skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually realized I was using Firefox Focus on that Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. Just downloaded Firefox to try it and it's also the same as Firefox Focus...no issue. Could it be an extension? Fwiw, I don't have any extensions installed on any of the browsers.
A quorum across isolated facilities doesn't lose data unless a disaster hits all of them at once. Unfortunately, "disaster" includes a bad commit that is deployed too quickly.
Seems like it. The about page also screams ChatGPT. I had a quick look and a lot of posts have the same GPT-like style.
The larger instances, the larger moderation issues.

People are only people so fierce moderation will happen.
With smaller instances "blast radius" is smaller and it shouldn't be problematic like in centralized social media.
> A gallerist who wants to work with me says she can’t add a white man to her roster.

Pretty fucking disgusting that someone would openly say that to him.
I think another good way to attract industry would be to give clear IP exemptions for model training. Having t&d exemptions like in Japan or Israel would be huge for legal certainty imo
Imagine writing something with such honesty & the people reading don't stop to reflect on how this is just one facet of how the systems they prop up push people into operating to survive. They just judge the person, as though they live in a vacuum.
Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists in Paris
accounts that were blocked after due process, related to the 8 January 2023. Which might end up with the former president jailed. In Brazil law you can only silence someone if it is related to investigations, hate and unbased (opinion) defamatory speech.

January 8th is Brazil's January 6th. Former Brazil president was a bizarre world trump, with all the scandals happening later but in a similar way and same order. Elected from a Bannon campaign. Even the failure to second term reelection. everything the same but a little later. so bizarre.
HN ranking history for this thread: https://hnrankings.info/39962354/
“I ask a model what they would get paid for a shoot and propose $2,000 to Barney’s. They reject my proposal and offer a $1,000 gift card.”

Probably asked a woman model not a male model. Women get double what men get for modeling.
I am probably way off here but I also think of Norwegian brunost or Swedish messmör. Essentially boiled down whey.

It is certainly much sweeter than vege/marmite, and I am not sure the remainig taste could be classified as umami. But it has a very distinctive taste.

And, if I am completely wrong, at least I can claim that the consistency and color is similar to vege/marmite.
Fewer snarky comments like yours maybe.

I believe we won’t solve humanty’s pressing problems with more of the same.

We need more love and understanding for sure.
A lot of dismissive comments in here already by people who aren’t trying to make a living doing writing, art, or voiceover. It will be music soon too. Tutoring is probably heavily affected already too

“But those weren’t real jobs,” some might say.

So it doesn’t count until it replaces programmer jobs? Because that’s coming soon too. Would you really encourage your kids to go into this field, expecting them to still have good prospects in 15 years?

Also, we used to have a middle class with lots of authors and musicians and artists before the internet commoditized everything
It is not obvious to me at all that this problem needs to be solved or that it is even a good thing for social networks to provide such stats; but, if it actually somehow is important, it is also a problem that is trivially reduced to the same problem as spam: likes and follows are simply signed messages, not pre-aggregated counts, and if you balk at sending someone a list of a hundred thousand signatures they are trivially compressed using zero-knowledge proofs. Now... how to prevent people from making up a million real-looking bot accounts? That is harder (though I absolutely believe is tractable), but you have to solve that anyway lest rather than inflating likes and follows people just flood the system with replies (and it is also a problem the centralized system will also have to contend with, though it might have more strategies available to it).
Increasing the default vm.max_map_count value
Technically, there is competition. You are free to choose whichever notary you want. But pricing is legally regulated, so you will pay the same price everywhere.
The Indy/Indigo2 graphics - the Elan/Extreme/XZ - never had texture hardware, but would fall back to software. It wasn't until the High IMPACT series was released for Indigo2 in 1995 they had hardware texture mapping on their "low end" - i.e. desktop sized systems.
The rabbit hole on people gradually pulling up stakes on DNSSEC goes deeper than that; I'd say the canary in the coal mine is probably Geoff Huston switching from "of course we're going to DNSSEC everything" to "are we going to DNSSEC anything?":

https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2023-02/dnssec.html

(Geoff Huston is an Internet infrastructure giant.)

But really it all just boils down to the fact that the DNS zones that matter --- the ones at the busy end of the fat tail of lookups --- just aren't signed, despite 25 years of work on the standard. IPv6 is gradually mainstreaming; in countries where registrars auto-sign zones, DNSSEC is growing too, but very notably in countries where people have a choice, DNSSEC deployment is stubbornly stuck in the low single digit percentages, and the zones that are getting signed are disproportionately not in the top 10,000 of the Tranco list.
Cool! Which pg version is this based on?
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Are we going to hit bullseye?
Yes! Of course because the LLM is running locally it is not as advanced as bigger models like Claude or GPT, but you can definately quiz the documents. From my experience it performs better with specific questions rather than more ambigous questions that require extensive understanding of the whole document.
The Nicholas Carr "IT Doesn't Matter" responses link 404s, the correct link is: https://www.nicholascarr.com/?page_id=99. It looks like the original link used to redirect to this, but at some point the redirect was removed.

Archive link just in case that one ever goes away: https://web.archive.org/web/20150213164505/http://www.nichol...
The courts are still determining this, and it's an evolving topic, as evidenced by Nintendo's recent actions against a Switch emulator [1].

In particular, DRM circumvention technology is explicitly illegal to distribute in at least the US and EU, in a way that goes beyond regular copyright law. (The DMCA in the US has some exceptions specifically for video game archival purposes, though.)

Older games usually didn't have DRM in that sense; the concern back then was bootleg game copies, or unauthorized games [2], which the original consoles tried to detect and reject using "inverse DRM" techniques (i.e. the console authenticating the game, not the other way around). But newer games and consoles do explicitly feature DRM that might well be considered covered under the DMCA.

I don't think anyone can make qualified predictions on whether courts will find them legal at this point.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/05/the-solid-legal-theor...

[2] Nintendo and Sega tried to tackle that problem using trademark law, but were ultimately unsuccessful: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/11736/why...
I was living through that era with a zoo of Unix variants to build for (including, but not limited to, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, IRIS, Tru64 and various Linux flavours) - and I always was excited about stuff that did just have hand rolled Makefiles, as that was something that was way easier to fix as the average software using autotools.
This post was written in late January. Bluesky opened up early access to federation about a month later, which does change some of the perspective. https://docs.bsky.app/blog/self-host-federation
I hate the fact that Xbox One killed Xbox's momentum so much that people are dismissing or not recognizing some of the things that Xbox has going for it right now with Xbox GamePass and cloud gaming. This is a transitional generation, but Xbox is positioned a lot better than most people seem to understand if they only travel in the areas where console wars is the religion of the day again.

I've been replaying Halo 1 & 2 again and just remembering the infancy of console online gaming and how fun it was as compared today were its either absolute silence or mute worthy trash.
It's an arbitrary number, but I believe it should be fairly high in this idea I propose. (And this is all pie in the sky theory crafting anyway.)

My goal is not punishment as much as it is compensation. I want a world where if someone has a billion dollars, it's because they made good decisions and have proven to be good in the long term. Currently that is not the case, if someone has a billion dollars it might be because they made greedy short term decisions and then bailed and deployed their golden parachute and left others to clean up their mess.

I also think it's about liability. I like not being personally liable for mistakes I make a work, but I don't get paid millions of dollars either. I think once enough money is involved people should no longer be able to disconnect financial liability from their personal money.

I also proposed it as a conservative high number, because if this ever were to happen, you know talking heads would be screaming about it, but regular people are going to scoff when they learn the only threat is to take away wealth in excess of 20 million.
Silent, but deadly.
I don't know the implications outside of Germany although looking in the Wikipedia article it sounds it's an especially big deal here. If I recall it correctly from a back then mandatory course I did about it, it can even happen for an unpaid parking bill on an empty account.

I'd assume so but probably most legal matters are settled outside of courts. Also looking at it the other way around, it would be pretty silly if creating a GmbH would create immunity. Indeed I doubt it's applied very often but when trying new territory regarding copyright, it's probably worth a consideration that one may still be personally liable.

That said, my point is just that UG/GmbH is overkill in many cases especially if the company isn't making any serious money. You can invent a name, go to the town hall, fill a form so you can do business with it and it's possible to legally receive payments. Founding a GbR is a quite informal thing
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It's not a lifestyle I'd want to emulate. The author/character does seem to have some kind of moral code, at least. From my reading, it seems like he's OK with harming the "haves" but I didn't notice him harming any "have nots". I'd guess he's Chaotic Neutral alignment. From easydamus.com: "People who are neutral with respect to good and evil have compunctions against killing the innocent but lack the commitment to make sacrifices to protect or help others. Neutral people are committed to others by personal relationships... Chaotic characters follow their consciences, resent being told what to do, favor new ideas over tradition, and do what they promise if they feel like it."
It's been cavity free for 36 years minus a month in 2017
I think that guy's campaign is what resulted in SRL Semplificata in the first place
They say that array languages are pretty readable once you get used to them, too? But you’re drastically limiting your audience. Part of readability is writing for people who aren’t as fluent as you are.

Expert jargon can sometimes be useful, but it often obscures things that would be pretty simple if written some other way.

With Haskell there’s a tension between saying “I only care about writing for other expert programmers” and “more people should learn Haskell.” The idioms are part of the turnoff.
It’s unlikely you’ll lose it all, but suppose you write a clever app — maybe a cvs editor.

Suppose you find out your cvs editor infringes on a patent and you’re liable. Suppose some business suffers data loss and sues. These things do happen in Europe too.

Also, it’s just a matter of professionalism. A sole proprietor isn’t very professional and many medium-size businesses won’t do business with sole proprietorships.
Tl;dr: they actually didn't save themselves, a group managed to stop a project from going forward, for now.

Tourism, issues related with it and struggles are still there.

This is a problem that can easily be solved by the (local) government, or by the local community which needs to put an exorbitant amount of effort for some temporary (and unsure) victories.
Rails. Maybe even forget frameworks and just get good at HTML / CSS. We need more experts.
Wow, didn’t even know that. Guess I’ll update the post with this “fun” fact
I don't see anything about a movie called Interlaken being developed. On IMDB, I do see an Andrew Norman Wilson as the director of the short films he mentions in the article.

Who knows about the individual details in it. I'm sure it's sort of directionally true. It's believable at any rate.
Which is the point. A discrete fourier transform can never recreate a square wave unless you have infinite samples. It can only recreate the finite sampled signal (which is only an approximation of the square wave, and not a real square wave).

This means that sure, the Fourier transform itself isn't lossy (garbage in, garbage out) but Fourier transforms would be used in contexts where loss are introduced. If I have a real perfect square wave, and I want to a take a fourier transform of it, the sampling is going to introduce loss, so to associate sampling losses with the transform itself is fair. Real square wave ran through a DFT program on my computer is going to spit out an approximation of a square wave -- loss.
these two are worlds apart.
We're not really a managed Postgres service, for what it's worth (we like Supabase a lot for hardcore managed Postgres).
Sorry, that's not what I meant.
What I mean is: You are predicting that the overwhelming proof will ever exist.

This prediction may turn out to be true, but why should I believe your prediction over that of anyone else's? Do you have some insider knowledge or expertise that you can share?

Edit: Also, what do you give the odds of your prediction, by severity of outcome? I want to see how the odds you provide stack up against the economic and thus social consequences of under-regulation or over-regulation.
I've been getting into compression molding composites and remembered seeing this video some time ago that's relevant.

Wood pulp from paper products can be recycled using a blender, binder, and very similar compression molding techniques.
Thanks for sharing! I look forward to playing with this once I get off my phone. Took a look at the code, though, to see if you've implemented any of the tricks I've been too lazy to try.

`text_splitter=RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter( chunk_size=8000, chunk_overlap=4000)`

Does this simple numeric chunking approach actually work? Or are more sophisticated splitting rules going to make a difference?

`vector_store_ppt=FAISS.from_documents(text_chunks_ppt, embeddings)`

So we're embedding all 8000 chars behind a single vector index. I wonder if certain documents perform better at this fidelity than others. To say nothing of missed "prompt expansion" opportunities.
a person can be made to feel capable without requiring a living wage.

similarly : work exists outside of wages, as do co-operative and unpaid grand works.

the (probably fantastical) hope is that when a 'living wage' as a concept disappears it will free up people to pursue things that they're actually passionate about to form an identity and purpose.

put from another angle : do you think it's great that people can't find identity without employment?

it seems to me we should treat 'lack of identity and self worth due to lack of employment' as a pathology rather than something that we need to feed employment into. the human condition has lasted a lot longer than our current hyper-capitalism-centric ethos about work and passion; if people are becoming worse for it we should probably change the habits and motivations rather than providing their pacifier and acting as if it's a normal human thing for a psyche to dissolve when allowed to act as a free agent.
I don't get it either. I feel like this is so much unnecessary code, an emulator, a network stack...

Why not use something like https://testcontainers.com/? Is a container engine as an external dependency that bad?
Fantastic. An additional way by which someone looking for help or support from a human can be denied that help and have their needs offloaded to a technology that probably can’t help them.

Here’s how I see this playing out: practices start to use LLMs to answer patient queries to save money. People realize their queries aren’t actually being answered fully (or at all?) and stop contacting their doctors at all. Practices save money and patients get worse outcomes. Exactly as we’ve seen in customer service over the years - talking to a human is nearly impossible.

An alternate possibility is the LLM gives such bad advice that it causes irreparable harm to a patient and nobody can be held liable because the doctor didn’t issue the advice and neither did the company which produced the LLM.

The universe where an LLM used in this situation does anything positive for the patient is vanishingly small. But I’m sure providers and practices will love it, since it effectively will allow them to not do part of their job and increase margins respectively.
It seems like some art student guy's journey leveling up from food coupon couch surfing to movie director. Dunno if real or not or what the point is. Feels like trolling to piss people off?
He lives this way intentionally. He could get a job as a UX designer at Staples.com whenever he wants.
IBM System/360
> There is not strong evidence that the levels of PFAs most people are exposed to cause any health issues at all. It is, of course, concerning. Nobody likes the idea of materials building up in their bodies.

I mean the research is still relatively new and ongoing [1][4] where “most of the hundreds of PFAS currently in commerce have limited or no toxicity data” [5]. And in 2022 the EPA posted “…updated advisory levels, which are based on new science and consider lifetime exposure, indicate that some negative health effects may occur with concentrations of PFOA or PFOS in water that are near zero.” [2]. On top of that there are lots of PFAs which cannot be individually tested for — In 2019 the EPA “can now measure 29 chemicals”[6] out of “thousands of PFAS chemicals” [7] — which means many of those tests are only checking for a small subset of this class of chemical (though the older and more widely used ones have been prioritized for testing).

Also where do you get your control group from for low level exposure? It takes time to bioaccumulate and most people are already exposed to some degree —“Nearly all people in the United States have measurable amounts of PFAS in their blood” [4] — through many different sources — “There are thousands of PFAS chemicals, and they are found in many different consumer, commercial, and industrial products. This makes it challenging to study and assess the potential human health and environmental risks.” [7].

Some other interesting links/articles:

- https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/pfas_contamination/map/

- https://www.consumerreports.org/toxic-chemicals-substances/i...

- https://www.su.se/english/news/it-s-raining-pfas-even-in-ant...

- https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/welcome-to-b...

- https://cen.acs.org/environment/persistent-pollutants/US-EPA...

- https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-anno...

Sources:

1: https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/pfas/health-effects/index.html

2: https://www.epa.gov/sdwa/drinking-water-health-advisories-pf...

4: https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/pfas/resources/pfas-information-fo...

5: https://www.epa.gov/assessing-and-managing-chemicals-under-t...

6: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-announces-new-method-te...

7: https://www.epa.gov/pfas/pfas-explained
Does HR really require a legitimate cause to fire someone. Why do they care ?
I one form or the other I believe there is everything, just burried under piles of crap.
Nowadays search engines are just broken, they don't find anything.

There are couple of things I couldn't find recently. Maybe couple business ideas for ya.

1. How to stop procrastinating instantly and easily, maybe it should be an app?
2. Everything in one torrent. (You just click, 500GB downloading and done) What if you're planning 100 years trip to another star. Or what if you're trying to start the civilization from the beggining? It should have at least wiki 100gb + llm + couple of books + offline maps etc
> it sends a copy per follower, meaning if 10 users on one server follow the same user on a remote server that remote server sends 10 copies of the message

That's not right. Most AP servers operate a shared inbox. So you only need to send one message - no matter how many followers you have on that server.
What you describe here sounds a little like the line of work centered around Universal Transformers, which basically process the input embeddings through a single transformer block multiple times with a separate module deciding when the embeddings have been cooked enough and can be pulled out of the oven so to speak.

Even more in line with the idea of "experts" there's a paper from last year on Sparse Universal Transformers in which they combine a universal transformer with sparse mixture of experts, so it's up to the gating mechanism to decide which transformer blocks and in which order are to be used in shaping the embeddings.

This really isn't my specialty but from what I gathered these are tricky to train properly, and require more overall compute during inference to reach comparable results to their vanilla transformer counterparts. It's an interesting direction nonetheless, having an upper bound on the number of computation steps per token is, in my opinion, one of the major downsides of the classical transformer architecture.
If tech had people like this I might actually enjoy my job
It is still a zero-sum endeavor because all this new wealth didn't materialize out of thin air. It was created by people, and specifically by people doing productive work with their hands and their brains - which does not describe the suits on top, no matter how much they try to convince us otherwise. The reason why the latter end up with most of this newly produced wealth in their pockets is simply because they have access to a wide assortment of mechanisms to collect economic rent from the people who actually produce - this is the zero-sum part. The notion that, without the suits, the wealth wouldn't have been produced at all is nonsense.
> > China subsidized their entire industry for this reason.

China is only reactive, insane ideas like solar panels being the lionshare of power generation or Electric Vehicles being the lionshare of vehicles don't come from China.

Indeed they come from the U.S. or I should say the affluent areas of big costal metropolis in the US, places where people have no real, tangible problems and can afford to think what will happen in 200 years time (when both them and their kids would be sitting 6ft under becoming food for worms) and they succumb to the so called Messiah Complex
those sound like great enhancements and something to explore in part 2, thanks for the inspo
Is there a good text to speech interface? I’d like to use one to help me to help proofread
Tesla Rebranded FSD Beta to Full Self-Driving Supervised [video]