skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The worst fluff I think is from analogies/anecdotes that get spaced out because the author wants you to feel what it's like or something like that. I'm sure some readers really appreciate it, but when the author doesn't tell me what I should be looking for beforehand, I just don't have the patience.
MatplotLLM, iterative natural language data visualization in org-Babel
Especially considering this "shitlit" label (which I love and immediately understand, because I read somewhere between 70 and 80 shitlit books last year). The shitlit that I read is totally inconsequential fiction that has no material bearing on life whatsoever. It's a form of entertainment that's analog, that's why I do it.
So you trust the database to be exact?
No, a more appropriate analogy would be driving your own billion-dollar super-yacht vs driving your own car.

Will not happen any time soon. Consumer hardware can't even run GPT-4 locally, and won't be able for a looong time. Each GPT-4 instance runs on 8 A100. The cost of such system is ~$81K. Not even in the ballpark of what most consumers can afford.
What steps can one take to increase their chances of it being detected early (and by that I mean all cancers). I live in a country which screens people in their 30s for lung, bowel and stomach cancer but the tests aren't infallible. Same goes for the tumor markers tests you can buy at the clinic which will sometimes lead to unnecessary interventions.
This is such a weird comment.

Ahead in what way? Reading more shitlit than anyone? I guess. It's clearly a time tradeoff, and you are probably "ahead" on something else besides book reading that you don't even think about.

I think even if you did find the time to read 150 books a year, you'd quickly be disappointed.
Money is the root of all bullshit like this, right since the very first human civilization.

The requirement of money as the core instrument of survival should be abolished.

If people aren't raised thinking money is everything, maybe society as a whole will gradually chill out on scamming the f outta each other.
Article jumps off with facts not in evidence. "an issue that unites Americans across political and geographic divides is that these corporations, collectively known as “Big Tech,” have too much power over nearly every facet of our lives", it claims. Yet national opinion surveys consistently show that "Big Tech" companies are on par with things like Cheerios in terms of trust and general perception. The author later goes on to suggest that we should side with Yelp and Match.com, two of the most mendacious and evil entities to ever register a domain. In between there is a lot of other mushy thinking. This doesn't seem like the author's strongest work.
Apple seems to have been one of the holdouts in not laying off employees in anticipation of automation and lower market wages for tech workers.
I was dead serious and I may have gotten a bit emotional because it's a pet peeve of mine.

I was the child of a single mother who didn't have a high school diploma. Somehow I managed to graduate high school without falling into crime as did so many of my classmates. Somehow I managed to get through college, barely able to pay for it and always wondering if this was the semester we wouldn't have enough money for what scholarships and loans/grants wouldn't cover.
And yes, I willingly acknowledge that it was much easier to do that 30 years ago. The cost of education these days is nothing short of criminal.

But then I got into the workplace and I was surrounded by people who did nothing but make excuses for where they were in life.

I knew nothing about money other than I should have a bank account and save. So I got books and learned how to invest, how money worked to make more money, that there were better options than savings accounts, that I was better off buying a reliable used car instead of the most expensive thing I could afford, etc. I learned that by starting a simple Sole Proprietorship business, I could essentially be paid to learn because my business expenses would be tax deductible and I could make a little cash on the side.

I learned about systems and how to use them to my advantage. I also learned to keep my mouth shut because although anyone could learn the same things that I did, people would rather bitch about how everything is stacked against them and they could never get ahead.

<rant off>
Plus a large percentage of men (like 1 in 8 in the US) eventually get it, it’s just that men often keel over before that happens. If men live longer, percentage will naturally increase
I miss The Outline.
This is super duper. Nobody needs 400 pictures of a cinematic masterpiece banana with fish scales. But this can enable people to use a computer how it was meant to be, without the GUI obfuscation that caused so much grief over the decades.

Super duper.
I dunno, I guess maybe we'd just disagree on where the line is drawn. Murder? Rape? Something of that caliber? Nah, I'm not just gonna assume or trust that the person has changed, even if it'd been 20 years or whatever.

Bank robbery? Well, I dunno. Armed robbery? Did anyone get hurt? Maybe that's not ok, no matter how much time has passed.

But yeah... drugs, whatever. Super petty crimes where there wasn't any violence or physical threats involved? Yeah, maybe no big deal if enough time has passed with the person leaving that kind of life behind.

But even then, it's hard to say. In this article, it seems like the faker didn't do anything that bad before stealing this other guy's identity. Like, the kind of stuff where, 20 years later, we'd probably just shrug and be like "yeah that guy's got some stories". But he ruined another man's life, causing a situation that led him to become committed to a mental hospital merely for claiming that someone else had stolen his identity. (Sure, the judge in the case almost certainly acted improperly, but that's not really the point.) I don't think that's something you just sweep under the rug, even in another 20 years.
Annotations, citations, bibliography management I can understand, even if I use LaTeX for that and consider it a far superior tool.

But video recording and streaming? Why would anyone prefer to use MS Office for that when OBS exists?

Is it as obnoxious as having to use Teams for chat?

That's certainly a case of having a hammer and thinking all problems are nails xD
Maybe I'm just really ignorant but I don't totally understand how to mitigate the "risk" (?) of home ownership? For a few hundred dollars a year? Does this just refer to home owner's insurance, or something more?

I have (by my stnadards) a high NW, much of which is non-retirement accounts, but some of that is due to my having virtually zero non-monetary assets to my name. I guess I'm curious what I should be looking out for, if and when I pick a place to settle and purchase something.

I guess at the very least, this is something of a reminder that I should be purchasing decent traveler's insurance, especially in lieu of an American rent.

BTW, I appreciate you engaging me kindly, when I had somewhat glib replies earlier.
I want to play more, 1 puzzle per day is satisfying for word puzzles but not for this kind of puzzle IMO

Maybe you can still have a hand-curated daily puzzle, but also have some procedural generation to have endless puzzles
On a trip to Spain, I bought a container of saffron in Toledo for USD100 for my mom. Lasted her for years. Tremendous markup along the trade route.
How did they have such easy access to the father's DNA?
You’re allowed to scam whomever you want except for the wealthy or connected.
You're right, it hasn't been completely fixed. I rescind my tiny amount of praise for now. Honestly, a one day response would still surprise me.

I'd bet on system error though, though after the eBay scandal I suppose anything is possible.
They even have a small medical facility.
I've done an objective comparison of cloud provider security capabilities and Azure's is the worst by a large margin [ . . . ]

could you say a little more about this—if only to list some security-related functionality that's default or comes with 'base ' licensing in other public clouds, but that Microsoft offers only as add-on? probably a fair list considering the sheer number of tier and add-on SKUs. but anything specific that's particularly egregious?
Show HN: Protobuf <–> JSON Converter
Simple wrapper over the Protobuf C++ API for converting back and forth between JSON and Protobuf.
I Use SAS reports in my job pretty heavily I'm keen to find alternatives - this looks pretty promising.

One thing in particular I'm interested in but could not see an example for is if this will let you insert "break lines" i.e. for displaying sub totals and similar.

For example based on the demo, which shows names and addresses from census data it might be nice to be able to break at each change in postcode and display some summary data like a count of people found at that postcode or an average age (based on the DOB) living at that postcode or similar.

Otherwise conditional formatting is another pain point either using rules i.e. if value in column B is greater than a specified threshold make the entire row bold. Or automatically creating a color gradient to highlight the cells ala Excel.

For bonus points management types like things like red and green traffic lights (or down/up arrows) you can display next to kpi data in a table It's a gimmick but wins you points.
It really strikes me as odd how often I see the "Swift got too complex" criticism. IMO, all Swift got was all the best features of programming languages, designed as good as or better than in almost all other languages. It feels like calling Swift too complex is like calling a box of tools too complex. You don't need to understand all of them to use any of them, and the easiest tools in the box are those that are perfect for 90% of jobs.

Enormous caveat for SwiftUI, but that's not part of the language, it's a framework. The parts of the language that enable it are perfectly nice.
That’s because their primary setup is Microsoft based.

The opposite is true for Apple-first companies.
The Thing About Trend Forecasting
Never gonna happen. Treaties are how american corporations enforce US laws world wide. The "stakeholders" leverage the economic and military might of the US government via lobbying to have their interests protected. Besides, if the USA really wanted out, it would just get out. Nothing they can do about it.
AMD's x86 CPU and FPGA Tango on Sapphire Technology's Embedded+ PC Motherboard
It is a gift... to Roblox.
Gift Link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/magazine/spotify-matt-far...

It's a long read and it does go into several corners of both Spotify and Farley, but it's very worth reading the comments and doing a deeper dive on his work - especially the films.

Farley's really worth exposing yourself to for two reasons. At least. His philosophy and his ethic. You're bound to see something in yourself you didn't know and wanted confirmation of. That's what I like most about people who are very far off the normal and average. Sometimes they aren't good people, but just like art, all people reflect how we see ourselves.
ID thief pats rent and some back rent too.
> Slow Roads? More like Fast Roads!

> The idea of a "slow road" is about taking the longer scenic route instead of the highway, not about how fast you drive.

TIL

Also I love that it runs so well (locked 144 fps with all graphics maxed) on my machine.
That was a pretty wild story, but honestly what disturbed me the most was right near the beginning:

> one count of false statement to a National Credit Union Administration insured institution — punishable by up to 30 years in federal prison — and one count of aggravated identity theft — punishable by up to two years in federal prison.

So you get 30 years for lying to a bank, but only two years for stealing someone's identity for decades, resulting in the real person being involuntarily committed to a mental institution just for insisting they are who they actually are?

It should be the other way around. Two years for the lie, 30 years for the identity theft.
Google is vague about this, but the easiest solution to protect the quality of the ngram viewer is simply to only use books from known, non-vanity publishers.
Sand will also benefit from greater insulation due to lower packing efficiency and therefore more air.
19 years of uneventful employment later and we’re questioning, “do people change?” In his case, obviously yes. And his stuff was nonviolent, already long restituted crime. He fudged his background on a job application. The whole situation has never sat right with me.
People have honestly forgotten that our economic system simply fails to deliver progress without competition. The system is based on transmuting the desire for money into better and better products, but in the absence of choice, this can’t happen, and so the products stay the same or get worse.
When I went jumping back in the 80s, I was told that the accident rate was around 1 in 1000.
Yeah, it was a sad day when Netcraft confirmed it was dying.
Make your bathroom entirely waterproof and add a drain and high pressure sprinklers. Done.
USA is pretty unique in its inability to separate identity of a person from their address. There's no reason for that to be so, it's just a path dependency you maneuvered yourselves into.
Reminds me of the MIT dean that lied about her credentials and kept her job for years.
Absolutely agreed, but I'd go further and say you shouldn't have to hang onto everything you've ever done and get a few chances to reset in non-criminal situations too. I handled some previous relationships like shit in my early twenties, and upon years of reflection have formed what I'd consider a completely different sense of who I am and how I treat people; me at 23 is not me at 32, but it scares me a bit that my apparent integrity would be called into question should I have to dig into it, despite authentically having no part of me that could see life from those eyes again
what shadow library?
It seems more, then, that devs need to just move on from gross C (and C++?) at this point to modern mandates without all this insecure baggage and constant security issues from lack of memory management.
https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/CSRB_Review...
Cost of building is higher. Cost of data processing probably much lower.
"I owe my soul to the company store."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteen_Tons
She slept with a violin on her pillow
Your last paragraph is brilliant. Might be tricky since you may have to "invent" wal segments or something in the stream though?
Those articles for sure, but my memory is that it came up an awful lot in most linux slashdot discussions: Munich was cited the proof that this now was finally the time that normies would use desktop Linux, it was just turning the corner, this time definitely. Definitely remember going rounds with people over whether OpenOffice would be the spear to destroy the evil MS/Wintel monopoly (this discussion was definitely before the LibreOffice fork and Oracle murdering original flavor OpenOffice) and Munich was the main example to discuss.

Of course, nowadays there are more *nix based GUI's in the world than Windows: between all of the various Apple products (XNU) and Android (Linux) you have the vast majority of the consumer GUI's in the world. Because most of us wasting our time in the linux slashdot forums missed how the world was actually going to change.

Any resemblance to us now sitting around on Hacker News is purely coincidental I'm sure.
I'm surprised by their fine tuned models pricing.

Google & Cohere give same pricing for non-tuned models vs tuned models.

OpenAIs fine tuning offering is non competitive.

I hope they will adjust their pricing
> His defender certainly should have made the same effort the hospitals investigator did.

This is by no means an excuse, but public defenders in many jurisdictions are horrifyingly overwhelmed, overcommitted, and their offices chronically understaffed. I read a report a while ago that said something like a public defender basically just has something on the order of a few hours per defendant to work on their case. (I don't remember the exact number of hours, but it sounded woefully inadequate.)

Again, not an excuse. And the judge seems to share culpability here too. But I can unfortunately see how something like this would happen.
Second time this week someone's said that about an old post that I actually did submit to HN. Thank you.

OK, here you go:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39938456
The UX of NotePlan is amazing. It is very easy to start using , but It is much deeper and more elegant than you may assume if you only for a week or two.

The more you use it the more it will reveal its power and flexibility

It is one of the only products I know of that is fully committed to a being a bunch of markdown files as data while also using lots of database smarts.

NotePlan makes a point of interop with Obsidian

https://help.noteplan.co/article/61-use-noteplan-with-obsidi...

Yes, NotePlan is a paid subscription. But they have honestly figured out how to make you pay for their experience and not locking up your data.

While it works best on macOS, iPhone and iPad, their recently released Web App is making great strides in feature parity.
AI Vocals: The Music Revolution Begins [video]
The Probability of Undecidability
> This specific application and the claimed rationale is as close as I have come to seeing what I consider true and deliberate "Evil application" of technology out in the open.

Someone will double down and include AI into the execution phase via AI controlled drones, tanks, etc. Then they will claim no responsibility and blame the ghost-in-the-shell.
I love the question as I'm constantly faced with the absurdity of user-hostile software. It was supposed to be built to help humans. Instead it creates PTSD.
Because so much of the Linux world refuses to let C go.
Yep you’re describing an RSL - it’s a line that should deploy the reserve as the main gets cut away (although good practice to pull the reserve handle anyway as a precaution).

In my hypothetical failure case you referenced it wouldn’t help because the instructor didn’t cut away the main - they went straight to their dedicated reserve handle.

Cutting away should automatically deploy the reserve, but deploying the reserve from the reserve handle doesn’t automatically cut away the main.
Is HN Big Tech?
That's the worst part? Just some confusion that "sysadmin" wasn't relevant to the case?

Not the fact that the real Woods was involuntarily committed to a mental hospital and forced to take medication, simply for asserting he was who he actually was?

Not that somehow our justice system thinks "lying to a bank" should be worth 30 years in prison, but stealing someone's identity gives you a mere two years?

C'mon.
> When school districts get rid of advanced offerings in a bid to reduce racial inequality, they end up doing to opposite of what they claim to intend. While wealthier families can move to better school districts or enroll their children in private schools, smart—yet poor—kids end up getting stuck in "equitable" classrooms that leave them under-stimulated and ignored.

I hope the education system pushes for more students in under represented groups to partake in advanced offerings instead of getting rid of them. In my ideal, the school system should strive to help all students push their intellectual ability. Moreover, school sports and extracurriculars are great places to push for greater diversity since they tend to lack under represented groups.
It makes sense why links can reach higher speeds than CPU cores, but it's not enough explanation for how symbol frequencies got 25x faster while CPU frequencies got 2x faster.
Plaid wouldn't exist if there had been practical open banking APIs.

Remember their original use case was to offer third-party services something with a little more guiderails than "enter your ACH info and cross your fingers" and a little less clumsy than "we'll take that info and make some test deposits that you have to read back to confirm it's your account."
I think publicly funded social media is the answer to so many problems.

Q: What are you allowed to post?
A: What congress and the courts decide you are.

They are actually beholden to 1A, but you still can’t commit crimes.

More importantly, it takes the profit incentive away so “engagement” doesn’t matter anymore. The sites will always be there so they don’t need infinite scroll short video blasts to keep you entertained for several hours a day.
Mostly because of network effects and wanting software that will be supported for another three decades potentially and can open my document long-term. Google cancels products all the time and has practically no vision.
I’m afraid not.

The white and Jewish students of the time didn’t flee because of costs, but because they were suddenly surrounded by students that weren’t at all prepared for college. Why pay for a sub-par experience?

“Middle-class whites left CUNY in droves after tuition was imposed. Lavin said there was almost a feeling at the time that "CUNY is only worth going to if it's free."

“Lavin and some others still at CUNY feel that the fiscal crunch gave the board an excuse to tighten admissions standards and impose proficiency tests in addition to charging tuition.”

“George H. Hanford, president of the College Board, said his group was pushing high schools to improve programs so CUNY and other colleges won't have to spend so much time and money on remedial work. Half of today's entering college students requires such courses, he said.”

The fiscal crunch allowed CUNY to make a slow recovery, though as I said before
it never really recovered.

The CUNY experiment of open enrollment was a failure. Contrast that to the formerly-free but still highly-selective Cooper Union.
This idea is also what I am thinking about. At present, I am also trying to do applied research in this aspect. If it can achieve substantial help, it will be very meaningful.
Not going to be easy to change. The other thing is that it takes a 2/3s vote of the Senate to ratify a treaty.

Article VI US Constitution
...

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
I disagree, because industrialized gambling is very different from illegal gambling in terms of availability. I see the prevalence of slots in my neighborhood after they legalized gambling wholesale in my state and I don't think it's been made better by "regulation" except through some additional taxes, it's just made it easier to access.

The same could be said about prohibition for alcohol and tobacco. Raising the age for legal tobacco consumption did reduce consumption, and prohibition did lower consumption permanently for alcohol.
https://acm.umn.edu/404
AWS uses SQLite to manage EBS volume metadata. I remember reading about this some time back but can't seem to find the article now.
For my ChillTranslator project I spent maybe a few dollars fine-tuning Phi 2, to generate less spicy variations of inflammatory Hacker News comments with very little data to see how well it worked (especially compared to your 100M tokens). I'll improve it when I have time. I mostly followed the Brev fine-tune tutorial but I wanted to have a 2 GB file GGUF quantised model I could run on any device with a specific JSON grammar. It uses Transformers PEFT and QLoRA. I didn't try Axolotl yet, or OpenPipe but I hope to. Actual compute time is probably much less than I spent, I wasted time dealing with drivers, trying to figure out how to merge the finetuned weights, serialise to old fashioned Pickle, not safe-tensors, and how to convert to GGUF, quantise it and rsync it.