skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been looking at these a possible Mac Studio competitor for prosumer inferencing but the current models on the market are not attractive for this purpose. Expect the model being advertised here to be available to own for quite awhile.

I do sort of think this is where things are going to be headed though for inferencing - massively parallel DDR memory and a fast ARM cpu. GDDR and HBM based solutions just seem to cost too much.
The threshold should be self-awareness - nothing arbitrary about it.
Shifting it forward?

His first three books were published in 81, 84 and 86.

I agree with you that the foundational period slightly predates these, but I don't consider the foundational period to be the same as when "hacker culture was established".

I began to encounter it myself starting in about 1979 via CoEvolution Quarterly/Whole Earth Review, but it was still very, very much evolving and continued to do so in very noticeable ways as I started programming in 1984.

I tend to consider the general use of IP as probably one of the main signifiers of hacker culture being established, and that was far from common in the 75-85 period (though growing rapidly).
So on paper: you write down 8 right away, and add an underline each time the next column results in a carry.

When doing mental math on-the-fly: the carries may chain all the way back to the least significant digit, but most of the time you only need to look ahead one or two columns.
https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Suasion-Revolutionary-Way-Influen...
I think what will emerge eventually are LLM architecture specific ICs.
They are not complex enough to have personalities. Being shy or bold are not personalities, but just lowlevel behaviors dictated by the presence or lack of particular genes.
> realistically if the the attacker can do the MITM he can probably also figure out how to modify the contents on the webserver, in which case TLS does nothing

Sorry, I don't see how that follows. If you had access to the webserver you would never even attempt a MITM attack in the first place.
It could, and then the hanger would be facing the other direction, and everything would simply be mirrored left-right. The last arm to hold the hanger still has to replace it on the rack, which means it needs the hanger's hook facing away from it, which only happens when there have been an even number of exchanges between arms. Thus the need for that extra exchange.

That extra exchange could have been done after putting the shirt on the hanger, but that would have been more risk for it falling off again.
As someone who's travelled to about 30 countries in the last 2 years, I used to dismiss until I went to Turkey few months ago. It is the only country I've been to where there are BTC ATMs and signs everywhere. At the Airport there are bitcoin company logos on hangars, and in the terminal. On the streets you see the bitcoin logo everywhere.

It's very useful for Turkey as it has 100% inflation yearly and the ATM fees are 10-20% to withdraw money. Apparently (from other travellers), it's very useful for the Russians to withdraw money in Turkey as well.
>Nobody is saying how you should behave in your bedroom.

May I introduce you to the legions of anti democratic groups vying to do just so?
The Story of the The Soviet Z80 Processor
There are certainly antecedents and ancestors for hacker culture long before the 1970s, but in the post I was replying to, the term used was "hacker culture was established", and I would argue that none of these early anticipatory elements represented the "establishment" of a new culture.
There are thriving dollar and crypto black markets in Nigeria and Argentina. Government does not appear to be getting them.

I am not talking about the irs as you seem to be imagining.
I've been playing with Llama 3 8b instruct but I've found it to be surprisingly low quality compared to some of the better Mistral 7b finetunes (zephyr, dolphin, openorca). Rather surprising because there's no way Mistral or any of the organizations doing the finetuning did even a fraction of the training volume that Meta did.
If your intention is coding something complex, you should try a model finetuned for that, i don't think llama 3 is that good for coding. But i used standart prompt engineering stuff, same as from llama 2. Instead of chat, you use a completion mode, where you just need to give it a text to continue writing from.
Why Dolphin Isn't Coming to the App Store
'cit' is the term used for consciousness in eastern philosophy. There is no other word.

cit is definitely consciousness, citta is not, it's a part of prakṛti.

What you're probably referring to is citta. There's a difference between citta and pure consciousness.
Influence Is Your Superpower by Zoe Chance. She's an award-winning Yale professor and the chapters are pleasant to read and insightful (and may be read fairly independently from one another.)
All well and good, except a lot of us here go out of our way not to build software on top of proprietary software. (It’s a pain in the neck to move between cloud providers, sure. You’re kinda stuck with that sort of lock-in. But RDS is popular only because it’s a hosted PostgreSQL. If you don’t like it you can switch to the real thing.)
Driving Uber, house sitting, programming, tending bar at a brewery, AirBNB your guest room, dog walking, etc.
That's all fine, opinionated stuff. I too cackle at the thought of Musk walking away from this whole ordeal with nothing. My post simply corrects the factual errors in the other guy's post.
You might not be trying to sell them but you are still taking up their time. I talk to kind of a lot of folks who reach out to me with a similar ask because I'm happy to help when I can. But 90%+ are warmish intros from someone else I know.

I'm partially talking to the person to help them out, partially to help out the introer who I already know, and partially because who knows maybe this person will actually be good to know.

Can you get intros from others? One way to do this is when a random cold outreach does agree to be interviewed by you, at the end of your call you can say, "Is there anyone else in your industry that you can introduce me to/that I should talk to?"

Even better if you've looked at their linkedin connections and can say, "Hey I noticed you are connected with X and Y. Do you know them well enough to introduce me? I'd love to have a similar conversation with them."

If they say yes then send them a pre-written intro to make it as low lift as possible for them. "Hey x, I asked y if they could introduce us. I'm looking to learn about painpoints for yada yada..."

I've used that strategy in the past and branching like that tends to have a much higher success rate than random cold outreach.
...which themselves are unique projects that might as well separate from the L1 chain entirely if they intend to actually solve the transaction bottleneck issue. Stuff like Lightning is cute on paper, but it really only stands to make you realize how horribly doomed the main currency is conceptually.

L2 chains are where I stopped being interested in crypto. It's like reading the plaque of Ozymandias and thinking to yourself "Ah, the desert. What a lovely place to build my next palace."
In Japan, infrastructure is centrally funded. So roads, water, sewers, schools, and police services continue even if the local population can't pay for them.
Bitcoin doesn't require internet, the blockstream satellites broadcast the block chain as well.

https://blockstream.com/satellite/
Great demo. I've grown to do all of these things instinctively, but quite often I pair with folks who get surprised with all I can do with multi-cursors and asking me how I do this. I don't have a great answer because I just kind of have these mental reflexes, I never made a list of all the techniques I use. This demo will be on my list next time.
I suppose there are many factors involved but education is the key component. Knowledge, and a culture of knowledge can cause a massive shift in thinking and actions.
Yes, however there's a big difference between Cloudflare and an arbitrary MITM. If you think Cloudflare is mangling traffic in a malicious way you would need a shred of evidence to substantiate that claim.

I would also push back that "most websites" use a 3rd party TLS terminating CDN/proxy layer in front of the actual webserver.
How is it going to keep itself decentralized if the smaller players get out every time there's a halvening?
The location: https://www.google.com/maps/@25.5879436,39.7629388,1317m/dat...

If you zoom out there are a crapload of lava flows and volcanic craters nearby. A bit to the east there is this landscape: https://www.google.com/maps/@25.6327898,39.9400629,22944m/da...
The merch tho
Using families as a counter example is quite a strawman, no?
Magnetically tunable supercurrent in dilute magnetic topological insulator
Study suggests Io's volcanoes have been active for 4.5B years
Do people really use bisect in their professional life?

Can you sensibly use it without an enforcement of every PR being squashed, as otherwise you have not working, half baked commits all the time while bisecting? And you can’t compile, not even saying about stating if your bug is still reproducible or not.
I mean I think that bitcoin is a dumb project, but layer 2s clearly make sense and are an inevitability - another chain has custody and keeps track of its own state and lets you do custom things there.
The threshold isn't actually intelligence; it's reciprocation.

Chimps have superhuman short-term memory, but they're not granted personhood.

A tree can be infinitely intelligent. If it doesn't do anything with that intelligence and can't communicate, and we couldn't profit from that intelligence in any way, we wouldn't care about it -- even if we somehow noticed it.

If the tree can benefit us if we don't harm it, we suddenly care.

If it can hurt us if we hurt it, we care.

If other entities which can help us will do so as long as we don't hurt the tree -- or if they will hurt us if we hurt the tree, we care. (For example, this can be other humans with respect to their pets.)

If it exhibits the specific kinds of intelligence that we care about, like talking, or if it simply moves us emotionally, we'll care.

These are all reciprocations of social contracts we're forced, by our biology and by game theory, to respond to.

That's the threshold. Power grows from the barrel of a gun, not an abstract notion of intelligence or consciousness (which, spoiler: is a religious nonsense concept) or whatever.
I think you would be shocked to know how that compares to the emissions of the US military which some argue forms the security backing the US dollar. [1]

“There are no solutions, only trade offs - Thomas Sowell”

[1] https://archive.is/DVWZs
Would you mind sharing any examples of somebody accepting transactions on behalf of the Bitcoin network over HAM radio?

Obviously it's possible, if you can make a TCP connection over carrier pigeon, you can make it over anything. I'm curious to see a working example however.
Internet Archive Stands Firm on Library Digital Rights
I suppose one could say video games are a net positive as they entertain humans.

Gold mining provides a resource that is used to build other products.

Bitcoin itself is not required for a transaction, any other form of currency could replace it. The mining provides no value, it is not a good usage of the compute power. Evening finding ET would be better than what it’s currently doing. That power could be used for all kinds of things, versus solving a block of data with trial and error.
Synth wars: The story of MIDI (2023)
Looks good, but I could not type special non-english characters!
> It's a rare combination of economic incentives and technology that keeps chugging. Nobody can stop it.

About as rare as email spam? Or SEO content farms? There's a lot of phenomenon that are hard to control in a distributed network; Internet Protocol was designed for exactly this.
Working people could save money in a currency that didn’t inflate. If you start looking for signs of Bitcoin, you see them everywhere. Every convenience store near me has the option to buy BTC with a crypto ATM or point of sale system. It’s far easier for someone with some extra cash to buy crypto than stocks.
Signs of multiple sclerosis show up in blood years before symptoms, study finds
The Future of MySQL is Postgres [pdf]
Postgres is on the rise. MySQL is in decline. But there are a helluva lot of MySQL applications out there and developers still building against it. While the industry is moving away from MySQL to Postgres, the only solution for this is traditional migrations, which--let's face it--are manageable from a data standpoint, but a pain in the ass to address with applications.

Today, at Postgres Conference 2024, we introduced a PostgreSQL extension we are developing, which enables MySQL applications to run on PostgreSQL without any code changes by supporting the MySQL wire protocol, SQL syntax, and procedural language. It addresses MySQL's large database performance issues by leveraging PostgreSQL's features, such as enhanced partitioning, analytical queries, parallel query, advanced indexing, and materialized views. The extension also gives MySQL developers access to the comprehensive PostgreSQL extension ecosystem, including columnar storage, vector database functionality, and in-database machine learning, providing additional functionality. I mean, Oracle just released a preview of JavaScript procedural language support in MySQL in 2024, whereas our extension inherits Postgres' PLs, giving MySQL developers access to in-database Python, Rust, JavaScript, et al.

Not only that, but our solution consolidates database management, eliminating the need to run both MySQL and PostgreSQL systems, which is common among 75% of businesses using PostgreSQL. This approach improves productivity and simplifies operations.

Our Alpha will be released in July, Beta in September, and we expect to be GA by EOY. Questions welcomed.
The U.S. is actually one of the best in terms of demographics in the western world. We make up for it with immigration. Most of the western world is declining much faster than the U.S.
Governments, Big Corps can easily co-ordinate a 51% attack on any proof-of-work networks.

If BTC's marketcap is $1T and it'll only take $5B for a 51% attack, there can be some arbitrage opportunity for a large hedge fund determined enough.

The only thing preventing this is the attacker must execute this flawlessly including attacking all the forks that may happen.
>The historical family

Is this a serious comment or flame bait?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_family
Complete opposite impression here
Ultimately a whole new generation is finding out about the value of a union. You don’t need collective bargaining rights up until the point you disagree with the company you work for and decide to vocalize it. Then you find out how few rights you have.
I definitely understand the optimization of keyboards especially for certain types of work such as programming — It's what I spend 90% of my time doing. But I would argue that there are just as many use cases where a mouse is actually faster than using keyboard with shortcuts. Design work would be one of those examples, and it's not a small industry.

I guess what I feel is missing is "Keychron for mice". Keychron took the pretty niche mechanical keyboard market which was mostly targeted towards gamers or extreme optimizers and tailored it for productivity with their default macOS compatibility. I doubt the Logitech MX Mechanical keyboard would exist if Keychron didn't exist, which I take as a sign of their success.
Ground-penetrating radar will seek bodies of water on Jupiter
Wait, do we want to live in that kind of democracy? Literally the whole reason that I love democracy is it lets the people set the rules, then gets out of the way and lets people do their thing.

I could not disagree more strongly with the notion that democracy should be the mechanism by which businesses should be run.

Democracy says which choices we're okay with, but businesses and people should totally have the autonomy to decide which of the allowed choices to go with.
This has been happening for many years. There is a lot of commerce in Lebanon and Argentina conducted in crypto, usually USDT or USDC (dollar-backed stablecoins).

At this point to argue crypto has no utility with a straight face is just being willfully blind.
Nice one! While I knew all of these except [cmd]+[k], but this is a very well explained resource to share with more junior devs! Some of those are really useful when refactoring. The only small change for me is that I normally let Prettier do the final formatting, which not only saves time but also serves as a visual clue that the code is semantically correct (since prettier won't format incorrect code).

Next one in this list should def be about using the "Replace" box effectively, where you can use Regex and $1 and other advanced stuff (you can even do it across files if you are brave enough).
Even if you had the money, there's not enough hardware for sale to get 20% of mining power. Not even 2%. High-end mining hardware (most efficient) is almost always sold out.
What happens when the last coin is mined and there's no incentive for people to run the network of computers that validates transactions? It seems like at that point the value would go to zero.
The problem is the government has to acquire the hardware. There isn’t 51% of the hash power in spare mining equipment lying around. It’s all decentralized.
I want an OS where every text area has multiple cursors already.
The cybersecurity landscape is going to shift and OpenAI seems to be working on that.
Yeah. Way to move the goalposts from the praises that Bitcoin evangelists historically, and currently, sing though.
> he's not eliminative with consciousness

Feel like he is though, second only to maybe Michael Shermer, or AI investors (zing!) The definition:

> Eliminative materialism is a materialist position in the philosophy of mind. It is the idea that the majority of mental states in folk psychology do not exist.

There's no way I'll find the video, but he said at one point in some interview almost exactly this: That most of the mental states we think we have don't really exist. I think it's also in his book Consciousness Explained (1991), but I didn't read it so can't be sure.

I always thought this is what upset people so much about Dennett - the apparent total denial of experience.

Yet this is an incredibly slippery slope! Anyone familiar with Chalmers' Hard Problem should intuit that there are "primitives" of experience that when put together make up the total experience. I agree that the Hard Problem is an accurate assessment of the issue, but given this "primitives" concept I agree with eliminativism in that "most" of the mental states we believe we have never existed, we were somehow "filled in".

I'll namedrop 3 more philosophers: John Searle (Berkeley), Donald Hoffman (Irvine), Colin McGinn (London, Oxford) - all of whom have excellent content on YouTube that will blow your mind, and these are maybe the best I've heard from on the subject.
Cosmic rays streamed through Earth's atmosphere 41k years ago
>it's very useful for the Russians to withdraw money in Turkey as well.

"This product makes it easy to illegally bypass international sanctions" is not the compliment you think it is.
Ignoring banks for a moment, consider the US military which some claim protects the value of the dollar.

According to The Atlantic, the US military alone counts for 5.5% of global carbon emissions.

https://archive.is/DVWZs
For Jetbrains users, you can find these in Actions by searching "occurrences"

For Mac specific shortcuts...

Ctrl + G adds the next occurrence to the selection

Ctrl + Command + G adds all occurrences in the current file to the selection
Comments generally covering the situation well.

The one thing I take as a bit of a potential bitter irony is that if Redis had had the level of support & contributions ValKey has, Redis Labs might have been able to keep doing what they were doing?

Seemingly a bunch of companies are happy to start paying for open source, when weeks ago many were passive consumers.
>>> "YC is pretty explicit that they try to pick founders, not ideas, most of the time. That approach is all over the Startup School videos, for example; they don't exactly make a secret of it."

If Y Combinator truly prioritizes founders over ideas, as indicated in their Startup School videos, repeated rejections might suggest a fundamental mismatch. If you haven't been accepted after one or two tries, it may be a signal that you're not the type of founder they're looking to fund. People do not change that much usually.
Prevalence of PCO and PCOS in lesbian women compared with heterosexual women
So, the thing is, that's not actually a feature.
Research offers more precise determination of neutrino mass
Can somebody run a quick experiment for me so that I can add the results to my table?

https://taylor.town/penis-table-test

Sorry for the vulgar language, but here is the prompt:

> Give a table of average penis sizes by country.
And here comes the argument about the lightning network that I literally have been hearing since 2017.

For as "inevitable" as it's supporters claim it to be, it sure is taking a long time for anyone to care about it, outside of bitcoin maxi twitter influencers.

The rest of the crypto industry has moved on. It simply took to long for bitcoin to be used for anything outside of speculation. And other chains have taken up the actual transactions usecase.
Not even 90% of those 200k live in the USA, so I seriously doubt 90% of them donate to one party in one country.

Even for USA employees, assuming that 90% of them are US citizens who are allowed to donate money to a political party at all is very dubious. In fact, many are from countries with very different political ideals than either ideology in the world USA.
Miners would still collect transaction fees.
No I have a great life full of friends and family and success. Being obese is a physical ailment, such as being addicted to heroin, except it’s donuts and cheeseburgers and pizza. It will kill you. I have family who are extremely obese with all of the usual ailments associated. It’s very sad and 100% preventable, and recoverable. But they would rather die I guess.
I've challenged myself to a subscription that'll waste my money if I don't commit to it. Just to see if money can get me off my ass.

After 3 years wasting it, I can confirm that my ass is heavier than money.
Have you checked out mice marketed for gaming? Particularly for MMOs, you’ll find a few 10+ button mice. I’ve been a happy user of Logitech’s line up, for what it’s worth.
No advice has a 100% success rate. The existence of failure cases doesn't inherently make the advice bad. The advice to pursue your passion as a startup idea is still relatively good advice. It's the best way to avoid the most trite and cliché ideas. I don't know what someone passionate about spreadsheets would create, but it would be more unexpected than building a generic AI writing app. Whether it succeeds or fails.
Strange a decentralised money supply can be coordinated so easily for changes. Is the miners already so concentrated they can do whatever they want.
Ah, I see, I understand but I haven't encountered that terminology used that way. I tend to think of one-hot encoding as not a vector space, however, as the information is actually only lg2(10000) per token. However the embedding vector of 512 or however many floats includes lots of information from positionally related tokens, so it's quite a bit more than lg2(vocab).
That's just the energy that goes into making them, what about the energy that goes into playing them? Has to be at least an order of magnitude greater