skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep (the 0x.tools author here). If you look into my code, you'll see that I'm not a good developer :-) But I have a decent understanding of Linux kernel flow and kernel/app interaction dynamics, thanks to many years of troubleshooting large (Oracle) database workloads. So I knew exactly what I wanted to measure and how, just had to learn the eBPF parts. That's why I picked BCC instead of libbpf as I was somewhat familiar with it already, but fully dynamic and "self-updating" libbpf loading approach is the goal for v3 (help appreciated!)
Seems like a great choice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WpMlwVwydo

I think I'll petition NHTSA etc. to make this song mandatory for electric vehicles.
Tim Wu Is Out of Control
The featured article is Mike Masnick's response to a different article by Tim Wu titled "The First Amendment Is Out of Control".
Never heard of "FL studio."
Soda additive "no longer considered safe," gets long-awaited FDA ban
> My biggest regret is not money, it is that Git is such an awful excuse for an SCM. It drives me nuts that the model is a tarball server. Even Linus has admitted to me that it’s a crappy design. It does what he wants, but what he wants is not what the world should want.

Why is this crappy? What would be better?

Edit: @luckydude Thank you for generously responding to the nudge, especially nearly instantly, wow :)
> We did not know mobile phones and e-commerce were going to be huge back in the 90s.

Eh? We did. The whole dot-com boom was predicated on that assumption. And it wasn't wrong. But most of the dot-com investments went sideways. In fact, they imploded hard enough to cause a recession.

In the same vein, even if we all agree that AI is fundamentally transformative, it doesn't mean that it's wise to invest money into it right now. It's possible that most or all of these early products and companies will go bust.
If you get downvoted, it’s because you threw a trollish text without any arguments or explanations to back it up.

If you did, this could have been a good and useful discussion.
NASA selects SpaceX to launch a gamma-ray telescope into an unusual orbit
> Instead, try to realize that a broad consensus forming means you actually hold heterodox opinions, and if you think you have a good basis for them that’s fine, but if the foundation for your point that everyone in the world is too stupid to see what’s REALLY going on then maybe your opinions aren’t as reasoned as you think they are.

I haven't even formed much of an opinion either way, yet. Sure, I have doubt, but that's more of a default than something I reasoned myself into. I'm saying it's just way too early to make statements either way about the future of LLMs and AI that are anything beyond wild guesses. "This time it's different, it's fundamentally transformative and will obviously change the world" is a religious statement when made this early.
No, anti-authoritarian, and pretty much leftist, as in against hierarchical order and for an egalitarian society.
If tiny hearths with fat-covered sticks were common elsewhere, this would be a valid objection. But as it is, this seems to be a distinctive practice that is present at the same location separated by 12k years, and the ancient one was buried and so not observed for most of that time. What's the alternative explanation except a common root in a cultural practice?
> I'm honestly not sure which kind of a different response would one expect after murdering more than 20 million Soviet citizens in the four years before that.

Ah yes, FOUR years, 1941-1945. Because the year 1939, when you signed a secret pact with Hitler dividing Europe, jointly invaded Poland and even held a joint military parade celebrating victory over Poland, didn't exist. Nor did 1940, when you invaded the Baltics and Romania, and supplied oil and other key materials in defiance of economic blockade to the Nazi war machine as German bombers were flying sorties over London, and your own were bombing Helsinki, with "bread baskets for starving Finns" as the propaganda put it (Finns invented the Molotov cocktail as a drink to go with that generous gesture). None of this happened. The war started in June 1941, right.

But no. The war didn't start for Europe in 1941 nor did it for Russians. Germans and Russians were the two main instigators of the Second World War and in cooperation invaded one country in Europe after another in the first two years of the war until there was no-one left but the two of them and the stage was set for the endgame.

Germans have recognized their responsibility and devoted to building a better Europe. Russia, let me check the news feed... another 5 civilians killed, 53 injured in today's drone and missile strike in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. And god knows how many died on the frontlines defending their country, and in torture chambers on occupied territories.

There is no need to speak about digging out old graves when you are producing new ones every day.
I found a youtube version of this article being read by a gray-bearded tech nerd with a Hawaiian shirt: https://youtu.be/KsDYul3J3Dc

Maybe I should pop a pineapple pizza in the oven and watch the drama.
Incidentally I’ve been working on a parental controls app, which has some YouTube specific functionality. Currently it only gives you the ability to block YouTube shorts, but more channel-specific functionality is coming https://www.parentcontrols.win/

Admittedly I think it'll be hard for youtube (and similar sites) to build proper child filters and habits. Not because they're bad people or anything, just because it's too opposed to their incentives
The timeline backup is encrypted clientside before upload.

Meaning no casual FBI or police warrant is gonna vacuum it up (at least not from Google, they’ll just go to the cell providers / towers instead as siblings have pointed out).

Obviously yes NSA and CIA and various other nation state attackers will just get it directly off your phone or evil maid you or surveil you in any number of other more traditional ways.
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Related FDA Proposes to Ban Food Additive, brominated vegetable oil (50 points, 8 months ago, 19 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38181987
Plex, Jellyfin, and similar solutions where you rip content for your own media collection and serve in a constrained manner can solve for this. App gets installed on kid's device, and you use the cli or use the web interface to push it into the storage system it's streamed from.

(i do this, it is very straightforward and keeps my kids off of Youtube)
The hype around gpt2 was ridiculous. It made me firmly put openai into 'grifters, idiots and probably both' territory.

Turns out they were just grifters as the hilarious mess around Sam Altmans coup/counter coup/coup showed us.
Its a lot easier to use AI when its basically given away for free than when it cost $399 for a Palm Pilot in the 90s.

For a $399 device, Palm Pilot did well and had an excellent reputation for the time. Phones really took over the PDA market as a personal pocket-computer more-so than being used as ... a phone...

Really, I consider the modern smartphone a successor to the humble PDA. I grew up in that time too, and I remember the early Palm adopters having to explain why PDAs (and later Blackberries) were useful. That was already all figured out by the time iPhone took over.
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This is really helpful, thanks! I have a bunch of audio that I need to clean up and this looks like it could fit the bill.

Do you know if there are any license issues with this? I don't see any license page--will they train/retain the recording?
An AR-15 is woefully undersized for any bear, let alone a polar bear to take humanely. Not that it is impossible to use something less - the Inuit apparently sometimes take polar bear with a 22LR. Which is an upgrade from the spears they used to use, apparently. But you are no Inuit.

Also, a lot of them disappear on the ice each year.

You also aren’t going to get a fully automatic one as a civilian without a massive amount of paperwork. A military M4 is even less adequate due to the short barrel length.

Typically, a 12 gauge with 3” slugs is the minimum ‘good idea’ big bear defense gun.

45-70 with modern (high pressure) loads, or a 30-06 with heavy bullets (200gr partitions) are also considered good to adequate - at least for Kodiak brown, which is close.

The issue is with shot placement.

Someone successfully defended themselves against a Kodiak brown bear attack with a 9mm because they were lucky and got a great shot through the nasal cavity from 6-8ft away. Albeit with extremely hot ammo.
[https://www.americanhunter.org/content/alaska-outfitter-defe...]

do not underestimate how difficult or dangerous that shot would be to make. The shooter had been a hunting guide in that area for 30 years.

The same bear, if the shot was a couple inches higher, would have been able to keep going even if hit with a 12 gauge slug. They have highly armored skulls. [https://www.reddit.com/r/badassanimals/comments/14die7f/kodi...] Males in particular are also used to (and regularly do) literally fight grizzly bears, so are not cowardly opponents.

Many people disappear in that area every year, while armed. Eaten by bears is the presumed cause for a significant portion of them, but no one can tell for sure since the bodies never get found.

The US Air Force used to issue (literal) bazookas to airmen it stationed above the arctic circle as it was the only adequate man portable weapon they had that would consistently and reliably work if they could hit the bear with it.
This is all just meaningless anecdotes.

And regular Janes and Joes are not using ChatGPT. Revenues would be 10-100x if that were the case.
Cool, thanks. I'll check it out.
IIRC they have improved the free plan over time, and even mailed users suggesting the relaxed limits might enable moving from paid to free tier [1].

I barely use my tailnet now, might have more of a case for it later, but they are near the top of my "wishing you success but please don't get acquired by a company that will ruin it" list.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35615848
"I don't think anarchism is necessarily "get rid of leadership""

No, but many anarchists simply say so. No political power for anyone. And yet there are/were many anarchists leaders. For many anarchists this is not a problem, if the leadership is voluntarily followed. For others it is a temporary solution at best. So the result is constant debates and nothing gets done. So not that surprising, why anarchism has not much mainstream appeal. It is not at all a consistent ideology. The words anarchism are anti themself - a negation of hierachy. But what is a hierachy? What is "good" leadership?

Not clear.

So some anarchistic schools of thought might have a more consistent model, of how to do things, anarcho-syndicalism seems to be one. But in the end, it gets mixed up with everything else. How can that be convincing for the masses?
The thing I don't get is, why do I need to drop $1000 on a Synology machine just to do this? Let's say I want to create a setup with 8x18TB drives or something, do I really need to spend $1000 just to make this accessible to a couple clients at once (say a smart TV + another machine in the house)?

Right now I have Plex running on a raspberry pi hooked up to an 8tb external HDD. Works fine, but I want to scale up to the 100-200TB range of storage, and it feels like the market is pushing me towards spending an inordinate amount of money on this. Don't understand why it's so expensive.
Well written argument.

The holy grail of AI is still in future. Where it can interact with software tools like we do. Competent AI Agents will be a huge productivity unlock.
You can carry a knife with a blade up to 3" as long as it's non-locking (i.e. flips open and closed like a Swiss army knife and you don't need to hold a button to close it). You can also carry much more dangerous stuff like a scythe but you need to prove you've got a good reason (like it's your trade) and I think it needs to be wrapped or covered somehow to stop some scallywag grabbing it.

Unless I'm wrong, which I likely am.
What I meant is that compiling cosmopolitan with miniruby would maybe make the miniruby executable APE-format (actually portable executable). That would allow me to run the same executable on all these mentioned platforms.

But Idk, I’m just thinking loudly and probably missing a huge detail which would make the idea non-working.

Also, thanks for the linked resource, I’ll definitely give it a go!
Beefier models (I have a DS923+ with the RAM bumped up to 32GB) can run Docker containers, too. I have all kinds of things running on mine.
OpenAI’s revenue is not exclusively subscriptions.

There are a lot of companies building private GPTs and using their API.
I think this is the correct take. My understanding of the article is that huge investments in hardware, mostly to NVIDIA, and spending by major tech companies is currently defining the market, even if we include OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. It is FAANG money they are running on.

I put this as equivalent to investing in Sun Microsystems and Netscape in the late 90s. We knew the internet was going to change the world, and we were right, but we were completely wrong as to how, and where the money would flow.
Yeah, that is more or less what the police said.

> "We take a zero tolerance to bladed articles in public, and Bray has fallen afoul of this," said Sergeant Spellman of the police's Patrol Investigations Unit, "It is possible to find fidget toys that aren’t six-inch blades. It is possible not to walk down the street holding them out in front of you. With a bit more self-awareness, Bray could have avoided contact with us completely."
Ring around the roses as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_a_Ring_o%27_Roses
You absolutely, positively, 100% need it on anything that carries data you care about. I personally consider it a hard requirement for a NAS. I don't want to lose data just because a cosmic ray flipped a bit somewhere.
Rust 1.67.0, which is likely what OP was looking at, gives: https://godbolt.org/z/4Y61d9seh

I ran the benchmarks locally on the same hardware, using latest nightly Rust 1.81 (aggressive loop unrolling): no difference. Same speed as 1.5 years ago.
I think if sort of depends on the work you do. If you’re working on a single language and have been for a while then I imagine that much of the value LLMs might give you already live in your existing automation workflows.

I personally like co-pilot but I work across several languages and code bases where I seriously can’t remember how to do basic stuff. In those cases the automatic code generation from co-pilot speeds my efficiency, but it still can’t do anything actually useful aside from making me more productive.

I fully expect the tools to become “necessary” in making sure things like JSdoc and other domination is auto-updated when programmers alter something. Hell, if they become good enough at maintaining tests that would be amazing. So far there hasn’t been much improvement over the year we’ve used the tools though. Productivity isn’t even up across teams because too many developers put too much trust into what the LLMs tell them, which means we have far more cleanup to do than we did in the previous couple of years. I think we will handle this thing once we get our change management good enough at teaching people that LLMs aren’t necessarily more trustworthy than SO answers.
> Actual "regular people" use Facebook occasionally, shop at the grocery store, watch Sportsball on TV, and plan their kids' birthday parties or their next vacation. They're not sitting there augmenting their daily lives with ChatGPT.

I'm aware of the HN bias, but in this case, I'm talking regular, non-tech, sportsball or TikTok watching crowd. Just within my closest circles, one person is using ChatGPT for recipes, and they're proficient at cooking so I was surprised when they told me the results are almost always good enough, even with dietary restrictions in place (such as modifying recipes without exceeding nutrient limits). Another person used it for comparison shopping of kids entertainment supplies. Another actually posted a car sale ad and used gen-AI to swap out background to something representative (no comment on ethics of that). Another is evaluating it for use in their medical practice.

(And I'm excluding a hundred random uses I have for it, like e.g. making colorbooks for my kids when they have very specific requests, like "dancing air conditioners" or whatever.)
GPT-4 is an upgrade over a search engine (on the 2010 internet, which was much easier to search than the internet today) and there is certainly opportunity in using it to chain together complex programming tasks fully programmatically, but we are stuck right on the cliff of a truly reliable and generalizable AI, and it isn't clear that we can just train an AI with the next generation of GPU's and more data and bridge that gap. Most of the truly high value add activities (fully autonomous programs and AGI that creates novel inventions) rely on a model more intelligent and more consistent than the current state of the art. So I think most of the valuation is in speculative potential.
Drone strikes against combatants aren't assassinations, and Obama is hardly the first President to engage armed force against someone the U.S. recognized as a citizen but who felt no personal loyalty to the U.S.
What if you forked the simulator? Would there be two consciousnesses experiencing qualia?
I got bamboozled and I’m not ashamed to admit it.
Only if one set of gear heads was arguing that you don't really need it.
Typo: that line with "cbnz" should be "cbz". The CBZ instruction branches to a label if a register is zero, and CBNZ branches if the register isn't zero.
So you have a equal circle of many people. And the need for fast action, like it often can happen in real life.

Well, let's just say I have been part of many circles - but fast action was never the result of them, unless the circle was really, really small.

And even if there is no need for fast action - debating everything with everyone all the time for every decision - is somewhat timeconsuming and draining.
I've also heard it about the Buddhist tradition, that at least three groups of monks would memorize parts of the canon, and they would preiodically come together to chant it. If one group differed from the other two, they would know that's an error (at least to fairly high probability). This seems to have been an accurate method of transmission since independently written-down versions separated by centuries of oral tradition in Gandhara and Sri Lanka are very similar.
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> Not because they're bad people or anything, just because it's too opposed to their incentives

What a ridiculous turn of phrase. "I kill and eat other human beings, not because I'm a bad person or anything, just because it is my incentive to do so." Those incentives are self-imposed. Having self-created incentives to do bad things is what makes you a bad person.
If we started over, not utilizing binary storage

Not sure if this is what you mean, but there are several news servers that only pull the non binary group feeds. Some of them are free. As simonblack mentioned, there would just need to be a significant effort to show people how easy it is to use them. This would include how to filter out spam, or filter in known-good people and content.

As wmf mentioned, you can also host your own node (leafnode or hamster). I have not run them. What limits you put on the server would be up to you and who you replicate to/from would be up to you much in the same high level concept IRC servers can be interconnected assuming the admins of each set of servers agree with each others policies.

Why would this be a bad idea?

As with self hosting any software there is the matter of having a documented policy on acceptable use, how you will remediate illegal material, handle abuse complaints, etc... It is not something that can be set and forgotten about. As to whether or not that is a bad idea depends on how much free time and patience you have. The people you replicate from would have to have to perform the same due diligence as you. So basically the same issues as running chat, forum, wiki, fediverse, shared email, chan and other servers. Running any of these things requires the cognitive fortitude, lack of bias, patience, ability to deal with challenging people and so on. In other words, what dang and team do here 24/7/365.

There is some additional information here [1] on running your own news servers.

[1] - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Usenet#How_do_I_run_a_local_Use...
> And regular Janes and Joes are not using ChatGPT. Revenues would be 10-100x if that were the case.

3/4 of the people I know are actively using it are on free tier. And based on all the HN conversations in the last year, plenty of HNers commenting here are also using free tier. I'd never go back to GPT-3.5, but apparently most people find it useful enough to the point they're reluctant to pay that $20/month.

As for the rest, OpenAI is apparently the fastest-growing service of all time ever, so that says something.
That's the observation.
I work for a huge company, both in terms of number of employees and geographical reach.
I/we receive emails, offers, and declarations of interest each month/year from dozens of start-ups selling some AI infra system, labeling service, GenAI whatever.

We are not buying anything and we won't. We already have contracts in place with cloud vendors--the usual suspects: Google, Microsoft, Amazon--and the rest of the infra is developed in-house.
Why should we buy subscription-based and high-maintenance products from an a16z-funded AI infrastructure company that might shut down operations in two years and say "bye-bye, it's been great"?

The former Uber/Michelangelo team that built Tecton, Netflix's Metaflow that later became Outerbounds, I have no idea who they are selling their AI infra products to.
"second factor" (can't edit the above any more)
<< The reality is Democrats and Republicans both said Trump should be removed from office. Amash and Romney the first time, a dozen more the next.

Hmm. No. The reality is vast majority of Democrats and minimal amount of Republicans in House voted for Trump to be impeached ("House of Representatives "shall have the sole Power of Impeachment"[1] ) and Senate tries that impeachment ( same source ).

I will restate what I said in previous post. You are right on a technicality thanks to how politicians from both parties have used and perverted the word bipartisan. With that out of the way, I suppose we can argue over perception of this and I can tell you that I have yet to meet someone in person, who would argue with a straight face it was a not a partisan show.

<< This is a QAnon-tier conspiracy theory not based in fact, so yeah it seems like an unreasonable request.

Hmm. Well, I don't want to be too much of a pedant, but the facts are not known until a request for inquiry is made. Trump wasn't asking to determine whether Sailor Moon did 9/11. That would be crazy and/or unreasonable. Based on the standard placed by Biden ( see previous post ), this was not completely unreasonable ( though I can easily say questionable and maybe even dumb ).

Still, note that QAnon/conspiracy theory keywords mean nothing to me and do not present a valid argument; it is a lazy dismissal at best. Frankly, given the frenzy with which Democrats and affiliated media pursued this story made me think there was some fire behind the smoke. Now, I mostly dismiss it, but I don't know who knew what when.

[1]https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/impeachment.h...
This version seems to be using slightly different rules: my recollection is that the original 2048 prevented a move if it wouldn't cause any blocks to shift or collapse, while this one spawns a block unconditionally.
Sorry, my bad. I thought you were arguing in good faith.
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