skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1- This was 2008 and the guy's retired by now.

2- Outside of engineering (or at least in the Chemistry/Bio field where I came from), conference submissions are abstracts not papers. There may sometimes be special issues where speakers are invited to submit a paper after the fact. But "paper" here means drafting the full manuscript and submitting it to the publisher when you're ready to be published in a future issue. So no steering committee, just an Editor-in-Chief who conducts research in the field. In fact referencing conference abstracts was always frowned upon because they never contained enough information to be properly scrutinized.

Speaking of, this whole "reputable papers only happen with conferences" phenomenon was unheard of to me until I joined an engineering company
You don't have to cook now, a lot of people don't. It's pretty easy to see that even though options like restaurants, fast food, food delivery, etc. exist doesn't mean that everyone will use them all the time and people still enjoy cooking food themselves even though they know they could go to a fancy restaurant and have the same dish prepared by a professional that has a lifetime more experience than they do. Full AI and robotic automation would be the same, if you want to code something yourself you'll do it just for fun even though you don't have to and what you produce might be objectively worse.
> If the pursuit is enjoyable, it should continue to be enjoyable as a hobby, no?

I think for most people the enjoyable and fulfilling part of life is feeling useful or having some expression and connection through their work. There's definitely some people who can create in a vacuum with no witness and be fulfilled, but I think there's a deep need for human appreciation for most people.

> As for your bleak future… will that even come to pass? I don’t know. Maybe it depends on your notion of “surpass”, and what that looks like.

I don't know either, maybe it will be fine. Maybe this will pass like the transition from traditional to digital. But something about this feels different...like it's actually stealing the creative process rather than just a paradigm shift.
This ends up being a way to hide an ETL pipeline behind a SQL query. Using this and some materialized views it makes it easy to just pull data in from an external source and just have it in your system.

I'm not sure on the value of this for customer facing production systems, but for internal reporting / product analytics this should make it really easy to pull in disparate datasets w/o having to spend eng time to keep each one running.
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My characterization of it as a Deep Truth might just be a reflection of my ignorance of the current state of the art in AI. But it's still pretty frickin' cool nonetheless.
Believe it or not, I don't think it is that bleak. The posts I seem to see on Linkedin that touch this subject seem to be reminiscent of Tesla hype ( "soon you won't even need mechanics!" type of predictions ). It is definitely a different breed from the usual crop of 'no code' tools, but the similarities are really hard to ignore for me ( hype, no understanding of that blackbox does, and reality that things have to work-- and that someone has to actually understand how it works ).

In other words, I honestly don't think AI ( in its current state at least ) will change much. I will go even as far as to say that I don't see current generation being able to create an appropriate prompt.

I might be a little optimistic here, but having seen how people normally react to 'easier' things kinda confirms it.

If I worry about anything here, is that AI will become THE answer that you will not be allowed to question.

edit: clarified blackbox statement
Thank you for the ad hominem attack. It's always a pleasure to discuss things with people who like to jump to conclusions and assume things about people they don't know anything about.

Personally I prefer not to pass judgement on a person based on the very little knowledge that can be gleamed from a post like this. But maybe, just maybe if you actually read what I have written (in other comments as well) things might clear up for you.
In a recession you learn who your true strategic partners are. It is fair enough that prices need to be increased in line with cost, however, a 100% increase with one month notice is #@#**. In our case it would be a 600% increase as this forces us onto the enterprise plan. Budgets for 2023 have already been agreed this late in the year, so this is a hard sell to the C suite.

Our conclusion is that we can't rely on DBT cloud. What is stopping them from doing this again next year?

DBT is a great tool, however, in the end it is just a Ninja templating engine. I have build something similar myself in the past, and for now I can just use dbt-core with VsCode.
Remote Attestation of Disaggregated Machines
It's pretty simple actually: if it's not your body then it is none of your business.
How can we muster the political will to try to get more immigrants to come here? It’s really important
It's already explicitly legal to train AI using copyrighted data in many countries. You can ignore opt-outs too, especially if you're training AI for non-commercial purposes. Search up TDM exceptions.
This is so embarrassing. Even for him
If that is true, then you have to find the phenotypes that matter. So far, after a century of trying, they only exist after an extensive factor analysis in intelligence testing, a statistical method known for giving biased results if you feed it with biased data.

No, if anything there would be a natural selection against intelligence. As society grows more complex there is less and less need for any individual to be smarter as humans operate better collectively. However for such a minor trait in the overall scheme of survival, I doubt there has been any time in the past 50k years to select for or against it.

As for continental differences in humans. Humans are a remarkably homogeneous species. Isolated populations are far less common among humans then among other mammals. Any difference between population is bound to be insignificant next to the difference between individuals. I am aware Lewontin’s fallacy (it is weird, that Lewontin’s “fallacy” is always brought up at this point; as if the goalpost keeps shifting. See https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...)
I guess it would help to be more specific about how this differs from some of the measurement related startups they list. Taxonomies are difficult, so maybe they do need an entirely separate category, or enlarge the one related to measurement.
Doesn’t need one. Even with SLAPP laws he can make life difficult enough for these sites, none of which are huge with substantial resources, to force many or most to give up and create a serious chilling effect.
Charging on a per-project basis puts an arbitrary distinction on how customer's should structure their work. I thought we were over having the top level folder structure be a driver for pricing?
“We recommend that anyone relying on SHA-1 for security migrate to SHA-2 or SHA-3 as soon as possible.” —Chris Celi, NIST computer scientist

The emphasis being on "for security"

I've also used SHA-1 over the years for binning and verifying file transfer success, none of those are security related.

Sometimes, if you make a great big pile of different systems, what's held in common across them can be weird, SHA-1 popped out of the list so we used it.

I'm well aware its possible to write or automate the writing of dedicated specialized "perfect" hashing algos to match the incoming data, to bin the data more perfectlyier, but sometimes its nice if wildly separate systems all bin incoming data the same highly predictable way thats "good enough" and "fast enough".
We can't discuss Wendy Carlos without mentioning the still online old school "Wendy Carlos Homepage" that is straight out of 1996.

https://www.wendycarlos.com/
>and not what you'd get from a human writing accessible music

The timbral qualities of the posted samples remind me of some of the stuff I heard from Aphex Twin, like Alberto Balsalm. Not accessible by a long shot but definitely human
The biggest problem with the Steam Deck is the performance is less than ideal when paired with a 4k tv.

I don't mean performance as in "the games run bad" I mean performance as in "I can't get this thing to reliably treat my Oled TV as a primary monitor, Swich to 4k resolution, and shut off the Steam Deck's second screen when I dock it with the official dock."

I don't think this system is ever going to be competitive with the Nintendo Switch and the inevitable Switch 2 at seamlessly docking between desktop and handheld mode. (Which I read developers need to support to be approved on the Nintendo Eshop.)

On the other hand the Steam Deck can play The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess HD and The Legend of Zelda Wind Waker HD in handheld mode, which for some bizarre reason is not something the Nintendo Switch can currently do.
I think they meant to say “inferred”
I thought about using it at a small scale, but frankly I find more value in a visual representation, and once I have that I don't want to explicitly blacklist imports: those rules can already be derived from the graph (i.e. any import that introduces a cycle is a violation).

Doing it manually allows me the following:

1. I get to define what are the namespaces (domains) that matter, irrespective of the package structure. E.g. import from stripe.api_resources is still a dependency on stripe, not on stripe.api_resources.

2. Work around a bunch of dependency caveats (frameworks like Django do runtime imports and mix high and low level concepts in settings, db foreign keys might inverse your dependencies, etc)

3. Violations are very easy to see: they are cycles in the graph, i.e. arrows pointing upwards. Those are typically design flaws. Though I still allow certain violations because practicality beats purity.

4. Since some violations are allowed, I get to decide how to arrange the graph so that it is more clear what is the flaw and how to address it.

I haven't found a good tool that allows me to get all of these. One day I'll have to build it myself.
I’d been wondering (naively) if we’d reached the point where we can’t see any new kinds of music now that electronic synthesis allows us to make any possible sound. Changes in musical styles throughout history tend to have been brought about by people embracing new instruments or technology.

This is the most exciting thing I’ve seen in ages as it shows we may be on the verge of the next wave of new technology in music that will allow all sorts of weird and wonderful new styles to emerge. I can’t wait to see what these tools can do in the hands of artists as they become more mainstream.
You can use Databricks Repos (https://docs.databricks.com/repos/index.html) specifically files in repos (https://docs.databricks.com/repos/work-with-notebooks-other-...) functionality that allows to use Python files (not notebooks!) as Python modules.

Another alternative is to split notebooks into “library notebooks” that just define transformations, and “orchestration notebooks” that use code library notebooks to execute a “business logic”.

In both approaches you can do code testing, etc.

P.S. I have a demo of both approaches here: https://github.com/alexott/databricks-nutter-repos-demo
What is objectively worse about them? They seem very popular with consumers.
So it's assumed that someone who has a pseudonym on Twitter is the same entity that uses that pseudonym on Medium?
I admire the hell out of these kids. If I had a little more strength in my own convictions, a little more willpower, I would probably go flip-phone only too.

Yes, they're kind of posturing and pretentious, but in ways that remind me of myself in high school; I feel like I get them. Your average high school kid is a lot more confusing to me these days.

I did have to laugh at this:

> "I talked to my adviser, though, and he told me most revolutions actually start with people from industrious backgrounds, like Che Guevara."

I wasn't sure what they meant by "industrious backgrounds"; apparently it means "wealthy" based on Guevara's wikipedia page. She's in good company, though... Ho Chi Minh and Lenin grew up privileged too.
Avatar 2 looks different from every movie you’ve ever seen–here’s why
Im not a cryptographer, im kind of curious - is it possible to combine a birthday attack with grover's algorithm to attack sha256 in 2^64 time?
Jokes aside, I don't have a Facebook account, but that causes me to miss out on a few things that have value and are hard to replace:

1] In some cases, public services announce things on facebook and not their official website

2] Community forums and discussion; people who do use facebook generally tell me what's going on in town, but that might not be true for others. Facebook owning and privatizing and locking up behind a login wall the town square is wrong and detrimental to us all.

3] The marketplace for secondhand goods -- garage sales, craigslist stuff, a lot of ebay type stuff, all of it has moved to facebook in many places

4] Not being on facebook does put me in contact with fewer people, perhaps that costs me unknown opportunities

Of course, I gain a bunch of things by not using facebook, too.
But how many humans lost jobs to calculators?
Case in point, I guess :-)
Yeah maybe, but I think we also already have a problem with overconsumption of media though. I am not sure this is helping.

It seems inevitable and I don't think we can stop it, but I just am kind of worried about the collective mental health of humanity. What does a world look like where people have no jobs and even creative outlets are dominated by AI? Are people really just happy only consuming? What even is the point of humanity existing at that point?
> "okay, you're gonna be inferior than others (Economically, chances wise, socially, etc) from now on, and that is OK".

I totally understand that & were about to comment the same thing on a comment of someone who suggesting accepting it, because I lived with a person in a similar situtation as yours.

I didn't wanted to write this immedeately, but you telling multiple times that college is so important, I'd may suggest that you try out disciplines that are respected & well-paid in other countries & move (assuming citizens from the secret country do get visas easily).

Repeating "college is the only option to success" doesn't help you moving forward when you're maybe actually good at something physical & could retire as a millionaire in another country. There are also lots of places around the world that need guides that speak the language of the tourists well. Please don't limit your scopes on the example, you may have to research & try a bit.
I'm looking forward to future iterations, that's probably when I'd jump to get one. I know this is far fetched, but what I want is to be able to dock the steamdeck to my 4k dev monitor and get 60+ fps on steam games while using discord.

I use a mac for life/work, but do want to game with friends and that would be perfect for me.
We literally know COVID yields a higher risk profile for myocarditis. This data has been well captured through multiple studies. And that's just solely on the basis of myocarditis and not the other side effects we're also aware of like the damage to lung tissue, blood clotting and more.

To provide an allegory, you are trying to point of the incidence rate of myocarditis in the smallpox vaccine and claiming that the smallpox vaccine was more dangerous than smallpox itself.
I mean if I can still get that pleasure and not contribute to animal suffering why not do that?
Er....this feels like every main criticism going back to even the expert systems pre-90's.

Could you please provide some support for your argument? This was repeated a lot in the early days of the modern wave (2012-2016) but was pretty thoroughly debunked as we've explored generalization and how these models disentangle intrinsic concepts and compute with them. Heck, even modern transformers are restricted memory Turing complete and use that to their advantage.

Also, I do not mean to be rude, but frankly saying "colonize the parts of the problem space where AI doesn't have the imagination to go" is frankly rather terrible as it leans on the imagination argument of AI. At this point, being adaptable to co-integrate will be good, otherwise I could see people following that stuck inside of some kind of Sisyphean pseuso-Luddite escapist nightmare.

Source for opinions: have been involved in ML in some form for most of the modern wave, and am appropriately (quite) skeptical about the AI takeover/revolution/eventual singularity belief/etc.
I work at Tilled and we appreciate the shout out because we have worked tirelessly to make this experience possible with Stripe migrations in particular. While it is ultimately up to the incumbent processor to release the data, from a technology standpoint there is nothing that stands in the way to make this possible, especially here at Tilled since we have built our own API's from the ground up.

If anyone wants to learn more about how Tilled works directly with ISO's who need a payfac solution for ISV customers email us at partners@tilled.com
In biology (my area), it is quite frequent for reviewers to "suggest" additional analyses/experiments that reference the the reviewers work or sub-field, which delays publication and inflates citations of reviewers. Thus, some people seem to make a strategy of volunteering for review to get more citations.

My understanding is that physics has used arXiv much longer and more consistently than biology has used bioRxiv, so communication suffers less from the impact of delayed (not just blocked) publication.

Physics is a smaller research community than biology, so it is not surprising that club effects have more pronounced. Some less funded sub-fields of biology definitely have that feel (e.g., ecology and evolution), but anything remotely biomedical seems to suffer from the rando reviewer effect much more.

In my experience, the historic "squishiness" of biology and the rapid growth of NIH funding (and hence graduate students mills) leads to a larger population of less rigorous thinkers than in physics. We don't have math requirements to filter those folks out.
> I don't read German but I used biological fathers for a reason, does your data include stepfathers?

It does, yes, but it doesn't matter. Abuse incidence from teachers and caretakers is ridiculously low, the utter majority of abuse comes from family members and so that is where efforts should be focused.
Is there any other runtime that needs as much tuning as the JVM?

It seems like a failure of the JVM that someone capable of porting thousands of lines of code with little trouble then fails to tune the JVM. It's like, "we wrote all the code, now the hard part starts, tuning the JVM".
> The requirements for Unreal are unreal.

This has been true since 1998.
Elon Musk’s role at Tesla questioned as Twitter occupies his attention
Its worship of the new. Nothing worth anything existed last week, so reimplementing an entire infrastructure is zero cost.
One thing that sticks out like sore thumb are those relatively low-res rock textures, especially close-up. Would be neat to see some procedural generation there.

For reference here is the scene from the movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN7kG7Ui7Bg
These guys have neatly circumvented the concern about unsubscribing by having a broken unsubscribe page!
Lynn Conway is another woman I look up to. The trans women who lived between 1950 and 1980 and still managed to advance their careers impress me, and I do my best to emulate them.
If you are using IDE you can look to dbx Python package that has the “dbx sync” command that allows to sync local code with Repos and then you can quickly test your code in notebooks
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I unfortunately regret to disappoint you that a living breathing homo sapien wrote this, me. My writing style is mine and mine alone although GPT could very well imitate my style but in this case it did not.
It's nice to have all of your db operations in Python and automatically integrated with existing Python tooling. It also makes it easier to refactor, organize, etc. SQLAlchemy comes OOTB with a lot of nice convenience tools and functions, and there's an ecosystem built around it, e.g. Alembic for schema migration. There are some cases like really complex queries where it can get in the way, but overall I find the tradeoffs are easily worth it for the convenience
So, should be able to compile all possible compilations for a given program and pick the one with number of bugs closest to 0? Or at least the compilations that have bugs unrelated to results looking for.
Is it time for our two minutes of hate?
I think that's part of my larger point that companies and startups simply cannot solve this problem and are really part of the problem. Governments could mandate and incentivize changes, but companies would come kicking and screaming.

> If we can't change human behaviour can we innovate our way out of the problem?

Most human innovations have increased climate change. I have little optimism that we can suddenly adjust the dial. And capitalism is simply at odds with reducing or even moderating consumption.
The ideal situation is that nobody pays for it. Picture a scenario where the vast majority of resource gathering, manufacturing, and production are all automated. Programmers are out of a job, factory workers are out of a job, miners are out of a job, etc.

Basically the current argument of artists being out of a job but taken to its extreme.

Why would these robots get paid? They wouldn’t. They’d just mine, manufacture, and produce on request.

Imagine a world where chatgpt version 3000 is connected to that swarm of robots and you can type “produce a 7 inch phone with an OLED screen, removable battery, 5 physical buttons, a physical shutter, and removable storage” and X days later arrives that phone, delivered by automation, of course.

Same would work with food, where automation plants the seeds, waters the crops, removes pests, harvests the food, and delivers it to your home.

All of these are simply artists going out of a job, except it’s not artists it’s practically every job humans are forced to do today.

There’d be very little need to work for almost every human on earth. Then I could happily spend all day taking shitty photographs that AI can easily replicate today far better than I could photograph in real life but I don’t have to feel like a waste of life because I enjoy doing it for fun and not because I’m forced to in order to survive.
Well, most of us are in the benefiting group so I'd definitely take that gamble.

But you're off course right that the benefits are unevenly distributed, and for some it truly does suck.
I mean, I'm not a JVM fan, but this sort of thing happens in lots of languages, and even operating systems. Upgrade from version X to X + 1, especially with lots of changes in everything else, and you're bound to hit different limits or explore the interface with limits you were hitting and didn't realize.

The other option is to never update anything; which is valid, but painful.
Like many seasoned Scala developers I was skeptical at first but it's actually pretty enjoyable despite a few inconsistencies. Jumping between Scala 2 and 3 codebases isn't much of a problem. Granted, it makes the life of people working on tooling significantly more complicated but I'm not one of them.

The decision was directly motivated by Odersky's experience teaching Scala to students for 15+ years, it wasn't made for the sake of fueling drama in the community.
What effect will this have for connecting concepts between books? Either through summarization or topic mapping?
When does Elon run out of borrowing capacity?
This article claims that, prior recent declines in the price of $TSLA, Elon had already pledged 92% of his stake in Tesla.

How does this work? Are Elon's margin requirements being met? Is he getting a sweetheart deal on margin requirements? Have the terms been renegotiated?