skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> David Deutschis a physicist at the University of Oxford and a fellow of the Royal Society.

What field were you referring to?
On iOS it's not too difficult to build a fully custom UI with just UIKit. You want a totally custom button? No problem, don't fight the styling inherent with UIButton, just subclass its parent class UIControl instead which is a blank canvas, but still gets you 90% of the perks of a standard UIButton with minimal effort. It's pretty easy to write entirely custom widgets with unique behaviors too.

It's a bit more messy to do that with Android Framework, and because of that I see more of an argument for using Flutter there than on iOS. Jetpack Compose seems to be a lot better in that regard though.
I use Brave search. It's free, and IMO the quality of search results is actually _better_ than Google's. I occasionally add the `g!` shebang to get google results for a query when Brave results aren't great, and the Google ones are often even less relevant.

For some reason I don't really see other people talk about it on HN, but I absolutely love it. You don't need to use a specific browser (I use firefox on desktop and iOS) or use any other Brave products/features, it's completely standalone.
I asked it to explain some very technical medical testing procedures to me "like I was five years old". It completely nailed it by truly reducing it to its essence and using appropriate metaphors that a child would understand (coloring books). Because of how niche the topic is, I'm fairly sure no such text exists in the training corpus.

I'm not sure whether this constitutes "understanding", since that term usually applies to people's cognitive states; however, if a student provided this answer on an exam, they would certainly convince the examiner and pass the test!
Usually these tools just bail out. This is fine for the domain. Any division where the divisor is not known nonzero is a bug even if it will never happen because you probably aren't sure it will never happen either.
Much like how coders like to call themselves "engineers" - a term that has actual accreditation and certifications attached to it, but somehow not in the computer science space, weird.
Why would managers need to guess? That seems like a perfect job for another AI: "Hey PM bot, I want to get these tasks done, how many Amy-hours and how many Frank-hours do you estimate it will take?" Also, why not a Manager-bot too? Shareholders can leave humans out of the loop entirely except as necessitated by legal paperwork. Come to think of it, shareholders can probably be replaced too.
China has claimed ownership btw: https://archive.ph/DJgKa
Some articles on this topic:

https://research.nccgroup.com/2022/12/05/exploring-prompt-in...

https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/16/prompt-injection-solut...
It varies by person, but if you are moderately responsible and have a budget or at least a good handle on your monthly income you would be stupid to not, say, buy things using Apple Card (just an example) with Apple Pay for 2% daily cash back. In addition, if someone swipes your debit card and steals the money from your account you are screwed. If someone swipes your credit card you just get a new card and nothing bad happens to you. You also have protections from bad sellers/merchants through chargeback mechanisms.

You just use the credit card as the debit card and you are good to go. Certainly not everyone can handle that and there's probably a society-wide problem here but that doesn't detract from the individual decision to be made in the operating environment.
Aam Aadmi Party teachers’ body calls Budget a ‘document in disappointment’
For sure, I was using stomach discomfort as a broad euphemism to mean the overall unpleasantness I experienced from drinking coffee compared to days when I abstained. Anecdotally, I have a friend who quit coffee for similar reasons who also took up drinking AeroPress brew successfully.
> Pure anonymity bars you from the following activities: joining a social group, signing up for some longish term business relationship (hiring a contracter, signing up for a service), engaging in the political process, holding a job, and probably more that I cant think of.

Why do you believe that’s your right? You have the right to be left alone, but in all the examples you offer you are explicitly not minding your own business.

Rather there should be an expectation of reciprocity with respect to identity.
The compiler is not removing or killing invalid code, you can still find it in the source file.

What is doing, in the extreme case, is ignoring it and not generating asm statements for it. Then again, how it could? Code that will trigger UB has no meaning so the compiler wouldn't know what code to generate.

Of course a compiler could assign meaning to some instance to UB.

For example I'm pretty sure that in GCC dereferencing a null pointer is not UB, but it is expected to trap (because POSIX) and the execution not to continue except via abnormal edges (exceptions or longjmp). This means that any code that can be proven to be reachable only through a nullpter dereference is effectively dead code, so in practice it can still introduce bugs if it didn't trap.
> This was not because of the "flatten the curve" efforts - it just was not necessary.

Citation needed. How can you be sure of a broad conclusion like this?
I think it is pretty simple - do you have to be somewhere or be available for more than 8 hours a day? If you are 24/7 on call for issues, that deserves a huge pay bump. In other fields it's even more true - doctors for example, when oncall, have to be ready to work at a moments notice. So no drinking or other recreational drugs, or going skiing somewhere remote, or being out of cell range... If it effects you life for more than 8 hours a day, you should be payed for that.
Interesting! Didn't see much about the AI part on the video. what does it do exactly?
In my opinion, it doesn't matter.

They "tolerated" a non-compliant use of their service for so long time (maybe because in the past their only goal was to increase adoption?!?) and suddenly they decided to change strategy?! No problem, it's their choice, but adding an x days grace period should be the standard. It's really easy to do.

> Would it be nice for CF to give a heads up?

Well yes, it will be really welcome. Mostly for all other their user(1/3 of internet or something like this) that maybe doesn't even know there are not full-compliant to TOS and risk their business to be terminated suddenly.
Yeah, big time. It's faster, so crawlers give you better scores for page speed, which is important. Secondly, it automatically renders all of your content, vs if you dynamically load content, the crawler may just see a page with a "Loading" element and never actually view the content itself.

Google argues that it is able to handle javascript heavy client side code in it's crawlers, but the data seems to show otherwise.
> Performance is higher with the server because the HTML is already generated and ready to be displayed when the page is loaded.

but the page is loaded later because you have to wait for the server to perform this work. There is no reduction in total work, probably an absolute increase because some logic is duplicated. If there is a speed improvement it is because the server has more clock cycles available than the client, but this is not always true.

> Complexity is lower because the server does most of the work of generating the HTML so can often be implemented with a simpler and smaller codebase.

Huh? It takes less code to build a string in a datacenter than it does in a browser?
Milk makes coffee less acidic plus you get an extra [1] anti-inflammatory boost with this combo.

[1]: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/01/230130090347.h...
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Yea the data support retirees being a stronger factor as discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34554546

But raising pay does still increase the number of people willing to work across the market. It’s also basically the only direct way to increase the labor pool without exogenous or distant factors to the labor market. Raising interest rates would affect the labor market by diminishing financing to the point demand for labor falls. It’s a blunt/economy wide instrument.

Labor did enjoy increased market demand and increased wages after the 1918 pandemic. Historically, not wanting to raise wages just reads as sour grapes.
VTL has been around since the 90’s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_tape_library.

This is a fantastic example of how broken the patent system is.

This is not an invention it’s a good implementation of a well understood problem.

It is also priced ridiculously - it is at least an order of magnitude more expensive than operating a physical library and remote physical storage that is beyond cyber threat by virtue of it being disconnected.

A real backup is offline and offsite.
BDR?
This one is always live - https://gitagpt.org/
> Well done, modern devs! A plain .html file does that

And then if you want to take that rendered data and do anything interactive with it you have some js soup of parseInt(document.getQuerySelector(".item > .item__quantity") all over the place. HN has some weird hate for this new server side rendering, when it's really the smart thing to do and equivalent to what any app is doing: the "frame" of the app is downloaded once (and we can send the initial data with it), and then it can become interactive from there. e.g. if the data needs to be reloaded we can make a small JSON request instead of reloading the whole page and re-rendering it.
Videos of Strang himself covering the material are all up on Youtube[1]. Jump over and spend some time watching the first session or whatever, should give you a good feel for how accessible it is.

There's also a web-page[2] with lots (and I do mean lots!) of historical problem sets and exams from this class in previous years. It goes back to sometime in the mid 1990's. So again, you could skim around some of that stuff and see how intimidating it appears.

FWIW, I never took Linear Algebra in school, or anything beyond Calc I. And I've watched the first three or four lectures in this sequence and so far it seems accessible enough. YMMV.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL221E2BBF13BECF6C

[2]: http://web.mit.edu/18.06/www/old.shtml
That's one heck of a weather balloon.

https://archive.ph/DJgKa
I haven't been here for very long, but it seems like a place that tries to be "better than reddit", and I do think in general the quality of the comments and discussions are higher, it's not just low-effort "you're wrong and you suck" stuff, but actual rhetoric. I like it, but as you've seen, some people will still be petty and do things like report comments they don't agree with. It's easier to ignore the comment and move on than to downvote it or report it. This is a website. Who the hell cares.
The authors did not really expect it to be such a huge influence. You could also argue, it is a somewhat natural next step. This paper did not invent self-attention nor attention. Attention was already very popular, specifically for machine translation, and a few other papers already did use self-attention at that point in time. It was just the first paper which solely used attention and self-attention and nothing else.
I doubt it would make much of a difference. The kids with the wherewithal to take and pay attention to a finance course would be able to figure out "high interest debt = bad" on their own. The other kids wouldn't pay attention anyway.

Really, an hour on Google will give you all the information you could need to manage credit cards. It's not complex.
It’s not the only one. Some other packages that used workarounds like interface{} or other things to work around the lack of generics were container/{heap,list,ring}, sort, golang.org/x/sync/singleflight, /x/exp/{maps,slices}, etc. And people will want to write their own patterns at other times of course too. It wouldn’t be reasonable for these all to become builtin types like map. These standard library packages that already exist will also become more efficient and potentially reduce allocations (when using primitives) as well.
I have never used a credit card to borrow money. I've always just used one as a basically a more secure and convenient debit card.

Credit cards to me are just convenient payment facilitators for money I already have. If they aren't being used that way, they probably shouldn't be used at all.
By Phone OTP I mean the following Registration/Authentication flow : To Register, user must enter phone number, user is then sent a 6 digit code via sms to the given phone number, user then must enter the code to register. To Login, it's the same flow.

By "Refuse" I mean - User has full ability to go through the flow but chooses not to for whatever reason (eg. doesn't want to share their phone number)
Even if they were, who's more likely to pay for an API, the scammer making shit ton of money from tricking twitter users, or the hobby dev making a cool integration with Twitter that brings people to Twitter?
>ctrl+f “State”

>ctrl+f “Effect”

>0 results

I only skimmed through the post, but seems like it’s ignoring the main reasons why CSR is needed?
> Continuing this to its logical conclusion, should I try to sabotage them too?

Similarly, if you are not donating blood, the logical conclusion is to become a vampire. :)

If you want to help junior developers, there are many other ways to do that. For example, you could teach a programming course, make a paid video at Udemy, or write a book. If your goal is to help junior developers, skip the intermediary, be more efficient, own the copyright, and set your own working hours.
Ask here - https://gitagpt.org/
I'm in my mid-thirties. 2022, after watching the Cyberpunk Anime (which I liked), I watched my first „real“ animes, „A silent voice“ and „In this corner of the world“.

I regret that I didn’t get into animes earlier in my life.
The same way obesity is a problem.

The rules are simple:

- don't eat unless you're hungry

- don't eat more calories than you expend. That's a general rule of health. As soon as you have an overage your whole goal should be getting that cleared up as fast as possible

- calories are only a tool to fuel your body. so don't eat them if you don't need them.
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If you want to get your hands on the new DocGPT Google Addon, you can find it here. This addon allows you to easily integrate GPT3 into your Google Docs, making it super simple to get started with this powerful tool.
I don't know what queries y'all are doing, but I can't think of the last time I wasn't able to find what I was looking for through Google. About the only time that happens is when Google has indexed a page, but the page has since been removed (and didn't allow caching, grrr).
This time it is much worse, and for stupid reasons.

The US government funded its huge balance sheet expansion mostly by short term obligations. When rates in long term debt were at historical lows… it chose a to go in on short term instruments (because interest rates never rise!)

As that short term debt becomes due and it needs to be rolled over, it will face a much higher interest rate, severely impacting the federal budget.

The last crisis was smoothed over because the fed stood in as buyer of last resort. It’s not clear it will be able to afford to do so this time.
> Well done, modern devs! A plain .html file does that.

Yes but a plain html file is static, so that's not going to work unless your site is purely static (i.e. a blog).
America’s future is Asian, not Hispanic (2018)
SurrealDB was supposed to be a websocket real time DB, but it seems they never finished that websocket part.

Glad there's an alternative.

https://surrealdb.com/docs/integration/websockets
Yup, highly likely.

But this is why someone in the executive or CxO suite must be on top of flagging potentially existential issues like this and getting on top of it — instantly.

If it were my company, I'd be temporarily pulling down all ads not from a known previously-vetted source (e.g., the major agencies of publicly listed US companies), setting up an emergency team to develop some recognition technology, then opening it back up again with very strong surveillance.

But yeah, likely the execs there will just say 'it won't collapse that fast, and I'll be off on sunnier beaches then...
I'm probably not in your target demographic but when a website pushes computation to me for simple things like displaying text and images I close the tab.
The shroud proves he was real.
Pathway to Artificial General Intelligence Visualized
Hi All, This is a work in progress but am at a point where feedback would be helpful and I can't think of a more appropriate audience. The overarching purpose of the following project and taxonomy is to both propose standardized ordinal levels of AGI and accurately frame, track and predict the state of specific Human-Equivalent (HE) AGI components, particularly for Human-Level Sentient (Conscious) AGI. While this is admittedly speculative and hypothetical to varying degrees, it is a starting point that might allow for more accurate expert-sourced extrapolation of timelines to specific types of HE AGI. Clearly much debate exists within the cognitive sciences as to what exactly constitutes intelligence and moreover, consciousness and it is not my intent to make judgements on existing theories or the risks, dangers and alignment challenges, however, it is clear to me HE AGI comes with clear ethical responsibilities and we should be just as concerned for the rights and ethical treatment of Self-aware HE AGI agents as we are for that of humans. In fact, this reciprocity of respect may have more pronounced long-term consequences than we can imagine.

While many developmental paths to HE AGI exist (eg. Brain Emulation, Seed, etc) It is my humble opinion that our most likely initial path will follow brain-inspired cognitive architectures that will certainly include the 5 key categories listed (Perception, Understanding, Cognition/Reasoning, Consciousness and Actuation). Ethical considerations aside, this is likely our best option to allow for alignment somewhat analogous to moral consideration between sophisticated human. Each of these distinct systems will of course converge to produce consciousness and each will incorporate multiple DNN/LSTM/MORL/etc. subsystems. Sidenote: current GPT LLM systems for the most part 'deepfake' reasoning with statistical inference but I estimate a shift towards continuous learning systems much closer in architecture to our own neo-cortex within 5 to 10 years.

Feedback and constructive criticism is welcomed on the discord I setup for this project here: https://discord.gg/zj3HNQUXsf
> idk what it will cost

That's the problem GP means. It's less than a week until it happens, and nobody knows how much it's going to cost, how you convert your free account to a paying account, whether auth is also going to be paid, etc etc
It is tragicomic that the slogan "We should do things on the server instead of the browser" is becoming popular again as browser technologies evolve.
>skills that are valued when humans perform them

Is this a real thing? I just bought an ice cream roulade cake the other day and was surprised to see in large print that it was "hand-rolled"; I couldn't for the love of god understand why that should be considered a good thing.
yeah people demand this overkill without understanding what they are demanding. Everyone seems to use react so we must also use react, then the site no longer works for mobile so then you also need react native. All when you can use vanilla js to do the small bits needed for a PWA from one simple codebase.
By providing a service to customers, rather than finding ways to skim money off the top of markets?
I'd like to see the numbers on services like Affirm that are plastered all over the place.
Full transparency, I work at Microsoft on the hypervisor.

What do you find that VirtualBox does better than Hyper-V?
Can you get a better rate with CDs than just parking cash in VMRXX [0]? The fund just ladders bills and gets 4.32% 7-day yield with T+1 liquidity.

[0] https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/mutual-fun...
Do you pay off the card the second you spend the money? Or wait until your billing statemen? Most people borrow with credit cards and in fact I pay as late as possible for the statement to arbitrage the interest difference between the 0% of the card for the first 30 days and the interest I can draw in the bank. I try to delay big purchases to the very beginning of the billing cycle as that's an extra month to earn interest before paying it.
That is what happens. That is the cycle. Also most will fail and the ones that don’t will be bought by the monoliths.
Your estimate is off by half because you're conflating household income with individual income. The figures look way better if you assume that both adults are working, bringing the household income to $200k.
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For someone 30+ years-old.
Assume I'm starting from 0.
The paper filter helps a lot too.
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> Something can not be immoral if it is the best of a series of bad options

You’re presenting this as if it’s a fact, but it doesn’t seem like it is. If for no other reason that it relies on a shared understanding of what’s “best” and what makes options “bad”.

You could justify some pretty horrible decisions if you’re holding that as an axiom.
I meant in Google Ads. How much is the front end there anyway?
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True. Getting to CA once you are in the US is probably the easier part of the overall journey.

You probably can't consider yourself "safe" (in the baseball sense) by merely being in the US, you have to get out of Texas or Florida (if that's where you landed).
The rise of metaframeworks is interesting because it brings nuance to this. The line between site and app can be blurry.

For example, my app has a main screen that needs to be client rendered. It also has a user settings screen that could be implemented as a traditional server rendered page with no JavaScript, except it's a lot more practical to build everything inside the same project and technology. Apps and their marketing pages are often put on different subdomains for the same reason.

Metaframeworks that blend rendering modes help users get a lighter page load where appropriate, with less developer effort.
> In reality, weight regain after "cutting" occurs over a period of years and tends to be around 50%; that is, less than the amount of weight lost in the first place.

Interesting. Perhaps I missed it, I am not seeing that claim in the link you posted in the comment.
5 cups of _decaf_ coffee? People who drink lots of coffee are nearly always after the caffeine; you must really love the taste, huh.