skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool! What are the use cases this is built for? It looks like it is a bridge from ChatGPT and DALL-E to Slack? How do you improve upon/customize their models for your use cases?

Tangentially related: The company "Deeptechia" is mentioned a lot, without a lot of details, which makes it seem like a general software consultancy business, is this the aim? And do you really have 500 companies as consulting clients? The company seems pretty young, based on the blog posts on their site numbering exactly 1, posted today, about this, and based on the DNS records being updated today, and based on the wayback machine having no captures for it at all, and based on them posting only a few hours ago that they were "revealing" themselves on LinkedIn (albeit with a company size of 50-200 employees?).

Thanks for your time and for sharing your work!
The regime doesn’t want people saying or thinking things they aren’t being currently told to say and think. The regime is technically not allowed to use the legal system directly to punish people for this quasi-crime but is very happy to ruin everything else in same pursuit. So why should a protocol for p2p financial transactions the regime doesn’t control be allowed to exist?
> This is literally the use case for cryptocurrencies

This is literally where cryptocurrencies do the worst...high transaction fees.
If memory serves right, essentially the same difference as kill -9 and kill.
> For expert users? I'd pit it against any interface you want.

Linux CLI with a good modern shell and Python versus 3270 block mode and Rexx would be an interesting match up.

Similarly Emacs vs XEDIT.
these does seem to be a fairly good curriculum for an introduction to SQL
Adam Neumann seeks to buy WeWork back 5 years after being ousted as CEO
Back in the late 90s, my IRC server was rejected for linking on EFnet because my uplink was known to host rather shady suspects. Some IRC folks would go on to make the FBI's most wanted list for DDoSing satellites. My equipment was seized and never returned even though I was only being housed in the building, unrelated to the case itself. The data center owner and I are friends and he ran an amazing network, one of the best colocation facilities of its time in such limited space.

I ended up getting back "in" with irc.home .com (@Home Cable), on their re-linking efforts. Around these times, we still had big names on IRC, universities, America Online even.

I would go on to be linked to HybNet (Hey, Dianora, Hardy, everyone I'm forgetting) testing ircd-hybrid, the IRC server software that powered much of EFnet at the time. Since EFnet had no services, the server's software and its ircops were extremely important to the network. I would later mess with TCM and other auto-regulators, leading into my interest of bot making. Everyone's hailing ChatGPT when we'd write our own SmarterChild, and it could connect to AIM -AND- IRC -AND- Web.

20....25... nearing 30 years later, I'm still on EFnet. My channel is still active, and yes I have quite a few bots. I also still talk to a few friends, some who are still IRC only for privacy or other reasons. We've lost over 100,000+ users, but I still enjoy randomly typing /list thinking I'm going to crash myself with the upcoming flood of activity.
Not quite, but it feels good.

Also, DALnet services banned me for hacking them and I think I'm still banned.

Thanks for listening to my IRC Talk.
That is correct, and it's way more of a problem in the US (but also e.g. in Brazil).

Also: are you the JohnTHaller of PortableApps fame? If so: thanks for making my high school computer usage bearable, way back when!
I lead data and AI at a tech-enabled commercial insurance brokerage. We have been leveraging GPT-4 to build a deep contract analysis tool specifically for insurance requirements. My teams at Google also built several LLM solutions to support Google's legal team, from patent classification to discovery support.

Language models are great at digesting legalese and analyzing what's going on. However, many legal applications involve around pretty important decisions that you don't want to get wrong ("am I contractually covered with my current insurance program?"). Because of that, we've built LLM products in the legal space with the following principles in mind:

- Human-in-the-loop tooling -- The product should be built around an expert using it whenever possible, so decision support as opposed to automation. You still see massive time savings with that in place

- Transparency / citations -- With a human-in-the-loop tool, you need mechanisms to build trust. Whether that's highlighting clauses in the document that the LLM referred to or explaining why a part of the analysis wasn't provided, citing your work is important

- Tuned for precision instead of recall -- False positives (and hallucinations) are especially bad in many of these legal use cases, so tuning the model or prompts for precision helps with mitigation.
It's not really extra physical goods that are the issue (e.g. that arm chair made from farmed wood going to landfill), it's the pollution required to create them or the improper disposal of them.

Some cast iron statues made using solar power as an energy source aren't a relevant climate issue.

As such, the proper response is a CO2 tax and proper landfill practices.
Running pihole on a Pi is severely overrated.

I run it on my NAS Linux server (in a Docker container) where I have a bunch of other things. Zero problems, now using it for more than two years.
Any state that a container uses, such as databases or static assets, should be mapped to something outside k8s, no? I thought container orchestration was only for app later
Endemic*
are we talking bad shit or good shit here?
Science and ethics are connected literally for ever
Super cool! Thanks for sharing.
> were the bolts missing because the Spirit team did not know they had to be put back

It would be interesting to know what ultimately happened to the bolts if they indeed were removed.

When I disassemble something, I do as I was taught in my mechanical class in high school, and always keep all parts I take of in the same box. If I am left with some extra bolts when finished, that would be a worrisome sign.
Not exactly the same situation, but... a little similar, I guess? Cannabis has never given me generalized anxiety - sometimes it does, however, force me to pay attention to some real truths that I tend to ignore while sober. e.g., I gained 60lb from the start of quarantine to now, became way less physically active, etc. If I get particularly high, it forces me to confront this, and that it's a destructive lifestyle I need to change instead of continuing to put it off.

And, well, I think that anxiety is deserved? It's objectively true and a literal life and death matter. For me it's less I have anxiety in general because I am very good at not being honest with myself while not high, but that the anxiety I sometimes get really is constructive, because otherwise I ignore it. A recent shift in my eating habits for the better was directly brought on by a particularly bad bout of anxiety around all of this while very high, and I would consider that to be a good thing.

Most of the time when I get stoned I don't deal with any sort of anxiety, though.
https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/160479/why-do-i-...

if you use an iPhone, my apologies
You can run Java on an ESP32, though why you would want to is another question.
Cancelling it sounds like best way to get DEF CON attendees to try and hack your hotels
I don't think this would be possible. For instance, some signs involve touching the shoulder which would be difficult for the cameras to pick up.
The "real world"?
"Does this have Green threads?" is a common fallacy (along with mentioning function coloring) and arguably much worse API than Task/Future-based concurrency primitives because it does not give idiomatic control over yielding/dispatching and hides an important characteristic of the executed code, specifically, calls being a promise to produce a result in the future (e.g. the example above with http requests is much clunkier without them).

Some languages intentionally opt for a much more limited way of doing it like Go with goroutines and channels, some have to retrofit an async-alternative to benefit the existing decades of code like Java, and some languages eventually got it right like F#, C#, in a way, Python and JS/TS, and, to dismay of many (and pain I sympathize with), Rust.

Also, in C#, the way to go about it is to just pick the abstraction you think fits the problem best, be it manual threading, async/await Tasks (or anything custom that integrates with it), channels or, as you mentioned, actors for which there are Akka.NET and Orleans. I believe F# is even more flexible in this area.

As for the implementation details of BEAM VM - just look at e.g. the times in 1BRC challenge for BEAM-based submissions - the rift between compiled languages and the former is immense and likely unclose-able, and this trend persists in any (micro)benchmark for BEAM I look at - the overhead of most trivial operations is just too damn high! It was a groundbreaking technology at its inception but today - likely not anymore.

Not sure what* makes you quick to assume that the people working on .NET, JVM and other platforms which care about performance in (massively) parallel domains don't know what they are doing but work-stealing schedulers are yesteryesterday news and "everyone" does them (.NET, Tokio, Go from what I know), both in the form of threadpool implementations and in the form of bespoke parallel abstractions (both examples in my previous comment have these). Same applies to latency-minimization techniques, priority scheduling (worst case you can always have a dedicated worker thread that runs at higher prio, or a scheduler with a pool of those) and more.

(* If you have been burned by Ruby - I did hear about it being subpar in all kinds of ways and observed being very slow but that should rather be an exception than the rule among other languages)
A 49WL95C-WY from LG is going to run you $1,300, new. Less if used. It's an inscrutable product name, but it's a glorious 49 inches and curved and is so much monitor. it doesn't travel at all though.
"Only" $5,980.00 / user / year for the IBM Z Development & Test environment "personal edition"

https://www.ibm.com/products/z-development-test-environment
n+1 can show up any time you have poorly modeled schema or queries. It’s quite possible to have a relational model that is sub-optimal; reference the fact that there are 5 levels of normalization (plus a couple extra) before you get into absurdity.

I still would like to know how SQLite does not suffer from the same problems as any other RDBMS. Do you have an example schema?
Personally i like xkcd's take: https://xkcd.com/1732/ - it really puts the scale in perspective.
So do you believe that the lack of controlled burning is the issue here or is it

> I live in a place with a huge national forest just to the west

?

I think the urban sprawl is more to blame here. It's not that we as a society have forgotten about controlled burning or we've become so 'weak' and 'librul' that we don't do what needs to be done. There is a risk here (for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calf_Canyon/Hermits_Peak_Fire) and nobody wants to take responsibility over something which may cause immediate deaths or loses of property vs something which may or may not happen in the future. Sure, it's kicking the can down the road but who exactly is to blame for cities built right next to forests?

I have a huge issue with bringing up controlled burning as it is ALWAYS used as an argument against the obvious human created climate change. 'Hey, just burn the forest fuel from time to time, no big deal', etc..
At 3 million it would be the 8th largest botnet ever discovered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet#Historical_list_of_botn...
I also used to do this and also recently stopped. I'm glad! Not keeping old boxes is liberating. The boxes never made me happy. Nor did they seem to increase resale value in the rare cases I sold anything. Good riddance.
When I was a teenager with a loud car I’d kill the engine when I turned off the main road and rolled down to my parents house to not annoy the neighbours if it was late at night.

When leaving at unsocial hours i’d do the same - roll down the road until I was away from the houses and then start the car.

Some people just have zero awareness or empathy for their impact on other people.
I don't think being phone-only is the key there. Telegram is not phone-only and I'd say it's as easy to use as WhatsApp. In fact, for non-technical people it essentially behaves as a blue WhatsApp and I've heard it described exactly like that, but if you want to go beyond that, the functionality is there. This kind of software that can accommodate several "levels" of users is sadly becoming rarer and rarer.

Discord is IMO quite a mess. I am definitely a technical user (also lived in IRC for years, that's why I'm on this thread) and as someone who just uses Discord from time to time, I regularly get confused by it and find a nontrivial amount of friction to get things done there. No wonder your parents struggle with it.
Back in the late 90s, my IRC server was rejected for linking on EFnet because my uplink was known to host rather shady suspects. Some IRC folks would go on to make the FBI's most wanted list for DDoSing satellites. My equipment was seized and never returned even though I was only being housed in the building, unrelated to the case itself. The data center owner and I are friends and he ran an amazing network, one of the best colocation facilities of its time in such limited space.

I ended up getting back "in" with irc.home .com (@Home Cable), on their re-linking efforts. Around these times, we still had big names on IRC, universities, America Online even.

I would go on to be linked to HybNet (Hey, Dianora, Hardy, everyone I'm forgetting) testing ircd-hybrid, the IRC server software that powered much of EFnet at the time, like a crash test EFnet admin. I had a blast! Since EFnet had no services, the server's software and its ircops were extremely important to the network. I would later mess with TCM and other automated connection regulators, leading into my interest of bot making. Everyone's hailing ChatGPT when we'd write our own SmarterChild, and it could connect to AIM -AND- IRC -AND- Web.

20....25... nearing 30 years later, I'm still on EFnet. My channel is still active, and yes I have quite a few bots. I also still talk to a few friends, some who are still IRC only for privacy or other reasons. We've lost over 100,000+ users, but I still enjoy randomly typing /list thinking I'm going to crash myself with the upcoming flood of activity.

Not quite, but it feels good.

Also, DALnet services banned me for supposedly hacking them and I think I'm still banned from NickServ.

Thanks for listening to my IRC Talk.
No. You should be able to log in in another Apple device and reset it
Ya, fair enough, and some Toronto mortgages are more than a million too.
Proof? This is just some random person claiming it's not true but they link to an article which explicitly states that it is in fact true. Am I missing something?
I don’t disagree. It’s why the FTC and other federal regulatory agencies should require some sort of identity bootstrap process if you lose all of your digital identity credentials.

I’ve submitted comments to this effect to the FTC, and I’d encourage others to as well. Email (where all roads currently lead) should not be your identity in the 21st century, and losing a device or Big Tech account shouldn’t permanently banish you from digital account access.

Some relevant comments I've written on the topic in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38691082 | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38691156
But I was told by the Tesla stock holders that he was not only a billionaire but also a saint and a wise man.
> is often an attempt to downplay global warming and the urgent need to do take steps to stave it off…

I mean so what…. I don’t see how having a conversation about taking a practical steps to avoid a disaster should be suppressed just because the person initiating the conversation might have a different opinion on a related subject.
OneRep. I'm a once and former customer, otherwise unaffiliated.
Classed and regulated operating systems differently to applications. For example, the rules and regulations for building highways are very different to those for building and regulating motor vehicles even though one depends on the other.

Microsoft would not have been able integrate Internet Explorer into Windows nor even the IP stack as these are actually applications. The whole world of security would have been different and more manageable not to mention much improved competition from other vendors.
This is also true of upgrading dependencies in the application layer.
As long as people refuse to understand that reducing carbon emissions will mean substantial reductions in their standard of living then we wont get anywhere either.
No. You should be able to log into another Apple device and reset it. I did this when Mom forgot her iMac password but could still log into her iPad.
Well, Twitter Blue exists...
You linked to an editorial about ethics. I'm not sure what to make of it, are you against conducting research and communicating it in an ethical way? Or do you disagree about something specific in that article? Either way I'm not sure I'm seeing the connection between what you're saying and the original article.
When you have a signed offer for a new role.
As in: based on physical one, where the perceived abstractions aren't completely arbitrary solely on the discretion of programmer, but come from some observable fact.
To pull out a dusty old saying- “Reality has a liberal bias”. Many objectively scientific views end up running counter to preexisting ideologies.
AFAIK that's because granting access to bluetooth potentially allows the app to track your location (via bluetooth beacons). As a result both iOS and Android show the location warning just in case the app wants to do something malicious. Just because you see the warning doesn't mean the app is trying to ship your location to China.
> you probably still have to do some xdcc crap to send a file

At least you don't have to re-learn how to do it when the UI changes, when the commercial sponsorship changes, when the advertising changes, or when they announce they've been hacked and your data is on the "darkweb" (probably another IRC network).

!xdcc list
>> And the way to maximise gains over the whole population is setting a small flat subsidy for all, allowing everybody to explore their talent even after a wrong turn.

I don't think that's what VCs did. It looks more like they dumped millions of funding on a tiny number of hand-picked companies and used short term traction as the main metric and they equated profitability as anti-growth, failing to realize that, without demanding profits, growth could be produced artificially using money/advertising and that it doesn't mean that users actually want to use the product in the long run.

Profitability is how you know that users want to use a product; otherwise a company could just 'launder' investment money to their users somehow and of course nobody will refuse free surplus value and hence they will attract users... Until the investment money runs out and the surplus value stops being handed out to users.

Just think of Uber investors subsidizing rides as an example, as soon as that subsidy goes away, there's a good chance it will start declining. Uber is still unprofitable.
> that's the end of the world as we know it

Notably, this does NOT mean a mass die off and the end of human civilization or even the end of lots of nicely habitable bits of Earth.
Rationale for new global minimal, simple language:
With AI training sizes getting larger and larger, the overhead necessary to train the ingested words (or tokens) vs simpler pre-filtered new language, the training and inference cost will be greatly reduced.
I understand there's Simple English, but we can make it even simpler with current technologies where we can have frequency of words used and other creative ways to manipulate data through big data analysis of the words used.
Reducing alphabet count, base word count, remove ambiguous words, improve phonetics, remove unnecessary forms, putting elegance aside with focus on efficiency of communication for practical daily use, a new language is created with 5 vowels and 8 consonents, 13 alphabets total with a base word count of lesser than 40,000 with each word of maximum length of 5 to fit into 2 bytes per word.
Is this a viable project to make a language so efficient we can save lots of energy (and time) on training and inference? https://ouvaa.com
Let's make it better than Sanskrit for A.I.
Looking at the source code [0] it's a bare bones wrapper around the OpenAI API, and not much else.

[0] https://github.com/Deeptechia/geppetto/blob/main/geppetto/op...
> The Oregon group’s setup generates essentially as much chlorine gas as it does iron

I'd much rather be dealing with industrial quantities of CO2 than Cl2, if that stuff gets into the atmosphere in bulk I doubt it'd end well. The article seems to suggest that the chlorine can be solved commercially so the argument seems to be that it is economical to sequester the chlorine rather than the carbon dioxide.

There are some obvious risks of being left with large amounts of Chlorine to try and find a home for, but the idea is at least plausible on face value.
Love this but I have concerns with the price. You can usually find an audiobook corresponding to a paper book for relatively cheap. Services like Audible are a little more per month but you get more audio books. Given the 250 page per month limit at $9.99, how will this compete?
Curious about this as well. And this might be a dumb question, but the NOLS trips have age ranges, with the top group being 23 and older. Do NOLS trips lean younger / would someone in their 30s feel out of place?
I know folks that are volunteer wildfire firefighters in Colorado and in California they were enlisting prisoners and paying them very low wages.
I think its a valid point that this approach would be more useful when run by the energy provider themselves, and would make it much easier to justify turning the miners off / migrating them to newer projects as a way to manage demand.
I think this capability would allow them to plan for a higher level of overproduction in the early stages, or scaling up ahead of the rise in demand.
Can we extract iron ore while releasing more CO2? Just to piss of these techie armchair expert environmentalists.
I installed it last year, works great still!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisg_(software)
No, it died when they discontinued the 13" MBP with the launch of M3.
This - not sure where the sentiment in this thread is coming from, but you have to disclose your tax filings for the last 2/3 years along with all your bank accounts and recent statements.
Thanks I understand now.

All my devices are plain Linux distro machines, or Android.
That is correct, with the additional note that Monitor has also existed for a while providing that functionality for free (in collaboration with HIBP), and will continue to do so for free, and worldwide.

The new thing is scanning for your info at data brokers (for free, but USA-only), and automatically removing them and continuously checking that they stay removed (paid, US only).
Here's my take

You are part of the world. You change and improve and also decay and die. These things are natural, they do not need to be forced. Sometimes forcing something makes it happen faster, but oftentimes its like forcing taking a shit: you just end up more constipated.

Here's the principal: be able to wait until the right action arises on it's own. Perform the action and step away.

You are a human, a complex biological organism. Actions are part of your nature. Let your emotions and actions happen with serenity and grace. There is nothing to gain by forcing them except to create your own constipation.