skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please help me understand something.

I've been out of the loop with HuggingFace models.

What can you do with these models?

1. Can you download them and run them on your Laptop via JupyterLab?

2. What benefits does that get you?

3. Can you update them regularly (with new data on the internet, e.g.)?

4. Can you finetune them for a specific use case (e.g. GeoSpatial data)?

5. How difficult and time-consuming (person-hours) is it to finetune a model?

(If HuggingFace has answers to these questions, please point me to the URL. HuggingFace, to me, seems like the early days of GitHub. A small number were heavy users, but the rest were left scratching their heads and wondering how to use it.)

Granted it's a newbie question, but answers will be beneficial to a lot of us out there.
You will need to migrate to BunkerWeb. But since BunkerWeb is based on NGINX it might be easier than you think. As an example, it supports custom NGINX configs : https://docs.bunkerweb.io/latest/quickstart-guide/#custom-co...

Maybe you can join our Discord to discuss further about your use case.
This tracks with my experience as a more "senior" dev using Copilot/Cursor. I can definitely see these tools being less useful, or more misleading, for someone just starting out in the field.

One worry I have is what will happen to my own skills over time with these tools integrated into my workflow. I do think there's a lot of value in going through the loop of struggling with -> developing a better understanding of technologies. While it's possible to maintain this loop with coding assistants, they're undoubtedly optimized towards providing quick answers/results.

I'm able to accomplish a lot more with these coding assistants now, but it makes me wonder what growth I'm missing out on by not always having to do it the "hard" way.
I hope so. The problem is I learnt good design despite the popular "Clean Code" prevalance in the world, by actual experience. But if AI is doing most of the coding and if that code mostly works, would there be an incentive for the junior devs to try out different ideas?
Did a Markov chain write that title?
My favorite jury nullification story is of a murder case in Appalachia. Dude and his wife were walking out of a gas station. Other guy makes sexual and offensive statement about dude’s wife. Fight ensues. Dude ends up killing the guy who made the offensive comment.
Jury acquitted him “it don’t seem like you’d be any kinda man if you let somethin like that pass.”

We have jury trials for a reason. Sometimes the law as written needs to be interpreted by the people it serves.
Seems that a bunch of quantized models are already uploaded to ollama: https://ollama.com/library/llama3.3/tags
http://archive.today/gM6MG
I learned a lot from that post. It is where I got a lot of ideas that I still use to understand the world today.
From everyone I have ever known that was able to do the fewer days, even with same hours, it is still a game changer.
Well of course, you are taking a subset of the total online job-seeking population (those close enough or willing to relocate) instead of the whole set. That would remain true even if working from home remained something very niche.
So what is the problem here, that a state actor tried to influence the elections? Then why aren't we talking about the influence of NATO&co as well? Because that can be found everywhere, starting from google search results. Search "elena lasconi campaign donors" on google, you'll get exclusively results about "far right kremlin backed election interference". Repeat the search on yandex.ru and you'll get actual results about Elena Lasconi.

The problem isn't really a state actor here; it's that people didn't vote the right way™.

As to the effect a last minute campaign on TikTok can have on the elections, I wonder can you really sway 9 milions of votes in a few days on a platform that basically nobody over 30 years old uses? That must have been some incredibly good propaganda!
But for those problems there are decades old frameworks like django and Ruby on rails, laravel etc that solve these issues in a simpler way
I'm glad this is the top comment because it's also the deepest insight I've had in my 20+ years of doing photography.

So much of the art and challenge of photography is about creating a single flat rectangular image that somehow conveys the sense of depth, presence, time, and emotional impact that the photographer had while being there in that actual moment in time and space.

A good photo must be super-real in some sense because the act of reducing an entire lived in experience in 4D space-time down to a single flat image discards so much information. It requires just the right subject, framing, composition, light, color, everything so that even after so much is lost, what's left is sufficient for the viewer to fill it back in.

Photography is to experiencing the world as poetry is to prose.
That's an excellent summary. I'd add:
- Someone so unexpectedly winning the first round creates its own myth, and people tend to join such candidates "to be on the winner's side", so he seemed to have a solid chance at winning the second round too.
Why thrifting is great – and why you should do it too
" It separately announced another policy that will allow parents with children in grades one to three in elementary schools to trade off a bit of their salary for the option to clock out early."

This is really nice, this was the option that I wanted for my first kid. I would want this from the day they were born though, not just grades 1-3. It helps with breastfeeding scheduling.
This is a category error. Baghdad was subject to capture by an invading force, Kharkiv was never captured.

What was done to Mariupol, Avdiivka, Bakhmut, Vulhedar, Popasna, Mariinka and dozens of other places far exeeds the damage done to Baghdad. These places are basically uninhabitable now.
Because this is what happens when the country is ran by corrupt and/or incompetent politicians. I've seen what people are posting and commenting here, blaming everything on Russia, but this is exactly the same message that the far right uses when they blame everything on the EU.

The thing is that when the 2 biggest parties in the country come to govern together, they have no opposition, they weakened out justice system, weakened the secret services to gain power and be able to do whatever they want, they allowed and ignored the rise of far-right parties thinking they would use them to scare people into still voting for them and now we're here.

There was so much evidence that both this guy and the other 2 extreme parties are doing a lot of crap and getting all kind of external support, but they just ignored them and hoped to use them, thinking they will never get above a certain level. You had vloggers and online people showing signs of all the fake accounts and crap that was being promoted and the authorities just pretended not to see anything. Then they banned one of the 3 heads of the far right side, and this just made things worse, because instead of letting the far right eat themselves up (because they are so insane, that they can't help but fight each other and fragment their share of the votes), they allowed this absolutely insane (in the worst way possible) charismatic guy gather even more votes.

Now all of the sudden, after ignoring and pretending not to see anything, thinking that these far right candidates will help them, the establishment realized they messed up and now decide to take extreme measures and basically say that 9 milion votes don't matter. This won't end well...
I tend to not understand that mindset as well: unless they're writing life saving software or they're running a de facto (like Google) or de jure (like .gov) monopoly(+), which means you're forced to use them even if you don't want, the technology they decide to use is entirely their choice. If they provide a worse experience, don't use their services / use an alternative that provides a better experience. If they provide a good experience at the cost of running Javascript on your device, you still have the choice of not using their service, or of making an exception for them and running their code. Someone can even write an alternative and market it to anti-SPA folks.

(+) If they are a monopoly, I would say that the problem are not SPAs, but the existence of monopolies itself.
> If anything is clear, it is that the people's votes were correctly counted.

No, that's not clear at all. There were numerous other cyberattacks on Romanian voting infrastructure, per other articles about this event [0][1]

From Reuters:

> The intelligence service also said login data for official Romanian election websites was published on Russian cybercrime platforms. It added that it had identified more than 85,000 cyberattacks that aimed to exploit system vulnerabilities.

It sounds like this is about a lot more than tiktok preferentially showing one candidate. There were also denial-of-service attacks that would have suppressed certain votes, unauthorized access to the voting systems, and more.

Perhaps the votes reported were all cast, i.e. not literal fabricated numbers, but that doesn't mean that they were cast by the person they were supposed to be cast by, or that votes for other candidates were all counted.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/thousands-attend-pro-eu...

[1] https://www.rferl.org/a/lasconi-georgescu-runoff-romania/332...
> Why is there barely any resistance to blatant attempts to undermine democracy?

Because of normalcy bias[0] after the fall of the USSR. The West assumed that we'd all hold hands and walk together into the future but that was not the case.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias
Yep, completely agree. After having our kid both me and my wife work 80% so we have one extra day at home. Huge.
"or was it Americans who got upset about Israeli treatment of civilians?"

Nobody in the open knows, that is the problem.

But also russian millitary bloggers are outraged by the IDF. Simply because it is war in the information sphere, not that they care about the people there. Just like China don't give a damn about them - but they can and do use it to weaken the self declared western moral leadership.
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Japan is forecast to still have 50 million people in 2120. I wouldn't call this a population crisis. With some rewilding it could be quite pleasant! I suspect companies are afraid of not growing, and governments are afraid to cut spending.

Source: https://www.jcer.or.jp/english/new-population-projection-how...
I take it you voted for Meloni?
Curious how this plays out and comments from anyone who works there now. From what I've read about Japanese work culture, there are many perks/benefits offered but most do not take it cause it's considered selfish etc.
The shooter used a rare weapon with an integrated suppressor (or "Silencer" as the article indicates). A British made station six 9. I wonder if that will be the focus of investigators, since its an highly unusual weapon.
Does it still count if the purpose is to dillute OpenAI's market power and not to benefit the world?
It's been my situation, I have had my Brother laser printer for... more than 8 years and I still run on the toner that was delivered with the printer ! Yellow ran low a few years ago, and the printer wouldn't print anymore, so I select "print black & white", and the printer happily keeps working using the black toner only :)
Well personal security isn't a stopgap for healthcare execs, because the personal security staff, and/or their extended families, will be using the healthcare that they provide. the risk of an insider job is high
It is time for version 4 of SQLite.
https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/the-42-...

>In 2021, the Biden Administration passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which included a provision to give $42.5 billion to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program to provide under-served and rural areas with internet access. To date, it has connected nobody.

No wonder we are not voting for it, the government continually promises to connect people and does nothing.

The 42 billion could have bought every single rural American a Starlink terminal and had a bunch of money left over.
USDA orders testing of milk for bird flu
If they can't survive without reduced ads on subscriptions, or the price of subscriptions without ads becomes unviable for users, then they're stuck between a rock and a hard place.

I honestly wouldn't mind a subscription that reduces ads to the point of being _non-obnoxious_, but I'm in an odd position because I pay for YouTube Premium, which doesn't have ads, and costs a lot more money to distribute (video, text, and images vs text & images), but I grew up in the newspaper age which were chock full of ads free or subscription.
I spent 8 hours testing o1 Pro ($200) vs. Claude Sonnet 3.5 ($20)
First: I appreciate the overall tone of your comment. It's a polarizing subject, and I feel this is very much in good faith.

I think there's two important points you made that I'd like to address:

1. Failures to apply meaningful penalties / punishment to transnational corporations

2. Individual culpability for oil consumption

To start, I think it's worth looking at how punishments for corporate wrongdoings might look in a brighter world. Not having faith in the system is _completely_ understandable, and I think it can be easy to forget what it is we _do_ want after being shown what we _don't_ want over and over.

Off-the-cuff, I envision something like the forced closure and seizure of all Exxon assets by the federal government. These assets could be sold off to pay for the settlements of the multiple class-action lawsuits against Exxon focused on public health and environmental wrongdoing[1][2]. I'd love to see criminal charges for those at the top

There are past examples of companies doing wrong and being forced to close "with prejudice", or not being allowed to restructure into another entity with a different name. A famous example is the forced closure of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI)[3]. Another is Purdue Pharmaceuticals, which was restructured into a public beneficiary trust that would administer payouts to "opioid creditors" or people who suffered from the opioid epidemic[4]. And hearteningly, there are also examples of executives facing jail time. Enron[5] is the most famous example, and though there are critiques that it wasn't far enough, Skilling was a fall guy, etc., it serves as a good reminder that even within our system today, there is already precedent. Theranos is another example of criminal proceedings against executives[6].

All this is to emphasize that though pessimism is understandable, optimism can help us push the system in the right direction, and doesn't have to mean having all the answers.

Now we can look at individual culpability.

I wanted to look at this point second because I think it becomes more approachable once we've seen what widespread change can look like. I don't have citations, or evidence to bring here. Just my own experience. I find it much easier to start taking personal responsibility when I know that there is some effort being made to offer me a mode of life where I don't induce second order demand for oil (i.e. I need to buy groceries, those groceries may come packaged in plastic). I find it much easier to take a freezing half-mile walk to the store when I see the companies inducing oil demand many orders of magnitude beyond what I'll ever use or need begin to face consequences.

[1] https://www.legaldive.com/news/816m-exxonmobil-verdict-is-la...

[2] https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2022/12/02/muni...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Credit_and_Commerce_In...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purdue_Pharma#Bankruptcy

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal#Enron

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos#Civil_and_criminal_pr...
That's true for most people for ordinary software too. How many people actually build Linux or Chromium from source? Building Chromium takes more RAM and HD space than most people even have. Yet the world gets immense value from the few who do. I wouldn't want to live in a world where WebKit and Chromium were closed source. You can run a Chromium fork without having to build it yourself. And compute costs will come down over time.
It was only ~2 million votes, as it was a first round with 10+ candidates.

I disagree it was about voting the right way, it was about campaign law violation.
Thank you for the update to my understanding.

It does make sense that this figure would evolve over time.
Black and white? Color? Printing documents or photos? How much and how often are you printing?

I bought a B&W brother laser printer in 2015 and loved it. I had a cheap $80 inkjet and while it worked fine I printed so rarely that my ink cartridge would dry out.

The original brother toner cartridge lasted me 4 years so I'm happy just because of that.

I ended up giving that to my parents and got a brother color laser printer. It's nice for documents but inkjets are superior for photo printing.

But for the last 10-15 years I can upload photos to the Walgreens a mile away and get them in less than an hour on real photo paper and don't have to worry about them fading like a lot of inkjets.
Indeed, I'm very concerned about this. Though i think it's a case of tragedy of the commons. Every company individually optimizes for themselves, fucking us over in the aggregate. But I think any executive arguing for this would have to be a pretty big company with an internal pipeline and promoting within to justify it, especially since everyone else will just poach your cultivated talent, and employees aren't loyal anymore (nor should they be, but that's a different discussion).
It's not about the amount of people but your population pyramid. If your population halves, expect a lot of pain. Especially for the elderly.
you don't like my title?
>Even Georgescu's opponent, Elena Lasconi, condemned the court's ruling as "illegal" and "immoral".

This seems like pretty important information as an observer with little knowledge of Romania's inner workings.
Do you take it that Elena Lasconi voted for Meloni as well? Because she's stated that the court ruling is "illegal" and "immoral".
Yes (don't know about JupypterLab), skip, not really, yes, quite irritating so just pay someone else to do it.
I’d still likely take the option, I just think it’s unnecessary. Productivity is ridiculously up since the 8 hour day was established, even since just two decades ago.

Tasks expand to take up the available time, even if usefulness doesn’t.

I suspect you’d see little loss in cutting down to 32/hr/week, and I suspect it would be more than made up for by the gains of giving people that extra day. So it may be a net positive.

I guess my main concern is that a lot of companies (not speaking about Japan here, just the US) might decide to use four days a week as a way to make people crunch four days thinking that having three days off would make up for that. And things wouldn’t really be any better.
What are good starting points for uncensoring it? Because it is offline a jailbreak prompt can't be remote-bricked but can one remove censorship from the weights themselves? What does it do to accuracy?
DXVK for Older GPUs
There is some principle here: these are more sensible defaults (but still only defaults) for a very different purpose when compared to the defaults that make sense for "generic SQLite use" that has to keep those set to something that works across all versions. Having different, domain-specific defaults based on an assumption of "you're setting up a new project using the current version of SQLite" makes a whole lot of sense.
I don't really care about these things that much, but I care about inequitable power.

A wealthy person should not be able to decide that they don't like some small minority and then influence public policy to enact policies which make them so miserable that some of them are driven to suicide.
- You don't have to be rich to afford a subscription for a dozen dollars a month.

- Expensive cars and cruises are advertised all the time on open TV channels and other ad-supported media.
This other alternative interface might interest you: https://hckrnews.com/

Fairly high density, divided by day, and able to reduce down to groups of Top 10 / Top 20 / Top 50%.

This is my go-to since Top 10 is about all I have time for these days :)
Because you aren't using "estimates" for Ukrainian casualties, you're using the numbers that have been able to be verified with evidence by third parties.

In Mariupol alone there were ~10,000 new graves on satellite imagery and some of them are large enough for multiple bodies, which we know was done in Lyman when those mass graves were excavated.
Thanks, great insight 47.
You can always install incus and glibc. Went with musl for voidlinux, and for using certain appimage, I needed to have glibc. It was seemless to install incus, a debian image, and you have unlimited deb packages at your disposal.
What are you talking about? I live in Norway, much further north. We all use electric heating. My highest power usage this December was 41kWh in a day. Less than 2kW continuous usage. Yesterday was 25kWh.

Yes, we have a heat pump. If you do electric heating that’s a complete no brainer these days. It’s just plain stupid and waste of money not to convert to heat pump if you need heating at all in winter. For a country like France it makes even more sense: we don’t need air conditioning in summer here. But France can have some nasty heat waves. So you’ll get some utility in both summer and winter.

And the silliest thing about this argument is that supplying 100% of the power of a household isn’t even a meaningful metric right now. The most important job of a grid storage battery these days is to flatten out the duck curve.

In some years we may be talking about providing some seasonal balancing, but then the construction of a battery storage plant this size won’t be news. It’ll be an average Tuesday.
More generally I think he's decided he needs to own the platform to be able to grow.

Him swearing about about (presumably) Apple telling them they can't do stuff (because tough shit, you're their serf) was legit I think.
Thanks! Succinct and complete.
Any time you hear an assumed Westerner talking about China's rising presence in Africa, it reminds me of an abuser whose love has left him for good. The speech is riddled with "he won't love you like I do", "He doesn't really love you", "He's actually worse than me".
So was this a voluntary resignation or a forced one?
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Imma be honest, I was pretty convinced by the "if we have strong trade relations where it's almost codependent, they will not try stuff". That was probably wrong, but we were also way more dependent on them than the other way around...
Ah yes, "Felony Contempt of Business Model".

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/felony-contempt-busine...
Is your accusatory statement falsifiable?