skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you! :) and sure!
> Likewise, as impressive as stable diffusion is, I doubt it could even get my car out of the driveway.

Even this analogy oversells the state of "AI" today, as it implies that it would be possible to simply "swap in" stable-diffusion for the self-driving software in your Tesla (or whatever car with similar software) without spending months figuring out how to even hook up the inputs and outputs in such a way that you could get stable-diffusion to somehow activate when you want to drive.

Their IO models are so completely different—one takes a stream of largely-visual input and determines in real time whether it represents something it has been trained to recognize as "road", "danger", etc, and thus whether it should issue real-time outputs to the car's axles, brakes, etc, while the other takes discrete text or visual input prompts and uses them to generate discrete visual outputs—that it doesn't even make sense to think about how one could replace the other.

They're not AIs. They're simply software programs, using machine learning algorithms to produce highly-tailored, human-opaque results that can, yes, be pretty amazing. But given all the excessive hype and disinformation lately around what these programs can do, I've made a conscious effort not to refer to them as "AI," because people have too many sci-fi associations with it, and it causes far too many of them to anthropomorphize them and impute far, far more ability and "intelligence" to them than they actually have.
I could never get used to Pandas as a former user of R’s tidyverse. The naming and syntax never really sticked with me. I find Polars’ API much easier to reason about, and it definitely feels closer to dplyr than Pandas. I still miss the pipe operator though.
No, that doesn't sound right.
Returning more or less than the NASDAQ is an enitrely different issue than profitability.
Updated Version

https://www.vos.noaa.gov/MWL/dec_08/milibar_chart.shtml
Inheritance is the best solution to some problems.

It got a bad reputation because it was abused. Bad practice is using inheritance when a tuple or a map would suffice.
Someone had asked ChatGPT to produce working code in three languages. The results seemed impressive

https://www.reddit.com/user/francisco/comments/1044amy/chatg...

Until someone pointed out that simple things like the function torch.integrate_odeint doesn't exist (and other issues with the Julia codes as well) and it is not clear what the generated code is going to do even if you fix this. For now, the generated code is great at fooling non-technical VC's into thinking some deep intelligence is going on so they can now pivot from Crypto/Web3 grift into generative AI.
Behavioral Defense Strategies: How to Make Smart Investment Decisions
Inherently there’s a trade-off between speed and safety of a car. Doesn’t mean you can’t improve safety for a given speed, given the right incentives.
Google's vetting of small sites is pretty minimal. Instead they use fraud detection: vetting the traffic itself.
Leak of sensitive values to Airflow rendered template
The analogy doesn’t make any sense. Privacy is not inherently “safe” to begin with.
Exactly the way we've been doing it: compare what it produces against known intelligence to find cases where it fails.
That's what I was thinking. For sensitive information or information that's under legal restriction, how are we going to train the models for on-prem AI?

I guess we could train models on similar corpus scraped from the internet - mostly old General Aviation manuals, I guess, but a) that's not enough corpus, and b) those GA docs are so old I'm afraid my AI will start chain smoking and casually using the word "broad".
I sympathize with your concern, but this is off topic.
F1 targets $500M in revenues from Las Vegas race
Originally "computer" was used to refer to people who would "compute". They were all replaced by electronic computers.

I don't think many would claim that the world would be a better place if regulations were put in place to limit electronic computers in order to keep human computers employed.
Reducing the likelihood of side channels through transparency is a worthy endeavor. But for RISC-V, adoption of Control Flow Integrity (CFI) and memory tagging capabilities will have far greater security impact for the vast majority of users.
Ask HN: How much income did your short projects generate?
Let's say projects that went from idea to production in less than a month.
What… is the point of node editing? Current image editing is only destructive if you save over the original file? What am I missing? This seems way more tedious than just making the changes like in Lightroom.
The iPhone came out before Android, was more expensive than a Blackberry at first, but started taking share from RIM. It also caused the Android project at Google to reset (their initial phone was similar to a Blackberry before the iPhone launch).

RIM’s complacency and flat-footed response to the iPhone has been very well covered, and can be Googled. By the time they were trying to partner with Google, it was already too late for them. Android is not what killed the Blackberry.
>But even if you pay for a month placement on a given site, the ad buyer is still going to want an estimate of how many legitimate viewers see/saw your ad.

yes, you might WANT that. but you do not NEED that. Remember that ad's isn't only effective when clicking on it, but also by spreading visibility of your offer/product.

you could easily use sites visitor count as a estimate for monthly pricing. And frankly without all tracking there would be no incentives to fake click on ads at all, so you could get your own tracking on your own side.
My friend has been at Facebook forever - apparently new hires often show up and say "I just bought a vacuum cleaner, why do you think I need a new one?" and the strategy of not showing you that ad gets tried over and over, and never actually improves clicks. Friend also doesn't have an explanation, apparently there are just people out there, who look just like you and me, but buy their vacuum cleaners two at a time a week apart. Mystery.
> through a tax

Taxation is also a grand top down view of the economy.

You've got to figure out the details of an equitable amount. Do different countries pay different amounts? Are there subsidizes for the poor? Are other greenhouse gases, like nitrous oxide, also included, and at what rate? If someone doesn't pay, how is the tax enforced?

All those are part of a grand vision.

Just like the grand top down view wherein "nationalists and communists" decided to ban most CFC emissions. And the "nationalists and communists" who decided to ban commercial whaling, outside of a few nations.

How would the superior capitalistic system have solved those problems? It's not like the capitalistic system is doing that great a job of preserving commercial fishing.

The "Tragedy of the Commons" was based on a fairy-tale interpretation of history. The far greater tragedy occurred due to the commons owners enclosing the land and breaking commoner's rights of use.

A.k.a. "capitalism".
“Its normal” doesn’t mean “it’s not an additional expense imposed on the post merger company.”

Mergers where the loading of debt onto the company to finance the merger is a major cause of bankruptcy also aren’t that unusual. (For both public firms and firms taken private.)
HyperReel: High-Fidelity 6-DoF Video with Ray-Conditioned Sampling
The primary purpose of an S-1 filing is for investors to read to the prospectus and decide whether they'd like to invest. When a bunch of investors read it and say "no I would not", that's not a lucky catch, it's the system working as designed.

I tend to agree that it's unclear if Uber's trajectory will ever change, which is why their stock is down 37% from IPO and over 50% from its all time high. But it's not unheard of for a company to be unprofitable for a long time until it starts pulling in billions, so it's not surprising that some people honestly believe Uber will pull it off.
Several of the images are broken links. Perhaps an example of Muphry's Law?
for someone purportedly so intent on having a scientific experiment, he didn’t seem to be bothered by the fact that these two days of drinking were in a row

if I drink on consecutive days the hangover will be markedly weaker on each additional day
I'm mostly just shocked that the model can produce what appear to be entirely consistent models of the same character from different views. I can be convinced, but I was also equally skeptical.

Because that implies a kind of cohesive conceptual understanding of a single object, that I didn't think the current architecture was able to model that. So many image outputs of humans are perfectly fine in local areas, but then they have three arms or a hand where a foot should be or something.

I mean, the chosen character isn't perfectly consistent -- e.g. the side view shows a kind of metal badge on the vest that doesn't exist in the front view, while the back view shows a kind of mid-thigh holster (?) that doesn't appear on the front view, plus the vest on the back view is a few inches shorter. Similarly the collar is popped on the front view, but not the other two.

But nevertheless, it's basically about 99% right. And I simply don't understand how that's possible, unless there author did about ten thousand tries and is showing the only ones that happened to be nearly entirely consistent, somehow just mostly by chance. (Maybe because they're particularly close to the real-life characters used for training?)
Here's the English part of the Faroese government's website on tax: https://www.taks.fo/en/individuals/tax/

And for businesses: https://www.taks.fo/en/business/starting-a-business/starting...

I think "no deductions" means there aren't hundreds of complicated rules like the USA has. The page says "Operational costs should be deducted from the taxable income. Operational costs are the expenses that are necessary for the business to operate, such as rent, electricity, maintenance, furniture, equipment, transportation, insurance, bookkeeping, telephone expenses etc."

VAT is 25%.
That's actually backwards.

They won't be able to compete just on data because lots of people are producing custom models, and they can be blended together like a stylistic and thematic pallet. Plus, if you own the pipeline you can use embeddings, dreambooth in specific elements and set it up in batch mode doing a random walk through the latent space for cheap. This stuff is not hard to set up and run, and with money and expertise, you can create something that is both unique looking relative to other AI art, and more optimized for your workflow than a service.

Image gen services will compete on ease of use, general quality and access to models that are larger than can fit in 24-48g vram without a big up front cost. There will probably be some services that provide specific features that people use even if they own their own pipelines, but the core customers will be smaller shops who don't use it enough to justify a real investment.
Most people don't live in caves or in the sky city, 2 is enough.

And in places you care (multi-floor buildings) you aren't getting GPS signal inside anyway...
What else do you call a group of people willing to behead innocent teachers and murder of 12 people at Charlie Hebdo?
Why should they? The Guardian is not Charlie Hebdo, where giving offense & generating outrage are parts of their business model and cred with their audience.
I think ordinary income is < 5% of the burden (not just complexity). Think about where the time is spent on your own return: it’s not copying 10 numbers from your W-2 or counting your kids, but rather figuring your investment gains/losses, K-1s, Schedule C for your side work or app.

People with only earned income already have a very easy time of it here as well.
Non-deterministic Turing machines are still computationally equivalent to Turing machines. That is, there is no problem that a Non-deterministic Turing machine can solve for which there doesn't exist a deterministic Turing machine that solves it as well, and vice versa. Non-deterministic Turing machines are exponentially faster as far as we know (P ≠ NP seems to be true) but they are no more powerful. And note that Non-deterministic algorithms are far more powerful than anyone imagines human brains could be - as they can perform an infinite number of operations in parallel (equivalently, they have an oracle that gives them the best possible choice at any step).

Even worse for your argument, probabilistic Turing machines and algorithms (classical bounded-error probabilistic machines) don't even seem to be faster than fully deterministic ones (P = BEP).
Would we use these like regular existing solar panels on our rooftops? And does 10x efficiency mean that we could harvest 10x the power of what existing solar panels provide?
Cool, I’d love to play around with an isometrograph (shown in Figure 5 of the PDF):

“In setting up the isometrograph, the vertical scale is positioned on a calibrated bar (fig. 5). A vertically viewed contour map of the area to be portrayed is oriented so that the direction of view is parallel to the calibrated bar. The angle of view from the horizon is adjusted by the placement of the bars that hold the pencil (fig. 5). The stylus is moved along the highest contour of the vertically viewed contour map, and at the same time the pencil is activated to draw a foreshortened contour. The isometrograph is moved on the vertical scale to the next lower contour, and the process is repeated until all of the contours have been traced. We estimate that a framework of foreshortened contours by the isometrograph is produced in half the time as one based on angular perspective.”

Would be a neat project to make a virtual one in 3D in the browser.
Many of the friends and relations I talked to at Christmas spend much of their work day writing. None of them are professional wordsmiths, it's just how their work is propogated. They could all see how AI assistance in writing would be useful, and acceptable.
So it turns out there’s a reason people include footnotes with sources.

Honestly, I imagine that’s an on going line of research for the nextgen AI bots.

Or maybe I need to get back to graduate school and get to work.
The common web browsers or web-based apps are all using hardware accelerated Skia. Almost nothing uses the core X11 APIs anymore.

I'm honestly confused when I hear people say they still use X forwarding and it has no slowdown. It's known to be one of the worst possible options for remoting, the core protocol doesn't even support image/video compression. RDP runs circles around it.
Ohh thanks for explaining this. I totally missed this was a grammatical correction. I’m not a native speaker, and I actually learned something from it.

So how should I say “this code is recursing” instead? “This code is ..” ? Or is it solely about the form of “This code recurses”, which should instead be “This code recurs” ? Which also sounds somewhat wrong, because wouldn’t that refer to “recurring” instead of “recursing” ?

Thanks for your explanation, and of course the grandparent as well.
A movie where police cars crash without any reason and it's not even a comedy, it's in the range of Steven Segal body of work
Well 99% of what gets written by public figure social media accounts aren't actually written by the figure themselves but a social media/PR manager. And most people on social media aren't looking to talk to real people but just find bits of prose that confirm their biases 100% so, not sure it will matter. Though maybe the fog of "real or bot" just gets to be too much people lose interest.
You are trying to scale an upside down mountain here, but I appreciate your efforts. I ran out of power years ago.
Ok, maybe I was wrong, I don't know. I'd really like someone who knows about both to comment on what I wrote.
The same kind of methods can be applied to internet websites, even more easily because it's digital. GDPR doesn't say anywhere that you can't do analytics or whatever on your website, it only says that you can't track the user, but there are plenty of way to do analytics in a GDPR compliant way, and there are a number of even open source projects alternative to Google Analytics for example that allows to do so.

Of course what you can no longer do (without user consent, because if the user give you explicit consent you can) is to provide ADS targeted to a specific user based on tracking data. But you can assume that if a user visits a page that has a certain content it will be interested in certain type of ads, this is possible because you are not targeting the specific user based on data you collected on the user, but all the user that look at that content will see the same ads (that are pertinent).

Is a big loss? Yes, to Meta and Google, to company doing advertisement not, because this kind of advertisement is not that effective, and to users even more not because tracking is bad for their privacy in many ways.
There's a great polars wrapper for Elixir called Explorer if you want pipes.
I think you severely underestimate the effort search engines have to put to filter out all the SEO garbage and come up with some sensible results
I discuss this near the end of the post: a ratings approach (mostly) works for TV because there aren't very many channels, but there are so many sites that it wouldn't work well on the web. If you tried to make it work here it would require massive consolidation, even more than we already have.
Sure, I spent most of my career working for small nimble outfits that ultimately sold product to large crappy companies while moving on to other challenges.

The pipelined SVD reduction mentioned was written while working with a small company with 13 airframes (fixed wing and helicopters) that did full spectrum rad+mag+grav+lidar surveys of small country sized areas (Fiji, Mali, other similar sized regions) and eventually sold to Fugro.

Sometime before that there was something that was aquired and became [1]

[1] https://hexagon.com/company/divisions/safety-infrastructure-...

but that was very pre google earth | maps.

Today there are oppotunities such as [2]

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-08/space-satellite-image...
rep farming
I liked and used Windows Continuum on my Lumia 950 XL back in the day, but sadly Windows Mobile was killed not long after. It allowed Windows Store apps to run like they would on a regular desktop Windows 10. I had a tiny but surprisingly heavy duty USB-C dock.
> but one of the more impressive things about the ad ecosystem is that it works without advertisers and publishers trusting each other. I can sell the space on my site and advertisers don't need to figure out how much to trust me in particular.

For a person who worked in ads you are surprisingly oblivious to how both Facebook and Google defrauded advertisers and publishers.

- Facebook Lied About Video Metrics and It Killed Profitable Businesses https://www.ccn.com/facebook-lied-about-video-metrics/

- Google Hit With $268 Million Fine Over Unfair Ad Practices https://gizmodo.com/google-hit-with-268-million-fine-over-un...

Ad industry should burn in the fires of hell.
There was a day in between, but yeah, not the best protocol.
Speed.

150 wpm talking vs 200-250 wpm with stenography.

Putting on my narrator’s hat for a moment, I’d also point out that speaking clearly for hours on end is hard, and not something you can do without preparation (copious amounts of water, a room with little background noise, a good microphone, etc). Any of the preparation that’s skipped makes it harder to speak clearly and be understood.
I am still looking for a text markup system that gives me good PDFs with DTP-grade text setting and and is plain-text, so I can work with standard version control programs. Right now, only TeX/LaTeX comes close. AsciiDoctor is not doing citations well, Markdown is basically a mess which differs in implementation, also footnotes and citations.

Do you have something better?
> the cost of education is too high

Education is essentially free, thanks to the Internet. It's the accreditation from gatekeeper institutions that can cost a fortune. I think it's vitally important that we properly define the problem in order to fix it. So, seen as a problem of overpriced accreditation rather than access to education we can logically conclude that although education is a "common good" that needs to be supported by all, maybe accreditation needs to be devalued.

Surely there are far easier & cheaper ways to ensure a person knows a thing.
Most inventions are an assembly of near inventions that happen to be at the right place at the right time.
The conversation around chatgpt has been had before. It is more ancient than Plato and Aristotle. ChatGPT can only generate rhetoric. It is incapable of generating dialectic.
Saudi agents are said to have infiltrated Wikipedia
I agree that's what the GDPR says, and what it will be interpreted by courts to mean. But, as I get into at the end of the post, I don't think this is what it should say.
It's a clever trade, and I appreciate that the author pointed out the main drawback:

> What does that mean? Essentially that we’re exposed to the risk of something going wrong with Aave itself and not being able to get our money back. (Aave’s own explanation of its risks is here.) In order to withdraw our money from Aave, Aave actually needs to have the money we want to withdraw. When we deposited USDC collateral on Aave, Aave lends out that USDC to other users who deposit their own collateral on Aave. At the time of this writing, about 53% of Aave’s USDC is lent out.

Author states that they only have "a couple hundred dollars" risked on this trade. Seems that they're just looking to win Internet points by being able to say that they shorted Tether.
The Nokia Risk: Small countries, big firms, and the end of 5th Schumpetaran wave
>it can be solved with trust, contracts and auditing

I actually agree with you. And large businesses in particular are both audited and do internal audits all the time. It's not that they and their employees are all untrustworthy but audits can both catch mistakes and send a signal that people are watching.

There are probably other mechanisms to do fraud detection. But, as your comment suggests, they may be more heavyweight and therefore might exclude most smaller sites.
TeXmacs is a great project, no doubt, but you have mentioned WYSIWYG as one of the advantages. This is the main reason I do not use TeXmacs to create documents (I do use it to create online lectures). You may like or dislike LaTeX/TeX (and the discussion is usually too emotionally charged for my taste) but the fact that it is a text format (not as verbose as, say, XML, at that) which is more or less standard is a deciding factor for many people, including myself. On a personal level, while I slightly dislike LaTeX style macros, I absolutely adore TeX's design (yes, including syntax). It is a matter of taste, of course. I am aware that TeXmacs can export LaTeX, it is not quite the same. LyX is another (better in my view) WYSIWYG option, if one is desired.
As a quick aside: I love Slipways. Amazing job, very interesting little game :)

On topic, I'm working in the same vein as you currently (without the indie hit) - I like building worlds that I want to see the light of day. I've found itch.io to be an amazing community and resource as a part-time games developer. It makes it stupid easy to get a game to the web and similarly easy to use sophisticated tools like Unity to make games for other platforms.
Is there an equivalent of \NewCommand in TexMacs? I can't find anything by Googling.
We can disagree without being uncivil when our feelings get the better of us.
Why would proper documenting and communication not be part of more effective engineering?

It's about providing 10 times the value, not churning similar quality code 10 times faster.
I thought the same! It would be nice if it could strip out the bullshit and shortening the text, while keeping it readable.
Ops: "One of our instances went down"
Everyone else: "Gaaaahhh"