skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> increasing our chances to pass the filter

Why would this be the case?

I think OC's point is that if the universe is teeming with non-interstellar life, then the great filter will be life's ability to spread beyond its host star, or something before that. But we already can assume that based on the lack of interstellar visitors.

We'd need to discover evidence of extinct life and surmise their end to narrow down what the great filter might be and therefor have a better chance of surviving it.
They have a web demo here: https://clipdrop.co/stable-diffusion-turbo
used to be some decent open source web UIs you could host too. haven't looked in AGES though.
As far as I remember when I used VMS while at the high school, if you write a text file in VMS and then read it byte-by-byte as binary, well, there are no line separators at all. Each line is seemingly a record in the file. I don't know more about the details, but the information is not in the byte stream of the file, it's probably some metadata elsewhere in the filesystem. Other OSs don't work that way. An FTP transfer in ASCII mode will insert line breaks where appropriate while downloading from VMS, but other file types relying on records can't be reproduced outside VMS as simply.
>Tesla vehicles also have some of the highest safety ratings around.

According to the IIHS, the Model Y is the only Tesla that made the safest cars list out of nearly 50 vehicles.[1]

[1] https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-safety/the-safest-n...
I don't think you have the context for that one to understand it and the sensitivity around it. Think Northern Ireland.

Any absolutist position is a problem. This is fairly balanced and the outcome is proportionate.
I'm pretty familiar with Golang's stdlib and other languages stdlib and I'm not sure what the other commenters are on.
3080, 4090, etc.
cgit is good if you want a read-only web ui.

Also, git has a built in web server.

https://git-scm.com/docs/gitweb
Those are all 'good' causes by definition with gradual progress.

Here, the snake oil is in the comments similar to 'Neuralink will help disabled people'. But Neuralink so so wide spectrum that, if it works, it will spawn multiple different industries. And capital will find it's way to the most lucrative applications, as it always does ... and those applications won't be 'helping disable people'.
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> Do it for a few years and see how it feels.

A thousand times this! Everyone even remotely technical or interested in tech should run their own mail server.

For anyone too young to have known, this is how it used to be. Email was desktop (workstation) to desktop. Even when working at large corporations in the 90s, email arrived and was sent to the world directly from my personal workstation.

For anyone worried about deliverability, keep in mind you can outsource the delivery part while still running your own email server for incoming email.

I have experimented with using mailjet as an outgoing relay, for low volumes it was (maybe still?) free. I don't use a relay though, I deliver everything directly. But you don't have to if you worry about delivery.

Why would you do this? For one thing, as parent post says, it gets you used to running the server.

But much more importantly, it gives you complete control of incoming email. Never again is there any chance of google/yahoo/microsoft locking you out of receiving important emails (account resets, bank statements, etc) when you own the receiving server.

Over time you can start relaxing the relaying and deliver directly to most places, only keep the relay to those who give you trouble coughmicrosoftcough.

Or keep the outgoing relay forever if you prefer, but still reap all the benefits of owning the receiving side which is arguably more important.
And most of those billion people will never be on HN. The average HNer is just as wealthy when compared to them as a billionare is when compared to us.

> Hard work doesn’t make billionaires. Systems that accelerate privileged positions and concentrate wealth to the top do.

¿Por qué no los dos? Jeff Bezos worked pretty hard to end up where he is now.
From mar 2023
(2022)

Edit: @fishtacos, haha.. now I can't delete it because you replied (;
> Making a coffee table out of a solid slab of walnut, for example, will last a lifetime

Not CNC, right?

Yeah I think it's fun to discuss. I think we're saying the same thing. I'm not saying ChatGPT could replace a professional software engineer for most things at this stage. That clearly isn't practical yet.

As you said, it does make mistakes, though it can often correct them if the context window is there. The differences in how we use it for programming tasks and what we find useful is probably related to our SWE skill levels. Yours is likely much higher than mine, as I've never been a professional SWE.

That said, for the many little automation tasks that business people often bug a real engineer for, like iterating through a CSV and hitting an API to do something, then writing a result, it's ability to write simple and useful python scripts has been amazing for me.

I believe it's getting close to the place where I could use to to prototype simple MVPs but it failed during my last attempt.
IRC's biggest weakness is the lack of a consistent history mechanism and that you usually need to idle.
Thanks for sharing. I did not know that and I did not grow up with much Christian influence (or any), but what this man writes is how I felt like for a long time deep inside. It resonates with me very much.
> It may be better security but I don't care, I don't want to use it for anything except my bank accounts.

Go with the time and accept that 2FA everywhere is good and the norm.
As someone else mentioned: Browser-integrated password managers can autofill 2FA for you, meaning there's no extra hassle needing to lookup, copy, paste & confirm an extra step.
Newspapers are beholden to their puppeteers and their profit incentive. It is good business to show dead palastinians, and bad business to show dead US citizens, not only of children but everyone. Death is sterilized for the American taste, it happens everywhere except here.

If it was good for business to show dead children who have been shot, wed see more.
I recently watched a coworker lose a job by embodying this very logic.

I think the problem comes from the conflict between denying/rejecting victimhood, on the one hand, and realizing that one must get the fuck out of a very, very bad situation immediately, by any means on the other. From what I could tell it quickly becomes an inescapable cycle between "it's always my fault and I'll fix it"-- which implies leaving-- and "I've always been a victim and will always be one"-- which implies staying.

There has to be a big enough window when the person admits to themselves and others that they are unable to get out of the conundrum on their own. And, ironically, that's the the moment when they start to accept help and start living without feeling like such a victim. But that window of opportunity is at odds with "it's always your fault and you just fix it," which strongly implies you and only you fix it. That doesn't leave much/any room to realize just how much you must rely on outside help to get out.

Edit: added to the fact that apparently a lot of people also cycle between getting out of and going back to a bad situation. That makes me think it's less like flipping a bit and more like designing a high-pass filter to attenuate the victimhood frequencies.
As with most of the recent additions this is just so insignificant in the scheme of things as anyone with whatever idea has a million options for their domain and whatever ends up getting promoted, and more importantly, linked to, is what will work. Hardly anyone is typing the domains so it's just a marketing tag.

Also kinda generally resent the meme culture we have created, what it has come to represent. A whole generation of toxicity has come from it (doing/approaching everything for the lols etc). That fact that stonks whatever is listed in the official blog post. The old misc cat things and whatever were fun at first but what came after..blech.
Fair enough. At Goldman, I don't recall our options and equities trading systems simultaneously having outages, so I think we could always shed risk by reducing our options exposure if the auto-hedger was unable to delta-hedge in the equities market. I'm not actually sure if the relative independence of the options and equity execution systems was intentional.

I did some work with connecting the options auto-hedger to the equity execution system, and certainly failures on the delta-one side prevented increasing exposure on the options side. "How long can we be out of the equities market and still be certain of meeting our options market-making obligations with the Hong Kong Exchange?" did come up a couple of times.

Depending on exactly where the outage was, there was potentially also the option of manually hedging the options book like the bad-old days. (Execution engines failed, but order management system and exchange connectivity still intact would be one such scenario.)
True enough but the poison is in the dose. Too much and you're left with Nihilism.

The trouble revolves around how much judgement is required on any given subject. On the right subject people can come perilously close to laying out facts devoid of interpretation; on the wrong subject either no one can or no one believes anyone can - which is pretty much the same thing.
There's a reason it's Afghanistan people cite here, and not Iraq. Even counts of dead children aren't neutral. There's no way around taking time to learn about things; you can't sum things up with a grisly picture or a grim scorecard. Or you can, I don't know, maybe it works great. It's what we've been trying to do up 'til now. How's it going?
If you use the gh cli, you don't need to use 2fa.
Pretty sure they're talking about school shootings, which have been totally normalised in the USA, and arguably now as core a part of USAnian culture as apple pie or baseball.
IRC is far from dead. My relatively unknown oss work has a channel on libera which is seeing ~100 message per month

Also Slack made the same move a couple years ago, first trying to appeal to IRC users at the beginning and then shut it all off when they had everyone else
The Science Behind the Dreaded Red Wine Headache
"Sect" isn't a pejorative term, at least not in this context.
https://archive.ph/RIrUQ
LiarLiar – an AI lie detector that you can install locally
I love this

> My original feeling was “I can’t be bothered dealing with the coffee machine innards” so I thought I would make a mechanical contraption to physically press the coffee machine’s “on” button.

Cba disassembling so maybe making a Rube Goldberg button pushing machine is first thought is exactly how my design process often goes!
this is my "spam email address" for places that require 2FA "just because"

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.ente.auth/

like google authenticator, their break all RFCs and recommendations, and store the seed and keys in their servers (or yours, it's open source both ways, but we know it won't happen).

Differently from googleAuthenticator, i can trust them a little as they went thru 3rd party certification of the backup end to end encryption :thumbs-up
So the child is expected to solve their own sexual assault instead? You must understand how ridiculous this sounds to look at a child being assaulted and expected the child to fix their own abuse.
Workers whose registered full-time job location is within the district get to vote on issues there? Making some of these issues regional (SF Bay Area) instead of hyper-local or state-wide? Lots of options.
> Browser-integrated password managers can autofill 2FA for you

Meaning that it defeats the entire point of 2FA. 2FA used in this way is only security theater.
Thanks, good answer.

I've been in other types of very stressful situations. Simple things like getting hold of the right person or the right tool can be astonishingly time consuming in a tight spot.
Presumably this also only works well if the data is 4-byte aligned.
You're thinking too much in the realm of user-friendly. Of course on openBSD you would enclose work programs in a xephyr and an ad hoc rdomain, or connect a xephyr to a vmm's Xenocara with its own tap device. Xephyrs don't share clipboard per default.
I do use a few SmartThings branded zigbee sensors but not the hub. I'm using homeassistant with the sonoff efr32mg21 dongle.

I'm well aware of how terrible SmartThings the company is. I'd suffered through their inadequacies until April 2023 when they deleted my account during a failed backup purge. After 3 months of waiting on their support to unlock my hub I gave up and went to homeassistant.
>The manufacturing process and design was entirely different though.

I used to work in automotive assembly, specifically in body panel stamping as a controls engineer (ie programming the robots). The big presses were set to accept both aluminum and steel. For example, the robots could use magnets for the steel or suction for the aluminum to move the parts, but the basic manufacturing used the same assembly lines. It was common to run both in the same shift.
Sir, you are posting fake news.
Don’t deign to even remotely justify this tipping nonsense. People should know upfront how much they need to pay with no guilt tripping funny business. It also irks me to no end how entitled someone bringing your food out to you can be. Everyone works, no one else begs and shames people for extra money.
Right. It's a thing to be aware of, not a disqualifier; if you simply filter out any content delivered with an agenda, you can't learn anything.
Call it what you will: I mean people in a free and fair healthy society cannot be radicalized by information. It can only happen when bad government and other organic social forces (which government could regulate with better policy) cause a material decline in people’s living circumstances.

Weimar Germany had Nazis and Communists agitating and spreading disinformation for years. They did what they could to suppress and censor them both, instead of addressing the underlying causes that ultimately led to the complete social bankruptcy of the government and its takeover by the Nazis - but if it hadn’t been them it’d have been another extremist group. It wasn’t the ideology that created the extremism. It was the failed society.

Censorship only accelerates the decline by further reducing the legitimacy of the government.
Some channels on libera have been awful, a ton of [m] names, and long repetitive messages converted from matrix.

I know I might be using a dying medium but I enjoy IRC the way it is.
This post got flagged. What are the reasons behind it being flagged? We should be talking more about censorship.
Can a fact not simply exist without presentation? pi does not need an agent to exist; it simply is. Circles and the relationship between their circumference and diameter existed before minds existed to comprehend them.

Behind every human presentation there is a judgment, sure, but many facts simply exist in nature, ready to be observed and judged without a preexisting agenda.

I'm naturally suspicious of people who put "People's" in front of words where the word should be implied. It's like a People's Republic, you know? What's Zinn's agenda? Perhaps he is telling on himself, in this quote.
Formalizing, Verifying & Applying ISA Security Guarantees as Universal Contracts
Build it and they will come

> "EV is absolutely important technology, and we are developing it. But [in the U.S.] EVs last year [were] about 6% of the market. This year it is 8%. And out of that 8%, 57% was Tesla. Other EVs are not taking off, inventory is piling up," he said.

> Moro added that the lack of charging stations is another factor that impedes EV market share growth in the United States. He didn't sound too optimistic about the auto industry's shift to a zero-emissions future in 2035 either. "How we get to zero is up to consumer choice and social infrastructure," Mazda's head honcho noted

https://insideevs.com/news/698183/mazda-ceo-says-evs-not-tak...
What is funny about it? He's reflecting on the low wages v. amount of work involved to make those wages worth his time. Every one has their limits, but well-to-do people working low paying jobs (in his case, personal and external factors) are a good indicator how much discrepancy exists in terms of work effort v. minimally accomodating income comes their way in return. Thus the worker shortage and BS argument that people don't want to work.

Blue collar work deserves a living wage. Austin, at least in the area he works in, has an average of 110,000 USD/y, yet the workers can barely survive living with roommates 40 minutes away. That's 80 minutes of your life just driving in addition to menial income - average that out and it's even worse.

Texas is embarrassingly low in its minimum wage laws. Why is it acceptable for a base wage of 2.13 USD/h for waiters when considering the cost of living has increased across the board in every way? Where does the disconnect lie here? Why is it acceptable that minimum wage is stil 7.35 USD/h, which decides how much the "higher" paying blue collar jobs pay in comparison?

You are exhibiting what I would consider an elitist mentality.
> I am not too keen on living my life based upon how billionaires think

Yeah I mean, it's just a thought he expressed once. I don't think OP is saying Munger invented or owns the concept, just that it encapsulated a view that they liked. That doesn't strike me as "living life based upon how billionaires think."
Millions of people generating millions of images (some of them even useful!) using Dall-E and Stable Diffusion would say otherwise. A skilled digital artist could create most of these images in an hour or two, I’d guess… but ‘most people’ certainly could not, and it turns out that these people really want to.
Also, the PRISM/MICA project got cancelled so Dave Cutler (and whomever he took with him) left for Microsoft.

Then they tried MIPS for a while, and I think(?) PRISM became the basis for the Alpha. Also the other 'minicomputers' - IBM AS/400 came out in 1988, and the HP3000 switched to PA-RISC.
And all are of dubious quality as well
No, they have developed new software wich works much faster. See a few paragraphs above the one you are quoting.
> ChatGPT is already better than 90% of working software engineers for generating small practical programs.

Not sure how you measure this. However, if by "small practical programs" you mean "trivial programs", then I see no reason to doubt your assertion.

That said, at least where I work, ChatGPT hasn't been a real benefit for real work. By the time you manage to craft the right prompts, then check and correct the code produced, then incorporate it into the larger project, it all takes a bit more time and effort than if you just wrote it yourself in the first place.
IRC is the best place to go to find developers of a whole host of open source projects. If you work with open source software, not using IRC really limits what you can do and who you can reach.
The Onion article is talking about mass shooting specifically. And I don't think the map really helps your case here.
How is that different from just… normal investing?
in canada wages have grown but tips have just grown too, so there is seemingly a stronger cultural connection and its not simply fiscal. even if everyone waiting tables was paid a 100k salary, they can't just "put away" the tip jars. im not sure how the insanity stops, maybe inflation will stop it
These gotchas make keeping a big-endian machine around totally worth it.
What's the difference? The end result is the same for the worker.
Yes. Perhaps Howard Zinn has an agenda.
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I think the tipping system is kind of a scam that the employer benefits from, then gradually feels entitled to as theirs.
I'll respond to the only substantive part of your comment: this looks like a guest post on someone else's blog, so he probably isn't making any money on it.
Paying tips to a bar tender or waiter isn’t some sort of social anomaly. It’s customary. Whether that custom is wrong or not can be debated, but while it’s customary, it’s reasonable for people to expect customers to follow the custom. Going to a restaurant and tipping $2 is the sort of stuff that gets your food spit in and is reserved only for the absolute worst service - it’s worse than tipping nothing. That’s the custom, wrong or not. Trying to change a societal custom by screwing over the worker is wrong, it’s just punishing the person who can least afford your social stand against how the business pays its workers.
thank goodness, endless garbage noise
Meh I hate tipping culture as much as the next person but you really can’t run, for instance a dive bar, and pay the bartender $15 an hour. The foot traffic doesn’t bring in nearly enough most of the time. The end result would just be far fewer food and drink places which I wouldn’t like.
Even if the child abuse was not in your control, how you react to it might be. For example, there is a nasty cycle of violence where people who have been abused in the past are at severe risk of abusing others in turn. That's the kind of thing that one would very much have control over, even as a victim of such grievous acts.
Can confirm, google was superior from the start.
I remember switching from altavista to google and it felt as revolutionary as switching from Windows 3.11 to Windows 95.
Think I'd rather have stupid password complexity and update requirements foisted on me than 2FA. Takes an 8 second activity and turns it into 30-60s when it's by SMS or email OTP. Especially frustrating when it's a known device, too.

Back on topic though: I run a local Forgejo/Gitea instance which doesn't have 2FA (or the maturity of the bigger forges if we are being honest). Could be worth a look if you are up to self hosting it.
What is this referring to in the article?

> The benefit situation is no better. Workers get to see free movies when theaters aren’t busy, and get half off of meals purchased while at work. But that doesn’t help when you need to see a doctor or get a prescription (Thank you Obama for your Care).

Wasn't the cornerstone of the Obama plan a mandated health insurance by employers, but it was gutted by the next opposition congress?
It seems the focus of these articles are dead children in Gaza. You don't see raw footage and photos of the dead children in Israel unless you go looking for it. Why is that?
I assumed GP was referring to OpenAI, not danswer (given that they mentioned that those companies were training models). And you're still using OpenAI's API, so neither open source and self hosting affect data collection.
I can't imagine a world where everyone will live for 500 years because there is zero chance that's how such a magic drug will be distributed. Life is the most valuable commodity we have, and it will absolutely be hoarded by the top 1%.
I worked on a compliance add-on that blocked institutional traders based on rules they set for themselves. All day long was spent fielding their urgent support requests complaining that the rule was wrong. Massive amounts of time were spent finding the market data or computing their account value at the specific time the trade was blocked, 90% of the time arriving at the conclusion that the product worked as intended. I complained that I wasn't getting to code enough, I was told to "code on the train [while riding to work]".

One time, a client wanted a rule to block a trade if the price exceeded the daily high/low. Well, when you define the limit this way, you pretty much can't trade right at the opening because many/most price ticks are the highest/lowest of the day SO FAR, because the day is only a few seconds old! Customer had a meltdown, we traced the market data back, and realized yeah, it worked exactly as designed. sigh