skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's possible that some software did it on their behalf; I believe GPGTools submits keys to keys.openpgp.org, for example. (However, I don't know what the UI flow looks like, it's possible that it could be made clearer what.)

Also, the WKD draft has nothing to do with what's going on here. KOO is not the same thing as WKD, and is not in beta. It's a key server, and the concept of key servers has been around for ages. (WKD has been quite widely adopted as well, despite being only a draft, but that's an orthogonal discussion. It would definitely be better if it became an RFC.)
lot to unpack here but what i been told by my vietnamese coworkers is that this is "vietnamese pig butchering" (not like the one you hear about involving Tether).

They let fraudsters (pigs) accumulate capital by any means. Then they butcher it for political and financial capital. Government looks like a hero and they are able to keep the lights on.

In China, this has been going on for a while (ex. evergrande, HNA, Silicon Valley Bank, Tether) and online sleuths have uncovered crypto projects/funding from China are also another "western pig butchering".

SBF, Do Kwon are similar to Truong My Lan in that they are also "useful pigs" with many smaller "pigs" below them pulling capital into a "jurisdiction tor network". Some pigs are on the spectrum and do not require greed as motivation, simply the fame and recognition from having created "something" for other pigs is enough.
these kinds of stories are such a joke, why can i not just give someone my public key and that should be enough to communicate with him forever? how is that not user friendly? because he can lose the key? you just give it again. you just use some decentralized protocol with a DHT or something and the only step the user ever has to do is get the public key of the person he wants to add. net result is far better off than nonsense like email, dns, and x509. and i had this exact same rant 15-20 years ago too, it's amazing how everyone is still chasing the same carrot.
The smart ESXi admins I knew used Compact Flash cards as the system boot disk. (It has been too long since I've been in touch with those guys to remember if they offloaded logs to local disks (or maybe a datastore on a SAN) or if they also wrote them to the CF device. I bet they did the former, but I no longer clearly remember.)

Using an SD card is just nuts.
Sinc3 when?
And you?
I think there's a bigger underlying problem with the current GPT-4 model(s) atm:

Go to the API Playground and ask the model what is its current cutoff date. For example, in its chat, if you're not instructing it with anything else, it will tell you that its cutoff date is in 2021. Even if you explicitly tell the model via system prompt: "you are gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09", in some cases it still thinks its in April 2023.

The fact that the model (variants of GPT-4 including gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09) hallucinates its cutoff date being in 2021 unless specifically instructed with its model type is a major factor in this equation.

Here are the steps to reproduce the problem:

Try an A/B comparison at: https://platform.openai.com/playground/chat?model=gpt-4-turb...

A) Make sure "gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09" is indeed selected. Don't tell it anything specific via the system prompt and in a worst case scenario, it'll think it's in 2021 as to its cutoff date. It also can't answer to questions about more current events.

* Reload the web page between prompts! *

B) Tell it via the system prompt: "You are gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09" => you'll get answers to recent events. Ask anything about what's been going on in the world i.e. after April 2023 to verify against A.

I've tried this multiple times now, and have always gotten the same results. IMHO this implies a deeper issue in the model where the priming goes way off if the model number isn't mentioned in its system message. This might explain the bad initial benchmarks as well.

The problem seems pretty bad at the moment. Basically, if you omit the priming message ("You are gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09"), it will in worst cases revert to hallucinating 2021 cutoff dates and doesn't get grounded into what should be its most current cutoff date.

If you do work at OpenAI, I suggest you look into it. :-)
High school grades/class rank. And then (at least this is how MIT used to do it although I'm sure most schools have some variant of the process) you have all the qualitative stuff on the other axis: letters of recommendation, interview, high school activities, sports, other types of projects, etc.

I expect very few schools just mechanically admit based on SATs.
What is the excitement around models that arent as good as llama?

This is clearly an inferior model that they are willing to share for marketing purposes.

If it was an improvement over llama, sure, but it seems like just an ad for bad AI.
Look, a lot of people throw their heart in soul into $FOO, and a lot of them give up or never succeed (if they can afford to keep failing) because they aren't getting the results, not just vice versa.

Slow and steady doesn't win the race against fast and steady.
But if this “follow” feature is reducing subscription uptake, then there is a hidden cost that amortizes to more than 10%.
Goldman Says It's Time to Take Tech Profits and Invest Elsewhere
https://archive.is/onjY5
A holiday project: Porridge – find and book the best things to do
You should totally post that.
What is the point of creating a startup aimed at harming an industry? Why? Out of all the startup ideas that exist, with all the problems humans are currently facing, your idea is to play amateur artist, without having a shred of skill in that area, and to call that a startup? Let me tell you something, if you're not a musician, you can use all the tools you want, your music will never have soul, it will be empty and sound like everything else. Now, I'm telling you this straight, I hope this startup fails and leads you to take a different path, one that's useful to society, that is not aimed at creating chaos in an already fragile industry. Good luck with your other startups.
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

https://twitter.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538
The problem is that tests do not ensure that high quality students are admitted.

Tests measure only that you are good at answering tests under heavy stress and at cramming for them. The whole teaching/learning to test thing - you don't learn to be able to understand and practically use the knowledge but cram to pass the tests and will usually promptly forget most you have "learned" in this way after the tests are over.

Not really a lot more. There are plenty of very good students that are just terrible at tests - either because they don't cope well with time pressure or because they learn in a different way and standardized testing is unable to capture that because of its "least common denominator" focus.

And don't get me started on people with very common disabilities like dyslexia or dyscalculia - neither of which has anything to do with intellect and sufferers of either can be excellent students. However, they will fail horribly at any kind of standardized testing.

So it is only a cheap to administer and easy to evaluate (just count the points) proxy for actual performance and knowledge that are much harder to objectively assess. But a very poor one.

And then there are the various sports stipendia and legacy admissions and ... that basically bypass the entire process as long as you are either good at football/whatever or been born to a well to do alumni family.

Let's call tests what they are - a cheap and somewhat objective filter to fit the large amount of applicants to the much smaller amount of available places. And don't delude ourselves it has anything to do with quality.

(I am a former university teacher and have done a specialized course in university pedagogy, including assessment)
Not requiring testing seems late stage ideological-cultural destruction plan to displace America, the values and guide rails that allowed the West to prosper, attempting to displace merit.

I did as little work as possible in high school. I was depressed due to unknown reasons at the time, diet playing a large role in that - as well as being high functioning autistic, Asperger's, and so in classes I cared about then I was passionate in - getting the only or one of the only 101% in a computer class that that high school had given anyone due to my quickly doing my assignments and then helping anyone else who needed help.

The teachers who saw me excel in their classes fought at the end of high school, my final year, when deciding what final grades to give - pitted against the teachers who saw the absolute least motivated and incompetent versions of me; they settled on giving me 80% honours - which allowed me better placement at top tier universities, technically 2 points above where my grades would have averaged otherwise - but where they had discretion.

It's time the pendulum begins to swing the other way again - and then for proper education to begin so that it limits or prevents it from swinging again as far as it has recently.
The question wasn't whether hard work was needed. The question was whether genius was needed. Hard work is table stake.
https://opentofu.org/ is better than terraform, as it’s a fork that happened before terraform became not open source.
Some truly priceless lessons from Spielberg's life story. He's like a wizard when it comes to making things happen, starting with dreaming big from a young age and fearlessly reaching for the stars. His journey really speaks to me, reminding me to embrace life's twists and turns, value loyalty, and push through tough times.
Thanks for the reference. I downloaded the book, and looked up the parts that talked about newspapers, in particular. I found the arguments to generally be counter to what the industry has figured out, in terms of actual survival.

From the late 90s to the early 2010s the news industry was very pro-active about making their work freely available to everyone. This made enforcing copyright on news articles not really a thing. Coinciding with this the news industry rapidly shrunk, and is now a shell of what it used to be.

Interestingly, the trend of "free" reporting is now strongly reversing. Many publications now put most of their work behind a paywall, no longer freely giving away the material they produce.

From the book:

"The distribution of news on the Internet makes an interesting contrast to
the distribution of music. While the RIAA has used every imaginable legal
(and in some cases illegal) strategy to keep music off the Internet, the news
reporting industry has embraced the Internet. Most major news agencies
have a Web site where news stories may be viewed for, at most, the cost of
a free registration. Far from discouraging the copying of news stories, most
sites invite you to "e-mail a copy of this story to a friend." In fact, news
is available so freely over the Internet that it is possible to create an entire
newspaper simply by linking to stories written by other people. An example
of such a "newspaper" is the site run by Matt Drudge, which consists almost
entirely of links to stories on other sites. Yet the incentive to gather the news
has not disappeared. According to intellectual monopolists' preaching, this
should be impossible: to report from the Sudan requires the huge cost of
going there in person, but copying that same report is as cheap as it can
possibly get. So, why are highly paid journalists traveling to the Sudan to
get the news?"

What the authors of this book don't state is that, the ramifications of this shift to "freely shared" news has meant that far fewer journalists are out there actually reporting. (The layoffs have been massive.) They go on to say, just a few sentences later that "the news industry has been thriving, profitable."

Obviously, this is just not true. The news industry is struggling. The layoffs have been massive. This type of pain in the industry was happening in 2008, when the book was published, and continues still.

With the authors missing such glaring (and important) facts, it's hard to take their arguments seriously.
Looks like von Neumann was the first Open Source computing guy. And I had no clue that Goldstine was the designer of the IBM 701 and the public domain IAS was it's engineering ancestor. So an early example of monetizing open source too!

"The IAS Machine was highly influential, though, and plans for its design were distributed widely, partly due to von Neumann’s insistence that advances be kept in the public domain. Many computers were built using the IAS Machine as a starting point, including the first IBM Mainframe, the IBM 701."
Changing ISPs will change your IP address, and IP geolocation databases are not always accurate.

Unless the ISP in question also controls a certificate authority, it is not possible for it to block an individual website served over HTTPS by altering the status code. The fact that you get a 451 indicates that the server is blocking you.

[edit: DNS over HTTPS and other secure-by-default policies in most modern browsers also frustrate ISP blocking/hijacking of individual sites]
Society is biased, and universities prepare students to be successfull in the real world. While yes we should all remove hidden biases where possible, but we also need to be cognizant of some of those biases to BE successful.
Comment #42069 on "HN doesn't understand the Internet Protocol". This opinion is frequently repeated here on HN but -- you CAN'T use IPv4 internally and expect to talk to external IPv6 hosts.

How would this IPv4 internal host (say 192.168.1.10) send a packet destined to 2001:db8::1? You can't stick a 128-bit IPv6 address into your IPv4 packet - there are only 32 bits available for the destination address inside its header.

NAT is not magic, it cannot extract a 128-bit number out of your 32-bit number.
Comcast / Xfinity put "Typical upload speeds" of 114.98Mbps at my address on the "300Mbps plan" nutrition facts. But in reality, all plans from 50Mbps to 1000Mbps are hard-capped at 20Mbps.

What's going on here with the discrepancy between "114.98Mbps" and what I actually see on my 300Mbps plan, which is a hard cap at 20Mbps upload? Is there something I'm missing?

I also love how Xfinity sells a 2000Mbps plan at my address with a 1.2TB data cap. There are 730 hours in a calendar month - if I used that plan I'd blow past the data cap in under 1.5 hours. WTF? "Here's a monthly internet plan -- make sure not to use it for more than 1.5 hours in total next month or the price will suddenly more than double"
I like using Out of Office for everything not work related. It shows up when anyone tries to schedule a random meeting on me.

This is also a rare circumstance where having a disability is an advantage. Companies are legally required to allow me to prioritize my health over my job without discriminating against me. They aren't allowed to ask.

I wish it didn't require having a disability to be treated like a human being instead of a disposable resource on somebody's balance sheet.
This very forum was roasting anyone saying this a year ago lol... Hype cycles are funny
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Don't upload your key to a public keyserver with an email address you have to verify you don't want to receive encrypted things with. That is the opt-in!

Usually the problem is the exact opposite, it's really annoying to find someone's public key even if they have given you the key ID or mentioned they can receive such mail.
Yes, and H, ^J, ^K, and ^L is what moved the cursor on the screen of the ADM-3A because they are on the home row.
Thanks... I didn't think that would compile on .net 6, but it does!
Absolutely 0 had ever paid off. Probably worst was trusting too much a colleague perceived by everybody as Oracle/plsql guru, when troubleshooting vendor's abysmal performance of DB queries during some bigger migration (up to half an hour easily, for trivial 30 million rows). He didn't see any issue on DB side, pointed to useless oracle hints, crappy JDBC drivers, spring's jdbc templates, possibly my not-optimal code etc.

I went over my head, did probably the most complex code in my life, massively parallel, over weekends and evenings. That wonderful cathedral didn't move performance a zilch, just made debugging and further changes much harder. After few hours of actual debugging afterwards he found out vendor defined responsible DB table in such an obscure and bad way way that we had to literally copy whole table to another more sane one, and perform all the work there in maybe 5% of the time. In fact I suggested exactly same thing initially but it was quickly dismissed by him, and who questions the guru, right.

This didn't even come from management just colleague's incompetence/ego, hard deadlines, tons of pressure to deliver, and starting project already 2 months late. Closest I've been to burnout yet. I am still a bit pissed off on him, but I know it was not malice so that eases emotions quite a bit.

And to similar request coming from the top - been there, done that too, regretted that time & energy put in it. These days, 8 hours days, if I am not making it on time, I communicate early & clearly and that's it. They handle it, and if they don't, well there is always next job. Life is about priorities.
If you wrap it into a “hosted blog” service, it could make a lot of money. You won’t get commissions on the payments without being a “platform,” but that’d be your differentiator. It wouldn’t be a VC style billion dollar business but it could make multiple $100k per year revenue. And you could scale price by number of subscribers (like newsletter providers already do) rather than percentage of payments.
I've never even been asked in 10+ jobs over a 20+ year career where I went to school, and mine had a great engineering program (which I had terrible grades in). They might have noticed it at the bottom of my resume but never asked.

Some of the best programmers I've had the chance to work with had no degree, though I know that's an HR bar in itself to leap over.
It's not that SAT scores don't predict anything, it's perhaps the case that the very loud signal it provides will overwhelmingly favor those with more resources.

Using the SAT as the sole or primary factor for selection means that we are going to end up widening the wealth gap over the long run.

That doesn't mean that it shouldn't be used, but that if we want to converge towards a more egalitarian society, then these institutions also need to properly weigh other factors when selecting candidates and also provide more support to students from less advantageous backgrounds and with less resources.
> I think you're being sarcastic, but the purpose of leaving the garbage bins outside is so that the garbage trucks can pick them up, as their contract stipulates that they pick up from the sidewalk and not from inside the (numerous) buildings.

Uh. Where I live – on the other coast – we just place our trash in plastic containers. We place them on the street the same way. Garbage truck picks them up and the driver doesn't even have to get out of the vehicle. No rats, more efficient, no people cutting their hands because they are picking up plastic bags and there's glass shards in them. Nobody has to even touch the containers.
AWS made 90.8 billion in 2023. I think a $525 million charge for using a smaller company's intellectual property reflects exactly what you're saying.

If IP was more important then the lawsuit probably would've gathered more than half a percent of Amazon's revenue for something that was '"essential" to the ability of Amazon's cloud-computing arm to "store and retrieve massive amounts of data."'
I’m using this library to generate embeddings with gte-small (~0.07gb) and using Upstash Vector for storage.

It’s only 384 dimensions but it works surprisingly well with a paragraph of text! It also ranks better than text-embedding-ada-002 on the leaderboard

https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard
EVs are saving Americans billions, even for people who don't drive them
The options seem to be:

- Sacks of rubbish left on the street, potentially for many hours (e.g. café closes at 18.00, rubbish is left outside until collection at 05.00-07.00). London has this in some central areas. [0] (took about 3 tries to find this.)

- Individual bins (usually with wheels) for each property, which must be left at the front of the property. It can seem excessive if there's not much space to store them, you end up with a road cluttered with bins. Many towns in Britain have this. Literally the first place I looked [1].

- Almost-individual bins. I saw this somewhere I stayed in Sweden, where one house had the recycling bin, and the next had general waste, and so on. Half as much bin clutter on the street.

- Larger bins, shared between several properties. Much less street space, much less effort for collection. [2] (also London). In many cities in Europe these take up one parking space on each street/block.

- Larger underground bins, which are neatest but presumably the most expensive solution. [3]

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/@51.522472,-0.1188006,3a,75y,50....

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@53.8093732,-1.5728046,3a,75y,10...

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4893475,-0.1432088,3a,90y,22...

[3] https://www.elkoplast.eu/underground-containers
I don’t need to enter that for Apple Pay, IIRC? Maybe I do when using it on the web, though. Or I need to do a 3D secure “approve in banking app” flow.
I had the opposite experience with RDP and Debian 12 / GNOME 45. It marks the release where I can easily tell family how to enable RDP in GNOME from the settings (or do it myself if ssh is available). Next release had even more refinement: https://release.gnome.org/46/#remote-login-with-rdp

'grdctl' managed to be able to configure everything with RDP the gui does. VPNs help to secure the port though. I wonder if your experience hinges on trying to work it out with vnc instead of rdp.
Report: https://www.synapse-energy.com/evs-are-driving-rates-down
But if they're not looking at test scores, then they start admitting 80th-percentile applicants without knowing it. Applicants that got help writing their personal statements, or padded their time in high school with the "right" extracurriculars. The ones who have a 4.5 GPA because grades don't mean shit anymore.

Plenty of high school graduates have the 4.5 GPA and a snazzy personal statement and all the right "add-ons", but aren't actually equipped to succeed at Harvard. The SAT is plenty useful to evaluate that.
To me the most important feature for this would be getting back stems as detailed as possible instead of a final mix-down. This way I could take "suggestions" or interesting parts/instruments from your AI, and use it in a track. But I am not sure how your model works, and if it's even able to produce stems, or if it directly generates a mixed track.
Thanks! That's good to hear.
The unit tests have an emoji test (which uses a surrogate pair). I thought I would have to use Runes, but it's not necessary. https://github.com/kjpgit/SmallestCSVParser/blob/master/Smal...
Sports? What does sports have to do with schooling?