skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if you did the same move with blackberry at the same time, you'd have lost most of your investment. What's your point? That survivorship bias is still alive and running in the modern world?
That very much depends on the Bundesland where that city is located. Good luck doing that in Munich. Personally I got prosecuted for (ordering!) 3g of weed, although later that got folded. Still trouble, though. Also I can still get problems with my driving license for that same amount (even though that alleged possession was in no way connected with driving any vehicle).
That's probably the foreseeable future, ingesting ever larger amounts of data hoping it prevents hallucinations.
> It's kind of fun to read about the state of "VPS hosting" from those days. Lots of downtime. Unexpected reboots.

Absolutely not my experience from those days, VPSs were rock-solid for me.
And still to this day if you get caught with weed in Belgium they put you in front of a judge who is going to berate you for smoking a joint once per week.

There are still random police checks checks between Maastricht and Belgian cities on the other side.

Same with public transportation. Many times, when entering Belgium, cops get on the bus with a dog to see if you have weed on you.

And this is the same country that allows people to drink a beer while driving home from work.
IMO it massively depends on what you're working on.

I work on some codebases that are primarily about moving data around in Go. There are patterns to follow, there are no tricky algorithms, concurrency is largely solved, etc. All the challenge is about the broader engineering task of developing requirements, communicating, managing risks of deployment, stuff like that.

Then, I work on kernel code where it takes me months to get a few hundred lines of C to a quality that is acceptable. It's mentally exhausting, I have to take breaks. I can randomly get stuck for hours at a time on stupid stuff like a linked list corruption. Deadlocks happen. It's just as hard as programming has ever been. I have very little energy left over to engage with stakeholders, do project planning, etc.

So there's one PoV.
Shooting yourself in the foot with marketing and branding on day one is a "made by engineers" tale as old as time.
For me exercise don't bring a lot of extra benefits in this regard, but walking an hour without headphones does help.
Governments are going to argue that the creation of BitCoin and lack of KYC to use it is a major contributor to money laundering.
The intelligence agencies were behind illegal biological research in other countries, and multiple countries covered it up. It's amazing that they fessed up to the possibility of a lab leak at all.
Yes, I'm assuming the forced diversity in its generated images is due to a system prompt; no, I don't believe they threw out all the pictures of white people before training. If they threw away all the pictures of German WWII soldiers that were white, then Gemini wouldn't know what German WWII soldiers looked like at all. No, it's clearly a poorly thought out system prompt. "Generate a picture of some German soldiers in 1943 (but make sure they're ethnically diverse!)"

They took it offline not because it takes a long time to change the prompt, but because it takes a long time to verify that their new prompt isn't similarly problematic.

> It seems likely that the corpus has had wrongthink expunged prior to training.

It seems likely to you because you erroneously believe that "wokeism" is some sort of intentional strategy and not just people trying to be decent. And because you haven't thought about how much effort it would take to do that and how little training data there would be left (in some areas, anyway).

> Are you implying that a pro version would allow the user to modify the system prompt?

I am saying it is not hard to imagine, as you claimed, that the pro version would have a different prompt than the free version*. Because I know that wokeism is not some corrupt mind virus where we're all conspiring to de-white your life; it's just people trying to be decent and sometimes over-correcting one way or the other.

* Apparently these are the same version, but it's still not a death knell for the entire model that one version of it included a poorly thought-out system prompt.
Hm. Listen some more! We use it in the US Midwest routinely. Had gotten dehydrated. Have gotten bit by that issue. We've gotten the flu around here pretty frequently this winter.

Then there's misbegotten, begetting, begotten.
Why, you also only ever buy one liter of milk, and otherwise should seek counsel? Orn lets make it less abstract and say one sixpack of beer?
> The people who need primo hardware already have things like zseries

>"People who need primo hardware"
...can buy a mainframe.
That is quite the take.

>The rest is in the commodity band, where interchangeability is key. An okay server that I can swap-out with any other vendor is an asset.

Setting aside the trouble one has already incurred with a system that needs to be swapped out; switching vendors (even of erstwhile "commodity" systems)isn't a neat process in any medium-to-large organization. There's purchasing, contracts for maintenance, depreciation, validation by your DC people that power and cooling for the new box is good...

And...in the end, if you your hardware is truly commodity, swapping out for another vendor is not going to yield a better outcome in the long term. You'll be riding the crap-hardware merry-go-round all over again, just on a different horse.

Here's a nickel, kid. Go buy yourself a better server.
It depends on the card. Sometimes it is just a suggestion to the firmware, sometimes it physically prevents writes.

I've definitely encountered read-only SD cards which I couldn't figure out a way to set it back to RW mode.
Those bars apply to non US citizens? :)
an ounce is about 14 grams. 5 is slightly more than an eighth. if you don’t live near the dispensary and want some for a month or a few months an eighth is not really that much. i don’t think seeking help is an appropriate response here.
Big brain move, be the leading authority on not identifying yourself.
The assertion that the “non-woke” media outlets do not lie or misrepresent information gave me a good hearty morning chuckle.
"fun fact": if someone is for whatever reason opposed to an association growing cannabis somewhere near where they have any kind of "influence" — they'd just have to get something resembling a public playground or public sports installation there. I'm willing to bet that this is gonna be how conservative local authorities force out cannabis growing.
This reads like the usual beat about students taking notes in school. As usual the title and article conclusions are wide reaching, while the study itself is only done in a very limited context on a very specific scope.

Precedent variations:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24714990

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27810632

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37909756

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8760392

PS: Is there so much research just to counter cursive getting removed from school requirements ? What is the reason for so much focus on such a seemingly limited subject when there's basically no research on professionals using keyboards instead of pens.
Maybe one country jurisdiction thinks he may owe taxes, so they may investigate.
Spending 20 years focusing on building the best chips and software for scientific computing and artificial intelligence when it was not a massive market in anticipation of it existing is not luck, it's prescience. It's also obvious in retrospect but only one company managed to do it.
Show HN: Trippy Haiku generated with ChatGPT and DALL-E
Hi HN,

While trying to fall asleep the other day, I had the idea of asking absurd haiku to ChatGPT and give that haiku to dall-e as input. Some of the images were pretty funny, so I decided it would be fun to create a website with a new haiku and image every day.

Not a totally useless project, I learned a bit of github actions to automate the generation of haiku every day :)

Here's the repo: https://github.com/dimitrimarion/haikuwtf
Not even sure why they prosecute this stuff while hundreds of Senators, House members do this shit all the time. It's a total racket.
The M2 Air was actually much faster than whatever CPU was on the cloud RTX4090 machine I rented. I chose the stronger benchmark to compare to
Solid plastic is cheap. It’s the same reason the body is aluminum and not some plastic.
This absolutely happens to me. Happy to know I'm not the only one.

> But in a physical book, I often remember that a phrase was at the top or middle or left side of a page, or that I was sitting in a particular chair when I read it.

Exactly! And for reasons I cannot explain this helps me with better recall too! Like when I remember something I read, I know roughly where in the book that stuff was physically printed and what other stuff were around it and how they relate to each other.

With ebook too I still know how things relate to each other but the clarity feels much less. I can see it much less in my mind's eye. I don't know why! And it drives me mad!
I'd have read him the riot act on the phone. My bank has big warning banners on virtually every page of the site warning me to be careful of scammers. Someone calling me on the phone and asking for my TIN? Yeah, I don't think so.
I think [reasonable] falls under the heading of [honest].

Both honesty/reasonableness and intelligence are required. A family memebr is tearing her hair out about having to work with some assistants who are honest, well-intentioned, and pleasant, but who are just mentally incapable of keeping things straight — they literally screw things up and make more disorganization than they fix (fortunately, better help is supposedly on the way).

Overall, in hiring and working with people, most of the time, a warm body is definitely NOT better than nobody.
Perhaps I am more jaded because I am partially in this space, and I have a natural aversion to anything pitched as "democratization" because it's a salespitch word for "We want you to believe it will be mass market someday"

That's not to say democratizing abilities is not a worthy goal. I just don't think many of the companies rushing into this space really have a product vision that will end up being mass adopted.
Apple has to be destroyed.
Feeding the output of a transcription service (e.g. https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=G4hL5Om4IJ4 ) into an llm for specific requests should be possible, likely in multiple steps to handle context limitations
The Snake With The Emoji-Patterned Skin
BTC is 7 TPS because MasterCard et al neutered it.

Bitcoin is professionalizing. It's built for everything in the world to be timestamped with super low transaction fees.
> I feel like the best part of the internet is dying (good written detailed content), but the worst part of it is surviving and thriving: social media (short lived, low quality, clickbaity, dopamine chasing content).

Vice did short lived, low quality, clickbaity, dopamine-chasing content outside social media, it's just more profitable to do inside social media.
I used to write horribly until I took an engineering drawing/drafting course.

Mostly it's just slowing down. Write a little slower and pay more attention to how your words line up and spacing of letters. Read over what you have written and see which letters are hard to read. For letters and numbers that are ambiguous try adding something like a slash through zeroes and a dash through sevens.

If you write a lot this way people will start thinking that you had a computer fill out forms. It also helps a lot if you buy a good pen like a G-2. I find bigger nibs like a 1.6 keep my lines more even.
How the Michelin Tire Company Became Synonymous with Fine Dining
It has started to feel like in the United States everything is engineered to extract maximum money from you leaving nothing after a paycheck.

Fortunately my kids go to a non profit Montessori.the education is good and it’s not terribly expensive. Maybe child care should be not for profit.
Not really, I think it's more apt to compare it to the dot-com bubble, given AI's obvious value to the average consumer.
Microsoft releases PyRIT internal generative AI red teaming tool to the public
Show HN: Babel – browse every book that will ever be written using simple math
The amount used to depend on the state, in Berlin up to 16g was considered a small amount for personal consumption.
I agree that blocking is important. I just think that the framing here is very mastodon centric, and not really a thing that makes sense given how BlueSky works.

For example, due to having true account portability, if you tried to block a particular instance, they could just move to another one to evade that block. You need to block the account to prevent this. If there’s an instance that hands out usernames as a subdomain, you could write a moderation service that takes that into account, but then they could transition to their own username, stay on the same PDS, and that would no longer work.

The more BlueSky native way would be to run a moderation service that tags accounts, and then a blocklist that bans accounts that get the tag. You’d then want to tag accounts that post from that PDS, and now, even if they move, they’re still blocked.

That is to say, “you can’t really do that” doesn’t mean that that isn’t important or impossible, just that different protocols require different means of implementing requirements.
Thanks for the clarification -- that is quite confusing.
If you buy T-bills through a brokerage, you can easily resell them on the secondary market using the same brokerage. The market price climbs as maturity approaches, so you typically capture yield in proportion to how long you held the T-bill.
When I started running I kept expecting it to feel easier the more I trained, but it never did. The more in shape I got, the faster/further I would run. It turned out I had a threshold of perceived effort that I would run at no matter what my fitness was. I imagine this translates to other endeavors like math or art or programming–we find harder problems at our threshold for discomfort.
https://archive.ph/G2wgN
It feels cool to the touch and therefore feels more "high quality" than a plastic would.
No, I am not. Inflation risk is not downside risk.

Inflationary risk is the risk that inflation will undermine an investment's returns through a decline in purchasing power. Downside risk is the risk of loss in value of an investment due to a decline in the price of the security.

Decline in value of an investment because of a decline in the price of the security is not the same as decline in value of the investment because of inflation. Even if the practical consequence is the same.

Inflationary risk matters, and it should not be ignored. But it doesn’t factor into whether an investment is considered “safe,” as that term is typically used in this context.
I must also be American in that case. (Hint: I'm not).
Any bank where this is the standard operating procedure for interacting with loan applications is not a bank that I'd want to do business with. Perhaps this was just one loan officer's way of doing things, and not the way of the business, but that's just not okay to me.

Any time anyone asks me for any part of my social over the phone, I ask for some other method of verification. Most folks have other ways of doing stuff. It's ridiculous that what should purely be an ID number is so powerful, but I can't change that fact, just how I interact with folks with regards to it.
What if all of their serious coding was done as part of previous employment and they can't just walk you through it?
Steve Jobs would have responded with "you're wearing it wrong."
Not petty at all... pretty smart imho. Does the metaphorical front-end catch back-end errors with a warning and link to the issue? That would light fires under asses. :-D
I feel this. I sold the bitcoin I had mined in 2010 for around $800 in 2012 and thought I was an absolute genius.
I’ve known this for a while now but it never ceases to amaze me. This must be up there with “no copyright intended” in terms of misguided compliance strategies.
Frankly I do this as well. I think it depends on your personal financial situation and how often you expect to be withdrawing from your emergency fund. By increasing levels of "emergency", do you use your emergency fund to pay for:

* Gas because you forget to plan properly for road trips? Keep your funds in cash.

* Your vehicle's regular oil change which happens every couple years and you should be able to plan for? Maybe a HYSA

* Your transmission goes out and you need a new car? Diversified ETFs probably fine

Many "emergencies" can in fact be saved for, which leaves only the truly rare and uncommon ones, which usually don't require that you have all of the emergency fund available as cash at a moment's notice. Also because they inherently only happen on a time scale of YEARS, then in the long run you're just self-insuring yourself and it's a bummer if the transmission goes out in a down year and you have to exit a position, but statistically speaking you'll come out ahead.
VIO Bank is classified wrong and should be at the top of the list.

https://www.viobank.com/cornerstone-money-market-savings
well, an extended answer is offered in the essays linked above, but, to take some numbers from https://htmx.org/essays/a-real-world-react-to-htmx-port/, here's why:

- no reduction in app ux

- code base reduced by 67% (21,500 LOC to 7200 LOC)

- total JS dependencies reduced by by 96% (255 to 9)

- web build time reduced by 88% (40 seconds to 5)

- Time-to-interactive reduced by 50-60%

- htmx allowed them to display much larger data sets

- memory usage reduced by 46% (75MB to 45MB)

the essays above also discuss why to split your apis (disentangle web app churn from your general purpose data API) and how to avoid duplicating logic (the mvc essay)

i take pains to reiterate in the essays and book that htmx isn't right for every application, but it is a good architectural choice for some, and many more than most web developers who are used to reactive-style programming would think

there are not thousands of pre-made components for htmx because there are no components for htmx: there are rather components for HTML. those components should integrate with htmx in the HTML-standard manner: events & form participation
For sure, 100%.

When I'm reading a book, some quiet part of me is always aware where in the book I am - from the weight distribution of the book, from the pressure on each palm and finger, from the visual feedback. I know before I pick up the book roughly where I left off, and my fingers often find the page on their own somehow. Recollecting info later, I might not even know exactly what I'm looking for - but I know where it is.

Reading a digital book cuts a lot of that entirely out, and I can't help but feel that it diminishes the experience (before, during, and after) far more than people realize.
My neck, my back, my Vision and my crack
If that lack of spaciality bothers you, you could try reading ebooks on a bigger format. Using a 13" ipad or Surface, or another tablet/reader for instance allows to have two pages side by side (or one A4 full page) which is pretty close to the physical book format.
E.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1axctqq/for...
we need more of this brand of silly in the world, thank you
any particular hardware folks are most interested in?
LambdaBuffers: Schema language and codegen toolkit for algebraic data types
Texting also became expensive once the carriers figured out people wanted to use it. I remember being pissed off in the mid-2000s when I posted an item for sale on Craigslist and someone texted me about it instead of calling - that text probably cost me a quarter!

(Now, of course, I can't imagine calling a random person or putting my phone number on an item listing.)
Seems like the OP may have accidentally made it private.

I accidentally deleted the originally prompt message conversation I got from it, but here was the essence:

~~~
When the user gives a coding request, first respond with a text explanation list of files and/or functions that will meet the user's request. Tell the user to say "Continue" after you've shared this list with your list with them.

Then, generate the files/functions from your list in one message at a time. Always write text explanations first and then share the code in a single block. Ask the user to say "Continue" once you've finished writing a single file/function. Do this until you have completed your list.
~~~

I get pretty similar results from this prompt as I was getting from OP’s.
My point is that it's quite possible that both parties are perfectly happy with the current solution of having the ebook disappear from stores.

It's just us as fans who are not happy.
i answered your question at some length on the other thread in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39469828

i think you will find the answer extremely informative; it should change your picture of the world significantly. i'm interested to hear what you think
It seems more likely that in ten years we all be using a Chinese one. They are already the bigger economy.
Very true, and not just about privacy. Cynicism is flourishing in our societies for two reasons:
-It's supported by those in a position of power, as a cynic is someone who stops trying to counter them, often successfully.
-It enables us to stop putting effort towards a common goal without feeling guilt, as by telling ourselves "it's over" "we lost" "there's no point" we can just give up; trying to convince ourselves that our effort didn't mean anything.

This article is a great reminder that our effort matters, and this is not a win/lose game. There's always more to lose, and we'll find out how much if we don't try. There's no giving up on life, there's no giving up on participating in society.
We have to fight for our rights, even if it's small, inconvenient and seemingly thankless battles every day. This is what makes all the difference in the world.
It's not just search being broken, it's much of the web being an ad-ridden morass. With a great search engine, I could get directed to a bunch of shitty sites that may or may not have what I'm looking for, if I can find it under the half-dozen overlays for cookies and newsletters. Or I could just use one, simple interface that lets me ask specific follow-up questions that are relevant to my use case. I'll take the risk of hallucinations over one more "Before we show you this recipe, here's the history of food" any day.
For the auditory learners, here is this paper in a summarized audiobook format :

https://player.oration.app/09fefe41-f2a7-4257-a25e-30e479b30...
Maybe they were trying to save money. There's another quote where Satoshi suggests being frugal:

> It might be a long time before we get another donation like that, we
should save a lot of it.
> The only ones that seem to want and benefit most from a global filter-free "public square" are: [...]

How exactly did you come to this conclusion? Seems pretty arbitrary.
Gwit: Websites over Git Draft Specification
Comment made little sense to me so I looked it up: "hand-wringing: an overwrought expression of concern or guilt" (Merriam Webster)

TIL this is the polar opposite from the Dutch expression to rub your hands together which means "being happy about a success; being content; expressing happiness" (Ensie, translated by me)

Asking my german partner, they say it's a thing you'd do when plotting something evil, so more negative than positive I guess, but there is no expression to go with it like "hand wringing" or "in de handen wrijven" are common expressions. I would subscribe to it being a plotting thing in Dutch as well, but that also doesn't work with the US English definition and the way that you used it

Do people from the USA also use it this way in a physical sense, rubbing hands together when they are concerned or feeling guilty or is it just an artifact of history similar to "hanging up" a phone? In the Netherlands I've definitely seen rubbing hands for excitement