skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So much like Keybase got spammed with an influx of garbage users when they announced their Stellar token - GitHub is getting an influx of garbage users taking time and energy from me and others for this tea stuff.

Kinda off-topic but when this happened it was the beginning of the end for my use of Keybase. Stopped using it entirely after the Zoom acquisition, and I'd used their chat very heavily early on -- but trust was lost.
Atlanta’s Marriott Marquis Hotel is easily one of my favorite designs in a hotel.
This makes it sound like the US government is forcing their hand on Starlink. I think a better headline could have been "Congress tells Starlink to honor their contract with the US military".
Ollama makes it pretty easy to run inference on a bunch of model-available releases. If a company is after code/text generation, finding a company/contractor to fine tune one of the model-available releases on their source code, and have IT deploy Ollama to ask their employees with M3 MacBooks, decked out with 64 GiB of RAM is well within the abilities of a competent and well funded IT department.

What recognition has Facebook gotten for their model releases? How has that been priced into their stock price?
We have modern designs that Litterally can not melt down. No meltdown means no explosion.
Proposed safe(r) API via decorated methods:

QParams = sqlbind.Dialect.some_dialect

@QParams
def make_my_query(value1: str, value2: int):
return f'SELECT * FROM table WHERE field1 = {value1} AND field2 > {value2}'

data = connection.execute(*make_my_query(foo, bar))

Obviously this wouldn't work as-is, QParams would need to be modified to support this. The decorator would wrap the method, sanitising the args before they're even passed to the wrapped function.

Edit: actually, I might've misunderstood what sqlbind is doing internally, maybe this approach doesn't quite make sense

Edit 2: Like so: https://github.com/baverman/sqlbind/issues/1
> Living in a present-day million-dollar home for a net cost of $500k over 30 years is a great deal. That’s a little over $1000/month on average. Where can you even rent an apartment at that price these days?

Can you clarify?

A $1 million purchase at 5% interest on $800K is $4,300 / month. Plus maintenance and taxes.

Where does the $1,000 vs renting apply?
Unfortunately it does not work with firsty, but it works like a charm with arbitrary esims while travelling. I last used it in Japan but also sometimes across Europe if I need extra data. I am super happy. Also with their support!
We actually had an argument about this and I wanted to remove the filters entirely (since I didn't see a use case for filtering), Louis wanted to keep them. The compromise is the filter button :)

I agree that showing all recent posts types would be more expected given the title. But with the stated purpose of the site right now being to "find people to collaborate with", /ideas posts are the most useful IMO [0]. And I really want people to write more /ideas pages.

Why did you want to see a list of people's /now pages?

[0] An earlier version of this site was actually called ideasideasideas.io and had only /ideas posts. But the other content makes the search much better.
P/E ratios (so far) say otherwise: all the big tech public companies have reasonable P/E ratios and are investing heavily their profits in contrast to, say, the dotcom bubble when over 40% of the companies had P/E ratios unsustainably over the moon.

Are there a gazillion companies riding the "AI everywhere" wave to raise money? yes, yes there are. Will most of them fail? sure.

But the big players are fine at the moment so there is nothing that can burst very hard (yet) and the difference is in the denominators which are, so far, going up.

Of the top ones only NVIDIA and Amazon have P/E ratios a bit too high and among the top 10 only AMD's is way too high.
Thanks! Unfortunately I can't edit the URL
This is a lovely exploration of color. Thank you for sharing.
Just spoke to a restaurant group owner in Mexico who was able to eliminate their web developer because he can now ask ChatGPT to draft up a basic website.

The kicker? It couldn't do the interactive menu their old website did, so now clicking menu links to a PDF. Which is always, ALWAYS, better.
Not a fan of nix as it literally deleted itself from my machine after running some command or other lmao
What is the Universal Windows Platform? (2021)
It's a little difficult to parse through the README, but I believe placeholders and placeholder structure is being rendered in the SQL, not placeholder values.

ps = f'SELECT * FROM table WHERE field1 = {q/value1} AND field2 > {q/value2}'
# SELECT * FROM table WHERE field1 = ? AND field2 > ?

However, I would imagine that if any external input is passed through to this framework, then there might still be the possibility of SQL injection attacks passing through this framework and ending up in the prepared statement SQL.
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Gun-Barrel

Sorry, khikhil, zrada was baked in from the start. Link related.
> That interpretation requires believing that the host, who knows what’s behind the doors

The host has to always open the door, too. Else-- if your strategy is always to switch when shown a goat, the host can choose to only show you a goat if you have already picked the car (which would cause you to lose 100%). Or various mixed strategies.

This is one of those problems that is hard to grasp at baseline, but a little harder to grasp because the situation isn't fully specified. As a result it tends to create a lot of controversy, like the one about an airplane on a treadmill.
I read somewhere that bayonet charges rarely came to hand to hand because either the attackers were mown down or the defenders ran away. No-one in their right mind wants to get stuck with a bayonet. Apparently the NZ Maori battalions in WWII were particularly fond of the bayonet. I can't imagine how bowel-liquifyingly scary it would be to see Maori's with 18 inch bayonets running at you.
I was going to write a post on this, but this one nails it succinctly. The Dave Ramsey view of the world that says that all debt is bad is probably too simplistic.

If you're borrowing to buy a car you could never afford to impress your neighbor, that's probably not a good idea. If you've just had a kid and can't afford to pay cash for a car that has room for a seat and you have the choice of saving up for three years to buy one, or taking a 36 month loan now, then that interest is probably excellent value for money.

We start our lives in debt to the bank, and the bank ends up in debt to us - the "zero" point is actually not that interesting.
Wayback Machine for most popular AI models
Yep, that and other things like reviews wm you did went straight to your Google+ page.

I really wanted G+ to work, but they were just too stupid to understand that this was a deal-breaker.
Cognition Detection Methods and Benchmarks
My 5 second reaction having managed a large organization in a compliance/regulatory driven environment is that these regulations need to be part of the orgs DNA or long term you’ll be buried by an audit. It’s not something you bolt on.
I have the same experience. Every time I try to have it code something that isn't completely trivial or all over the internet like quicksort, it always has bugs and invents calls to functions that don't exist. And yes, I'm using GPT-4, the best model available.

And I'm not even asking about an exotic language like F#, I'm asking it questions about C++ or Python.

People are out there claiming that GPT is doing all their coding for them. I just don't see how, unless they simply did not know how to program at all.

I feel like I'm either crazy, or all these people are lying.
I like it! I built a command line AI coding assistant for my projects (https://codemancer.codes) when GPT-4 first came out, but still think this space is wayyy under explored given the possible capabilities.
> minuscule detail

Well done.

Bethany is still active on instagram. Seems like she has moved on.
I've had to fix the outline/bookmark loop problem before. It is quite an unexpected problem. There are billions of documents out there and who knows how many different pdf generators or editors (writing a pdf is easy, reading a pdf is insanely difficult). I've had normal non-malicious documents where the software trying to merge documents or move pages has caused the outline/bookmark tree to have a loop.
My personal phone number is not exactly secret or confidential, but I only share it carefully.
You only need the bucket name to do that. You should include a randomly generated prefix/suffix in bucket names to prevent against such enumeration attempts. Another good idea (as well as, not instead of) is to expose objects in buckets publicly with a non-default host name, such that the bucket name isn’t leaked at all.
outside context problem and protected ecosystem in spades.
> All in Podcast

Calacanis and Palihapitiya are the Jim Kramers of tech.
Interesting. So that would mean that you would still need a 40 or 80 GB card to run the larger models (30B LLM, 70B LLM, 8x7B LLM) and perform training of them.

Or would it be possible to split the model layers between the cards like you can between RAM and VRAM? I suppose in that case each card would be able to evaluate the results of the layers in its own memory and then pass those results to the other card(s) as necessary.
It gets weirder than that, if you bring a fluorescent bulb close enough to high-voltage transmission lines, it will just glow. https://www.farmanddairy.com/top-stories/how-to-make-a-fluor...

Induction is a fact about the physical world which I accept but have never truly understood.
A house is a constantly decaying pile of materials in need of constant maintenance, on which you pay taxes. They should never be considered "investments", in my opinion.

The same is true of cars.
I would also add that "AI" is currently being used to help match specific munitions to desired effects on target, not just in the planning stages but also while assets are in the air and the situation is developing.

This helps humans best meet their mission needs while reducing undesirable effects and managing resources. The software doesn't decide who/what needs to be hit, but it can help allocate weapons to targets. It's pretty amazing stuff, but as noted never removes what I would view as moral decisions from the hands of humans.
Alphabet's AI problems: Stock falls 4%
it just means that data is poorly curated, annotated and prioritized, e.g. they could add some stronger seed of core knowledge about what Mistral is.
Why is this company public? What commercial value is a moon lander payload hoping to provide to a public share owner?

I'm not saying the company shouldn't exist or diminish their outstanding achievement, I just don't get the business reason here. If they needed funding I'd assumed the US gov't or VC would be better investors.
Microsoft OS/2 2.0
Some thought questions:

Do you find your purpose internally or externally?

Are you able to identify extremes of purpose vs no purpose?
Is there a scale you are using for that?

Some examples (these are just my thoughts... could be very wrong...)
1. Externally - I want to buy a car or a house. Internally - I was able to solve a problem.

2. Is taking a nap purposeful? When would it stop having purpose?
Is making a song purpose? If not, why? If yes, why?

For me, the more I dig on purpose, the more I realize I judge so much about what I do. And, often the measurement is money. If it doesn't make money, it has no purpose.
Passion =/= Competence

On the margin, there may be many people working in, for example, finance who would make highly valuable contributions to open source projects if they were financially incentivized.

What is effectively being argued here is that we should oppose grass roots subsidy of important public work just because there was a specific incentive issue in a specific initiative. The code doesn't care why you wrote it. Maybe some bad code gets subsidized. That's ok - don't use it.
https://archive.is/VGlWB
What value is there in allowing wildcard account id matching? I can't think of a legitimate use case.
… and this is the court ruling to blame for such a thing to be legal in USA:

ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProCD,_Inc._v._Zeidenberg
Bpftop: Streamlining eBPF performance optimization
Oh, no argument that it’d be better in terms of quality but I’m wondering how it’d look from a cost perspective. Say we could make a self-driving rover which could handle basic maneuvering, avoiding / recovering from hazards and storms, etc. – at some point there’d be a trade off between having many rovers running for years for less budget than a human crew would need, and depending on the budget climate it might be better to have a cheaper option that doesn’t fail to deliver any scientific results if a big dependency isn’t funded.
"I have a theory that chasing things that scale makes you need therapy, and the therapy is pursuing things that can’t scale."
Fair, by that metric it is indeed 4-5x "easier" to get into UVA/Michigan than Harvard/MIT. But it's also undeniable that former still excludes the large majority of applicants. And if everyone in America suddenly wanted to start going to UVA, and its admission rate dropped precipitously, would it not then also fit the definition of being "elitist"?
What you are suggesting is only plausible under a system where every official, institution, and policy can be voted on, and with said entities having no significant sway over each other. That's not how Canada or America works, and perhaps no government in existence.

> It is almost like someone had designed a system so that a few people could represent the will of the population without everyone having to break out the pitchforks.

That hardly works in practice. Why would it? Government officials are not afraid of minuscule uprisings. The ability to actually rebel is not present in the average western human being today.
Its not likely to be a thousand years before its habitatable again. Long lived isotopes are safer as they are less radioactive and less energetic. And short lived isotopes while dangerous are short lived. Its the medium lived that are a problem 70-150 years that are the biggest problem. Secondly we dont have to wait for it to all to be gone just down to a safe background level
1.19 million last year globally = 3260/day
I had the same thought. Doesn't aggregation of this type fall pretty squarely with federated/activitypub/bluesky -kind-of-a-thing?

It became almost pointless to try to host such a small search/aggregator as a separate web (discovery through web search is almost impossible and it's hard to make people stay on a new website today because of activity sinkholes like twitter/reddit. add to it a hassle of managing modern application at scale etc).

I don't know. But I feel that projects like such will have a higher 1yr survival rate when developed directly as a "feed".And, AFAIU, that's what activitypub got created for.
Whose 350 feet? Instructions for unclear jumped out of the plane.
There really isn't though? I've not seen anything close to Mistral yet in the 7b space - and it's even going downhill, Gemma is a total joke surprisingly, almost non functional.
I hear you. It's all pretty bad. I have spent half-days getting accustomed to and dealing with gpt garbage — but then I have done that plenty of times in my life, with my own garbage and that of co-workers.

On the margins it's getting stuff good enough, often enough, quick enough. But it very much transformed my coding experience from slow deliberation to a rocket ride: Things will explode and often. Not loving that part, but there's a reason we still have rockets.
This is more like "seat belts make car accidents safer for passengers, and so we should move towards using them where possible."
> if you died from violence on the field, the most likely cause was "a horse fell on you".

This is close to my grandfather's story. He was a Lithuanian Jew conscripted into the Czar's army and somehow wound up on a horse. They released him after he got shot in the leg, which then killed the horse, which fell on and broke the other leg. I never got more of the story than that. It may have been then that he decided that immigrating to America was a good idea.
Sounds to me like Trudeau is promising somebody who will vaguely do something because the opposition politicians are all pushing a bill to do mandatory identification for porn sites to allow for age gating.

I don't really see how expanding the administrative state will help matters, especially with such a vague and exploitable mission like "preventing harm". What is harm? Is speaking against the presiding government harm?
What Everyone Got Wrong About the MGM Hack
Is the next crunch in the AI race the lack of data center space?
> It really adds a new meaning to the saying "You get what you pay for".

It’s more like “you DON’T get what you pay for”.
I think there is a bubble, but not in the traditional sense of this all being nonsense. Obviously, AI is going to be a world changer, but I think in a few years many companies are going find, at least for them, that their projects using AI are wildly unprofitable. Good AI is expensive. This could take years to play out, but when Nvidia is trading higher than Microsoft and Apple in total market cap, we'll be well into it. I don't rule that out.
Everyone here throwing down the “technically not a secret” card but I don’t think that was your point. I guess “sensitive, but not secret” is the right way to say it. They’re obviously not secret like credentials, but it’s a damn good piece of info for an attacker to hold against you, because, like you said, it’s impossible to rotate, but is tangentially related to every single part of your AWS infrastructure (per-account of course).
There is a game on Steam called 'Pike and shot' by Slitherin. it is quite reminiscent of a tabletop game. Worth a look if you are interested in the era.
Reverse Engineering with ChatGPT: An Example
Love it! A parameter to pick which notifications would be appreciated, e.g. I might only want the 1 day in advance.

And perhaps also specifying a port, for services not on 443?
> With mixture of experts (MoE) models, I would think that Mistral might make a lot of money reselling specific models to big players like Microsoft and Google to augment their MoE systems

I am curious about what you mean by this. There is a (very understandable) common misconception about what "mixture of experts" means in current practice.

Mixtral is not a mixture of fully-separable domain experts, like one is an expert at programming and one is an expert at arts and literature. The "experts" are per-layer (and as far as I know, the subject of their "expertise" not even interpretable at this point).
they should though. soon as immediate confirmation didn't happen i knew something was up and sold.. they _should_ have been more forthcoming with people, why the wait? so politicians/business partners can unload first?
His plan to me doesn't read as narrowly focused on hate speech.
Interesting - I wasn't aware of that. When I first learnt to program (in PL/1) in the 70's it was on a punched card system, but I never used paper tape myself.

So, was switching from keyboard to tape input, or from printer to tape output, done locally at the teletype, or could that be controlled by the computer it was attached to ?

I guess this implies the paper tape format was basically just a dump/listing of sorts that might otherwise have been directed to the printer, and when used as an input this would then be read into a program (e.g. editor) that was really expecting keyboard (tty) input ?
CDC says 1.35 million per year, this also includes pedestrian and cyclist deaths.

https://www.cdc.gov/injury/features/global-road-safety/index....
That makes sense. It's a bit complex, but if you're interested, you can learn more here: https://quantum.country/qcvc
The general rule is not to build anything that is not your core expertise.
I found an online version

https://icu4c-demos.unicode.org/icu-bin/collation.html

but there you first have to select the language from the drop-down menu. So in general, you would first need to know the country where your weather station was located, before you can correctly collate its name.

I don't believe the fastest entries are doing all this(?)

Edit: In the examples [1], the guy writes a Polish city using its English name "Cracow". So you can't choose the alphabetical ordering based on the geographical location of the weather station, but you need to somehow detect in which language its name is written in, in the data.

[1] https://www.morling.dev/blog/one-billion-row-challenge/

Edit2: I guess you could declare that either the "Default Unicode Collation Element Table (DUCET)", or perhaps the American English "en-US-u-va-posix" locale is the correct way to alphabetize.
> The real reason is this: Airlines think people won’t stop yapping on their cell phones during flights, leading to more instances of “air rage.” That’s why regulators continue to ban phone calls and data usage on planes: it’s just plain annoying.

Good. Let's keep the restrictions in place. Wish we could do an outright ban/poweroff.
mandatory ID laws are the dream of every single ad funded publisher on the internet.

Can you imagine someone in 1970 being asked to show ID to get a copy of the daily print version of their local newspaper?
Elon Musk's Vegas Tunnel Project Has Been Racking Up Safety Violations
You can check with your local CC if being enrolled is even required. The one near me lets you register as a "community patron" (for free, I believe) with limited borrowing privileges if you live in the area.

Pricing for academic materials is nonsensical, but you can usually find a way to get free or cheap access as an individual learner if you go through libraries.