skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> OpenAI could presumably add a "did the safety net kick in?" boolean to API responses, and, also presumably, they don't want to do that because it would make it easier to systematically bypass.

This exists and is a free API: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/moderation
Impulse Labs' Sam D'Amico Explains How He Built an Induction Stove
> cats are not a power source

until you involve buttered toast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8yW5cyXXRc
The more of a problem something is, the less it gets used. Showing some use doesn't disprove it being a problem. At all.

And nobody said "preventing" adoption, since that's easy to misinterpret.

It's reducing adoption a lot, compared to what it would be if hydrogen was as easy to store as butane or kerosene.
The example presented seems to also log, they just annotated the logs with span data

> What we ended up implementing was a little tee inside the o11y library. As well as sending events to Honeycomb, we also converted them to JSON, and wrote them to stdout. That way, after sending to stdout, we then pumped off to our standard log aggregation system. This way, we've got a fallback. If Honeycomb is not working, we can just see our logs normally. We could also send these off to S3 or some other long term storage system if we wanted.

I'd like to go a step further, and say that in addition to being worried about honeycomb being down, sometimes you just want to check with kubectl to get an idea what is going on.

Our current projects are very log light because of the heavy tracing instrumentation, but it'd be nice to integrate this with the otel paradigms as they were originally intended
Your cost of Javalin is off by order of magnitude but still the point stands - drones are much more cost effective.
You took too many drugs. Go write a math paper, get it checked out, and then see.
I don’t think that necessarily follows; you could argue that rather it’s because states are so different that the best (national) strategy is to have a broad uniform national platform that can appeal to the most voters. Our political (electorally and procedurally) system does not favor having a multitude of regionally distinct parties.
That won't work if you want reuse incoming port numbers across customers.
The implementations that I am aware of, including the one in Faiss which I wrote (described in detail in https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.08734), do not index the vector based on its PQ encoding (e.g., in IVFPQ). The IVF cell chosen in which to put the vector is based on its pre-quantized (full precision floating point) representation. It would lose too much precision to perform all comparisons in the compressed space.

Also, distance comparisons are usually of the "ADC" (asymmetric distance comparison) form: the query vector is in full floating point format, and vectors, if quantized/compressed in the database, are effectively decompressed and compared in the full floating point domain. This is true even with PQ, as the distance between the query vector subspaces with each of the 2^n PQ codes for the same subspace are precomputed before comparison (and then the distance computation becomes a lookup-add based on the precomputed distance tables).

LSH techniques unlike PQ are more accurately described as an indexing technique, since the buckets into which vectors are placed are based on their encoding (via hashing/binarization) and are fully compared in that space.
Which shows that it was the impact of pretending their currency hadn't been devalued that dragged them through a prolonged depression. Had they simply priced gold at its true value in pounds, they would have gotten through it as quickly as France.
I definitely exist in a bubble, but it's especially useful while driving. Or for searches "Hey Siri, what is the capital of Zambia?" is faster than typing it, and you don't even need to reach for your phone. (Of course Siri is awful and can barely do basic things.)

We use it quite a lot.
$898 and it boosts "Power Efficiency: Our SFD boasts incredible power efficiency, consuming minimal battery power to provide longer playback or recording than others."

Not sure if it's a mirror or cat related.
Crucially but overlooked so far in these threads, is that the proposal does not have brine exiting on the California coast; it has it flowing into the Sea of Cortez.

That should be an obvious non-starter for anyone remotely familiar with the unique geography and ecology of the area.
> Modern China has already reached the end of their system, a scant 50 years after Mao Zedong.

Off topic, but are you implying that Mao was 'good people'? It seems that for the Communist 'dynasty', it fell apart immediately - that is, it never got anywhere. I'm not sure the Communist dynasty is any worse than the Qing or Ming or others before it, at least in that respect.
not all meds are the same for everyone - maybe try an maoi like emsam - helped me a bunch with that feeling

to varying degrees, jobs are what you make of it rather than what it makes of you
Because it was not a highly civilized society.
Nuclear icebreakers help Northern Sea Route to record year
I just want to comment on the "move into engineering management " but because I've seen it 2 or 3 times on this thread.

I've been in management for 6 years after 15 years as an IC and I still hate tech. Probably depends on the organization and the person, but being accountable for the work of others is stressful and draining as F.

I personally sometimes think about how relaxing it would be to just start the day, pick up a ticket, do it, and go home. But I know it's a "grass is greener" fantasy, being an IC comes with its own cross to bear.
Intangi Iris, a 32 bit Windows only quoting tool written in the XP era.
Agreed. The employer managed Healthcare concept is so weird to me. It's just the government outsourcing administrative work to companies as a "ticket to ride" the economy. Public servants have been high fiving each other since 1935.

In an action that was a blow to union control of health plans and a stimulus to employer-controlled programs, the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 banned union control of welfare funds based on employer contributions. On the positive side, an attempt to explicitly exclude employee benefits from the requirement for collective bargaining failed, and the law retained the vague language of the 1935 National Labor Relations Act that required management to bargain on "wages and conditions of employment." The law also established regulations for joint employer-union control of plans involving multiple employers. [1]

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK235989/
Well, you could use ENS.
Good question. I like the idea of having a configuration that includes optimistic writes and perhaps even reads from localStorage for projects that have very low latency/unstable network requirements.

That being said, the server is blazingly fast as it leverages Redis and Fastify under the hood. In most of my testing, even on WiFi in SF with a server in Oregon, I would achieve <20ms reads/writes.
I ran the software my bank provides for trading for a while. Mostly just for the graphs.
if i allow ads on my website, i am not giving people what they want, but i exploit their naivete to make them buy what they don't actually need or want.

i probably can't even control what ads will be running, so how would i know if those ads are something i would approve of or not?
YMMV, but I have tried this several times and have found it very difficult without microsoldering equipment.

Some ESP variants have a built-in U.FL connector which makes things easier (e.g. AITHINKER ESP32-Cam and its many clones), but you still have to remove the 0Ω resistor, which I find very difficult with even the smallest tips on my Hakko iron.
Could be a skill issue on my end; should be much easier if you have a simple reflow/rework station.
I actually think OpenAI is on an accelerated path because it knows it's days are numbered.

If the tech were truly superior, we would see Apple, Google and Meta rushing to license their tech. Yet they're not, instead, they're all building their own version. There's no secret sauce left to building an LLM. It's all public knowledge. And while ChatGPT has an edge right now, it's not a substantial one.
If the humane.ai pin had been released by Apple, it would've been the next best thing. The VR headset is just lazy.
> I live in South Carolina and one of the things I like about how this state works is that the governor is virtually powerless, so you never really have to worry about who is elected. There's certainly some degree of power outside of the veto, but for the most part the real power is with the state senate.

Don't be reactive to the current successful tactic. The senate GOP has organized and wields their power effectively; the governor has not gathered and organized power. In a different scenario, with a different people, it could be the other way.
Who's using React Native Expo in 2024?
Is it "fine"? 44 million people in the US experience hunger. Countless more in the global south are straight up starving. I'm not sure I'd call that fine.
Yes, Sal Khan's original idea did not materialize but as per these stats hundreds of millions of people have used Khan Academy [1].

The author says: "“Hey Sal, why should we trust your new TED Talk, when your last one turned out to be a litany of pretty delusions and optimistic fables?”"

This is an excessively harsh take on someone whose work has benefitted millions of motivated learners especially in the developing world.

[1]
https://www.prosperityforamerica.org/khan-academy-statistics...
To the contrary, as long as you can hold through the volatility window of about 4 years, you are better off holding Bitcoin.

The price of a house used to be 100 bitcoin, then 10, now it's 5. Wait 10 years and it'll be 0.5. Meanwhile, hold dollars and the price keeps going up. You are defacto forced to put your saving in an investment vehicle to keep up with inflation, taking on risk.
There are Minecraft servers like that.
Yeah, beware “no true Scotsman” here. But I think it’s a reasonable hypothesis that GPT-4 is “good enough” or close to it, and when the current assistant services get wired up to LLMs we’ll see a step function in their utility. Apple and Google are both definitely working on this. OpenAI’s voice mode is closer capability-wise, but doesn’t have the integrations; that would be an obvious product for them to do this year.

If this doesn’t seem obvious in 1yr I’d say the hypothesis is likely wrong.
I'm waiting for the article about online marketing no longer being possible. And everything (except the marketing department) becomes better because search directs you to what you want to find, rather than what the highest marketing budget wants you to find.
> I wish we didn't have the borders we did, and people could just live anywhere without visas and such...

I feel much the same way as you. However, you may not realise that some countries in Europe have very reasonable immigration requirements. Citizens of the USA, for instance, are one group that Germany allows to immigrate without a visa in order to look for work. To actually start a job in an EU country, you are probably eligible for a work visa already. For bachelors degree holders, the EU Blue Card is the most powerful work permit and gives you the right to work in any EU country.
Good search and offline docs are not mutually exclusive. Grab the HTML version of Python's docs for example. You can search through them totally offline thanks to a bit of JavaScript they include.
That is the rub, for the developer who just quit their job to work on it full time.

The way I see it, they have made the carnal mistake of a lot of entrepreneurs (including myself!) and developed a product, not a company.
I cannot blame the contractors. I can only blame the Royal Mail/Post Office.

On the world of RACI, the client is always the A. I don't expect the guy who gets paid to be honest. I expect the payer to do their checks.

And stuff like that could have been picked up but an ITGC audit, Project Audit (reqs), SOX, any type of break/smoke test.. and so on..

Somebody dropped the ball - hard. This could have been prevented and/or detected and/or corrected.

Having served as Internal Audit for many many years, I get angry because I/someone in my line of work should have caught this.

Now.. WTF was the internal audit of Royal Mail/Post Office? Why isn't the CAE brought in for questioning and what was the scope of their audits?

Yes, definitely NOT YC company. But I don't see any YC companies hiring auditors, only engineers ;)
GitHub link to propolis: https://github.com/social-protocols/propolis

We stopped working on it in favor of https://github.com/social-protocols/social-network

(We should mention that on the website, I guess)

The reasoning was: coming up with (and answering) yes-no questions is more effort and a higher entry barrier for participation than just posting anything and having up/downvotes - like in a social network. Requiring this formalization of all content on a platform creates an entry barrier, e.g. people need to formulate what they want to post as a yes-no question. At the same time, it disallows content, which does not fit the yes-no question model.

Our big insight was: We can drastically simplify the user interaction and allow arbitrary content, but keep the collective intelligence aspect. That's achieved by introducing a concept similar to community notes, but in a recursive way: Every reply to a post can become a note. And replies can have more replies, which in turn can act as notes for the reply. Notes are AB-tested if, when shown below a post, change the voting behavior on the post. If a reply changes the voting behavior, it must have added some information, which voters were not aware of before, like a good argument.

For more details, see the global brain algorithm: https://social-protocols.org/global-brain/
sure you do.

you actually want your electronics to interoperate.

everyone wants to not have to think about things.

really, you disagree with society and it's really impossible to look at modern society and think this happens just by random good nature and not well to poorly coordinated hierarchy.

you already benefit from existing regulations but they're so painless that you've intrinsicalyy assumed they're naturally constructed.

you live in bizzaro world claiming you don't want unleaded gasoline or clean drinking water, seat belts, crumple zones and the rest.
There is quite a bit more than a youtube channel. They have student tracking and tools for parents and teachers.
Substack Was a Ticking Time Bomb
I understand why they put it on a 10 minute time-out, but it still makes me slightly sad. Sending (or receiving!) goofy cat pics on the subway had its own kind of charm.
Funny that's how I handled it[0]--by categorizing the uninteresting/populist things and the remaining will contain some of the most interesting ones.

Amazing what a couple handfuls of regexs can do. I do need to update that list[1].

[0] https://hackerer.news/

[1] https://gitlab.com/karmakaze/hackerer-news
Jony Ive presided over the worst usefulness/usability regressions and design blunders in the history of Apple. That guy is a pompous hack who, in the end, had no ideas for the advancement of products. His only M.O. was to take functionality away, with the excuse of making whatever the product was "thinner."
This document is written where the first person is a Google employee.
The SSE sounds kind of like Land's notion of techno-capitalism being an AI assembling itself from the future (which was always somewhat pharmaceutically inspired).
This is getting more confusing. Just because you can think in words doesn’t mean you enumerate everything in words. I think of myself as someone with an inner voice that I use often but not everything that happens in my mind is subvocalized. A lot of it is imagining or recalling images or movements, there’s spatial awareness when thinking about positioning things and manipulating objects, there are non verbal recollections like music or recalling a sound something made and there are thoughts that are more like pure concepts or feelings. Maybe there is some misunderstanding about how the inner voice is used or maybe I’m wrong and there are people who exclusively think in words?
Cheaper services benefit the rich averaged across everyone it's 1,000. For example saving $10,000 on lawncare means 9 poor families can not benefiting and the headline is still correct. In reality they save 20,000 and those poor families are 1,000 worse off.
They are refining over time the ability to hit our pleasure (and fear) centers. Whole branches of advertising psychology are dedicated to it. If "will power" was an unlimited resource everyone could just turn on whenever they desired, then that wouldn't be an issue and I suspect America would be a lot thinner as well. It's a limited resource, and some people have a lot more of it than others. Therefore, some of these new technologies really do need to be regulated, knowing that while we are mental and spiritual beings, we are also biological beings who sometimes don't have the will power to overcome, especially a scientifically verified means of getting around our usual common sense to moderate and balance "things" in our lives.
> For example, multiply-and-add is usually one cycle in float, but would always be two separate instructions in integers.

Unless the multiply is by a constant 2, 4, or 8, in which case you can use `lea`.
You can take a look at txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai). It can run in a Python process. It has support for storing content in SQLite and embeddings vectors in local vector index formats (Faiss, HNSW, Annoy).

Disclaimer: I'm the primary author of txtai.
https://archive.is/d1d7N
Flaubert versus the World
What I learned selling my company
> or that the largely untested vaccine was not safe

At this point, I think enough of us have lived through being vaccinated that this canard fails to hold water.

(Nothing is 100% safe, and the deaths due to vaccine reaction were tragic. The vaccine was orders of magnitude safer than COVID ripping through the population unchecked).
> Linux is great for gaming... if you dual boot Windows for when it's not

Preach. Say it loud so the folks in the back can hear.

Eventually dual boot gets annoying as well. So most people just get two boxes linked via a kvm and run linux on the older box and windows on the new box. Or they give up gaming altogether.
Borders are a curse on our world…
Here's an interesting link:

http://www.bmwism.com/bmws_designers.htm

Juliane Blasi, a "German designer educated at Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences in Design, Technology and Business" says: “If you look at the car you should not be able to see whether it was designed by a woman or a man”

Nadya Arnaout, a "German automotive interior designer educated at Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG – Academy of Art and Design) in Offenbach am Main, Hesse and at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA" designed interiors for BMWs until 2010 when she left to become the "lead interior designer at Tesla Motors".

I can't find anyone on the page who seems to be the design chief whose name I've forgotten. Wikipedia claims the F10 5-series was designed (exterior) by Jacek Fröhlich.
HashLife – A memoized algorithm for Conway's Game of Life and cellular automata
A very different approach, but same fundamental concept: https://brutalist.report
Take the next step: just ignore twitter (and most social media) altogether. Your mental health will benefit. And you'll be more productive.
Totally fair point and I understand that as-is it’s way simpler than what I proposed. I just know there are places I have to change a whole chain of functions from sync to async to use this (not the end of the world).

I’m tempted to rewrite the backend in lambda+dynamoDB for a completely serverless backend (though for anything serious you’d probably want provisioned lambdas to avoid the cold start).
No, most dams are not designed to be able to completely disengage and completely discharge their entire reservoir.

Some dams don't even have gates and are entirely passive structures.
This would be a really cool way to secretly do intel "dead-drops" where you just need to walk by a certain place at a certain time to receive your dead-drop/
sell what you know
> Is your arm part of your body?

Of course yes.

> Your hair?

Of course yes.

> A wig?

Of course not.

> A pacemaker?

Depends on who's asking and why.

> A well-fitted mechanical exoskeleton that you use without thinking about it? A poorly-fitted exoskeleton that you're still learning how to use?

Of course not to both of these things.

> A Jeep?

Of course not, and framing a Jeep and a human's liver as if the only possible point of difference between them is whether or not you can "feel" them is strange.

Half of us are fully capable of growing an entire other human being within our bodies, with a physical connection so tightly integrated that breaking it causes bleeding for weeks - and yet it's debatable whether even that counts as being a part of our bodies (especially medically speaking). Navel-gazing about the distinction between your body and a car not being clear-cut is simply inane to me in comparison.
The ones that will get caught, you mean.
This is the cost of leaving behind a critical mass of people from the gains of globalization.

Everyone is worse off, including the poor who voted for this, but they would have some amount of schadenfreude against the rich who are more worse off as a percentage.
The labyrinth of Guy Davenport's mind
I have a /24 registered in the early 90's. I pay no registration fees for it since it's a legacy block.
The colour tinting of the mac icon and folder examples implies that their code isn't accounting for gamma curves properly, I might see if I can contribute a fix.
And have a third AI watching the other two and have it pull the plug in case they start plotting a hostile takeover.
Careful pipeline siting indeed. The author needs to update the proposal to have the brine exiting on the Pacific coast, rather than annihilating the the Sea of Cortez.
Actual trained gladiators, as opposed to convicts & such, generally did not fight to the death.They were expensive investments, so it was a big deal for an owner to throw that away.
There are people who have all their thoughts in words (most people, in fact). I don't think they actually have their thoughts in words, I think they just narrate them to themselves after they have them.

I used to do this, but I stopped at some point.
It increasingly randomly refuses to do stuff depending what they've been training it not to do.

Aside: Llama2 on launch was so locked down it was refusing to "do creative work".
I answered a similar question above; here’s the link to my comment, with examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38975420
The downside of targeted ads, besides the targeted thing, is the ads thing.
Custom GPTs: A Hidden Risk in Social Engineering
I'm accepting funding for this new study you are requesting.
sorry, standard operating procedure and military industrial complex.

The topic sometimes puts one into acronym mode :)

(re: acronymfinder - funny enough, though 90% of AI is shit this bit falls into the 10% where it's pretty good at explaining acronyms, i use it often enough with MBA types, the depths of its hidden context are the untapped goldmines)
I said the term of art thing to try to ward off a reply like this, I didn't want you to have to put in the effort.
Being right about a startup failing, particularly a social platform, is like hitting the broad side of a barn.
Where?

N.b. "godwin's Law" is the famous joke that as an Internet discussion approaches infinity length, hitler will be brought up

Not a secret message saying discussion over lol
Also from Joel Grus as well "I don't like notebooks" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jiPeIFXb6U
"Defense"? Really? But, no, not really, no. I tried to be funny and relate to the zeitgeist.

Another example is the Occulus guy, that pivoted into levering something VR I guess to make stuff to kill other people since Zuckerberg crushed him.