skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For my oldest child, I used Twilio to search for something memorable in our crowded area code and then ported out to Number Barn. For the next two, I just used Number Barn directly to find two sequential numbers for them. Still have year and half before youngest gets the number ported to a mobile phone.
And video compression by extension. As for porn choreographer can express intent in video, put it through NN to decompose into vector representation, add the girl to the blender and put back through.
>GPT can never be an intelligent agent because it’s not an agent

For all the handwaving people like to do, this is the bottom line, and it's not clear to me why researchers haven't spent more time clearly formulating this, vs a lot of proving that various tasks and games don't actually require intelligence.

As best I can formulate it, "AI" can't "escape" its programming, and just a neural network even less so. There is no mental model of the world to rationalize against, and if there was, it would be pre-defined or coded in some way that it still couldn't be escaped. Whatever tasks a ML model has been deliberately programmed with just have nothing in common with intelligence. Scaling doesnt change that.

I subscribe to the idea that with ML we may have understood how some of the sensory mechanisms work, like visual recognition, but we're not actually closer to the intelligence part.
So NBER is the top for economic research. They’re who declares recessions with some historical authority.

But also:
“NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peer-reviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications.”

True but I’d read a nber working paper with much more care than any newspaper.

Edit/tldr:
“Our results suggests that house price growth over the pandemic reflected a change in fundamentals rather than a speculative bubble, and that fiscal and monetary stimulus were less important factors. This implies that policy makers need to pay close attention to the evolution of remote work as an important determinant of future house price growth and inflation.“
Forced Convection with Solid State Piezoelectric Fan
Putin’s real goal in Ukraine isn’t territory
what is the purpose of "corporate / industrial" energy usage if not ultimately to serve the needs of a consumer at the end of the supply chain?
Fair enough. It's something I work on.
I don't understand why there's so much Gates love in this thread. Mosquito nets have been around for hundreds if not thousands of years.
Imagine there’s no human error
Best bank and brokerage I have ever worked with. Exceedingly helpful and easy to get a hold of. Their tools and web pages work
Small modular nuclear reactors produce more radioactive waste
Given that WD sells comparable TLC in their dual-port PCIe3 NVMe zoned namespace SSD with 10x the spec-sheet total drive writer, I'm not surprised.
These commands don't unnecessarily copy data.
Many of the students in this article showed very clearly what they thought about their "rehabilitation": just another system to be gamed with lip-service and as little effort or change as possible. They won't treat it as anything else unless it hurts. I'm sorry, but you can't seriously propose to remove all punishment and be taken seriously. And I also don't think you can even seriously argue that failing a student for a class is too severe, either. It's not even necessarily denying them the degree, as long as they stop fucking cheating. That's your goal too, right?
Would this also work for django?
I think the main disconnect between large language models and what people expect from "AI" is the fact that LMs learn meaningful representations whereas most people associate intelligence with meaningful behaviors. All examples of "natural" intelligence are embodied agents so it's difficult to imagine any other kind of intelligence.

The large transformer models we have now are really the low hanging fruit. When you have a lot of data and compute, the easiest way to scale is to train a supervised model with ground truth labels. In contrast it's much harder to train an RL agent, where you have to design the environment and keep track of its state.

Language modelling is a problem where you can get arbitrarily close to perfect but never actually achieve it. Without some kind of grounding in vision/proprioception there will always be gaps in understanding. When they start scaling GATO-like models I think we'll be a lot closer to human-like intelligence.
It's not silly at all, you're just not aware of the larger context the parent is speaking of (ironic considering accusations about myopia).

For example, the current c++ project I work on (for a large company) has over 1.5 million lines of c++, spanning over 5,000 files, with business knowledge and bug fixes spanning over 30 years.

It's not going to get rewritten in anything else, and the same goes for large amounts of other business software.
Credit card numbers are worse than passwords when it comes to toxic data.

Why are we, on a daily basis, distributing all the information necessary to fraudulently impersonate us, and we're all OK with that. Then shrug it off 'oh yea they have my home address, credit card number, name, age, mugshot and email address... but at least they can't hijack my phone number'.

Until identity as a concept on the internet catches up with 30 years of cryptography advancements then we're all still stuck in the authentication vs authorization dark ages, the problem is because there's enough critical mass that outside of large enterprise roll-outs it means we're either stuck rubbing two-sticks together caveman style or accepting Apple or Microsoft as our new god (pls upload disk encryption keys to server, and unlock them with your face etc, trust our "secure cloud" while we MITM your login and credentials)
> Contrary to the popular platitudes that socialism and communism are about achieving equality for all, going so far to prescribe absurdities like “equality of outcome”. The reality, documented by the likes of Dr. Kristian Niemietz in his “Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies”, is that the only equality brought about by collectivism is where everybody beneath the thin scab of elites and their apparatchiks are equally mired in poverty and servitude.

That needs to be repeated.

People think that inequality is when someone can buy a 300 foot yacht, or a $100 million mansion. True and brutal inequality is when someone can kill you in daylight and walk away with it. In countries like the US or Weastern Europe you may get away with murder (like O.J. Simpson), but that's not guaranteed at all. In communist countries if you were very high in the political apparatus, then you could literally kill someone with witnesses, and walk free. Without a trial.

I suspect things like that happen in other countries too, where the rule of law is weak. For example in Mexico (where the cartels kill left and right, and people know who ordered what murders).

There some people are above the law. That's true inequality.
Vibration Analysis: FFT, PSD, and Spectrogram Basics
You really can become productive in safe languages. It does take some practice, but it makes you a better programmer. Someone might turn the table and claim they are more productive in memory safe languages because when they hit production they can actually pivot to new projects rather then put out concurrency/parallelism fires.
Right, other countries with higher rates have fewer guns. My point entirely.
I guess it comes down to the tradeoffs you're willing to accept for privacy. I personally find it quite sketchy that Plaid takes your username and password to your literal money and then does some opaque screen-scraping just to grab your transactions. I also spent a lot of time working with their API and it did not inspire confidence.
There are no easy answers or guarantees unfortunately. For ambition, I would suggest thinking hard about what you actually value. What do you think other people should be doing but aren’t? What is broken about the world to you?

Also keep in mind money is merely information. It doesn’t make sense to be envious of information, all it is is society putting a price on how it measures the quality of your head. There are flaws both in that notion itself and in the process of measurement.
Yeah, I debated that before posting. It’s all already public information, and I know it won’t do too much from an Op Sec perspective but I planned to edit the post once the discussion drops off the front page.
Seems like it’s a good desktop option, but the mobile UX isn’t there. A single column responsive layout would make a big difference.
Why does a giant condo building have to be high-end? Wouldn't that be the most efficient way to house people even if they weren't focused on profit?
> A hack that takes advantage of this is to look for activities/events where you spend a lot of sustained time with others.

This is a good one. I really like camping, so being out in the backcountry for a week or ly helps you understand if you really get along with someone. Planning a trip, dividing up who brings what etc let’s you see how the other person approaches things.
As a rough flowchart

1. Get a reasonable emergency fund (reasonable varies from person to person, but at least 3 months of living expenses is good)

2. Max out tax advantaged investment accounts. Rough priorities, specific ranking again depends on your situation: HSA, matched 401k, Roth IRA, unmatched 401k, anything else (mega backdoor Roth, 529, etc). The Boglehead approach, aka VTSAX & Chill, is pretty good. You can throw everything in a target date retirement account, or manually balance yourself between a US stock fund, international stock fund, and bonds (don't worry too much about bonds when you're in yours 20s)

3. Taxable investment account

4. If you plan on using some of the money in 1-5 years, check out I-bonds as a way to keep up with inflation with no risk... Well OK not no risk, but as long as the US Government doesn't default on its debts the risk is infinitesimally low.
A good video demonstrating the Hyundai’s sound for anyone else interested: https://youtu.be/xpvQ1Y27t70
I heard you the first time. I've been in those classes. It's still irrelevant to this case.

Even if you're claiming the students were genuinely unsure whether they were doing something wrong, that can only possibly hold before the first quiz when the prof told them outright he didn't approve (in fact, even during that lecture their messages showed they knew he wouldn't, but let's ignore that for the sake of argument). After that, when they still tried to cheat in the second quiz, and continuing even after that failure, they have not the faintest excuse.
Maybe out of touch. I've used them all (Mint, ynab, pocketsmith, buxfer, some google-sheets-based app, probably tried a dozen others). All of the auto-sync features had obvious bugs. It works for a few months and then you end up with junk data. But if it works for you, carry on!
In Thailand every 13th floor is named 12A. They’re not fooling anyone.
Ask HN: Tell CPU as coding C/C++ certain variable must put in cache L1,L2
How do we instruct CPU when we're writing or coding C/C++ certain (usually) global variable must be put in cache L1, L2, or L3 so on ?
did your friendship actually end or did you just loose sight of each other?

how would you feel if that person contacted you now?

i have friends that i consider close, that i only talk to once a year or even much longet. and not so close friends that i talk to every day.

it is indeed the shared context, similar personal experiences and trust that connect us. the friendship doesn't stop just because we stop talking, it does stop however if something happens that breaks the trust between us and we have no opportunity to regain that trust by creating more shared context
I've downloaded almost 2 million photo's from several bird, insect and plant databases this weekend and (partially) compared them with the Plantnet and iNaturalist datasets. And I looked at the dozens of other databases with mosses, lichen, bacteria, etc. Still, no where near the >8,7 million species of the world are in those databases.
The most complete list would be the plants of Europe (only a few thousand out of 400K species), most other regions and kingdoms are only partially identified.
As we can see from dozens of papers, new species have been found through the iNaturalist collecting. Making better software and more data would certainly boost the rate of new species discovery. And that is vital, as we are in the middle of the 6th mass exinction event of the last 570 million years. Species go extinct before we even have photographed or identified!

I also have my dad's Flora research photo's from 30 year field trips and my own, of which 3000 plants where identified with Flora Europeae dychotomic key (a day's work per flower).
I'll be interested to see where the community lands on this years from now. It's frustrating to see so many databases relicense under licenses that are almost OSS but not quite. Yet it's totally understandable - it's hard to pay database engineers when you give your product away and then AWS neuters your hosting and support business.
This question reminds me of my primary school teacher, who, like my mother, helped me a lot in both study and life. She also led me to appreciate the charm of poetry and writing and opened the door to literature for me. I believe that part of my character building now comes from the literature she brought to me as a child.
Rust requires you to write correct code. And no, lots of people using modern C++ do struggle with safety, and specifically memory safety. That's why these new languages exist, and exactly why they are gaining users every single day. No matter what someone on hacker news says...

This doesn't mean c or c++ are bad or something. But, yea...
This issue isn't "paying taxes"--it's the fact that inventory laws in the US are stupidly obtuse. Computer chips are not nuts and bolts.

I believe that VAT solves a lot of these issues (while trading off for others).
if the terms of use even remotely resemble those of the rest of openai, that probably violates them in about three different ways. it would be trivial for them to track down.
What you want is a windy climate. Breezes should never drop under 10mph
Yeah I use them too. I keep meaning to set up Firefly III to try it but Pocketsmith _has_ been really good. For a period of time I had accounts in a couple of countries and it was one of the few tools which let me get a multi-currency view of all my finances across the globe. Highly recommend.
I became closer friends, and even friends at all, with folks I knew from college years after graduating. As noted in this discussion, we had a lot of shared context that became more meaningful as we grew up.
As an aside, how is the SSC community? Rewarding like HN? I accommodate irreverence well, but I don’t have a field guide for what this community might actually be about. Any tips from long time participants?
France bans English gaming tech jargon in push to preserve language purity
I find this tone irritating. It sounds like the first part of an air raid siren. Puts me on edge. No thank you Hyundai.
Adults make a lot of friends via kids, because there’s a combination of shared context and many forced interactions.
Sharding and IDs at Instagram (2011)
hah, i have bobs.mi (ie intentionally missing last letters of my name, letting me do bobs.mi/th sort of stuff). I've often debated setting my email up.. maybe i shouldn't, /shrug

Though i don't know what i'd use anyway. me@bobs.mi sounds .. annoying to say over the phone lol. Maybe i lean into it, at@bobs.mi or space@bobs.mi... heh
The enzyme that puts branches of glucose on stevia (2019)
They publish their trades every day. It is very actively managed fund and only in name "ETF".
At first I thought you might've slightly leaked your phone number here, but there's surprisingly many 10 digit prime numbers with a triple-7 in the middle (and obviously that inner 777 can't be next to a 7 else you'd call it a quadruple-7 [etc]), 1905394.

If you filter on only valid area codes, the number is a bit smaller (620350), and if you exclude Toll Free, Reserved, and Government area codes it's down to 567277.
Not unless we do the proper work to make it so. Values prescribe where we want to go, not where we are today or the history we came from. Thus I expect a doctor who is treating someone of my ethnic background to take into account any differences which would benefit my medical outcomes.
If you get the jingle lodged in your brain, you'll never forget or escape their profound Germanness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9YuOuP44Rc
Firefly Arm Mini-ITX PC with Rockchip RK3588 SoC, 32GB RAM, NPU, dual NIC
Car Executives Want to Remain on the Low Inventory Business Model
BlueRetro – multiplayer Bluetooth controllers adapter for retro game consoles
6502 is relevant again thanks in part to THEC64, which did the retro console craze one better by making BASIC and cassette/disk-based software usable. There are programming guides out there that target THEC64, so even if it is emulated it's a fun, supported way to get started with low-level programming.
A List of Cryptography Algorithms
you "grown ups" locked me indoors for months and didn't let me see my family. spare me your sanctimony.
s/on the planet/in the US/
Be that as it may, I would ask you read the cited article as the stats illustrate COVID is much more deadly than the flu for children.

I would hope you choose to get your kid vaccinated asap since you expressed hesitancy.
> makes verification hard/impossible

In other words, unfalsifiable. That means it's unscientific too.
So, you are expecting a race to the bottom, then?
> Not that WAP, this one

While I am impressed with his pop culture awareness, I am sad he had to note WAP meant Wireless Access Point
What percentage of the congregation ticks all these boxes, consistently over time?
It is not same as VC because (1) VCs enter way before IPO which allows 100X return, (2) ARK bets are far more bigger than typical VC rounds which means any failure hurts a lot.
Blowfish (Cipher)
>1/3 of our non-European immigrants are first generation

Ok, so that's about the same as what's going on in the Black communities. Maybe have a look at the homicide statistics for the places these immigrants go and I'd bet you'll find a very similar picture.

>Your racist theory would predict that we would have an even higher murder rate than you have.

No, again these nations are more racially homogeneous. They're able to absorb much more of this right now than we can.

>Poor people commit murder.

That's not the whole picture, you can compare poor Black communities and equivalently poor White communities and the Black ones have a much higher rate of crime. Whether that's due to institutional racism or things like this (which I would argue is essentially just another kind of institutional racism) is up to your interpretation.

>Make up for the history

What do you want us to do? We already net negative on the average Black person due to social programs. We're legally barred from discriminating against them in any meaningful way (to the point that many are starting to ask to bring discrimination back.) Should we burn the country down again for them this year? None of the living people were involved and if you look carefully you'll find it was largely the Jewish population doing that. Should we go down that rabbit hole?

>Actually, only 2.8% of your population is native.

Because the nations that used to exist here were overrun by foreigners. Those ended up driving the population out of their lands and tried to eradicate their culture. This kind of thing is what I'm arguing against but you're hung up on skin color and not seeing it.
I had read through only the main part of your post and not the comment that continued it before you decided to remove it. It sounds like you've really struggled and need some clarity. I do think that the right therapist can be life-changing. In the US it's not easy to find any therapist who takes your insurance and is accepting new patients, and that makes it extra hard to go the extra mile and find one you really click with. But it is worth it. And remember that your worth isn't just success in your career. There are many paths through life. You're just starting out, but you'll find yours. And don't be too hard on yourself! Things will get better.
It still requires more effort to move a phone number to a new SIM than to convince an airline to reset your password.

I hate that SMS is so much relied on (in particular as it fails so bad in travel settings), but I think we're stuck with it for a long time before we get alternative that work at least half as much for standard people that don't buy into ecosystems.
Nitpick – robot implies a physical form. This was a bot/AI/software.
Even if neural nets continue to come up with adequate solutions to challenging problems (sometimes, hopefully, maybe), at the end of the day the best-case scenario is a model that cannot be audited, holistically understood, or trusted with decisions of any gravity.

If beating the strongest human Go players with a self-trained ML model was detonating a fission bomb, pervasive automation with zero accountability is a nuclear winter.
It's always cool to see what the real lived experience of using a totally different workflow is like.

I don't have any dotfile management at all(Aside from my regular incremental backups), and the only time I provision a new machines is if i get a new laptop or reinstall.

I prefer to stay extremely hands off with VMs or servers. Ideally anything I do via SSH should be declarative and repeatable with Ansible.

But recently there seems to be more and more important tools that can't be installed from a package manager and usually require manually editing PATH for some reason(I have no idea why they can't just use ~/.local/bin, or why there's no standard path management tool).

It might be time to start putting things like that in a provisioning script. Or not, because they might not have a stable install process, and it's only a few minutes to do each one manually every few years.
Interesting how you can apply this method to many other creative pursuits .. start wide, abstract and loose; refine with taste and purpose.
Check out what happened in Austin, TX.
The city government proclaimed the same thing you are saying: there is no way to get rid of homeless so they allowed "city camping" in 2019. By 2020 the city of Austin had encampments under every overpass, in parks and on some major streets.

But a PAC against this has been established and passed a ballot measure in 2021. The city government first ignored it (they've made up a 4-stage plan to implement it where each stage consisted of asking homeless not to camp) but the PAC stuck around and kept engaging the city in the courts and pushing other measures on the ballot. This caused a real fear of losing for the current mayor and city council so suddenly they've found a way to get rid of all the camps.

Where there is a will (to stay in office) there is always a way.
Believing that something will grow 100X is not same as being visionery.
> but US consumers still won in the end.

US consumers have still won to date but the worry is that this move will in the long term hurt US consumers.
Thanks for that feedback, you're absolutely right. I'll do that.
That sense of control is a dangerous illusion, though. Cars move way too fast for people to be able to react when something unexpected happens. Drivers included.
That's not sad, it's good writing to define any uncommon acronyms or initialisms. And many people reading would not recognize that one.

Of course now I am wondering what the other WAP is. Maybe I don't want to know...
Invest in very boring things, like S&P500 and AGG ETFs. If you feel tempted, try investing a couple of percent in something more exiting. You'll find its easy to invest with hindsight but very hard to do it in reality. With your fingers safely burned you'll be happy to return to your boring ETFs.

Pay attention to transaction fees and taxes.