skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not just the cost, but you are not under the mercy of someone else ToS and you are in a full control of your system, the only justification against on-premises are either you don’t have the proper infrastructure like a reliable internet access or the capital cost upfront.
Oracle: oh no, my precious API patents!
> If you think the cops are so bad, what about the criminals?

The criminals don't have the power of the state behind them. We're supposed to hold police to a higher standard than criminals.

> but if it were knowable then the citizen would have brought it to court rather than to the media,

Why would you think that? Do you think that courts and lawyers are free? Most people in the US have to work to survive and live paycheck to paycheck. Missed work means they can lose their homes. Even if someone had the time and the money to fight against the police in court the courts are heavily biased in favor of the police and they would have to live in fear of retaliation for the rest of their lives.

Even when police are caught on camera clearly committing crimes there is no guarantee that anything will be done about it. Evidence doesn't always mean much when the police can investigate themselves and find they did nothing wrong.

If police are supposed to have body cam footage and don't, they shouldn't be believed.
You don't need propaganda. Just look at the death counts: 18,600 in two months.
Exactly this. The hospitals will simply say that the treatments are too expensive and that they lack the funds, and you are on your own. In fact it's so bad that even basic chemotherapy is only covered to a certain point, and if you are not cured in that time, you have to pay additional runs of chemo from your own pocket, even though we have "national healthcare free for everyone who pays taxes".
Prove it. CUDA has dominated the GPGPU scene for years now. Competitors should have had plenty of time to catch up if they had wanted to.
Show HN: FoxColorBox FF exten that allows you to change, customize Window colors
FoxColorBox is a Firefox extension that allows you to change and customize browser Window colors. When you open a new window, it will have a distinct color. You can also change colors by clicking on the extension icon.

This can help you differentiate between home, work, and school. It can also be useful when working in development, staging and production environments.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxcolorbox/

https://github.com/jftuga/foxcolorbox
Yes to water. Unfortunately I've already been chemically addicted to foods that taste good but are bad for you. If I didn't have that addiction and didn't care about taste then it would absolutely make a ton of sense to eat a "no more hunger" capsule daily, you'd save plenty of time and money and would be a lot healthier in general.
Unless maintainers step up, it is irresponsible to ship a decaying Xorg and it is unreasonable to require others to voluntarily take on that burden.
LEAN
Waymo is not under Google. It is an independent company under Alphabet, unlike something like Cloud or YouTube for example which are under Google. It has the same leadership but the company is very separate. For Waymo, it is an existential crisis to fail at self driving because Google ad money is not funding Waymo.
I hope they will testify so higher-level managers will be fined and spend some time in prison. And company will be hit with massive contract penalties and fines.

(not expecting this, but would be nice)
And you are being hard on me, and it's kind of ridiculous.

Knowing Unix is not the same as knowing to use a program which only exists on one version of Unix, and which was not distributed with the OS, and which was less helpful at file system exploration than both the 2d file manager [1] and 1970s-based Unix shell tools [2].

You specifically called out "older people even working in IT", which includes me. Just because you want to jeer at people who don't know what you know doesn't mean there aren't other reasons to jeer at the same scene.

[1] Here's what the IRIX 2D file browser looked like in 1990: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=IRB2MkMxgy0

[2] On a related note, The Great CHI ’97 Browse-Off was a non-rigorous head-to-head contest between different hierarchical browsers. The Hyperbolic Browser was the clear winner, with Windows Explorer coming in second, and the DOS command-line doing pretty well until it came to comparison questions like "Which planet is also the name of a car brand?" where both categories in the ontology needed to be compared.
> credit belongs to the people who deserve credit for the work they've done that was useful to others

Certainly agree. The point is that coming up with the idea, writing it as an equation, or an architecture diagram in a paper, is a small fraction of the effort that goes into making the idea work in a model showing good performance on real life datasets.

For example, just taking a random paper that Schmidhuber claims should give him credit for GANs, https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/FKI-126-90ocr.pdf hopefully you can easily see that a lot of work would be needed to turn this into a realistic image generation model. And that is, even if you admit that the idea is strongly related to GANs, which I'm not convinced of but won't spend time on.

> Credit belongs to whoever actually makes it work.
>> That is according to whom? Is it a rule you just came up with or accepted practice? And if it's accepted practice, in what community is it accepted practice?

It is accepted practice in the ML community. If it weren't, Schmidhuber wouldn't be complaining.
> There are no universal set of "ethics" so this is about aligning to open ai's own rules, or in other words, control.

Are ethics not a set of rules relative to the governing body applying those rules?

Right as there are no universal ideas of a safe LLM, controlled LLM, or ethical LLM. Safe would imply some level of control about the ethical output of the model.

Yet the words are still poorly defined as they are interchangeable:

If i say to my GPT bot, "go trade stocks for me. don't do anything illegal", can i guarantee that ? No you can't regardless of how “safe”/“controlled”/“ethical” you make your model to be.

You’re spinning the words to create a distinct difference but it doesn’t hold up because they’re each a relative mechanism for each other as they are all poorly defined in the field but chosen to mask the poor definition. You’re just playing by the PR game rules.
CUDA = C++ on GPUs. Compute shader - subset of C with a weird quirks.
Think of situations in which a font has a single case. Like say on calculator-like displays which have additional elements to show letters. You could see those on old VCRs for example:

https://i.imgur.com/aloDSQh.jpg

Notice they're uppercase.

Now imagine this display but with lowercase letters:

1. In most letters the top half of the letter display is not used, but in some it is.

2. In some letters like "q y g j" you need a "descender" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descender), which means you need to extend the display further down, and add more elements.

3. Digits themselves are "capital only". There are no "small case" digits in most fonts, or in writing. Which makes capitals consistent with them.

So capital letters are simpler, more visually consistent and as a result also I'd say more legible on displays where there's not a ton of text to begin with.

Even on pixel displays where the "descender" or "unused top half" is not a technical problem, you still would need larger spacing between lines to fit the descender without some letters touching the line below.

Capital-only is also the optimal choice when you need to print some small label on a device, or on a street sign, for example. It's a "STOP" sign, not a "stop" sign. No one does "small letters only" labels. It's either capitals only, or mixed case.

TLDR: Capital letters FTW.
> I remember when I first heard the term "pink tax."

It's not that.

> There are a lot of basic essentials (see pockets) that equivalent women's garments simply do not have. And it seems to be more related to the manufacturers than consumers, because it is literally a meme for a girl to be excited about having pockets. And most of the women I know do share info abut which brands have pockets, etc. It seems that women will buy good quality stuff, but I agree that mountains of clothes are being made that don't seem like they were made with any humans in mind that might wear them?

No, the market works. You are just misunderstanding it, so you might be surprised by my lifehack: when I need pants with pockets, I buy them either from a sport store (most outdoor wear has pockets) or from the men's section (who would've thought about that one lolol)

It's just a lifehack, because they are rarely needed for me. And it's not just for me: it's reflected at the market level, so there are fewer options that provide pockets

Maybe you like some specific kind of neckties (or something else men wear), or have specific preferences (a man purse to carry your electronics?) so you share info with your friends who have similar preference, but it's not male/female specific.
The new internet is about funding people enough to be able to produce content full-time. Nobody is stopping you from producing stuff for free, but you can't live off of it.
I don't think riley_dog means they somehow controls Unify APs with opnsense. I think he just configured the APs with the Unify controller, the never touched them again and left all routing to an opnsense box.

This seems to be a popular approach, as there are no attractive routers from Unify, there was the Ubiquiti Unifi Security Gateway (USG), which ran very hot but was affordable and small (EdgeRouterX-like). Now they have the Dreamrouter, which has everything in one, including Wifi. It looks like an Alexa tube. There is a gap in their offering if you ask me, I'm also looking for a nice simple 2 nic opnsense box (preferably a nuc(-like)), after I blew up my EdgeRouterX (used the wrong power supply).
Look at death counts of other wars in other parts of the world you are just ignoring.
> We believe superintelligence could arrive within the next 10 years

This has been the case since the 60s. "could arrive within 10 years" is the tech equivalent of "maybe within our lifetimes". Nothing to see here.
Sounds like your GP isn't doing their job? Time to get a different one.
> Don't be! the whole point of this was to build something for myself, and use the process to reflect. There's no reason why trying something similar shouldn't work for you, I certainly wasn't the first to implement a personal reader.

Thank you for the encouragement! I do intend to still do something in this space if only for no other reason than to go through this process myself with the hopes of rekindling my interest in technology and software development.

And thank you for sharing your experience with us! The validation and motivation I’m feeling after reading this definitely overshadows the jealousy. :-)
I'm not convinced. I think I could live with that actually, even today. Certainly if I got used to it.

Now that I think about it, I read a lot of comics as a kid, and most of them were in all caps (or at least, they did not have two clear cases). It didn't feel odd at all that all speech in Asterix, Donald Duck or Calvin and Hobbes is in upper case. I bet most people don't even notice.

Isn't it weird that we spend so much effort to present text on computers in the way that we got used to specifically in printed books, once upon a time? The work that's been put into font rendering is crazy.
If you have a Mastodon account somewhere you will be able to interact/follow.

Posts are not just going got flood over, though. Each Mastodon instance has its own local view into the fediverse, and discoverability depends on what other users on your instance have subscribed to. Some instance admins will decide to not host anything Meta, or limit discoverability, as they do with other servers.
Subaru EyeSight works very well in my experience, but it's much less ambitious. It basically just does lane keep assist, automatic braking, and dynamic cruise control. It can't be used at all in heavy precipitation and will automatically deactivate. The cruise control also has an annoying tendency to unnecessarily slow down on the freeway when you're in the slow lane and the vehicle in front takes an exit ramp.
People will just lower their standards and normalize the lower quality. This stuff is engineered “food” after all. It just has to stimulate the right neurotransmitters. American chocolate case in point.
Yeah, I think the convention should be to return the smallest valid index such that the predicate is satisfied, or an error value if the predicate isn't satisfied. As you point out, it's the same as when a non-empty string appears multiple times in a given string. So I think 0 is the only reasonable result in this case, assuming 0-based indexing.
Underrated reply. Thinking of crypto as a PVP game makes a lot of sense as a mental model.
We have these things that are sponsored by insurance companies where you jog/run through the outdoors and do exercises at various stations along the way.

The States even had them when I was a kid.
There’s already been strong reactions by some in the Java subreddit. A lot have bike shedding over syntax and some just don’t like the idea of handling exceptions this way.
Nature is a more complex and sophisticated machinery when compared to humans.

If this bound didn't exist, universe can spontaneously create new universes. However, it can only create elements, stars, planets, galaxies, which are less sophisticated than the universe itself. So, even universe has an upper limit on its creative abilities.
Lunacoins / Terracoin foretell the fate of all cryptocurrencies. They might have some monetary qualities, but they lack the important bits like hardness.

The problem with vapid statements is that I can just copy/paste your argument and change the words around... demonstrating how its a useless phrase all together.

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"Inflation Hedge" would be a truly useful thing. That's why it sticks, because people desperately want to prove BTC to be useful. Unfortunately, the stats just don't work out, so you see people twisting the meaning of "inflation" and "hedge" in this very thread.

"Hedges" are things that have high amounts of correlation. (Ex: Hedge on gasoline would be buying assets correlated with gasoline. Exxon, or maybe Brent Crude). And the r-value / correlations can be readily demonstrated. Either positive r-value or negative, it doesn't matter. The important bit is that there's a strong correlation (or anti-correlation).
In math logic, any statement made about an element from an empty set is true (as well as negation of that statement).
Your conclusion may be true but your examples aren't. You can definitely predict the stock market based on past prices, and I suspect you can with weather as well.
what were the other DX flows you considered, and in your experimentation, what were the tradeoffs you found?
That's why the market for high-end snacks is booming.

We mostly eat home-cooked meals, but have kids and they want junk from time to time.

And the snacks at Trader Joe's, Sprouts and Costco taste amazing.

Junk is junk, but you can find chips that are less salty, and chocolates that are not overly sweet.
There is a place between a micro-managing helicopter parent and laissez-faire - your parenting should be in that place. And while it'd be awesome to be your kids' best friend forever it's more important that they learn boundaries, self-control and how to human. You can impart self-control without opening every door and, given how psychologically exploitative a lot of the internet and advertising is, it's hardly a fair fight to just let them sink or swim.

Guidance is a responsibility of parenthood.
My EdgeRouter finally bit the dust after over a decade of service, and I decided to "upgraded" to a Dream Machine. I was hesitant due to the security breaches and now I really regret my decision.
Sure, why not. It seems reasonable to me. Of course the chances depend on the type and scope of the disaster or situation you are using it for. It is probably great if there is another global pandemic, or civil unrest in San Francisco.

If extradimensional aliens are invading, maybe it wasnt soo useful.
Two out of three Australians will be diagnosed with some form of skin cancer at some point their lives [1] due to the higher atmospheric UV. This is going to prevent a lot of unnecessary death. Modern medicine is fantastic.

[1] https://www.phrp.com.au/media/media-releases/two-in-three-au...
Scala but with way less foot-guns.
How exactly are you arriving at racism without first explaining why economic, political, and military relations between these countries were not the cause? Are the continued sanctions of Cuba racist? What is the discerning factor for why Biden continues these sanctions in the year 2023?

The word "racist" has been so over-used by activists to silence dissenting voices pointing out how brain-dead their ideas really are, that the word has lost all meaning. Just imagine if the word "dumb" had the same effect. How long would it take before it's meaning is completely eroded away to protect indefensible positions? That's is where we are.

I'm convinced there is no legitimate rationale here other than "orange man bad". This is very easy to falsify, but the fact there's a continued refusal to engage in the argument presented speaks for itself.
QMoE Support for Mixtral
Inferior clueless model (GPT-2) trains and supervises a superior model (GPT-4) thus making it behave less intelligently (GPT 3.5ish) and from that they draw the conclusions that human intelligence will be able to command AGI (which they believe is only a decade away) in a similar fashion thus making AGI aligned and safe.

No comments except...

Hangover of slurping whole Internet into giant arrays of floating point numbers. Bold claims. Very bold claims
What's the logic behind returning anything but -1 (not found) ?

Given "asdf".indexOf("a") is 0

Then "asdf"[0] is "a"

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Given "".indexOf("") is 0

Then ""[0] is "" (which it's not in any language I know of)
> If I were going to suggest anything, it would be "don't use Readability" since it isn't a good fit for this use case.

It is a perfect fit for the user experience I was going for, even if it adds development and operational complexity --both of which were a lower priority for this project, as I stressed in the blog post.
And never forget to trade on 125x leverage.
Ask HN: How do I leave Dropbox
I’m worried about dropbox looking at my files and sharing them with third parties without my consent. Not tying to debate whether they did anything wrong. The point is I am concerned and want to break up with them. I am looking for guidance on how to leave their platform. Information that would be helpful includes:

1. Recommended alternatives (ideally e2e encrypted)

2. How to move my data

3. How to completely delete all files from Dropbox and permanently rescind their ability to access my data in the future.

Thanks all in advance !
Literally my top-level comment in this thread.
Once small nuclear becomes viable all these guys will be on their huge yachts so they won't have to be stuck in one place.
Does every set contain the empty set? Arguably yes.

Does every sequence contain the empty sequence? If so, does it not contain the empty sequence at every position in itself? Harder to reason about.
>You can't model and predict the weather just by training on the outputs of the weather system (whether it rained today, whether it was cloudy yesterday, and so on). You have to train on the inputs (air currents, warm fronts, etc.)

>You can't model and predict the stock market just by training on the outputs of stock trading decisions (the high today, the low yesterday). You have to train on the inputs (company fundamentals, earnings, market sentiments in the news, etc.)

Says who?

You can model and predict novel protein sequences by training on....protein sequences. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-022-01618-2

You don't need to train on the inputs(casual processes) of anything, that's what training is there to figure out.
Also, in Japan, some old equipment displays only katakana. No hiragana, let alone kanji. E.g. old cash registers and such.

I have a Yamaha FX-500 (audio effects processor) from 1989 (original owner!) which is like this: in the program titles, shown on the small LCD screen, you can use Roman letters, numbers and punctuation and also Katakana.

I modded that thing about a decade ago, replacing the NVRAM chip with a small daughterboard with a batteryless chip; and replaced some RC4558 op-amps with NE5532.

You can see pictures from the batteryless mod here:

https://www.kylheku.com/lurker/message/20131110.004036.5ed12...

I had to put a transistor onto the little board in order to invert one signal.

That was all made possible by suddenly getting the schematics for the FX500 thing in my hands, so I knew exactly what the original part is and all its signaling and how to relate it to the batteryless AutoStore chip.

I found the schematic on a Hungarian website called Elektrotanya, which at the time you could only join if you passed a small electronics knowledge test.

In one of the images you can see a diode (nestled under the socket for the IC). This is part of the transistor circuit, which features a Baker clamp to speed it up.
> you should understand basic concepts of loyalty

When do you think a billionaire last heard the word "no"? Perhaps they think that people actually like them for reasons beyond money?
word shape is extremely important for ease/speed of reading, so making text blocky and homogenous with no ascenders/descenders is empirically worse
I'm specifically not calling anything an inflation hedge [0]. I don't consider anything you'd accept as inflation in my investing. I'm looking at money creation.

And you are correct that I also disregard correlations over 18 month periods. I suspect most small-timers do. It isn't clear to me why that would matter.

[0] To clarify what I meant a few comments ago, I meant what most other people would call an inflation hedge in common parlance - ie, something that can't be printed. I don't think they'd be using the term in a way that has an actual definition though, and I don't expect that sort of asset to have anything to do with the inflation rate when it comes to price performance.
But is that an O or an 0? Of course, care was taken to display them differently, and the same could have been done with l and 1, as coding fonts commonly do now.

No, the real reason is that upper case was customary for telegrams and then teletypes. Upper case was well established before CRT displays came into play.
>I really don't see that critical thinking is at all required for a raw optimization process. The problem they are trying to solve is what happens when that optimization process isn't aligned with human flourishing.

I agree it's possible to have a dangerous AI that lacks human "critical thinking", but I don't think it's reasonable to refer to an AI as much more intelligent than humans if there's any class of intellectual tasks humans can do but the AI cannot.
Why not?

Assholes are still assholes, even when they do something for everyone else, once.
This is classic redirection tactics, exactly as Lee Fang exposed last week [1].

You talk about those wars, I'll support you. I'll talk about this one

[1] https://www.leefang.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-information