skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+ Is there a post 2010 popular film where a violent boyfriend husband hits his wife? Wherein that woman antagonised the man, making the audience 'feel' her 'culpability' in some ways, wherein both characters are presented as mostly bad, but also had elements of humanity? Wherein bad characters call each other (trigger warning / vulgar language) 'jew k*ke' and other terrible slurs? Maybe it was just an artifact of that era, or maybe I'm watching too much Netflix because even 'noir' is not 'noir'.

+ 'Barnie kids' villains, not Barnie's villains.

Villains are barely disagreeable. Aside from maybe 'Hans Landa' here hasn't been a dark villain in a very long time. They are at best, sad charicatures of 'bad people'. 'Grand Moff Tarkin' from Star Wars is scarier than most bad guys, merely with his presence.
Very interesting, thanks so much for the link!
The police were just overreacting bro. They still had good intent and I applaud them for taking the initiative to combat rampant child sex trafficking that is almost never fought against these drays. From the judge's point of view, since a cop was feeding them info, of course the judge will side closer to the cop.
RLHF is done as part of training the model, not at inference time.

My lay understanding of how ChatGPT was developed is

1. OpenAI initialized an array made up of a couple hundred billion random numbers (parameters).

2. They then took a few terabytes of the internet, turned it into "tokens" (where a "token" is similar to, but not the same thing as, a word).

3. They then trained the model to predict the next token, given the previous couple thousand tokens, by doing a bunch of linear algebra. This resulted in a model that was really good at taking some tokens, and predicting what the most likely next token is in data shaped like the parts of the internet OpenAI fed it.

4. OpenAI then "fine-tuned" the model through reinforcement learning on human feedback (RLHF)[1], which basically involved taking a bunch of prompts, having the model produce a bunch of possible completions for those prompts, having an actual human rank those completions from best to worst, and then updating the model to produce the best token according to a combination of predicted token frequency in context and predicted ranking by a human.

5. The "ChatGPT" product you see today is the result of all of that, and how it works is by producing repeatedly the "best" token by the above metric. Giving additional human feedback would require going back to step 4 for more fine tuning.

Note -- this is my understanding as an outsider -- I do not work for OpenAI.

[1] https://huggingface.co/blog/rlhf
Maybe but it's a lot less likely to happen AND it might make the news over here if it did happen. That was my original point.

You aren't going to see many (or any?) media stories that are critical of the government or laws in China.
Yea. Heard. I get the distrust.
Apple sells some its phones for a higher price than their laptops. An iPhone 13 256GB is $800 and 13 mini 256GB is $700, a phone that 90% of people would not be able to differentiate between higher end models with.

Also, I have zero interest in upgrading phones or researching them. I want something that has a reputation of being a workhorse for years and stays out of my way.
This is very interesting, but unfortunately I haven't had the greatest luck in finding new songs I would enjoy listening to. It absolutely finds similar sounding tracks, but it doesn't distinguish which part of the song made it enjoyable. There's no tempo consistency or genre consistency or even main instrument/vocal timbre consistency between recommendations. I think locking one or more of those dimensions would allow for much better recommendations. I'm not sure what aspect you're using to order the results, but having extra metadata to filter or group the results in some way would help a lot.

Take Raga's Dance by Vanessa-Mae, A R Rahman, ... Royal Philharmonic https://maroofy.com/songs/476841571 . I put in this track expecting other fusion songs to pop up, and arguably some do, but much more often it feels like a 20 second section was used to define the original song and it misses the underlying concept. Like it got, in my subjective description, the epic violin in orchestral music, but it completely ignores the fusion between the distict styles of traditional indian singing/instrumentals and western ochestral and also ignores the call response structure between the violin and carnatic players, which is the what I actually care about. Other songs have the vocals but no epic backing. It feels like it's matching multiple samples from the song instead of the whole song.

This feels very promising since it clearly is picking up the styling of the specific songs across different genres and languages. I look forward to seeing where this goes.

I also think it would be interesting if there was a way to specify two different songs to find either only the common things and/or to find what the fusion of those two tracks produces.
Sounds familar to me. I think bobs, maybe angels.
I am not a software engineer, but I was not aware that it was terribly difficult to find work, especially remote work.
Who goes into an unknown shower and doesn't start out with the control at the cold end, slowly increasing it until the water is hot enough? That's like getting into a car you've never driven before and giving it full throttle right away.

A shower delivering 134F water is hazardous and serves no purpose.

It does if you want to clean something other than your body in it.
The things that matters matters, when we migrated to HTMX + HyperScript (from backend/frontend separation): increased productivity and less resource. Basically we don't care about philosophy, paradigm, etc. It works, we use it.
Official explanation is BS (danger to people in sparse rural Montana) so Im guessing they dont want to create a precedent for any of their own "projects" flying around the globe.
>the significant bias in OpenAI's treatment of the same adjectives when applied to different groups is certainly also a story.

What is the story? If the bias shows up on sentences that no one will ever say, why is that interesting? What does it tell us?
I don't believe I've ever seen any such evidence. The only attempt I've seen about supporting that is a time series analysis that showed that the total tether issued increased at times when Bitcoin's price increased-- which is exactly what you'd expect to see happen without any funny business: 'crypto' mania fuels demand for both Bitcoin and tether.

I don't have any doubt that tether is up to all manner of funny business (e.g. printing unbacked coins and loaning them out for people to 'invest' in defi ponzis), but mostly its used to trade against varrious altcoins that are only traded on off-shore exchanges not used to trade against Bitcoin. The arguments that it plays some major role with bitcoin from what I see appear to be conjecture and logically unsound reasoning rather than clear and convincing evidence.

If you're aware of something better-- I'd love to see it.

Absent that kind of connection I wouldn't be surprised to see demand for Bitcoin _rise_ once the instability fear cleared: prior to tether being used to purchase sketch-coins at offshore exchanges Bitcoin was the exclusive option for that purpose.
> That said, reading alone misses the meat of “The Program” (always capitalized!) - it’s the searching, pointed, urgent discussion of a work with others who share a common language (from all having read and discussed the earlier works in the Program) that provoked deep thought and reflection, held me to account for intellectual rigor, and built up my faculty for critical thinking.

Is there anywhere online that achieves anything close to this for this curriculum for people who can’t attend full time in person? An HN for SJC curriculum?
There isn’t a trust nobody solution to the guardianship issue. Your solution just means trusting the individual. That seems reasonable on the surface, but results in unpleasantness due to degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's etc. It’s an extremely vulnerable population that constantly get targeted by scammers who prey a people with diminished mental capacity.

To be clear I am not saying government is the right solution, just that the problem does exist. Not just because people get taken advantage of but because taxpayers gets stuck taking care of people who have lost everything.

PS: Being able to trust children is one solution that works at the individual level, but it unfortunately doesn’t scale.
Right but our entire infrastructure has been built to resist that. Most likely it'll happen at a slow enough pace that we could adapt, but just imagine if soil fungi could suddenly eat PVC pipes

Most traditional architectural techniques didn't try to resist rot so much as plan around it. I.e. have the structural integrity so that you could take out and replace parts of the building without the whole thing coming down. It's why Japanese temples are the oldest standing buildings around today

I imagine we'll have to relearn some of those lessons at some point
Ask HN: Cool side projects you have written using Golang
What are some cool side projects you have written using Golang
Assume this is Stable Diffusion on the backend? Can you tell us about the tech stack and server specs?
The only sensible comment here. HN has been predicting Tether's collapse for nearly 5 years now and it's simply not happening, people purchasing tether have been taking a short against bitcoin, historically that a very bad bet and certainly one you want to be on the other side of.

Now they've been through very significant bear markets, some theft of funds and still are solvent.

I don't understand the criticism about high amounts and verification for directly redeeming it either. If they did neither of those things it would be a money-laundering haven and they'd have men with guns raiding their homes tomorrow. You can redeem it through kraken and other domestic exchanges for cold hard cash, it's working perfectly fine.

Tether will be looked back as an example of how dramatically wrong "common knowledge" can be in internet communities, some people are so mentally obstinate and committed to the idea that it is simply too hard to admit they might be wrong, this is fed by others in the community with the same affliction.
The thing is it's not really speculation. The CFTC and NYAG statements said in no uncertain terms that there were long periods of time where Tether did not have the money to cover their obligations.

Letitia James says:

> The OAG’s investigation found that, starting no later than mid-2017, Tether had no access to banking, anywhere in the world, and so for periods of time held no reserves to back tethers in circulation at the rate of one dollar for every tether, contrary to its representations.

The CFTC says:

> As found in the order, Tether held sufficient fiat reserves in its accounts to back USDT tether tokens in circulation for only 27.6% of the days in a 26-month sample time period from 2016 through 2018.

I don't personally think that it's impossible to redeem, I think they're almost guaranteed not to be good for all outstanding Tethers. I think they keep some small pool of liquidity to satisfy certain key partners, and gamble with the rest of it hoping for yield they can take off the table for themselves. I strongly suspect they got ruined during the downturn. They had a ton of Celsius equity, for instance.

I think they loan tethers to institutional players in the space without collateral, too.

[edit] I'm not sure BFX actually arbs the peg, I think they stopped? I'm trying to find my source. However, I do know Alameda arbed the peg.

> Edit: for your later addition:

Sorry for the ninja add.
But if you use Bitcoin for a transaction, you have to treat is a a stock, not a currency... and declare tax gains/losses every time
One fun fact I learned when I was toying with Laserdisc is why it was so popular in Japan: the humidity encourages video tape to grow mold[0] unless it's stored somewhere cool and dry. I would love the room to play with more of the obscure / dead video formats but Laserdisc is enough for me. Others here have recommended Techmoan[1] as a good source of vicariously seeing obsolete video formats.

[0]https://lunchmeatvhs.com/blogs/blog/rescue-your-awesome-anal...

[1]https://www.youtube.com/@Techmoan
Speaking of future aircraft - what's interesting to me is they do not seem to be planning on any more composite barrel aircraft after the 87. Even 777x is only graphite wings, no graphite barrel, which seemed to me like the natural next step. I wonder if it is manufacturing capability related, or if they regret the amount of R&D it took to get the 87 barrel to viability, or some other reason?

The A350 has composite panels and one barrel component iirc, which is a step above what the 777x is doing.

I know BA had a Next Generation Aircraft project looking at a fully composite 737 replacement, but that didn't proceed anywhere either. The braced wing design is pretty wild, but at least they will have plenty of room to make the engines larger...
Isn't Apple going to give you a hard time now? Years ago, Apple might have offered to hire you. Given what a jerk is Tim Cook, I imagine he'll have the lawyers send a cease and desist.
Wouldn't this still be about 36 terabytes of data?
> How about if it mysteriously, spontaneously fell down and you just retrieved it?

Judges aren’t obligated to believe your bullshit.
what would be the implications, if let's say, the book was religious? Torah/Bible/Quran ?
I am the account owner for my Netflix account but I do share it with one family member and one friend. I rarely use it myself, maybe once a month. If I can't share it, I don't think I need it.
They almost certainly don’t own treasuries in any meaningful amount.

While the treasury market is large the players are small and no one claims to work with tether.

You can’t roll billions in treasuries without all the major players knowing who you are.

And if they did they would release their cusips and put this to bed as there is only downside for them by withholding the cusips
I tried "learning to fly" by Pink Floyd. The results did not sound similar at all to me. Maybe I have non conventional idea on what is similar.
Tried with a song I knew well- Everything In Its Right Place.

Feels a little bit like fortune telling, I guess it is, in the sense that I am listening closely to what makes the songs similar, not just listening, but actively trying to find the similarities, so even a couple notes in progression, or drum-beats and I'll say oh, yes, that matches.

Finds very different music, not necessarily what I'd listen to in many cases, but kudos for getting me clicking through a decent pile before going wait, that's a nope, you're grasping AI-type-being.
No, grandma won't be compensated because she's not the data owner and she doesn't have a copyright on her recipe.

Who get compensated currently are all the recipe websites that have the grandma recipe on it and gain money from ads (likewise when the recipe is in a book grandma won't get any money either)

AI comes and does not output a new version of the recipe, you ask ChatGPT to get you a recipe for a specific type of pasta and it will write it down, without visiting any of the 100 and more website that have these information (thus don't get money generated from the missing traffic)

Then the question on derived data (e.g. a net new recipe) is different and probably is hard to draw a line, but it's still thanks to the original data that the model has been able to get that new recipe.

I don't know how they should be compensated, but I'm pretty sure that data owner should be compensated. Either upfront (e.g. pay X to get our data) or on usage (e.g. every time the model infer information from a specific owner then it must reward - revenue sharing).

Of course the first approach is easier while the second is more convoluted
It also depends on the temperature of the cold water being mixed in.
It's like all those "russians testing our airspace" propaganda a few years back. Everybody tests everyone's airspace. It's only when the elites want it to turn it into "news" that you hear about it. Then it's all forgotten.

It's just manufactured propaganda. The good thing about this is you can see how propaganda ( aka news/media ) coordinates with the pentagon/intelligence/etc.
I like the idea, but putting in some songs by Aphex Twin I didn't find the matches to be similar at all.
Jim Cramer says Meta Platforms’ latest quarter is why he stuck with the stock
This is not identical to the SJC list.
see for yourself :)

https://www.konjer.xyz/eiman/the-quran
What the hell?? I bike to school every day. Our bike rack has like 100 bikes each morning, I can't even count.

> It's become pretty common in the states to not allow children to go outside without supervision.

You can, just don't send them through the forest and city for hours alone, when they're literally 8.
There are 855 species of figs and almost every single one of them has a corresponding species of fig wasp that pollinates only that fig

"Most are not" only applies to figs you buy at the grocery store that are a variety of the Ficus carica species. This variety is sometimes able to fruit without pollination (sometimes requiring application of a fruiting hormone).

But the vast majority of figs are not the common fig and not this specific variety of the common fig
Up to 40 countries could boycott Paris Olympics, says Poland sports minister
Are you talking about the game or in general? MacBook trackpads have pretty intuitive gestures, just pinch zoom or two-finger scroll with cmd. If you're talking about the game, I don't know of any trackpad that isn't clunky as hell to play an FPS with
They mentioned it was already common Chinese practice, it just that this one loitered longer and for days compared to other Chinese balloons.
> And now, for the surprise...

> Everything you just read, every experience, every person, and every conversation was made up by me, an AI language model created by OpenAI! Yes, you read that right. The article was not written by a former employee, but by an AI language model trained on a vast amount of text data.

Flagged.
>some of their tech and patents were sold to SoftBank

Loon was shut down because Google stole the tech.

"In February of 2008, Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page visited Space Data’s headquarters with as many as 10 other Google executives in tow" https://www.wired.com/story/the-lawsuit-that-could-pop-alpha...

https://9to5google.com/2017/07/10/project-loon-patents/

https://www.law.com/therecorder/2019/07/29/google-settles-ip...
That's why we need new licensing. Because the OSS is open doesn't mean they can use data without the owner's permission.

Of course today we don't have license that covers for it, but I'm pretty sure it'll come along sooner or later this is a huge problem
Interesting idea, I get pretty average recommendations though.

The first track I searched for was "Hazmat Modine - Bahamut" (https://maroofy.com/songs/253108933), it seems to recommend things with some similar instruments (e.g. brass and sax) but not really similar taste or style.
A better analogy for the “Gaza Freedom Flotilla” would be Americans sending supplies to Ukraine. As , Israel is violently stealing neighboring land.

And yes, you hear much about Israel, and less about other barbaric conflicts, but how does this prove antisemitism?

Those acts are horrific too, but that doesn’t minimize the acts Israel is committing.

Personally, it seems absurd in the extreme to think the lefts ideas concerning Israel have anything to do with antisemitism. Anecdotally, I have never encountered it, and my Jewish friends find this idea absurd as well.
fig wasps (and most wasps) don't have stingers
The ambitious, quiet waste of the Spadeadam Rocket Establishment
> Political groups are not a protected status

Who cares? Something being legal does not make it good as I'm sure you know.
You should've tried Doom over dialup :)
Years ago when I was much younger I worked with o-scopes on a regular basis. I remember being quite surprised one day when I tried putting my thumb on a probe tip and happened to have my other hand somewhat near the power cord. You can quite easily see the 60hz sine wave get stronger with proximity of the hand to the power cord. The signal drops off with the square of the distance or something like that, but might be another unanticipated realm of influence.

Also you might want to google "RF hearing" and see who was very interested in this area of research :D
My buddy and I will start fixing that on Saturday.

Right now we are in San Francisco pitching the idea to try and raise money to work on it full time :)
'cost discipline is back'. Translation: they fired ~10% of their people.
They keep saying they make less than ca minimum wage, but as best I understand they don't work in CA so I don't understand why that's relevant? People all over the world make less than CA minimum wage, it's a lot of money in many places.
This is the Spotify Radio feature. i.e. find a song and start a radio from that song/album/artist
TBF, that's Amazon's bailiwick. They try to invest as much as they can back into the business without netting a loss.

Grow, baby, grow. We'll see how that mindset survives the coming years, with Bezos out and gusty economic winds.
I haven't looked in a while but I could never find an easy way to mimic macOS's cmd/ctrl behavior in Linux. Being able to cmd+c to copy from a terminal window comes in clutch.
No however my only issue is that comments turn are grey and nearly impossible to read when downvoted; even with "showdead" on.

I understand the need for moderation but I would like to be able to makeup my own mind about a particular argument.

I wish there was a setting I could toggle that would let me read all the comments in a neutral way.
You just had a big Show HN for this a few days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34509335

Reposts are fine but usually on major changes and/or after a year, give or take.
UWP support would be really nice. One of the only remaining reasons I have for keeping Windows around is a (discounted) Game Pass subscription, where all content comes in as "Windows Store" applications.

Don't know if that's even feasible.
At first I thought OP was talking about the credit. But I have since updated other comments. In short, use of software to support your business is different from “Software R&E”. Use section 162 not 174. It’s only R&E if you’re frolicking around on the keyboard playing with software for fun, which I doubt any serious business is doing outside of occasional true research. Cost to operate your business is OPEX.
Interesting idea, to make "undefined behavior" explicit.
I asked if God was real, and it gave me verses proving it from the book? But I guess this specific training of chatgpt won't crossreference against other religious texts or relavent opinions from the scientific community? etc. Still a really good way to get contextual religious knowledge on a query use case (ex problems someone might be having with their lives..)
This is what makes the Albuquerque ballon festival kind of unique (they call it the box). Balloons take off fly away, change altitude and fly back to land in almost the same place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albuquerque_International_Ball...

https://www.krqe.com/news/balloon-fiesta/local-pilot-explain...

Except the day I went, which is something.. Still quite the sight.
Probably because our spy balloons have been watching it since it lifted off
There's more strength in demonstrating "Hey, do you want this silly balloon back?" after retrieving it without incident at negligible effort/cost.

Which is not at all what is occurring. Having flight tracks of multiple refueling tankers demonstrates far more resources have already been expended on this "not a concern to us" than was spent on deploying it...