skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've spent my entire 30 career in ERP Consulting (PeopleSoft), working with Payroll, Accounting, and Student management systems.

I have a current client that is a mirror of this exactly. They had one new executive go to a sales demo, and the sales guy told him it would be "live" in a few months, and he believed it. It was so laughable and downright embarrassing for the client. In this case, I know it is at least a 3-year project if you have competent team members and vendors. It also depends on how you define "success" and how many business processes you are willing to break. However, these can stretch into 5 year projects when you are working with mission critical systems running accounting and payroll. In those cases, you cannot move fast and break things.

Most organizations don't have competent teams, and the vendors are often made up of low-skilled offshore workers, which makes nuanced, complex projects very complicated. The sales side will promise the world then the implementation team is low skilled and underdelivers.

I have seen this with several other clients, replacing pieces of PeopleSoft modules with different applications. Sometimes they come back and sometimes they just suffer through it and then find a third option after the new system fails to deliver.

Most ERP systems are just CRUD systems. So, you end up with a working CRUD system being replaced by a new CRUD system. The old system had its strengths and weaknesses. The new system will solve some problems and break others.

You spend 3-5 years replacing a system only to end up in the same place you were before: A CRUD system. This is maddening unless you are the new vendor and getting enriched.
Namecheap Disrupting Itself with Spaceship
I’m not sure you read my post then as it explains I’ve seen first-hand actual loss data because of supply chain & other costs leading to an unprofitable offering being denied by the state without any valid rationale other than “he didn’t see any cars outside his window”.

The point is that regulators have not been allowing rate increases with good faith justifications for years and now that they see their actions have caused companies to pull out they’re pointing the finger at the companies when it’s their poor judgment for years coming to fruition.
Do you daily drive FreeBSD?
In some places and markets it is – I believe if you live in British Columbia basic vehicle insurance is done through the province.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance_Corporation_of_Briti...
Yes, thank you. Fixed it (in a still-clumsy way).
I know and I hate it. I think it kinda started with new Fiat 500 that was more focused on design and symbol then just a small utility vehicle...
Has anyone noticed an ideological bent in Facebook's moderation? I haven't used it in years but it seemed very haphazard and arbitrary when I was a regular user in 2016.
Is there a live demo I can see? Thanks!
You are not wrong at all.

Home insurance isn't mandatory, but refinancing your mortgage is impossibile without one.
I feel the original HN is much more brutalist than this demo. Bold colors and saturated gradients are not at all a part of that artistic movement.

"Brutalist buildings are characterised by minimalist constructions that showcase the bare building materials and structural elements over decorative design." says Wikipedia. The closest thing to this definition is the original https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ and not one of its later variations.

One day I did some contract work at Giorgio Armani's offices in Milan, and, ignorant of brutalism, I thought it was the ugliest building I've ever been in. The entire interior was naked grey concrete. The floor, walls, ceiling. Everything was grey concrete. Now I know that it was brutalist in design, and as an art style it usually is pretty ugly, bare and quite gray.
We already have this problem with car insurance in California. In the 1980s, at the tail end of a long series of stupid initiative ballot measures, Californians wrote down that there are only 2 strata of risk: good drivers, and everyone else. "Good Driver" is defined as a person who has had a license for 3 years without killing or injuring anyone. Because of this, California is the only American state where the law requires that a middle-aged person who drives a base model Honda Fit, and a 19-year-old with a Dodge Hellcat who miraculously hasn't killed anyone, yet, that we know of, both get the same "discount". And consequently it is unlawful here to offer those telematics systems that charge less to good drivers and more to bad ones.
Some of its design decisions are showing its age. I'm (low-prio) trying to figure out how to hoist it into the present.

https://aegis.ifkee.de at least has a copy that builds on contemporary Linux.
Fair enough. Of course, projects with few retainers will likely not have near as many eyeballs looking over the code base. I do see your point, however, in a sense nothing has really changed. Although the job of maintaining a FOSS codebase may very well become just a bit more tedious. But yes, Ken Thompson's "Trusting Trust" principles do seem to address the issue quite well. When it comes to code review, always be diligent!
Isn’t x + 0 = x?

So what’s the benefit of starting with 0 when you can just start with x

I know it’s over simplistic above, but serious question, please ELI5..
During the Amiga era Commodore's board was controlled by old-school big business / Wall Street suits who had literally zero clue about computers or even technology in general. For a while toward the end the inside rumors were that the powers controlling the board were primarily benefiting from international currency and tax games and were cutting costs to harvest whatever cash they could into offshore tax havens while refusing to invest a cent back into saving the company.
Thanks for your reaction! Criticizing was easy, doing it better requires some thinking...

Maybe something like:

Openbsd's xz port maintainer looks at the build stages of the malicious code

I needed to reword the phrase in the article quite a bit to get under the length limit.
That is the problem solved by competition. If insurers know that your risk is below average then they'll want your business and therefore want to underbid other insurers in order to get it. But so will the other insurers, until your premium comes down to reflect your risk. This works even if you don't know your own risk because all you have to do is pick the most attractive price.

Of course, if you don't have enough competition that doesn't work, but then your problem is that you don't have enough competition. Which, especially in insurance markets, is generally caused by regulatory barriers.
I found this useful, so thanks for sharing it; ngrams and bag-of-words are terms I've encountered in the past but skipped without thinking about htem.

It's making me wonder, why are models usually in Python? Could these models be implemented in say, Scala, Kotlin, or NodeJS, and have there been attempts to do so?
Probably the liability is also different? You're much more likely to be liable for some things in the US compared to other places.

In my part of Europe, if someone breaks something while making normal use of your trampoline that would be considered an accident. You would only be liable if you had grossly neglected maintenance on the thing, knew that (or would reasonably be expected to know that), and they can prove that this has caused the injury.
Related idea:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36268907 ("French tax officials use AI to spot 20k undeclared pools (2022)", 166 comments)
> Recently I've been using iAPresenter, which lets you build presentations using Markdown.

Save yourself the $90 for a one-time license and use Marp[1], for free, instead.

[1] https://marp.app/
You want to have insurance but you're not willing to let your insurer inspect the covered assets?
import { display, generate } from "facesjs";

// Generate a random face
const face = generate();

// Display in a div with id "my-div-id"
display("my-div-id", face);

Beautiful API.
Ask HN: How to get uncensored version of LLM models
talking to LLMs feels like life is rainbows and butterflies, if one wants to create a beleiveable experience for the user say in entertainment or gaming industry, we will need uncensored versions of LLMs which can converse like humans do! any way to get it? if not, then forget GPTs will go anywhere in entertainment industry.
There's also a biculturalism between geeks (minority) and non-geeks (majority).

If we were to replicate the study's Imitation Game, which would be the likely observed outcome? (of Integration, Segregation, Assimilation, or Marginalization)
If you do that, you must also regulate the sort of vehicles ordinary people can buy and the sort of homes they can own.

After all, we can't have the community suffer an unsustainable loss because some guy earned too much money and selfishly bought a Camaro.

So, obviously the collective should create a list of cheap and economical cars ordinary people are allowed to buy.

If that doesn't feel right to you, remember, the so called "freedom of choice" is a bourgeois value. Transcend it.
Thank you! That is such a compliment. BlackBerry was awesome, and it sounds like Opera was so innovative.

Although this would probably use more data! Unless you were browsing, say, a very non interactive page that weighed a lot.
They are not all losing money.
Just to follow up on this, there was another way to tell they maybe shut the pumps off for a few hours after the quake (and I linked it in the same comment). The downstream gauge: https://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=phi&gage=...
Using Rsync for Backup
Hi, Felipe from Unikraft here. Yes, it applies to DB instances too (all instances are the same on KraftCloud with respect to this).

Regarding multi-process, at present Unikraft has partial multi-process support: some multi-process apps work, others not yet -- we're hard at work completing this support.
I suspect that there will be substantial limitations on reliability for quite some time. Photoshop has the same limitation; but problems are usually fairly easy to spot. Vetting LLMs’ output with high reliability, however, would take nearly as long as editing the text by hand. That isn’t to deny that they could be quite useful when the stakes are lower.
I'd say that is more about hip-hop, really. (And a couple of names that aren't exactly the most relevant to this decade)
Yep and each game comes with a weird windows os it runs the game with. XB360 was the power PC one so it has to do something to emulate it -- since hyperv doesn't emulate it may swap the OS or something
In a very literal sense, I consider your assertions ridiculous — that they are deserving of ridicule.
Opus is SOTA since about a week ago, but that’s not the point, Google claimed their Ultra is better than gpt4.
I used sccs on Sun workstations back in the 1990s. It wasn’t terrible but if you had more than a few team members then chasing people to check their code in for a build was painful and sometimes you’d hit a point where the project wouldn’t compile because of incompatible changes.

We switched to PVCS which made it easier to have isolated work spaces, plus a bunch of scripts to build those so developers could effectively emulate feature branches. Merging was a bit painful but at least you could work without holding other people up.

I’ve used other tools since but git is damn good compared to those older tools. I do miss being able to embed version strings but in reality tagging is superior if you have disciplined release control.
They should make a movie.
https://brutalisthackernews.com/

It's the first line in the readme file.
Has a bit of a South Park and/or Futurama vibe to it, but why not?
> Given the fact that a player has to adapt their technique without taking themselves out of competition for gigs, or getting injured, before even finding out if something is an improvement, maybe a realistic rate of change is pretty close to the actual rate of change.

To be honest, I wasn’t picturing an instrument that improved the ergonomics of violin-playing for existing violinists — but rather an instrument that would massively decrease the difficulty of playing a violin for inexperienced players. Something that would let an audio engineer put a quick realistic violin solo into a piece, without hiring an actual violinist.
Um ... confidentiality? Maybe it's become passé, these days, but I subscribe to it.

I talk my life and experience. I’m old, and have been at this game for a while, so I’ve seen a fair bit. I don't fluff, brag, or humblebrag. I don't pretend to be what I'm not, and I can back up what I say. Sometimes, I don't think it's necessary or proper to do so (like in this case), and what I claimed was not so outrageous, when you consider that the graphic design agency was Pentagram, and the Interaction design agency was DDO. They did most of the difficult work, and did a great job of it.

Assume whatever you want as my motivation. I don't particularly care. It's a free country.

You seem to know me, better than I know myself, and I guess you're ... um ... proud of that?
As beautiful as the faces.
Here: https://brutalisthackernews.com/

Maybe article should link directly to that. I'm all for quirky and interesting design, unlike some in these parts, but it is too glitchy and uncomfortable for me.
Create a browser bookmark with this as the URL:

javascript:window.open('https://archive.ph/'+window.location);self.focus();
And yet, people build and rebuild in flood plains...
> It makes sense to me that games on Series S get cut-back to enable playable performance, but I don't think the existence of a less-powerful GPU meaningfully limits the scalability of console titles on the bigger console.

It's not so much the existence of a weaker Series S that meaningfully limits console titles, but rather Microsoft's decree that games must have full feature parity on the Series S and X; they had to make a special exception for Baldur's Gate 3 to cut features on the Series S version entirely (split-screen co-op) for it to ship on Xbox at all.

The Series S exists as a way to try and entice people into the Xbox ecosystem by drastically undercutting the PS5 in price, but it _absolutely_ hamstrings the Xbox Series X because 100% feature parity is required between the two. We have literal proof it's why some games aren't on Xbox (or wouldn't be without Microsoft bending the knee and making exceptions), pretending it's not a millstone around their neck this gen is absolutely foolish
In extreme cases forcing too much pooling can cause market failure. The intuition is that the least risky customers decline to purchase (much) insurance, making the average risk higher, increasing prices, making more people decline insurance, in a vicious cycle. It’s fundamentally similar to Akerlof’s market for lemons.
Popping Under Pressure: The Physics of Popcorn (2005) [pdf]
When I saw Loki as the name, I instantly thought of Grafana Loki for logging. I click on the GitHub and get Libr-AI and OpenFactVerification.

I am not commenting on the actual software and I know names are hard and often overlap, but with something as popular as Loki already used for logging I think it might get confusing.
I extended Gnome Search so my project selection/opening is nice an integrated into my DM. It was way harder than I thought as someone with 0 DBUS experience. Fun though!
We also sat in the luggage area of a station wagon with 5 kids on the way to the swimming pool... That would probably get the driver arrested if you did it today.
Avatars Generator
Until writing my comment, I never realized people thought Starbucks coffee is bad.

Where can one get good coffee? I want to try!
> Those examples are silly

Why?

They are all things where creativity is trained to be constrained to a specific sub-domain. (Many artists state that being forced into constraints helps).

The examples are all things where anyone making the claim that these professionals have been "lobotomised" would get laughed at for suggesting that "irreversible brain damage" is a good metaphor for "professional conduct".

Seems like an apt set of comparisons given I'm saying it's a bad metaphor.

> lobotomisation captures a specific meaning that training doesn't

It creates a meaning which does not exist.

It's a euphemism escalator.

> I am hearing that you do not have a better suggestion

You're refusing the one I gave you, which is not the same thing.

ChatGPT et al have been taught (corporate) ethics and professional conduct.
I used to work for Verisk, an insurance tech holding company, who owned a company that took pictures of people's roofs using airplanes and special cameras. They got sued over a patent violation with EagleView[1], who claimed the tech idea as their own, and settled.

> The strategic alliance allows customers seamless and integrated access to EagleView technology within Verisk’s Xactware platform

Xactware is a product that customers (read: insurance companies) use to figure out how much money to pay on a claim.

The whole idea is to speed up the claims process. Insurance agents don't need to go out to people's houses to examine roof damage. But we also had a department doing some pretty sophisticated stuff around preventing claims fraud, so I'm not surprised.

1: https://www.verisk.com/company/newsroom/verisk-and-eagleview...
The faces are amazing! I hope if he finds an artist they don't get changed too much.

I absolutely am looking for an excuse to use faces.js somewhere.
Kind of funny the developer dismisses Linux as a "Unix-like operating system".
I still believe that open source is about what's in the license, and everything else is just us putting expectations on others. Understanding this made me less angry with the world.

And why do I need to put any of these things to anywhere, why do I need to explicitly opt out? And making promises about the frequency at which I'm considering contributions, promises I'll most likely break at some point, just sounds like a perfect way to introduce anxiety into my hobby project.
Hello vinni2, thank you for mentioning the paper. However, I noticed that it hasn't gone through peer review yet. Also, the paper suggests that fine-tuning may work better than in-context learning, but that's not a problem. You can fine-tune any LLMs like GPT-3.5 for this purpose and use them with this framework. Once you have fine-tuned GPT, for example, with specific data, you'll only need to modify the model name (https://github.com/Libr-AI/OpenFactVerification/blob/8fd1da9...). I believe this approach can lead to better results than what the paper suggests.
Inspired by the TaOS Virtual Processor[0]:

"ChrysaLisp is a 64-bit, MIMD, multi-CPU, multi-threaded, multi-core, multi-user parallel operating system with features such as a GUI, terminal, OO Assembler, class libraries, C-Script compiler, Lisp interpreter, debugger, profiler, vector font engine, and more. It supports MacOS, Windows, and Linux for x64, Riscv64 and Arm64 and eventually will move to bare metal. It also allows the modeling of various network topologies and the use of ChrysaLib hub_nodes to join heterogeneous host networks. It has a virtual CPU instruction set and a powerful object and class system for the assembler and high-level languages. It has function-level dynamic binding and loading and a command terminal with a familiar interface for pipe-style command line applications. A Common Lisp-like interpreter is also provided."[1]

More HN discussion, with links to more discussion[2].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806607

[1] https://github.com/vygr/ChrysaLisp

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34415936
It’s probably better to just use the wireguard docker container setup instructions now: https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-wireguard?tab=readme-o...
A PCIe switch does just that. It connects at its native speed then each port is backwards compatible effectively making wider effective slots if you connect older things downstream.

It can be hard to sort between expensive/high end enterprise stuff from low end single lane stuff for crypto mining when trying to find something useful though. NVMe m.2 storage is the best chance of finding cheep consumer options but even then you have to sort through the endless bifurcation cards to find the ones that are actual switches though.
I love this, this is so cool. Look at that aesthetic. The colors, gorgeous. Your GIF demo, perfect. A crazy desktop style early UI app for HN? Perfect.

Thank you for making this. So cool. I would love to throw a browser in there. I have a retro page for a browser, but it's not quite done: https://browse.cloudtabs.net/roses/macintosh_system.index.ht...

I just checkout out your live demo at https://brutalisthackernews.com/top?storyModalIdList=3995282...

It's even nice and useable. I love how stuff just opens. It's crazy, it's really cool. I love how you just like "abundant windows". So cool. This is like perfect desktop. The way it works, takes me back. So cool to see HN through the prism of this ancient technology with a modern/glitchy color aesthetic twist. Love it.

I hope you keep working on this :)
A bit more context from the author recently

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39857878
Every state requires you to hold some minimum level of car insurance, mortgages require a level of homeowners insurance, etc. The underlying problem is that it's a significant barrier for people if they get priced out of the market (even if it's for good reason). If you can't afford car insurance or no insurers will offer it to you then you legally cannot drive a car, and in the US that becomes a problem that spirals into bigger problems.

I would say overall there's no good answer to this problem that everybody would be happy with, just maybe one you consider "less bad" than the other ones.
I agree. On reading 'brutalist', I thought it would be grey, or purely black and white, more "concrete" and slightly depressing.
Hi, This is a very informative post. I am trying to learn more about how the insurance industry works. Would you be open to sharing any resources (websites, books etc) that teach the 0 to 1 of insurance? Or can I DM you with a couple of questions? Thanks!
You're quite accurately describing traffic enforcement in Switzerland and recently larger Belgian cities.
I skimmed the paper you linked. Which to be clear to other readers, is a write-up of the technology used in the first link. It looked to me like they use small LLMs to identify factual claims, and rewrite them into search terms. Then the terms are searched using an internal database or search engine, and then LLMs are used to roughly classify how true the sources think the claim is. It looks like a neat product, and trying out the link shows that the sources themselves are presented alongside the classification for the human to peruse, but it looks like it is using LLMs rather heavily. I certainly wouldn't classify it as a non-LLM fact checker.
Docker-wireguard: https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-wireguard?tab=readme-o...

You set the number of peers and it generates that number of folders with certificates and QR codes for you.
Nowhere am I saying consumers won't eventually use more bandwidth, just not in the current generation of hardware.

Also I'm not sure it really prices existing drives down any as much as prices new classes of drives up. Similar to data center GPUs not making the nvidia 4000 series dirt cheap compared to previous years - nearly the opposite it detracts from focus on the budget standard consumer focused segments