skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here in Australia they updated the Privacy Act with personal liability for directors.

I discovered that every one of my client organisations is exempt, because of course they are.

Powerful people don’t go to jail, that’s for the common people.

Exemptions were put in place for all government agencies, and charities. Turns out they many health-related business are actually technically non-profits. So your health data can leak and they just shrug their shoulders and move on as if nothing had happened.
Right on. "The Gain and the Gap" (Hardy & Sullivan) speaks directly to this same essential point. There's always another peak, the horizon always recedes (ie, the "Gap" will always be there), but pause from time to time to look back at how far you are from where you started (the "Gain") and be encouraged.
> we are the champions of how to write something easy most difficultly, and crank weirdness of pronunciation to 100

Wurs than Inglish? I hav my dowts.
That’s why Finland has “day fines” - after a threshold, fines are x days of your last years income. 5 or 6 figure fines are not uncommon.
I think, as a general principle, justice should not be based around appeasing a potential lynch mob.
That's 2.7 zorbas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorba_(dog)
Dont create goals, create a system for how you live.
Check out https://reddit.com/r/LocalLLama for better discussion on this topic.

General rules of thumb

* VRAM is king

* Newer GPUs are better than older GPUs

* Nvidia has better software support than AMD

* Cloud is probably cheaper than buying your own hardware, only buy your own hardware if you want to tinker a LOT or care about privacy/other reasons.

* The best affordable hardware are Apple M-series processors, system RAM === VRAM due to their integrated architecture. Memory bandwidth is really high.

4x 2080ti has 44GB of RAM which is really nice for this kind of purpose. Mixtral should run very well on that, SDXL should run without a problem too. In general I wouldn't really recommend looking at upgrading from that set-up unless you're running into issues with cooling or electricity costs.

The be-all-end-all bottleneck in AI right now is memory and memory bandwidth, it doesn't really matter much if you have a faster or slower GPU. A single 4090 is a clear downgrade over your 4x2080ti for instance.

For llama and other LLMs you can basically run any model on that other than 70b models, though 70b should run fine quantised at .. 6bits? I'm not super sure about what 44GB gets you, but it should get you pretty far.

I personally got a 7900xtx because it's in a nice sweet spot between affordable and high end. I don't have the money for a multi-GPU set-up. Second-hand 3090s are in a similar position.

These are the upgrade paths I'd consider in your position

* Get at least 2 but preferably 3 3090s (48GB is not a big upgrade over 44GB, 72GB is.)

* Get a m2 ultra/max with at least 64GB memory. If you want to run the highest end models (goliath 120b, falcon 180b, ...), get the 128GB variant.

* Play with cloud until you get an idea of where your needs lie

You can check out some of these cloud providers, they're all fine.

- runpod.io

- tensordock.com

- lambdalabs

- vast.ai
Reminds me of a saying in the US, “The best way to rob a bank is to own one”.
+1. I moved from Sourcehut when it announced IRS change of TOS. I realised I would prefer to support less discriminatory forges.

I also have no interest in crytocurrency.
Thanks that is very interesting! Here is Scott McCloud's original page for the book: https://www.scottmccloud.com/googlechrome/
There are plenty of crimes that deserve death. We don’t impose it because we’re unsure about culpability. But if you did it, you do indeed deserve to die.
Meaning short sellers never have to buy it back.
I didn’t know that lol. That’s hilarious
Investors as well.
> Also dog catchers should be allowed to pick up cats roaming outside.

Many places have TNR programs (Trap, Neuter, Return), at the very least. Sure, that doesn't solve the problem of the existing cats killing local wildlife, but it at least ensures they won't continue to reproduce.

The problem with catching and keeping all cats (and dogs, really) is that most places just don't have the shelter space for them. Euthanasia for stray animals has become unpopular in many places (a stance I support and agree with), so it boils down to balancing how many animals you can get adopted vs. how much shelter space you have vs. how many stray animals there are out there.

In the past few years we've adopted three cats from our local SPCA shelter, that were found as strays. I wish every cat out there had the opportunity to live in a nice home without needing to kill the local wildlife for food.
OSHA may have the lowest # of inspectors in ~45 years, but the rate of worker deaths is also at just about its lowest over that same time period - so not sure the # of inspectors is really relevant.

More is not always better.

Worker deaths in America are down—on average, from about 38 worker deaths a day in 1970 to 13 a day in 2020.

Worker injuries and illnesses are down—from 10.9 incidents per 100 workers in 1972 to 2.7 per 100 in 2020.

Source: https://www.osha.gov/data/commonstats
I had a //c when I went to college in 1989. I was proud of my little 9" green screen computer.

Then I found out that the guy down the hallway had an Amiga with a full color monitor.
Because two phase construction is a widely disliked idiom. Named constructors retuning optional objects are tolerable though.
Purdy was improperly conflating their ability to detect the substance with "harm," and the environmental propagandists have been running with it for a long time. What "harm" precisely did he identify? The article doesn't say. Maybe a carcinogen? Maybe not? There's been a concerted effort to make PFOS/PFAS an environmental super-villain, but it's hard to substantiate when we volitionally ingest many flourinated pharmaceuticals daily (e.g., Cipro, Prozac, Flonaze, Pavloxid, etc.). It's been amusing watching the alarmist "science" press floundering with the "right" definition of PFAS that lets you hang 3M but still keep the life-changing drugs that require them. https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2022/is-there-a-right-d...
Sounds good in theory, but what if your company decides to reduce investments in the spreadsheet product and instead transfer the product team into a much faster growing product segment, e.g. SAP integrations?

Then the perfectly qualified PMs start from square one again.

IMHO it's an essential skill for a PM to familiarize him/herself with a new domain in short time. It also offers cross-pollination / the chance to do things different. Imagine Steve Jobs coming from a pure IT background instead of liberal arts / calligraphy -> Apple wouldn't have been so different any more.
It should be. The entire job of short sellers is to be incentivized to ferret out bad companies.
Their demand is simple and clear and it should not be even discussed or reach to this point in the first place, let aid and food into Gaza, it’s really not that complicated to achieve.
Indeed, very good way to expose the mafia, drug lords and the like.
That's barbaric. White collar crime is a policy choice. Economies require a certain amount of slack in order to function. If an economy had a zero tolerance policy for white collar crime than nothing would ever get done, because differentiating between fraud, incompetence, and bad luck is extremely difficult in all but the most straightforward of cases. If we wanted to de-incentivize white collar crime we have so many options that are (a) more humane, (b) more effective, and (c) less controversial. We could start prosecuting more cases of fraud, or improve regulations, or increase incentives for whisteblowing, or reform corporate governance, or any of a million other ideas.
>would it also be bad for NYT to film the same things and publish a piece about how bad the situation is, with ads?

Yes. Advertising, in which you pay someone to lie or exploit a fallacy (e.g. red wine associated with lower risk of cardiovascular disease), is the opposite of journalism. The idea that you should fund one with the other is frankly horrific.
Of course it’s up to third parties to determine if something is exploitation or not.
The existence of gay people is a good example of something that can evolve in a population despite drastically lower chances of being passed on genetically.
Can't seem to find if it runs FSN or not https://github.com/jonathanlyonmoore/3d-file-system-navigato...
I don’t know about that. When I was 18, I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and received a sudden and unexpected demotion from a job with a small regional restaurant franchise that was previously flourishing, and then found myself unemployed a few weeks later, just days before my benefits package was due to be activated.

I contacted several attorneys, none of whom would consider taking the case, or even bother to discuss the details with me. One of them told me that, at least in North Carolina, an employer would effectively have to get on the stand and explicitly confess taking adverse actions against me specifically because I had been diagnosed with MS. Any other remotely plausible excuse would provide them with all the cover necessary.

It was only much later that I learned that I would have had to have filed a complaint with the EEOC and NLRB within 180-days, and allow them to investigate my claims fully before authorizing such a lawsuit to begin with, as without such a determination I could not file the suit anyway. None of the attorneys I consulted even mentioned this absolutely critical first step, which suggests that they had even less faith in a successful outcome.

Maybe it’s different for facilities and regulatory enforcement, but in my experience, at least for labor, the protections are incredibly weak.
Thanks, these are great! Do you take notes directly into Anki cards or process them later?
As one prompt, or as two? As in you query for "reword this prompt: [...blah...]" and then manually copy-paste the answer back in, or query for "[...blah...] // instead of processing the prompt before the //, reword the prompt to make it more effective and do inference on the reworded prompt"?

I guess in the 2nd case it would be useful to ask it to output the reworded prompt too.
What’s wrong about that if it brings more visibility to a social problem?
You suggest vile acts should be permitted without consequence?
that's a good comparison given how litigious Hasbro has been in the past.
Shit thats a good point. I guess the AT ones are easy enough to disable if you can find them via AI drone. The smaller nastier ones are harder to find but have less chemicals in them.
sounds like people in west african countries have a superior understanding of the purpose of language, which is to convey shared concepts
It was early 2000s in Southern Ontario Canada
This is my latest side-project, Postcard Monster.

"Share your adventures, celebrate special moments, or send a warm 'hello' with a personal touch that transcends distances."

Enjoy!
How to Choose Cookware (2014)
> "tranq tourists" are just causing more trouble

What trouble do tranq tourists cause?
We've made experiments, but the usage of this tier is still being considered.

One of the proposals is:
- use it to simplify the cache instead of local SSDs;
- it has to be in every AZ where there are replicas; the caches will work independently in each AZ;
- so it might be expensive, but if we make replica initialization time close to zero and have no local metadata at all, we can afford to run in one AZ at any moment in time and still have failover to another AZ with the cost of losing the cache.

PS. Snowflake has virtual warehouses in a single AZ by default. ClickHouse Cloud has nodes in three AZ (prod tier) or two AZ (dev tier).
I love every ambitious and tiny codebase, but the formatting looks very uncommon and for me personally - hard to read. Is there a tool that produces it?
DJI cannot compare with Skydio’s follow software. It’s pretty magical.
> My best move was buying 20 OTM tsla calls 3 minutes before they announced the split.

Options adjust accordingly when a split occurs, so why is it relevant that you bought 3 minutes before?

Tesla has had two splits so far and there wasn't much movement during either.
I think the OC might win this on a technicality which is that he said 'his principles of free speech' instead of just 'principles of free speech'. That 'his' qualifier indicates the specific principles belonging to Elon Musk which evidence proves to be along the lines of 'allowing speech I like, censoring speech I don't like'.
How much of the rise in cancer cases over the past 100 years can be traced back specifically to PFCs? What other harms can chronic low-dose exposure cause?

We need some proper unbiased studies of the long term chronic effects of PFCs, paid for by the EPA or some other branch of the US federal government, without any influence from environmental groups or chemical manufacturing companies.
> It may be wonderful if we could, but at the moment, every dollar spent on fusion is a dollar not spent on building more solar panels and wind turbines.

That's not how this works. The money that goes to research is very far removed from the money that goes towards utilities' capital investments. To say nothing of the politics involved.

Regardless, we stand to gain more than just a possible energy source from this research.
Similar to that, when I want to get something (not work related) progress, I think about it on my breaks etc and then I text myself on Signal ("Note to shelf").

Then on Friday night (if not sooner) I go through all these self-messages, I clean them up, and there I have a well rounded next steps on whichever project I work on (coding, building a feeding station for birds, etc)(for drawings I either use A4 and black ink, or the Jotr app)
Couple times in the past I wanted to port open source ML models from CUDA/Python to a better technology stack. I have ported Whisper https://github.com/Const-me/Whisper/ and Mistral https://github.com/Const-me/Cgml/ to D3D11. I don’t remember how much time I spent, but given both were unpaid part-time hobby projects, probably under 160 hours / each.

These software projects were great to validate the technology choices, but note I only did bare minimum to implement specific ML models. Implementing a complete PyTorch backend gonna involve dramatically more work. I can’t even estimate how much more because I’m not an expert in Python or these Python-based ML libraries.
Clemency is a wonderful tradition, but I get the impression that those who hold that power tend to view it as purely prerogative with no moral obligation. Which is too bad, because it certainly is meant to be justice’s last resort.
Laser efficiency is important if you're actually building a power plant, but for an experimental facility, it's easy enough to correct for the inefficiency of your old lasers. That doesn't make your research inapplicable to power plants.
How would investors know if something is kept secret?
> Therefore we should give accused murderers fair trials before executing them.

There are many examples of accused murderers who received fair trials, were convicted, and yet were still innocent.
You said dev onboarding was about blindly running a command someone else wrote.
I wasn't familiar with VLIW. Sounds cool!

> Very long instruction word (VLIW) refers to instruction set architectures designed to exploit instruction level parallelism (ILP). Whereas conventional central processing units (CPU, processor) mostly allow programs to specify instructions to execute in sequence only, a VLIW processor allows programs to explicitly specify instructions to execute in parallel. This design is intended to allow higher performance without the complexity inherent in some other designs.

> The traditional means to improve performance in processors include dividing instructions into substeps so the instructions can be executed partly at the same time (termed pipelining), dispatching individual instructions to be executed independently, in different parts of the processor (superscalar architectures), and even executing instructions in an order different from the program (out-of-order execution).[1] These methods all complicate hardware (larger circuits, higher cost and energy use) because the processor must make all of the decisions internally for these methods to work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_long_instruction_word
This looks exceptionally interesting and potentially useful to some of our projects. Anyone else using similar methods? Would love to know if there are other caveats not covered by the article before I start refactoring 10K LOC :)
How do you catch a molecule sized black hole? Maybe in stellar nurseries? But then the black hole has been feeding for a very long time. Yes?
It would reduce the share price of companies that shareholders thought were at high risk of committing a major crime, and create an incentive for companies that care about their share price to make it very clear that they weren't going to do crime and e.g. have policies to prevent it.
I am not sure how UPI is actually implementing it, but I remember reading am article about charge backs coming to upi for large transactions.
This is a good framework. Why don’t you do 90 days though? You’ll much more cleanly fit 4x90 day blocks into the year that way.
Maybe they're figuring out how to NOT glass the earth with fusion?
You would wonder how much software of parts in your Tesla is written by this big bad german car suppliers that all work under the MISRA rules.
Would the critical software things of a Tesla be written by Tesla with their quality understanding, then this cars would be just death traps.
Anything else requires learning a new tool. Tools change. Tools don't allow as much control. And if you want to create a backend for your site you're going to be doing some coding anyway.
Somebody is still using it?
Are you thinking of Google SideWiki? It let people add comments and annotations to any web page.

It was scrapped, one reason was that webmasters hated it. They viewed it as a sort of embarrassing graffiti scrawl and source of spam they had to "manage" for brand reasons, but couldn't. For example journos didn't like people being able to annotate their articles to disagree with them.
People really want to believe these companies are Disney super villains. No evidence required. And no accounting for all the benefits that derive from these chemicals. Americans are really bad at risk assessment and toxicology. I suspect it will be our ultimate undoing when the Chinese come along with superior weapons that withstand higher heat thresholds or less corrosion.
As a non native speaker of English, I have a hard time putting an equal sign between "Things are a bit sticky" and "[we are] in extreme difficulty"

Are these sentences really similar to a British English speaker?

To me the first one means "we have some minor issues" if talked literally, or "we have bigger issues but I decided to add a layer of nonchalance so that you miss the point"
Attestation covers much more than the device itself. The whole point is that it establishes there's a chain of trust from the hardware itself to the software being executed. Your average malicious flashlight app might be able to generate valid attestation tokens, but it'll be differentiable from attestation tokens from safari. If you can somehow break this chain of trust, there's way better ways of monetizing this (eg. selling spyware to nation states) than creating a bunch of fake accounts.
I think it's important to remember 2 things

1) Possible solutions aren't binary (true vs false) but trinary (true vs false vs indeterminate)

2) The devil is always in the details. The world is fucking complex and and a first order approximation isn't going to get you there anymore. We've had 100kyrs to solve problems, we got most of the simple ones down (appearing simple does not mean simple)

2.5) A clique wouldn't be a clique if it wasn't something practically everyone knows and can recite but is not something people demonstrate an actual understanding of by observing their actions. (Just like LLMs: just because you can repeat some knowledge does not mean you're able to (ineptitude), or have the will to (malice), use the knowledge in any meaningful way)
Definitely a better solution than the brick wall he hit. Complicated beastie. I can see the appeal if you just love, eat, and breath SQL.

But a query language within a query language feels bolted onto something alien to do something pretty basic. Pass. If I'm teaching this to new engineers, pass also.
It's a messy gray area to be sure. Both parties want more reach and more revenue, so let's set those incentives aside.

To me it seems that the worst accusation you can level at a news org like NYT is reaching for sensationalism and lurid "entertainment" to get clicks.

But they are a (subjectively) trusted/credible news institution. There is an underlying mission and set of shared journalistic values behind what they do, not to mention an editorial process. Through these things there is at least a nod towards accountability.

TikTok creators are not credible or trusted in the same sense, and they are under no obligation to a larger mission or set of norms, self-imposed or otherwise. They just want followers. With content like this, it seems they're doing the inverse of the NYT - they're reaching for credibility by creating content with the appearance of journalism.

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And to your point about consent, I'm sure there are people who did not or could not consent to their image being published. AFAIK there are no structures governing TikTok "journalism" that would prevent this sort of harm. For me, this is enough to totally disqualify this sort of thing as journalism.
I honestly don’t know what to tell you if you think these pieces are similar to random TikToks that are constructed to inspire horror and disgust.

Andrew Callaghan does some interesting work that focuses on lurid topics but with unexpected sensitivity. In his recent piece on San Francisco street crime and drug addiction, there’s a subplot about a TikToker who is popular with conservative media for condemning and confronting street people. He is loathed by the social services and healthcare workers.

https://youtu.be/URfCwT3UQy4
They didn’t say to let the government run it. Make the patents/trade secrets public domain and sell off the physical assets in open auctions. Someone would buy up the profitable manufacturing lines that aren’t known to be as harmful.
And Evoland 2 was pretty neat, if not a bit more... Strange, when it comes to transitions between gaming systems.
Because the holidays tend to throw off any sort of planning. 3x100 gives you some wiggle room between blocks and the ability to not have to manage habit forming around the holidays.
Maybe the TikTokers filming public spaces aren’t the problem in this picture.
I think America has entered a post labor world in which manual labor is getting harder, lower paid, and lowered value. Labor will always be needed, but there are less and will be even fewer of those jobs to go around. As more low income, low education laborers proliferate, it will get increasingly hard for others to get a job in that market.