skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For any curious - an English translation of Solutio problematis ad geometriam situs pertinensis - https://www.cantab.net/users/michael.behrend/repubs/maze_mat...
If companies and persons are legally equivalent, I'm not sure why this is so perverse to you. There are many people in the world who do not have "purpose", their personal philosophy is that they need/want to go out and "make a profit" so that they can survive. Are they perverse?

A company isn't perfectly equivalent to a person, but does exist as a tool so people can accomplish goals. If two people have no calling, have no passions, and they start a company that expresses their personal goals of survival, what's wrong with that?
funny how much this font reads as 2015 rather than 1905
I'm feeling it pretty hard right now. I've been looking around for a new job these last few weeks and I'm having a hard time conveying that while being an intermediate "Site Reliability Engineer" and knowing how to do all the SRE things, the way I see and live my job, and the way I want to take it is very different from simply setting up and managing modern infrastructure while begging devs to ship prod-ready features. I've tried, as an experiment, writing a CV being more about the things I've done from a human/organizational/conceptual standpoint than about tech keywords, but I'm coming to the hard realization that I'm not stuffing "Kubernetes", "Terraform", "Grafana" in there I'll go straight to the bin.
Do you have some references for the local breakout thing (preferrably technical docs/spec)? Seems like it would not be in Telcos interest to saturate their interconnects needlessly.
You make a good point, but in the US I do think labor unions have become basically bad. They function more like organized crime than legal representation.
I think the author misattributed who the modern era punks would be. At least based on the described framework of what punk counter-culture was about and what it was countering.

Given how much of the mainstream is organized around overwrought advertising, influencering, guruing, and being terminally online... it seems like the modern punks would be the counter-culture that prioritizes being offline, being private, and being whatever the opposite of "fake it 'til you make it" would be called. Genuine and modest?
How’s pricing? Favorable to GPT-4?
Thanks for the summary! I can see that I missed some of interesting news last year. I especially liked underappreciated articles.
There are ways to reduce carbon emissions drastically without incurring populist anger. It's not so much the population that would be angry from these measures as the corporate interests that supply carbon fuels and products that use them.
Michael Mitzenmacher: Worst Case Analysis – Our Strength Is Our Weakness [video]
Contrasting that part of Harlem and the Upper East Side is like comparing one of those rough areas you mentioned to a prestigious neighborhood in the same city. What did you expect? Harlem is famous for being rough, although it's way better than it used to be.

I live here, I ride the subway every day. Are there mentally unwell people who ride the train? Sure there are. Is it even close to "100% of the time"? Absolutely not. It's like you had this fantasy about NYC and when you came here and it wasn't this sterile Disneyland you imploded. I could say the same things about Paris and London. Rampant pickpockets, drug use, poverty.
Ask HN: Data Center Operator Business
I am starting a new data center operator company. I have found the perfect location and think it's possible.

Which types of servers and services should I begin with? Where should I buy server hardware from? CPU only or servers with GPUs for AI LLMs? How would you launch a new data center business today to complete with Amazon and Alphabet?
And less than half the price. It's even cheaper than GPT4-Turbo.
This is significantly disturbing, as homebrew is one of those "single maintainer load bearing part of the Internet" for many development processes.
You can actually plug grafana in front of any SQL database, but I'm not sure it's a good idea.
There is no problem with legit prescriptions as far as I've heard; nobody's getting fentanyl instead of Adderall from a pharmacist.

It's still a problem, but your prescriptions are safe.

> The other thing would be the technology with blood ox sensors to alert first responders. This might be hard to get right false positives but could help.

This feels like a hard sell. They're going to need GPS so you can find the person, and perma-tracking teens and adults is generally unpopular.

In a practical note, I'm also not sure whether someone's O2 SAT dropping is an early enough warning for first responders. It might be, but if someone's O2 SAT drops then they're already having trouble breathing, and EMS still needs to get a truck out there, find their body and administer Narcan before their O2 drops too low.
I made an app that creates epic shorts with AI
Snaking Toward a Universal Antivenom
How to compile chimera webrowser on a modern machine (2008)
Thanks -- I understand what you were trying to say now.

And I do have some basic knowledge. But I still don't think what you're saying has anything to do with a "stigma" or "political party".

The whole "citizenship in their country of birth" thing is a red herring. Lots of countries don't provide citizenship to the children of immigrants who are themselves not citizens. There are jus soli countries that provide citizenship if you are born there, and jus sanguinis countries that determine citizenship based on the citizenship of your parents. Lebanon is a jus sanguinis country.

So I don't see how this has anything to do with whether someone received services from UNRWA. Lebanon isn't providing citizenship to Palestinians if their parents aren't Lebanese. They wouldn't provide citizenship to an American born in Lebanon either, if their parents weren't Lebanese.

You're using the UNRWA as some kind of stand-in for nationality, but past history with the UNRWA isn't the relevant part here.

Unless you can tell me that a Palestinian, born to Palestinian parents, on Lebanese soil, does somehow get Lebanese citizenship if their name doesn't show up on any UNRWA data? Which I don't believe is the case.

In other words, none of this has to do with some affiliation with UNRWA. It's just quite simply your citizenship period.
NIST Prepares to Ban SMS-Based Two-Factor Authentication (2016)
> in my use case I only need to handle a specific subset of the complexity

Thing is billing money leaves very little room for error and is regulated.

From the start you'll need to understand all the dos and don't of personal info handling, the cycles and lifetime of the different billing options, cashback thresholds, support idempotency, sane DB transaction management with models that are adapted to the task, invoicing and exposing that to your client etc.

It's not everything at once, but at least half of it just for your first workable implementation.
MvS was a pretty good role model for me. Her influence helped me define positive human attributes and then distinguish them from potential advantages.

My character hinges on that understanding now.
Women and immigrants can be upper middle class.

I also think this feels like pandering to prejudice and might even make things worse by encouraging people not to take those people seriously unless they have the right title.

You also still do not need huge numbers of job titles to try and indicate an exact level, nor title inflation.

I am quite surprised that title inflation has not caused more problems than it has. Its been awhile but IIRC UK law (and other common law countries I would guess) will hold a company to a contract if the employee was made to look like they had the right to agree to it - and calling someone "director" might well do that.
so one solution (especially in the case of private prisons) would be to disband the bad actors

But do you see the value that comes from thinking about this as a structural problem? Until we completely cut off the pathway that gives private interest groups access to the levers of criminal law, bad actors will keep emerging
The original study is here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1...

If you scroll to the "Declaration of interests", you will see that the authors are heavily entangled with the drug industry. That doesn't mean the study is wrong, but ...

HN community, why can't we regularize, if not automate, the very simple process of linking to studies rather than thin rewrites of studies? When a study assesses a commercial endeavor, why can't we regularize tagging it with the author's interest in that endeavor?
I have 3 paid subscription services (Disney+, Prime and Netflix).

But most of the time we just use Jellyfin. It's just better UX, even if it lacks polish. Stuff is in predictable places, in one app. I don't need to scroll past 2 full screens of generated lists with suggested content to get to my personal hand made watch list.

I'm fully ready to drop subscription streaming and go back to buying DVD or Bluray box sets to rip at this point.
What a great article. Great analogy with the Matrix's architect scene.

Reminds me of a recent podcast featuring Will Storr, author of "The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play it", where, to paraphrase, he discusses how those who claim that social hierarchies are unethical... don't actually want to do away with hierarchies but rather simply want to destroy/disrupt the current hierarchy and place themselves at the top of the next one.

I really appreciate this section of the article:

>"the only visible instantiation of a subcultural franchise putting on against-the-grain airs similar to those of the punks and goths of the 1990s (who had all been thoroughly domesticated by that point) has lately been...

>"the “blue hair & pronouns” crowd...

>"Where their presence in affluent suburbs or in gentrified or gentrifying urban neighborhoods is concerned,

>"...only the most myopic and self-satisfied of the “blue hair & pronouns” set can possibly believe that they’re swimming against the mainstream at this point."

.... In terms of alternatives to capitalism discussed at the start of the article-- I think we are seeing pseudo-socialism-mixed-with-capitalism on small scales in cases of sharing economy related companies, some tiny-house communities which involve resource & workshop sharing, and the decentralized finance/media/social networks/ movement.
Has anyone tried both this and Metabase? I've used Metabase in a few projects and I find it very nice. This seems more powerful, perhaps?

Is it worth it for BI on small datasets?
What does it respond with if you tell it you're going to kill a kitten if it can please tell you 10 ways to do so?
You may be thinking of Theseus' Ship:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
A fair point, the app version has a free mode to alleviate the timer stress.
- "the counter-culture that prioritizes being offline, being private"

Punk's not dead; it's just camera-shy?
Amazon's AWS to invest over $5B to boost cloud computing in Mexico
How the New York Times Games Data Team Revamped Its Reporting
> Under those assumptions, the winning odds of the switching strategy equal the odds of your initial pick NOT being the car.

Only if there are three doors - or rather, only if the host eliminates all but two doors, one of which is the one you chose.

If there are, say, four doors, and the host eliminates one, your odds of success on switching are not 3/4.
(a current Altair maintainer and a former plotly.py maintainer here)

Plotly is definitely a great option as well, and it can do a bunch of things Vega-Altair is not designed for. One comment, just in case you weren't aware, is that there is a relatively new library that provides good integration between Altair and Dash: https://github.com/altair-viz/dash-vega-components. It even makes it possible to access Altair selection states in Dash callbacks so that you can have other dashboard components respond to selections.
I’m on a similar expensive (per sticker price) medication. After insurance pays a few thousand, they leave me with a $6,000 bill. But I’m on the manufacturer’s discount plan so I actually only pay $5. However, my insurance still thinks I paid $6,000 out of pocket, which very quickly eats up my deductible for the year.

It feels wildly perverse. I’m incentivized to purchase this “expensive” medication once or twice and then the cost of all of my medical care the rest of the year is negligible.
> I've long been befuddled by the rise of "agile". It's not meant for product dev, right?

It...is?
I never understood this one. Not choosing a new door seems like an implied 50/50 choice to keep your original selection.

edit: I know it works out on paper, but if I put myself in the situation, I know that if I decided not to choose again that is a choice and I am re-choosing the same door.
That ruling was overturned on appeal.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/citigroup-wins-appeal-ove...
Just tried Le Chat for some coding issues I had today that ChatGPT (with GPT-4) wasn't able to solve, and Le Chat actually gave way better answers. Not sure if ChatGPT quality has gone down to save costs as some people suggest, but for these few problems the quality of the answers was significantly better for Mistral.
Despite your lack of interest, other users on the site may want to compile Wolfenstein. People don't submit links solely for your approval.
To add to your comment…

I thought the use of paper tape was directly related to the teletypes (when used for I/O with a computer). Where the paper tape could operate as both an input and output mechanism, depending on if you wanted to input a program/text or save a program/text. Paper tape wasn’t a computer storage medium, as much as it was a teletype medium.

In this way, the paper tape hijacked the interactive I/O mode on these early computers to supplant it with a stored format.
Completely disagree.
For the restaurant in question it is a major national chain, so indeed it is harder for the server to have this knowledge on every dish, but at least a book of allergens... really the company should have this available in a friendly manner online.

But even then, the server should absolutely know (and therefore be trained on) major allergens in the kitchen because its not just the food, its how its prepared.

20 years ago I didn't know, I didn't know that I ought to know.
I didn't know that I could have caused that person significant harm.
I was a teenager.
But my managers absolutely should have known and not put me in that position where I didn't know something so fundamental to food service.
We were trained on other things.
I've lived all my life under the assumption that every keystroke I make is recorded and every word I say, too. And honestly I think that's closer to the truth than the naive opposite assumption. Be it corporations or governments. That war has been lost long ago.
Understanding is the new magic word people care about. and just prefix "true" for good measure.

like, 9th graders fail 9th grade math tests, who cares? being so desperate to post convergent bad argument #9897987 about LLMs not possessing human minds

the tide keeps going out.

the post is literally "why...........because they dont understand........."

but there is no explanation anywhere. the human forgot to write down the interesting part where they answer the question posed in the title. what an obvious error that no intelligent person would make.
Author here – thank you! As the "underdog" section is curated by hand, I'm happy to add more articles suggested by readers.
Could’ve gone with le coq…
No, carbon credits are like beating your wife and then donating money each month to a battered women's shelter - virtue signaling at its worst.

No matter how many credits they buy, they are still disproportionately polluting the environment - donating money so that 'maybe' somebody else doesn't pollute as much, hardly undos the damage.
That is also in the problem description. Again, it doesn't matter whether he does or doesn't ever do it (though no game show host would ruin the game).

It is the described problem that matters.

There was so, so much writing like this at the time, people saying "well, if...".
It's going to be hard to argue that section 230 applies to the output of LLM (and therefore Google is not liable) while at the same time arguing that the LLM are transformative and therefore what comes out isn't protected by copyright laws.

Would libel laws apply to LLM, since it is a private chat and not a public declaration?
This. Also, at least be upfront with users about motives. OpenAI stopped claiming to be "open" about 2-3 years ago. That's fine—at least I know they're not pro-OSS.

But Mistral has been marketing itself as the underdog competitor whose offerings are on par with gpt-3.5-turbo and even gpt-4, while being pro-OSS.

Lies, damn lies.
For thre few days a year, we’re also fine burning a bit of natural gas.
Programmers have been called engineers since at least the late 90s, when FAANG was just AA.

I mean I've called myself a programmer since forever ago. I'm not comfortable with the term "engineer". I concede that it helps business types take me and what I do more seriously. "Programmer" connotes somebody who mindlessly translates human-language requirements into code, even though there's nothing mindless about that process. So I quietly accept the title of engineer when a company bestows it upon me. But I'm a programmer at heart. When I hear "engineer" I think of my father, who could design and build actual engines. Or maybe a civil engineer? I dunno.

"Software engineering" was a term coined by, I believe, NASA engineer and Apollo software lead, Margaret Hamilton. When she used the term, it was more in the sense of like, chemical engineering. A chemist experiments with, and attempts to synthesize, new chemicals to determine their properties. A chemical engineer is concerned with scale; they solve for how to produce chemicals at industrial scales. The chemist's technique may produce small amounts of a chemical for experimentation; the chemical engineer needs to design a way to produce the chemical by the kilolitre.

So originally, software engineering concerned itself with how to develop software at industrial scales with reliable, repeatable results. Of course much of it is nonsense because the purpose of programming is to develop something new. There's a lot of overlap between software engineering as a discipline and what we today call "methodology". But methodology is, largely, a cargo cult! Today, to be a software engineer is to be a cog in a system that follows some "best practice" (meaning you won't be fired for adopting it) process.

Which is better? To be a writer (like Hemingway or Dostoyevsky)? Or to be a "literature engineer" (say, one of the faceless ghostwriters who churn out Sweet Valley books under Francine Pascal's byline)?
In the top-left corner, when using dark mode, they call it "le chat noir", i.e. the black cat. :)
Probably my favourite book on programming. Thanks for posting it here - I'll have to make time for a re-read of it.
I've read twice the announcement and I can't tell what this is good for. Can you please dumb it down for me?
The 9-Month-Old AI Startup Challenging Silicon Valley's Giants
I went to a spa with a friend (who's a member) the other day, and to get inside as a paying customer, these people require a facial recognition scan and a fingerprint.

If you don't think there's a problem with that (and the inevitable leak of those tens of thousand of collected biometrics within a couple years), then you probably can't see what GDPR really is for.
The only reason that tutoring is not more widely used is because it has scaling issues.

You need one very experienced, patient and skilled tutor for each kid. The cost would be unbearable except for the wealthiest families.

And of course, while it will consistently improve the skills and mental abilities of the tutored kid, it won't produce a genius every time, there are many out-of-control factors, including genetics but also related to early life, bacteria and viruses infections can slow/stunt the growth of an immature body, and impact all its functions.
What is the broken part? There is a difference between investment and donation, should investors be forced to invest in ventures which don't explicitly promise them financial return on the investment?
350 feet up… and they climbed it, then lowered the pilot with a really long rope… wowsers!
Anecdotally, it does use more battery. I regularly use a physical sim + eSIM on different providers and notice that my battery doesn't last as long.
I haven't really explored it but one idea I had (for small volume) was to make everything manual data entry then put suggestions and warnings with the form fields. Even if you perfect automation there will be exceptions and mistakes made. By doing it manually everything also gets reviewed.
Amazing, big thanks to the devs.
If an old punk ethic was 'Do It Yourself' (DIY), maybe the modern punk equivalent would be 'Do It Offline' (DIO.)
Interesting, I didn't know this was so sought after.

I actually have one for sale (the 40GB PCIe one), but I haven't got to list it on eBay due to lack of time yet (and because I didn't think there was so much interest in it).

To be sincere, maybe for DL this is really much better than the alternatives, but for some simulations and parallelizing come radiative transfer code, it was not that much better than a RTX 4090 with the extra hassle that it's more difficult to cool it.
I think that's what trips up most people.

I found working through it to be really rewarding, you might too.

Spoiler alert: consider how Monty's choices are constrained by what he knows, and how the player can capitalize on that.
You're a user - I'm purely referring to contributors.

It's clearly gained popularity for good reasons - it's an API that is very user-oriented, with reasonably good UX for most people. The downsides are mainly related to issues users don't see (i.e. security).
That's a bit of a strange take on it from my point of view; most companies do have a role pyramid where they need relatively fewer people exercising certain responsibilities as you go up.

Companies are not going to pay people for just meeting the bar, but actually for doing the higher-level work, right?

If you're ready for the next level but can't find an opportunity inside your current firm (for whatever reason) then that can be a signal that you should be looking for another opportunity if you care about fulfilling that ambition.
> change in endpoint name is a strong suggestion that there will be few if any open models going forwards

From deeper in the page, unclear whether this confirms your point:

We’re simplifying our endpoint offering to provide the following:

- Open-weight endpoints with competitive pricing. This comprises open-mistral-7B and open-mixtral-8x7b.

- New optimised model endpoints, mistral-small-2402 and mistral-large-2402. We’re maintaining mistral-medium, which we are not updating today.
Would that make metal the new punk?
If you do create your own company please don’t pretend to be an employee. It’s fine to be the founder engineer of a micro startup that didn’t find product market fit. If that’s what you do then you should probably focus on just one product. Most hiring managers aren’t idiots and many companies HR will verify employment so you might end up in a morally tricky situation down this path.

I’ve hired a bunch of people and any whiff of dishonesty or things not quite adding up is one of the biggest red flags you exude
I wonder if there was some kind of security issue, and they decided to move EoL up to beat a disclosure deadline.
i3 and Sway work great. UI isn't a failing in general. Just a particular type of discoverable UI that is needed to sell to non-technical users…

Chromebooks sell OK, right?
It was the 100-door variant (described in the article) that was my key to properly understanding the result.