Implementing Auth in Minutes with JWTs:)
Managed third party auth for tons of services, logins provided with JWTs.
speaking to myself:

the pain is real, but caused by muscle contraction/cramp as a reaction to a sensation. You've taught yourself to wince until it hurts, and now contribute the pain to external factors. You've come to expect the pain, so it'll hurt.

The mind trick is right there: understand that you cause the pain yourself as reaction to a sensation and be mindful in situations where it might happen. You will find that the pain is caused from expectation and habit, this knowledge will break the cycle. Keep it up a for a few months and you'll untrain your habit a great deal.
> This notion that medical inventions are the benevolent gift of billionaires' ability to accumulate wealth is just wrong.

No one said that. We are saying that billionaires do NOT do that, and because they don't, they are flaming idiots. Literally killing their own children, and often hastening their own personal deaths.
Does GitLab still endorse abusive employment practices like limiting salary by geographic region?

No horse in the non-globally-competitive race, just amusingly regressive to see.
> There might even be more than two of us!

There are many. Someone here once told a tale of a hero who picked up a paintball gun and drove around the city blasting billboards.

A brazilian city banned billboards:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cidade_Limpa

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-secret...

I want to propose a similar law for my own city. The advertising is obnoxious.

> assault and battery on the dignity of the human mind

Agreed.
If you have access to Science, the paper is here: https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.abo5095
I'll bite! Same as event sourcing - it's thread-safe.

I find, when updating docs, that is easy to miss a paragraph and leave obsolete info. Then you have invalid state. If you merely post updates, then accurate state can always be reconstructed by replaying the log. The cost is that replaying is more expensive.

Likewise, if you're busy, it might suit you to chuck an update at the doc rather than take care over it. It's probably not so good for the doc, but better than not updating the doc. Startup mentality <taps head>
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No, this doesn't work - vesting schedules are standard and non-negotiable everywhere except companies with only a couple of employees.

I'm mean, sure, you can propose it, but nobody's going to actually take you up on your proposal.
There are many recent non-american consumer tech companies like TikTok and Telegram. It's not just that the US is a unique success in tech, it's also that the EU is a unique failure and that cannot be explained with the dollar's reserve currency status.
Can you elaborate? I was personally so happy with Pixel4 that I've decided to buy a new version when my phone lost support. I didn't have any specific problems, I didn't feel like I was forced by Google to do things I don't like, and when I started caring about privacy even more, I changed my OS to Graphene (something you can't easily do on Apple owned device, I believe). They're not perfect, but I'm genuinely interested what was the show stopper for you.
A new way to build, manage, deploy, and secure APIs. Just bring the data
A kill-switch seems like a bad idea as it would be an excellent target for eco-protestors or even terrorists to bring a city to a standstill.

However, I've long thought that motor vehicles should have some kind of black box that monitors various driving metrics such as how "smooth" the driving is. This could provide valuable data to insurance companies and they should provide a sizable discount for drivers who agree to provide that data and have good driving scores.

There's also another benefit to measuring acceleration/deceleration data and that is to highlight if someone's faculties suddenly decline (e.g. illness or old age). Typically, when someone has failing eyesight, they might not be able to predict other vehicles as well and that would lead to more aggressive braking which can easily be measured. This could provide an important early warning system to the drivers that their driving has suddenly worsened and they might want to see a doctor unless they have a known temporary condition (e.g. hay fever).

Also, if the aim is to detect drink-driving, then that's easy enough to do from outside the vehicle with CCTV cameras and the police already have methods to stop drunk drivers. I suspect that the aim is surveillance rather than law enforcement.
Just pairing them seems impossible. Is there any guide that you found helpful?
The outsmarting will look a lot different once it is achieved and then continue to evolve. The probability of peace, tranquility and humans living forever is 0% though.
If complaints were enough to fuel change, GIMP would have had a truly amazing UI by now.
Feels like they don't want you reading the road names, and use the navigation system instead.
This is quite close to at least nordic social democracy, in which the economy was actually called mixed economy (as opposed to e.g. capitalist or socialist). Until the rapid neoliberalization in late 80's and early 90's.

Finland's national and third sector (e.g. co-operatives) were (and still are) plundered quite a bit too, although of course nothing like ex-socialist countries.

There indeed needs to be a mix. The "mix" in mixed economy wasn't just about gov ownership vs capitalist ownership. It was also about co-ops, unions, worker ownership and non-profits.
They already lost a few dozen satellites in a previous incident in february 2022.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/202...
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I want to fine tune Llama 2 model for a QA data set, which model I should use: the Llama 2 Base Model or the Llama 2 Chat Model? and why?
SpaceX's Starship Explosion Seen in Astronomer's Telescope Footage
> In the end, what the gimp team should focus on is the UX of gimp

Oh I hate to break it to you, but you are part of the problem ;)

Please Gimp, leave the things exactly where they are. Thank you.

Learning new UIs just sucks. It is the way it is.
It doesn't seem to cause problems for any other manufacturer. I'm using a plastic-cased Dell laptop as we speak.

If plastic cases bore any significant risk of damaging the electronics, someone would probably have noticed that by now.
>Wouldn't it make sense to allow it to decay and spend the money on something more modern?

Objectively speaking? Yes, money would be better spent developing and launching a newer and better Hubble 2.0.

But remember: This is the Hubble Space Telescope we're talking about here, Hubble has acted as the de facto ambassador of space for many generations of people today. The Hubble Space Telescope is a cultural icon of space exploration, it isn't just a space telescope anymore.

Consider that when the Space Shuttle program was on its final legs, NASA was convinced to fly one last reboost and maintenance mission to the Hubble because it is the one and only Hubble Space Telescope. I personally think it's worth spending money to preserve and use Hubble as long and far as we can.
Kodak had more patents in digital imaging than any other company. Why they failed is partly because they underestimated how much the overall photography market would decline and what needed to be done to be successful in the 10% that was left.

The winners were electronics companies (notably Sony and Panasonic). The losers were the photographic companies who were really chemical companies. Fujifilm was one of the few that survived because they went into (amongst other things) cosmetics and coating films for LCD screens, both of which leveraged expertise they already.
Having a balanced view about technology doesn't mean considering every type of technology to be 50% good and 50% bad.

I disagree with their view on AI but also disagree with your criticism.
Probably under the mistaken impression climate scientists don't know about solar cycles.
Metalysis have made claims like this:
https://metalysis.com/

Based on this tech:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFC_Cambridge_process

Still waiting for my titanium girders though...
>However, I've long thought that motor vehicles should have some kind of black box that monitors various driving metrics such as how "smooth" the driving is. This could provide valuable data to insurance companies and they should provide a sizable discount for drivers who agree to provide that data and have good driving scores.

This already exists, at least in the UK market. A lot of insurers will give you a discount if you let them fit such a "telematics" box to your car. It's still a privacy nightmare.
AlphaGo and ChatGPT were groundbreaking and are more recent, if anything those should form a new precendent, he is deliberately ignoring them and dug out the most underwhelming one. Q* was a leak when the company was without a CEO, their DevDay was 2 week ago

That said, based on many comments here the author is a skeptic to the point that people don't take him seriously
Artisan has been popping up

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/artisan-ai
I for one am glad that someone with a more holistic approach takes this on, even if Aurélien is really snarky. Darktable really is a usability mess and is easy to use incorrectly.

I'm also glad he is taking donations, since the darktable project won't take any. It gives me hope that this would give him the freedom in actually implementing his vision.
Gen Z absolutely demands it and gets cranky without a photography mode
Yeah, I get an explosion maybe once a year or so. And I get the sudden / short headache (which seems to match the description) very rarely, but almost always on winter mornings while driving up to the snow for skiing.
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'One day'...
Well, he was called in an antitrust trial against google, so what headline did you expect that doesn't contain the words DDG and Google?
Looks like it did not work too well when it came to Ukraine
So that's what 'QAnon' is made of. Q stars!
No, the effect is caused by the noise canceling being active, not by the noise canceling becoming active. It doesn't get more or less pronounced over time.
Yes, it exists and it's common.
It is. Show me a single individual with a time horizon that exceeds their own life or that of their children. That means you have to be early 20's or so today (or late teens) and that you are aware enough and capable enough to act on something that is not an immediate concern for decades. I don't see that happening, even if a handful of such individuals exist it won't be enough to make a difference, and that's before we get into cultural differences which undo your efforts because others are going full steam ahead anyway and probably in much larger numbers.
Poor people generally fly budget airlines like Spirit or spend a few extra dollars to ride with a more reliable bus company. Greyhound is the safest way to get from state A to state B with an arrest warrant. It’s often exactly as bad as advertised. A Greyhound rider should not be surprised to encounter suffering, disease, violence, or intense emotional disturbances on a 20+ hour journey.
There’s always a balance to be kept, between high-performing engineers, and team dynamics.

Great products are created by great teams. It’s almost impossible to create anything of any meaningful scope, these days, without a team. There are “superman” engineers, like Linus Torvalds, that can create entire shipping architectures, but those are incredibly rare.

That said, the myth of the “cookie cutter” engineer is just that: a myth. Some cultures do better at it than others. I worked for a Japanese company, and they came very close to it, but at a cost that most folks here, would find prohibitive.

High-performing teams can be difficult to manage. There’s often significant differences in personalities, egos can be high, and everyone has an opinion that is the only “right” one.

Great teams require good management. It’s always fun to dis managers, but good ones are force multipliers, like nothing else.
My First PCB (2019)
> As for the scrambled text, that’s the contents that will be unscrambled the moment one purchases the product. I should make it clearer for sure.

Can't someone unscramble it and get all the contents for free...? Since it very much seems like the real contents and not placeholders

edit: yeah someone totally can...

"Est up ilam afirowdngr" - Set up mail forwarding

"otscs $-1020 epr nhmto" - costs $10-20 per month

"Epno a S..U Bkan Uactocn" - Open a U.S. Bank Account

"Lpapy fro a Esecudr Dteicr Card" - Apply for a Secured Credit Card

"0$30 is ngheuo" - $300 is enough
Still not a good indication: many Latin American countries received a heavy influx of immigration from countries in Europe (and elsewhere). This is noticeable in our names and surnames, too. It's not all Spanish names.
> valuable data to insurance companies

Great idea!

But on the other hand I'm sorry to inform you that your insurance has gone up, because we found that drivers in your neighbourhood are in general 2498% more likely to have accidents. Maybe you're next. We'll just make sure that rates have already been adjusted to account for that.

Also we saw that you were driving (very smoothly, congrats on that!) around some rather shady parts of town. This will lead to another rise in your fees, we just want to make sure that we got you covered in case your car gets stolen...
They aren't all natural monopolies.

The main reasons to nationalise are:

- there's no/not much innovation to do; it's just about running at low cost with a standard service (e.g. sewage)

- the incentives are too misaligned to privatise (e.g. prisons; defense)

- politicians can win votes by spending money on it, so it will be worse as a meddled-with private system than a nationalised system (e.g. healthcare)

- there is an actual natural/positive monopoly (e.g. power transmission)

None of that means that in this case a middleman power retailer should nationalise. If there's an actual reason, that's fine. But saying "some things are better national (or at least better than private with a lot of government interference)" doesn't mean that it applies here.
This unfortunately already exist in europe. Young drivers can get a black box installed in return for a discount on their insurance. This is because those costs for young drivers can be astronomical.

I would never trust a private for profit company with this much data.
Fully against all remote monitoring, especially having insurance companies having access, along with no kill switches.

Remote monitoring, aside from the incredible security risks, provides no context as to why.

Frankly, I think it should be illegal for cars to have any form of wireless networked access. I personally disable all of that in any car I buy, typically by removing antennas and replacing with resistors.
My reading of this article is that “kill switch” here seems to be “car determines that you are driving like a drunk person, so shuts down” rather than “some service remotely sends a kill command for reason X to your car”.

In the hypothesis that it’s actually kind of easy to figure out if somebody is impaired, I’m pretty conflicted because the upside of not having an impaired person driving is really high. Just I don’t know how possible it is, nor how reliably that would work. On top of that it seems like one step between that and “and the car reports you”.
This is an almost word-for-word rewording of tjbiddle‘s post (first reply at the moment). Why?
Reminds of when tomtom sat nav data was used to find locations where users where speeding to set up speed traps

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/apr/28/tomtom-sa...
I've identical machines running latest Ubuntu and Debian. The difference in speed & size is very noticeable, for example when you do update or look at memory usage.

Ubuntu has a bunch of apps and services running in background that slow down the system. A lot of stuff related to their way of doing packaging or containers or cloud init.
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What would be your suggestions on hardware to either rent or buy to get into LLM fine-tuning without going broke? Got a personal project and would like to start exploring fine-tuning (Llama2?) in the near future.
Since when has Europe been independent militarily speaking? Ever heard of NATO?
Since you are not educated in the conflict, respectfully stfu.
To me this sounds more like "message" problem, rather than "medium" one
unless you have a lot of free time for debugging - none. We had a project where managment team force everyone to use snaps (cause of some weired company relations with Canonical) and guess what? They did not make it. I think we just wasted 6 months in order to get to be able to do stable prod releases with snaps and it felt like docker more mature and stable in every aspect. I guess that time and money could easily stream to do actually usefull things for end-users.
Yes it does: because all any isolated revolt can do is hurt your side[0].

[0]whomever you are wanting to revolt on behalf of, and you can't revolt on behalf of everyone.
FWIW I didn't downvote you. Just because your experience doesn't match mine.
they're all deprecated in this fork, though.
Just get debian with your favorite DE
Can you elaborate on this view? Chemical weapons seem to have no redeeming qualities. LLMs have plenty -- I use OpenAI-backed products at work quite regularly, and find they've increased my productivity and my general happiness with my job.
I'd look at the underlying paper, https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-023-00748-9. There's neuroscience references there (50-52) that support their hypothesis. Overall, the corresponding RNN work is meticulously designed and reported, it was a good read.
Kinda too late to talk about privacy in US when you guys gave up ALL the electronic data to the government.
We are at a point in history that many people can live up to the natural limits of human body. They don't die during childbirth or as very young children, because of bad sanitization or through unlucky sickness.

Those improvements in healthcare are fine in my eyes. Someone could argue that dying because of some illness that we cured is also natural. Perhaps yes, but for me the baseline is healing the "unlucky" instances - viruses, cancers etc.

My golden standard worth aiming for is someone like the nonagenarians in Sardinia or Okinawa - someone who ate healthy food, lived in a tight happy community, low amount of stress and lucky to evade any serious illness. Those people still die and this is fine.

I would like everyone to have a chance to live like this, this to me is the natural limit of human body.

I am not a fan of extending life beyond this limit.
So in practical terms if that goes through the body - are there external signs? A burn out of nowhere? Cancerous cells? What about CPUs or memory chips? Is it fried or bricked or just some hits flipped?
Any chance that this technique can be added to iSponsorBlockTV? :)

https://github.com/dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV