skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is there a demographic collapse if housing is easily affordable? Most of my friends here in the EU allocate the biggest chunk of their salary to paying rent for single-bedroom apartments, I don't dare to imagine what a horror would it be to live in one as a family with children, having no individual room for yourself and no individual rooms for them. I am fortunate to have an extra room but having kids still means giving up my home office room turning it into children bedroom. Isn't this a major factor in making decisions about whether or not to reproduce?
> leaving only the benefits.

Well.. those and the liabilities and risk.
It was most likely done by a government. Not just one hacker.
She's executed only if she does not return at least $27b of the $44b stolen.
There are developers who have breadth and developers who have depth. He is very much on the breadth end of the spectrum. It isn't lack of intelligence but lack of deep knowledge of esoteric fields you will use once a decade.

That said I find it a bit astonishing how little Ai he uses on his streams. I convert all the documentation I need into a rag system that I query stupid questions against.
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> most people just don't care that much about news

I stopped caring about what was happening on the world stage in 2022, and it has been sublime. I hear about the big things from friends and random folks, and it gives some instant conversation starters (“oh no, I hadn’t heard about that”). The only news I actually care about is local news, and I skim the newsletter my (small) city publishes on Fridays.

Given that, there is zero value provided to me by traditional media publishers. I say this as someone who gets NYT, WSJ, WaPo, and FT for free through work. I don’t use them, because I’d rather spend my time doing something else.

No judgement here though—if reading the paper is your thing and you like staying informed, that’s great and I fully support it. Just offering my perspective.
I was talking about Kirin who did use the generic cores. Qualcomm had at times their customized cores closer or farther from the generic design, with mixed success.
I'm curious if that would work for me. How many megabytes was the export?

By way of reference, mine is currently around 7mb.
Obviously I'm describing the ideal situation, and sometimes practical realities mean we have to compromise on the ideal.

Still, as much as is practical, we should try to avoid throwing physical documents out even if we know they have been scanned.
> ...direct path to really affordable housing, at least so long as you aren't living off of Japanese wages.

Isn't the term "affordable housing" meant as "affordable by local residents"? Otherwise most of the world has affordable housing, at least so long as you are living off SF wages.
It may be different in the USA though because of the first amendment?

If google decides to delist, forcing them to list news sites would constitute compelled speech, would it not?
How does your solution fix the issue you described? You still need a pile of partials, they're just moving where they're rendered.
Identical twins both grew up with autism, but took different paths
My first code was vb6. Shoutout to any nerds from the #vb6 private chat on AOL. I made some aol "progz" as we called them--mainly programs that interacted with the AOL client, sending automated messages or watching for commands.

I started building websites in the 90s, that's where I really learned. I wanted a website to exist, so I built it. I learned enough to implement the features I dreamed up. I started in HTML with server-side includes, and moved up to PHP which was my first proper web language. Things we take for granted (databases) were not always known to me--my first projects were all flat files with custom naming schemes.

The first code I remember seeing was GORILLA.BAS, in middle school. I began writing BASIC programs in composition notebooks. I don't have the notebooks anymore, and I doubt they would run, but they were choose your own adventure type games. I didn't have a computer until I was 16, though.

I also have run linux as my main OS since I was 16, and that exposes you variously to a lot of code, or at least it used to.

I've worked professionally as a web dev for many years based on this self-taught experience. I think the best way to learn to code is to build what you want. It will push your limits, but you'll stick with it because you need the thing. Even when you're very experienced, you have to learn new things with new projects. New APIs or libraries, new languages. So get used to it, just dive in and learn what you need to know today. It's easier than ever.
Your telling me it's illegal to pay someone to illustrate my copy of a book? It's illegal to commission a translation of a book for personal use? Is it illegal to pay someone to read a book to me?
if the awesome secret-keeping seems a little too clickbaity, here's this to consider.

from the OG 1992 article "https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/july/25/br..." :

```One former government official says he was told that so many people in the White Sulphur Springs area knew about the facility that the government dispatched two men who had not been briefed on the project to mingle with the locals, posing as hunters, to learn just how much was known and what was being said. According to the official, the two returned to Washington a few days later with so many details about the facility that they had to be given top-secret clearance.```
> medical hazard

Ha, ok that seems really likely now that it has been pointed out.
20% of the building’s value sounds like a very generous sum for new windows and insulation.
Is it a less aligned model or a... cringe aligned model? Or something? I can get uncensored models through ollama. They don't try and fail to be cool in the way x formerly known as Twitter grok does, at least as I've seen on x, formerly known as Twitter.
What's stopping them from just delisting news sites? Doesn't the first amendment protect that?
But it is a 360 they want people back in office just with different words.
Japanese light novels were almost certainly in the training set, either in their original Japanese, an English translation in that Books2 pile, or in a fan translation that happened to get scraped.
Not so fast. If you were evaluating the model on its ability to predict the next word in a Harry Potter book, you'd be right, because it's already seen the entire book, but that's not what's happening here.

The linked X post shows that the user asked the model to generate a graph of the characters, which was presumably a novel question. This is a legitimate test of the model's ability to understand and answer questions about the training data. Repeating the books in the prompt for emphasis makes sense, since the model probably didn't memorize all the relevant details.
> All the books have ~1M words (1.6M tokens). Gemini fits about 5.7 books out of 7. I used it to generate a graph of the characters and it CRUSHED it.

An LLM could read all of the books with Infini-attention (2024-04):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40001626#40020560
Well I don’t expect the average gamer to know about these things. I was talking from the perspective of services that offer the ability for you to spin up servers in the context of Counter-Strike. Popflash is one of those services and you can look at the pricing to see what I mean.
There is everything wrong with that if that wasn’t the deal to begin with. You’re paying for information and they’re deliberately injecting noise in the signal. It’s degrading the quality of what you’re paying for without a commensurate adjustment in the rate.
A senior editor just admitted they are biased.

You can try and guess my politics (you'd be wrong), but I can guess that you don't think journalists who agree with your politics can be biased. I can agree with NPR's politics and still admit they are biased, why can't you?

https://www.allsides.com/news-source/npr-fact-check-media-bi...
It is weird that there is still no obvious comments about abundance of such objects in Japan (with fan community around them), or from even bigger “urban exploration” crowd.
It seems from the replies that he tried it without the context too and didn't get as detailed answers. I'd really like to see the actual difference, but yeah, it would be so much more interesting to use books which aren't summarised and discussed all over internet.
It doesn't matter if it's a team working for a state actor. You'd still be pissed your 2 year project failed so close to the finish line.
Cross-country comparisons like that tend to be hard. It's hard to isolate whether the metrics you're analyzing are because student loan defaults aren't allowed, because of the student selection pressure from an oversized military, because of a culture which views responsibilities and cohesiveness differently, because of secondary funding options, ....

There are many such factors, all of which plausibly matter as much as loan defaults, and since the vast majority of the country you'd like to compare to will tend to be homogeneous with respect to those confounders you often can't find many (if any) actual alternatives to compare to. Statistical approaches to appropriately tease out signal from noise in the larger data set are easy to get wrong, even if you get lucky and actually have comparable data in the first place (e.g., including trade schools or not in the metrics, similarly with associate degrees, counting "in-progress" loans with different payment timelines (treating a truncation bias differently), ...).
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I got a green card while on E-3. Make sure your visa doesn't expire while you are in a no-travel period, as you might not be able to renew it if you have a pending change of status (or so I hear - was not applicable in my case).
How Much Is Too Much When It Comes to AI in Daily Life?
may be ubuntu? i tried it 6 years ago, and 8 and 10, and other linuxes like suse before. never stick.

but now linux works like magic. i upgraded 3rd laptop in 3 years. just moved my nvme and all worked, even kernel and drivers in place upgrades.

i used dell and msi laptops. i was shocked that it works well on few month old released msi laptop. dell had touch screen, and it was working too.
The training data may not be HP itself. It may be millions of pages summarising/discussing/dissecting HP, which already contain the relationships spelled out better than in the book itself.
Slowdowns happen for all kinds of reasons. Life comes first. The explanation behind the slowdown wasn’t relevant here or a factor in the attack. They exploited the growing need for a co-maintainer. Airing the dude’s medical issues, particularly out of context to an unintended audience, isn’t awesome.
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Around 1981-1985, smog was quite bad in the SF Bay Area. It was a horrible brown-yellow.

I don't think most people appreciate how far away it is to reach Mt. Hamilton or how precarious the road up it is. Took a couple of gfs on drives up there.

I used to bike up Hicks Road near Mt. Umunhum.

Other good vantage points: the top of The Dish route behind Stanford and the observation deck of the de Young Museum.
Steam allows for adjusted pricing based on country. It is common for games to cost more in US/EU versus other regions.

Additionally, and perhaps perversely, much of a games sale volume tends to be generated during seasonal promotions (Steam Summer/Winter Sale, etc).

Pricing a game at $3 doesn't give you anywhere to go in terms of a discount.
State actors (probably the case here) can handle all that stuff.
Exactly that. The major magazines have been done already.

If you have something obscure, there's a good chance it hasn't.
> Getting rid of books is part of running a library

It depends on what kind of library we are talking about.

Local public libraries, K-12 school libraries – they throw out books all the time. They have quite limited space, so they can't keep books which are no longer relevant to their target audience.

National libraries, research libraries of leading universities – many of them rarely or never throw books out. I remember, when I was a university student, finding IBM 1400 manuals sitting on the shelves in the stacks. They are probably still sitting there. I believe they turned their last 1400 off in the 1970s.

I remember borrowing a book, and according to the due date stamp inside its cover, the last person to borrow it before me, had done so 40 years prior. You could tell the books that hadn't been borrowed in a long time, because they still had punch cards in them, from back when the library had used punch cards to track book borrowing. If you actually borrowed such a book, they'd remove the punched card and discard it as part of the borrowing process. I bet if I went back today (20+ years later), there would still be books with punched cards in them.
Sure. Copyright is something that Wikipedia has to deal with, so there's a guide for contributors (which also links to the article on the relevant legal doctrine) here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Close_paraphrasing#S...
Google's new technique gives LLMs infinite context
Also electric heaters are dirt cheap - get a bunch 20$ ones
The world would be a better place if you did not. This is pure grift.
Is commuting on a TN visa possible for a Canadian living in Canada? Let’s say I had to commute to the office in the US 2 days a week, and live the remaining 5 days back home in Canada while working remotely. Is a TN good enough?
That's true, but the model still analyzed all that disparate information and produced a very detailed graph of the relevant relationships. If anyone can show that the graph itself was in the training data, then I would agree that it's not a good test.
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Congrats, you've reinvented the laptop.
https://archive.is/f9uZP
I know people who've found this out the hard way, and I have, too:

If you offer it for free, someone will take it. But asking ANY money is agreeing to wait a long, long time.
It's a novel question and impressive that Gemini was able to solve it but the tweet's author is claiming that this is because of the large context window and not because of all the Harry Potter related training data that was available to it.
Maybe, but a lot of the would-be companies often get starved of revenue and die before the big companies exit. Until then, the big companies are often giving things away for free, or at a loss, or bundling them in an anti-competitive way (see MS Teams). That doesn't leave much room for a startup to survive.
Ask HN: How is Clojure for DevOps work?
I've always liked Lisps, and I have a good friend in there who is (a) all Lisp all the time and (b) recently moved to DevOps. His move has me pondering whether there's some unknown strength Clojure has in the DevOps arena that I don't know about as an outsider to the JVM ecosystem.
HTMX gets all the hype right now, but there are other tools in the same vein, my favorite being Unpoly (https://unpoly.com). Together with Shoelace (https://shoelace.style) you get nice GUIs real fast, without the burden of complicated dependency management and build steps. Also, you don't have to write a lot of JS, just what is needed for small enhancements, as it was meant to be. Some might say the main drawback is the tight coupling to your backend. In my case, this is also the main benefit as it integrates perfectly with the backend framework (Django).
Disclaimer - I'm not a lawyer

"Have I broken the law?" is a tricky question. You have, by the strictest letter of the law, engaged in an activity that could be deemed grounds for deportation and/or future denials of the visa. But by the same interpretation ~100% of visitors in the country are breaking the law and violating the terms of their visas in some way. So unless you yourself go to an immigration officer and say "I intend to engage in an illegal activity please deny me entry" you will be fine.
Given that it is pretrained on the material, it would be interesting to do a differential test on in-context reinforcement. What is the recall % before reading the books and after?

I know, for instance, that gpt4 does much better with the python manual when we quote relevant context, even though it was trained on the python manual. This suggests pretraining is less than perfect.

Likewise, in the Harry Potter case I expect a significant difference between its background knowledge and the context enhanced trial. But I don't have intuition about the effect size we should expect! That makes it a fun experiment.
Yeah, I went to Switzerland in one of your followup trips to meet with the arms-length-contract cryptographers. (Which was legal at the time, but a loophole that got closed a year or two later because Sun's "ELVIS+" project for funding a russian team to do non-US crypto got too much attention...)
EPA has specifically addressed this in their EV FAQ because it’s such a common dig: https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/electric-vehicle-myths#Myt...

This was discussed previously and the consensus was that break-even point with ICE is around 20k miles which is not a lot
Then it is fraud.
Ok I'll just say it, why not use jquery instead ?
asking gpt for help is awesome these days, it speaks like good old linux user friend i never had.

i used linux on high end dell and msi laptopx not problem with battery.

linux really works way better now it did 6+ years ago, erased my trauma all my 4 attemps for years to use it.
Not if this is one of a few dozen or few hundred similar ongoing operations. The risk is always there, they have to expect some amount of failure. Open source software is constantly being probed for vulnerabilities in every way possible, from random commits to high level members of committees for standards. Every operation is one in a grab bag of disposable and deniable efforts.

I also am a little biased and assume being burned in state-sponsored acts is similar to the no-blame culture of breaking infrastructure in tech :) because by all accounts this compromise was extremely well done, until it wasn't.

Also, we can't be sure the compromise wasn't intentionally telegraphed to cause some other action (using a different library) on purpose.
From: https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-...

“Alcohol is a toxic, psychoactive, and dependence-producing substance and has been classified as a Group 1 carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer decades ago – this is the highest risk group, which also includes asbestos, radiation and tobacco. Alcohol causes at least seven types of cancer, including the most common cancer types, such as bowel cancer and female breast cancer.“

There is no safe dose.
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> The fundamental question remains: considering the in-depth knowledge of low-level (a small scale disassembler), system programming and the practical application of data structures (i.e. using a trie for all string operations to avoid the use of string constants), was it a state sponsored attack

I think you're missing where the difficulty is. I'd argue the technical knowledge here isn't the hard part here. You can find more than enough folks who would know how to do everything you listed outside of any state-sponsored context. The hard part is the methodical execution, including the opsec, backup plans, plausible deniability, false identities, knowing how to play the long game, being able to precisely target what you want, understanding human psychological tendencies, identifying unforeseen security vulnerabilities, etc... these are the things that I imagine are likely to distinguish talented individuals from state-sponsored actors, not something like "knows tries and x86 assembly".

And taking all those into account, this absolutely smells state-sponsored. I just see no way that a private entity had enough of an incentive, foresight, experience, and patience to play such a long game with such careful maneuvers.
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it works on WSJ, I use it for that site.
for some bypasses, it doesn't "just load the page" but rather pops up a link to archive.ph or similar to pull the article, still convenient

I also point out there is "bypass paywalls" and "bypass paywalls clean", kind of similar to the uBlock family with "uBlock origin" being the "good guy" edition
Please share some rules for the commoners
Is everybody with mental health issues required to offer them up for public discussion at every opportunity?

His mental health wasn’t relevant to the attack from any report I’ve read. That makes it a bit odd and more than a little thoughtless to highlight it.

People slow down on projects for a ton of reasons. The guy could have been in chemo or had a kid. The result would be the same: he’d need a co-maintainer to keep the pace. The attackers would’ve capitalized on that. They’d plainly been waiting for whatever opportunity would work.
This is cool, but if you want to see the proper extension of this style of computer, check out a Panasonic CF-31 Toughbook. They can be had for pretty cheap on eBay, and are amazing. In every way the opposite of the cost-cutting and cheap material you tend to see in consumer electronics. It’s the level of quality of a MacBook, but directed towards an ideal of “rugged” instead of “sleek”. Really a testament to what modern manufacturing can do when unbridled from the constraints of cost and popular aesthetics.
Because the world became a zero sum game in this respect.
> a thread about prior art

since I wrote that: it's actually pretty rare that a defendant can actually use a piece of prior art in a case, but there's always a hope that ONE time, you will.

The other difficulty is that lawyers and jurors will make fun of anything that's too old. I know, it isn't fair, but you do have to overcome a built-in bias against ancient stuff.

I realize you're not talking about litigation, but that was what I meant.
I can’t see how this map would be useful to anyone. While it gets some of the relationships right, it has a bunch of unneeded detail and focuses on areas not crucial to the stories.

At a service level, LLM’s wow, but when you dig into the details there are often still huge gaps in output quality for many tasks.
That's a good point. I would describe this as a test of Gemini's ability to re-read something it's already familiar with, not a valid test of its ability to read a large new corpus.
I actually lost about $5k on cheapETH running servers. Nobody was "defrauded", I think these people don't understand how forks work. It's a precursor to the modern L2 stuff, I did this while writing the first version of Optimism's fraud prover. https://github.com/ethereum-optimism/cannon

I suspect most of the people who bring this up don't like me for other reasons, but with this they think they have something to latch on to. Doesn't matter that it isn't true and there wasn't a scam, they aren't going to look into it since it agrees with their narrative.