skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How can people be so blood-thirsty that it's ok to sacrifice over 600 men for nothing more than a "spectacle"?

Is sacrificing 100,000 innocent civilians in hiroshima for spectacle any better?

> It's really difficult to understand how a highly civilized society for the time could have almost no respect for human life.

Ever read the Iliad? Or the hebrew bible? Besides, you become 'highly civilized' by killing everyone who disagrees with you and proclaiming yourself 'highly civilized'.

It's always been this way. Rome wasn't civilized. It was genocidal and brutal. The most genocidal and brutal of its time.

And if you think caesar was bad, augustus was far more brutal. But his savagery saved the 'civilized' roman empire.
And have Patrick Stewart read out loud.
> On the coldest week of the decade when everyone's heating system is using 250% more power than usual, and has been for days, the storage runs down and then what?

Since we're talking about the grid of the future, there are several possible options:

- Hydrogen electrolyzed/stored (pressurized or as NH3) during the summer can be used to add supply to the grid.

- Pumped hydro increases its output during the cold snap.

- Power imported from regions that aren't experiencing the same cold snap with no renewable generation.

> If the grid is generating nearly all of its power from solar and wind

Since you said "nearly", there is some room for geothermal, synfuels, and maybe SMRs (if they can ever be built economically).

The point is that we won't have a lack of carbon-free generation sources or storage options in the future.
You could consider something like BLIP2. There are multiple ways you could use it: embed images and match them against embeddings of text descriptors, train custom embedding of descriptors, or a classifier on top of the embedding (linear layer on top of the image embedding network).

The approaches increase in complexity. It also allows for dataset bootstrap:

Let's say you want to classify cats by breed. You could start by embedding images and text descriptors and distance-matching the embedded descriptors to the images. This gives you a dataset that might be 90% correct; you can then clean it up, which would be easier to do than manually labelling it.
Based on that improved dataset, you can train a custom embedding for the labels or a classification layer on top of the image embedding network.
Very small data point: I happened to have my Harvest Right freeze dryer opened up the other day and discovered it had an ESP32 on the control board.

Why, I have no idea - they don't support any form of app-based control at the moment. Maybe they're intending to do so in the future?
You won't be making, you'll be generating whatever the model allows you to generate based on copyright restrictions?
I immediately switched to the Wikipedia "Gladiator" article and found it to be much more readable, informative and concise.
I made the switch from Win 10 to Ubuntu 22.04 for gaming about a year ago. I play mostly 2D games on Steam and have had zero issues. Anecdotal of course, but most titles I've tried recently either have a native Linux build or work perfectly on Proton (e.g. Stardew Valley, Starbound, Terraria, Core Keeper, Aground, Cryofall, Bejeweled 3)
I avoid Amazon as a rule, but when I try to buy something which is out of stock on sites (like say a dietary supplement), I go through the reviews and will inevitably find someone saying it tastes or smells funny. There are plenty of positive reviews as well, but for something that can impact my health, I don't want to roll the dice with Amazon's utter lack of quality control.
Thanks so much for checking it out!
Im aphantastic to some extent and lack inner voice except for certain situations where there is a semblance of inner voice. Im learning for the first time about anauralia and am intrigued, seems I do to some extend have this. I'm just curious, do you present no inner voice whatsoever or do you have the occasional inner voice in some cases, when for example you attempt to collect some information when getting ready to write down something or in a very stressful situation you need to enumerate some steps to get out of it, etc...
That means a lot, Mike.
As glad as I am that things like DevDocs and Zeal exist I feel like ultimately they are a crutch and indicative of a much larger problem in Open Source which I'm trying to address.

Now as a FOSS maintainer I don't owe anyone any particular set of features or bug fixes. BUT I ABSOLUTELY DO OWE THEM ACTUAL OPENNESS AND THE ABILITY TO STUDY THE SYSTEM PROPERLY.

Many FOSS projects frankly kneecap Freedom 1 with a sledgehammer for anyone who isn't a well off person with reliable Internet access. And I've been up to here with it for a very long time now.

For all my FOSS projects big or small my pledge is to give users complete and trivial access to the full Open Knowledge Set associated with them.

Not just the main program sources and executables, but built and source forms of any official documentation that exists.

Withholding any official documentation that exists from trivial and easy offline access in a useful form is fundamentally no better than withholding any part of the source code. Period. End of story.

My pledge for all my FOSS projects is as follows:

At the home page people within 30 seconds of having read the Elevator Pitch and decided they want to study the system properly will be able to trivially enumerate and initiate downloads for all educational information related to it whether that's source code or built forms of the documentation usable for study straight away.

How the Open Source Definition and Free Software Definition don't mandate something as common sense as this I don't know. Open Source and Open Knowledge should be for everyone, not just well off people with reliable Internet access.

Anyway that's what caused me to start the Freedom Respecting Technology movement. Thus if anything I said here resonates with anyone they should read https://makesourcenotcode.github.io/freedom_respecting_techn... to learn more.
So many issues, primarily the non-idiomatic (even in golang!) code generation and the requirement for special tooling to do any troubleshooting, and after all that you still don't end up with anything particularly interoperable.

At best it works tolerably in a monorepo with tightly controlled deployment scenarios and great tooling.

But if you don't have a Google-like operations environment, it's a lot of extra overhead for a mostly meaningless benefit.
Most of this assumes on the idea that "AI" is controllable and containable?
When you are a large entity, you have a lot of responsibilities to ensure that your users are safe even when they don’t use a service in its intended fashion.

This is fundamental to secure design and it’s also why it’s important for teams to have a both diverse skill set and diverse background to really think out how these features may be used.
That sounds like a clear GDPR violation, but I guess you are not in the EU?
> it's the other way round, by the time of the rebellion absolute monarchy was long gone, the things the colonists didn't like were being passed by parliament

Wow. I feel foolish to have not come to that same conclusion until now despite knowing the same sets of facts as you. Great point.
Use devdocs-desktop? There's a lot of webview wrappers that have a separate config folder, and store docs offline.

https://github.com/hardpixel/devdocs-desktop
This is what I was thinking. Apple guys are smart they will sort it out
Ask HN: At what point do the Cloud's datacenters become national security sites?
In the increasingly interconnected global economy, the reliance on Cloud Services raises questions about the national security implications of data centers. As these critical economic infrastructure sites, often strategically located underground, underwater, or in remote-cold locales, play a pivotal role, considerations arise regarding the role of military forces in safeguarding their security. While physical security measures and location obscurity provide some protection, the integration of AI into various aspects of daily life and the pervasive influence of cloud-based technologies on devices, as evident in CES GPT-enabled products, further accentuates the importance of these infrastructure sites.

Notably, instances such as the seizure of a college thesis mapping communication lines in the U.S. underscore the sensitivity of disclosing key communications infrastructure.

Companies like AWS, running data centers for the Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC), demonstrate close collaboration between private entities and defense agencies. The question remains: are major cloud service providers actively involved in a national security strategy to protect the private internet infrastructure that underpins the global economy, or does the responsibility solely rest with individual companies?
Where it gets confusing:

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/otlp/send-d...
It's "not ok" by your cultural values, they had very different cultural values and thought it was cool.
You can just view the winedb and get an idea of the applications that are most successfully run and how many people use them (based on report counts):

https://appdb.winehq.org/

Photoshop CS6 supposedly is gold (works, but requires some minor configuration tweaks), so that might be worth trying.
Can you name a package manager (any language) that handles #3 well?

How does it handle the problem?
Anyone who believes that someone with a consolation degree might have as good a chance at saying something interesting about reforming academia as someone who banks retail has at saying something interesting about reforming high finance is welcome to try to find something more informative than that yahoo blurb. The opportunity cost for my time is higher.
Yes, Craig Murray's imprisonment was a travesty. Saying a legal system is saner than England is pretty much damning with faint praise, it's such a low bar to clear.
So, I ask an honest question and get downvoted (or stripped). Seems like HN people ARE getting worse, and way more petty. smh.

Not all of us live in this zone and some of us do want to understand people's thinking without getting hated on. Guess I'll move on to a safer place.
License is weird and unclear to me. https://github.com/revng/revng/blob/develop/LICENSE.md:

“Licensing information

Copyright (c) 2015-2017 Alessandro Di Federico <ale@clearmind.me>

Copyright (c) 2017-2020 rev.ng Labs Srl <info@rev.ng>

The project as a whole is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2. A copy of this license can be found in LICENSE.gpl.

Each individual file, unless otherwise noted, is released under the terms of the MIT License. A copy of this license can be found in LICENSE.mit.”

Does that paragraph about GPLv2 constitute a version of “unless otherwise noted”?

If so, why mention the MIT license at all?

If not, doesn’t that mean it effectively is dual licensed? If everything is GPLv2, and I take a single file, that’s still GPLv2, and if if have set of MIT licensed files and group them, the result still is MIT licensed.

(Browsing the code, all source files seem to have a MIT header, so, presumably, they mean this to beMIT licensed)

Also, it’s not “GPLv2 or later”, but I think you can take the MIT licensed files and rerelease them as GPLv3, if you’d want to (or is the attribution requirement a showstopper there?)
Hidden Changes in GPT-4, Uncovered
Do you realize how much money that would cost? "just throw AI at it" is often some of the most expensive words uttered lately.
Meanwhile in France: https://www.france24.com/en/france/20240109-france-drops-ren...
So who is paying for all these [Twitter] verified OpenAI-powered bot accounts?
Mostly anti-immigration sentiments.
Gladiatorial combat was just a drop in the bucket. A single Roman mining operation in Spain [1] had tens of thousands of slaves working to death. Even the famous slave revolt of Spartacus ended with the spectacle of 6000 slaves crucified along the Appian Way [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_M%C3%A9dulas

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appian_Way#The_crucifixion_of_...
I once read a quote that "most of UK is a -third world country- desperately clinging to London to prove otherwise."

This doesn't help.
I mean, Sam Altman won this battle months ago. It was all anyone was talking about on here.
That's actually a neat little analysis platform, thanks!

Amusingly I can run my application, if I generate custom formatted .json and write it to a file, I can bulk ingest it... which is pretty much what I do now without the fancy visualization app. I think this speaks to my point that the OpenTelemetry part of the pipeline wouldn't be doing much of anything in this case. (The reason I care about files is that applications run in places where internet connectivity is intermittent, so generating and exporting telemetry from an application/process needs to be independent from the task of transferring the collected data to another host.)
This is so earth shattering to me. I'm completely unable to actually "see" anything when I imagine it, but I think I can visualize in the sense of recalling or imagining how it would look.

Do people actually close their eyes and hallucinate or am I reading way to far into this?
Finding applications for defense = warmongering?
It's consequences, not blame. There's no value judgment in saying "If you do this, it will result in these consequences." You can make your own judgment about which set of consequences you prefer.

"My point is that the modern advertising industry is better classed as a result of large-scale structures and societal-scale rules"

Does this model result in useful predictions that you can act upon? A model that "advertising works because in the aggregate, it alters buying decisions and leads to more spending being directed to the advertiser" is very actionable: it tells you exactly where the money is, why it is being spent, and then gives you leads to areas you might want to study (eg. human psychology and perception, owning a channel, producing content at scale) to make you better at influencing those money flows. A model that "the modern advertising industry is better classed as a result of large-scale structures and societal-scale rules" may be true, but it's pretty useless. It doesn't have enough detail to make specific predictions, and its area of focus is on phenomena that you don't have any agency over anyway.

My physics professors were always very clear that the true value of a theory is "Can you make testable predictions with it?" My English & sociology professors were always very clear that "Society doesn't actually exist. It's just a collection of individual actors." This was pretty eye-opening when I got to college, because it got me to understand the value of thinking in terms of specifics rather grand theories that sound expansive as a soundbite but can't actually be used.
> The problem is that they're not wrong, turbines and even solar towers wipe out vast bird and bat populations.
> Obama had to pass a last minute law approving the numerous deaths of bald eagle populations unfortunately.

316K Eagles vs 150 confirmed deaths due to windmills over a decade.

So yes, they're wrong. And amplifying this sort of thing is exactly what those campaigns hope for, so you're doing their work for them. You're in good company, Donald Trump did the exact same thing (and made up a number to go with it rather than to claim 'vast' numbers).

Does it mean that any numbers of Bald Eagles killed by windmills is acceptable? No, of course it doesn't. But either we have a different idea when we hear the word 'vast' or 'vast' is exaggerated.

edit: here is an article to back this up:

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-are-thousands-bald-eagle...
For someone named Tacitus, that dude sure made everything explicit.
I feel I may be alone, but emacs Info docs are really nice for this and stay oit of your way.
I've used many times for small programs and such, even though I don't use any wine program on a regular basis.
However, I do play games on Proton all the time and everything mostly just works.
Too bad. It was far from perfect, but it had potential. Despite everyone crying about fake news and polarization, news that is factual and too the point doesn't sell and no one looks at it.
Simply selling standalone software for a fee, perhaps?
you can either fall back to natural gas peaker plants or grid-battery. Batteries keep getting cheaper, too
I work mostly in python with some frontend sprinkled in. My extension list consists of: Volar, Pylance, Live Preview, autoDocstring, autopep8
At this point, I think his strategy is to lose as many legal cases as possible to get to play the victim of persecution by the entire system. But if he does not do well in the primaries in Iowa and NH in the next few weeks he may have to reconsider his strategy.
Very cool overall but the sync->async change means you can't always use it as a drop-in replacement. I assume it's making network calls in those cases which will take significantly longer that local writes. I wonder if something could be done so that it write the data locally and kicks off something async in the background to sync it up to the backend. Maybe with just a timestamp in case you go offline to handle conflicts (or even way to register a callback if there is a conflict so you can decide how to handle it). I know that all makes this more complicated but I'd be worried about adding waiting for a network call where I currently do localStorage calls.

But still a very cool project, thank you for sharing!
Ah, well never mind then :)
I can provide many sources for each point, let me know if there's a specific one that you find questionable.
> This happened to me ten years ago. My employer expected me to explain to my coworkers how some things work during that time.

Once I was asked to continue interviewing candidates after I gave notice, which seemed a little odd at the time (also in Switzerland).
>Any form of government that depends on an unbroken line of "good people" in power will fail

They all depend on this. There is no set-it-and-forget-it algorithm that you can put in place that self-perpetuates good government. There are "people" at every point along the chain of any government including those writing its laws, enforcing them, interpreting laws in court and in many bureaucratic institutions that may or may not ignore these rules or undermine them.

I think every system has a life-cycle like an organism, and some aspects of degradation and corruption are almost unavoidable in practice if not in principle.
There are secular and religion-agnostic churches. Unitarian Universalism, for example.
In addition are other essential solutions, which accept the reality that we all have virtue and evil inside us; we are all biologically the same as MLK and Stalin, as Lincoln and the slave-owners (and the slaves).

* Good people, which is people who are at that moment able to bring out the virtue in themselves, must act to promote virtue. If they sit on the sidelines, the results are predictable - other people won't do it.

* Good people can specifically develop and institutionalize systems - of government, society, culture - that bring out the good in people. It won't happen by accident, and plenty of bad people will do the opposite with intent.

If you think these things aren't possible, look at the incredible accomplishments of our ancestors, as we live in a world of freedom, peace, and prosperity absolutely unmatched in human history. What will we build for our descendents? Or will we throw away our inheritance?
I am not a person who would know what the biggest existential issues are, but I have always found it to be helpful to ask for product recommendations in the various group chats that I partake in. It also clamps down on consumerism, and I've found that I just buy less stuff. I am fully up to date on all of the latest tech news and new technologies, but my phone is 6 years old and I don't care.

Some people have this notion of only buying best-in-class products or the latest stuff which they have to rigorously find by going through tons of reviews and looking at various articles and what not. I have (almost) no FOMO, and I don't mind not having the best, it frees up my time to do more important stuff like spend time with my children or watch a movie with my partner.
Home Assistant can cast dashboard/media/etc to your display, has shopping lists, and has voice assistance. https://www.home-assistant.io/
Show HN: 4D-Realtime Control System
Thought this was an interesting framework for those interested in cognitive systems and multi-agent robotics.
At the rate plastic particles are piling up, you'd think a rocket like this could just pull plastic from the atmosphere.
Attracting Callers to Your BBS (1992)
Your research will be assimilated by the Killbot Evolution Research Program. Your country thanks you.

For your service, here is a limited edition digital flag pin emoji:
I’d read Madison’s reply. Everyone knows Jefferson talked a lot of shit. The other founders were used to him. This is him getting emotional in Paris during the French Revolution. He thought the proto-Cult of Reason people were a bunch of crackpots and was worried the same thing was going to happen here.
I personally have a very hard time thinking out loud but have no problem thinking quietly. I'm for example terrible at explaining something while working on it but could easily explain it afterwards.
Any artificial limitations OpenAI places upon themselves will absolutely not be used by competitors. Google did not see that back in their day. Timelines are much more compressed now
OpenAI's moderation API is free and just tells you if your query will be declined: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/moderation
Offline is way faster to the point the way you interact with docs changes because of the lack of friction.
They offer token settlements, require the victim to provide lots of evidence they wouldn't have, and expect them to pay for their own lawyers to invoke legal arcana that would get them a just compensation.

https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/01/11/hss_scandal/
I thought 1 was potentially legit depending on how they are manufactured and where they'll need deployed. I understand that 80% of solar cells are produced in China which still gets most of its energy from coal so there is a huge carbon footprint. If you now deploy those in a place that doesn't get much sun, like Germany, the equation isn't great. I'm no expert on this though and am mostly parroting Peter Zeihan on this.
25% of people living in NZ were not born in NZ. Add to that, NZ was founded out of an agreement between the British Crown and some, not all, of the Iwi (indigenous tribes) that already lived there.

Tell me that NZ is a homogeneous place with no cultural or political divisions that make working together tricky, go on.
Prices are affected by demand and supply. Supply can be constrained enough (through zoning, less construction) to still be less than demand in a high interest rate environment.

Demand is also an interesting one, the population continues to increase and every year a new, larger, cohort of people enter the housing market. Many are seeking to live in the relatively few areas that have strong, dynamic labor markets, and are willing to pay a higher share of income to achieve this.

A lot of housing markets have experienced this effect on both supply and demand and prices have not decreased in line with what the basic models predicted.
That doesn't make sense though, as all the DDOS people have to do is aim their bot army at the new site. Probably just a single parameter in their attack scripts. I mean I'm an idiot and I can launch a DDoS on someone, I just don't have the $$ or compromised army of iot devices to aim at accomplishing that, nor really the will to do others harm. Whether you're in Europe or NA doesn't matter.
Thanks for the explanation. Reading the paper, it seems it still takes 2-4 hours to train (one scene?). I imagine that's still faster than any manual method.