skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find unacceptable to have institutions that are highly profitable in good times and force the taxpayer to bail them out when they overplayed their hand. They should be treated like any other company. Either go bankrupt or be bought by somebody else. Anything else is a recipe for massive corruption.
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Everyone knows doctors in the US earn a few hundred thousand per year, since I was a kid. They seem to be surviving just fine. I don’t think anyone’s pay is very secret anyway. Based on employer, house location, cost of house, job title, it is pretty deducible to the ranges that indicate quality of life and potential savings.
$5/yr is too much for the casual user and too little for big newspapersq
I think it's useful to replace "AI" with "app" any time you encounter it in the wild. AI is a set of computational techniques that is very broad. The problem with considering "the AI" or "an AI" is that people have in mind some kind of AI agent and that isn't really the case.

AI is also not well defined - day one of my AI course in university opened with "What is AI?" Generally once we figure out how to do something using a computer, we decide that's not really intelligent anymore so the implementation isn't AI. An example of that is the minimax algorithm - it's featured "AI: A Modern Approach"[0] but it isn't really something people think of when they hear "an AI".

[0] https://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/contents.html
I actually just switched to Thunderbird last year because I needed to post a patch to a mailing list and I couldn't find any mail apps for Windows that could do it properly. Previously I used Alpine, but that was a much worse experience because pasting didn't work so I had to clumsily read in a prepared file from disk and not touch any other keys after that for fear of it rewrapping everything. If there are any other mail apps that do this better, and can still connect to "modern" (read: annoying) oauth setups like Office365 etc, I'd definitely be interested in trying them. I don't hate Thunderbird, but to me it seems like the least bad option for supporting both modern top-quote style HTML email and oldskool 7 bit ASCII/triangle bracket quoting/inline patch style email.
The representation by SVD would work almost identically. SVD is one of those absolutely magical, amazing algorithms that power a ton of things we do every day.
I still remember when a company I worked for had a spreadsheet where people were anonymously sharing their salary information along w/ title, demography, notes, etc. Most of the people who posted their info with some self-perception that their salary was "low" for the role added notes to the spreadsheet suggesting they think it's "low" because of racism or sexism.

To you, that might be good, positive, and normal. IMO it was toxic and fueled by envy with no actual information to support their position (and, admittedly, no information to deny it either). They only wanted my salary information to help progress their position in life, which to me is not so different from Google or Facebook wanting such private information for their own monetary gain.
Conspiracy theory: Autonomous driving is being undermined by traditional car companies who see that if it is successful, it would hugely change personal transportation and greatly reduce total sales of vehicles.
But they don't need to be. Thats why why there's a push for clear salary ranges and deterministic pay scale

It's not your problem when you're being paid well, until you aren't.
FWIW, I first learned about radio and electronics from an ex-royal! When in the fourth grade I started taking apart radios and breaking them, my father took me, along with the broken radio, to the local radio repair place (that may have been the only one at the time in Ahmedabad, India). The owner was an old man of 70 or so. He taught me the very basic stuff and helped me build a crystal radio and soon I graduated to building fancier stuff! Everyone called him Bapu (father). Later on I learned he was a prince from a small princely state in the Western Gujarat. India forcibly merged all 500+ such principalities in the Union once it became independent. These princes had a "princely purse", a govt allowance, to maintain their status for a while but that ended in 1956. Bapu had a degree in radio and electronics from UK so he set up the repair shop which happened to be within the walking distance from my home. When I met him he had no royal airs; he was more like a kindly grandfather who had infinite patience for a skinny undisciplined but inquisitive kid!
It might be possible that you have a point but you have to expound on it for it to be clear. When you jump to "in other words..," I don't know what you're talking about.
Nothing automated yet, but I may plan to. I don't regularly add that many new cards to my collection to where it'd be an immediate benefit for me. I may add more with StudyWand since it seems to do a good enough job of creating cards. Incremental reading is the primary way I add new material to my collection, but I don't really fully process articles that much into items these days. Most of my SuperMemo use is using incremental reading to ensure I always have something interesting to read as well as tasklists for planning/ideas. I have a lot of stuff that I like to revisit or review, which I find using SuperMemo great for too.
I mean you can make the case for Steph changing the game but he's not in the conversation for GOAT at all. I'm not sure you can put him in the greatest PG convo either. Best shooter of all time bar none? Yeah obviously, but idk beyond that.
That's only in elite circles for certain connected individuals. You can also make that or higher in London in finance sector but you need special credentials (IR35) to get that and it's very hard to get for certain people.

In the real market, in the local job boards, it's hard to find anything above $50K USD. There is a dual class system in EU. The upper class get certain salaries and everybody else (which includes immigrants and unconnected individuals) get totally different salaries for the exact same work.
I also work with a lot devs starting out in their careers and I stand by my comment.
Could be, but I don't think it's health care. Check out the OECD stats:

https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm

The US in total pays $12318 dollars per capita in health care. In the UK, it's $5387 per per capita. The US's supposedly more efficient market-based system turns out to be wildly more expensive than any other country.
Being asked for money is awkward and uncomfortable and real, but are the risks of hurting/kidnapping for ransom very realistic in the real world?

Yes they are non-zero, but so is the chance of a plane crashing into your residence...
Funny how Philly area has been bad for tech for decades. It was so in late 90s, I moved away, came back 10 years ago, yep still bad. Its like its frozen in time.
Algorithms for converting binary to decimal floating-point numbers (2021)
Sure. Overall you probably end up with more money in your pocket. I don't think many would dispute that this is an upside to living in America for an engineer. My point is that money as the sole metric is a bit pointless and reductive.
In 2020 when we rented in the bay area and decided to find a forever home, we also moved to full WFH and started looking at hundreds of houses in the Pacific NorthWest.

The very first thing we did (mostly my wife) was to call Comcast, give them the specific address, and have them verify the place had high speed Internet.

For those that passed that test (a relatively low percentage did since we were looking to live in a relatively rural area) the next thing we did was contact the relevant real-estate agent. This part was tricky and often annoying. We cut through everything they had to say and said that, if they wanted to potentially move forward, they had to do something for us. They had to get permission from the current owner and run an Internet speed test.

This was a PITA, but most of the time they did it. And most of the time, Comcast's data was accurate about whether service was available.

The place we ended up buying is about 10 miles outside of Olympia Washington. Our street is one of the very few in the area that has high speed comcast.

Having said that, we also got a starlink dishy right away and we use that as backup, because while most of the time our Internet is really excellent, speed is great, etc, it has a lot of small outages, so it's worth having a highly reliable but much less fast backup.
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> but they didn't expect it to lead to any kind of generalized intelligence.

Do experts really expect any stream of AI research to lead to generalized intelligence (except in the very long term)? I was under the impression we really have no idea how to get there.
I loved this, since this resonates with my own experience. If the problem space is small enough, just test against a known good (but slower) implementation. With custom algorithms this can also be very interesting for the person writing the test: Their reference code needs to be correct beyond doubt, but can forfeit mostly every manual optimization. Also, for larger input spaces I like to do a nested for-loop over vectors of "interesting" values, plus add a large set of random values.
> Is there a smart way to store the basis vectors?

Consider, instead, compressing small blocks of the image instead of a whole image plane at once. Let's say 8x8.

Over such a small region, pixels are usually very highly correlated. You could model them statistically as an order-1 autoregressive process with a high correlation coefficient (e.g., x[i + 1] = x[i]*rho + noise, with rho >= 0.95 usually, separately in both the horizontal and vertical directions).

Then, computing the eigendecomposition of the 8x8 cross-correlation matrix C_{ij} = rho^|i - j| produces a set of common eigenvectors that you can use for all blocks (recall that the left and right singular vectors U and V of a matrix M are just the eigenvectors of M.M^T and M^T.M, respectively). So now instead of several very large vectors, you only need a single 8x8 matrix of basis vectors (because it's square and orthonormal, the inverse is just the transpose).

But wait. Let's take the limit as rho -> 1. It just so happens that the resulting eigenvectors converge to the Type 2 Discrete Cosine Transform [0]. So, in fact, you don't need to transmit the basis at all.

You can store the output of the transform as fixed point numbers with some arbitrary base (the choice controls the amount of compression: anything too small just gets rounded to zero). Maybe use run-length encoding as your generic compression, because you expect to have a lot of zeroes (visit them in a zig-zag order, to get the big values first and maximize the length of the runs of zeroes), with some Huffman coding of the actual symbols. Add a simple predictor for the (0,0) coefficient of each block (it winds up being the average of the pixel values, so it should be pretty similar from block to block).

Congratulations, you just invented JPEG.

[0] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1672...
HN is not one person. Different people can have different opinions on this matter.
But they're going to anyways. A non-tech midwest friend who drives truck treated me differently on that same suspicion. We basically fell out over it. The kicker: he was unionized; I found out years later he wasn't making that much less than me (and was making quite a bit more after adjusting for cost of living)
> But if the internal storage of the TV (or the processor) can't handle above 100Mb/s it'll never practically matter.

UHD Blu-Rays already exceed 100mbit/sec. That is current commercially distributed consumer content that requires gigabit to stream properly over a network.

Any 4K capable smart TV or streaming device should have a gigabit ethernet interface, no questions asked. 1080p devices, sure, they can get away with 100mbit just fine, but 4K devices have no excuse.

The fact that LG still to this day ships OLED TVs with potentially five digit price tags and 100mbit ethernet ports is a level of cheapness that I can not fathom.

And they handle gigabit just fine, you can plug a USB gigabit adapter in to the TV and it works entirely as expected.
You could argue that's still paying for it and the premium will be high compared to equivalent national insurance payments here.
Downvotes on this comment are evidence of the toxic envious nature of people. Prove me wrong.
I'm sure it is. But how does having the option to retire in your 30s sound?
From Accelerando... (talking about an alien signal)

"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously," she suggests.

"Nope," replies the cat. "It was more like: 'Greetings, earthlings, compile me on your leader.'"

...

The cat yawns. "I could have told Pierre instead." Aineko glances at Amber, sees her thunderous expression, and hastily changes the subject: "The solution was intuitively obvious, just not to humans. You're so verbal." Lifting a hind paw, she scratches behind her left ear for a moment then pauses, foot waving absentmindedly. "Besides, the CETI team was searching under the street lights while I was sniffing around in the grass. They kept trying to find primes; when that didn't work, they started trying to breed a Turing machine that would run it without immediately halting." Aineko lowers her paw daintily. "None of them tried treating it as a map of a connectionist system based on the only terrestrial components anyone had ever beamed out into deep space. Except me. But then, your mother had a hand in my wetware, too."
Jobs aren't fungible, but compensation is. That's the point of denominating it in dollars and not cows or sheep. It may be hard to compare, but it is okay to compare things that are hard to compare, and that's what values are.

Some people value different jobs differently. Some people would be happy with far less compensation for the same job, while some people wouldn't accept a fair offer for personal reasons. These are good things about monetary and professional fungibility; people can compare on the jobs merits. Monetary compensation is not the only one, but it is a large one.
I wish I never even told my family about anything.

Before I finally made the decision to just not talk to my parents anymore my dad would constantly shame and belittle me about what my earnings were; he's at a partner level in finance and is under the impression that my lack of income - while still being in college - is representative of his 'failure to raise me correctly', as...unhinged as that sounds.

I don't have any other family because my parents have basically had this attitude for the last 20 years and their siblings understandably do not like to be anywhere near them - as a byproduct I've never met my extended family.
That's a circular argument. Recreational flying is an expensive hobby because of the certification barrier. Most of the price is in fuel inefficiencies and expensive maintenance of ancient engine designs. Airframe parts are expensive because they're obscure and certification requirements prevent modern equivalents from being used instead. And so forth.
Thanks for the feedback :) I'm glad to hear we're not that only ones who've run into this problem!

Providing your own design system is definitely on the roadmap! We made a prototype of being able to wireframe with your existing components within a NextJS app - it was pretty cool, and we want to explore that more.
We're comparing safety, not "quality of destination".

If you were to travel from point A to point B, and wanted to know whether driving or flying was safer, then the correct metric to look at is the "per distance" one.
Hi, is this role open to remote candidate outside of USA? On the attached link it won't let you apply if you are from outside of USA.
Don’t listen to anyone telling you that cold calling doesn’t work. It works!

You want to get a step-by-step book that you can relate to. I had to read five or six of them before I found one that really spoke to me. It was an uphill battle. But, eventually even I, a gruffy nerd, started landing appointments.

Cold calling is a little bit like getting up in the morning to do a hard work out. You have to motivate yourself. You can do it.
Yeah, I was initially interested, but then I saw that it was a subscription and I just stopped looking.
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This is exactly right. All the people clamoring for remote work are asking for us all to get paid less, or nothing at all because the job went to Europe or Asia.
Why people still use those spying, ad serving services and then complain about it is beyond me.

Its 2023, we know better, move on to a service that respect your privacy.
This is a great question. Biologically speaking, there are some autonomous functions that do not require us to exert any will: for example breathing and heartbeats. All non-autonomous actions appear to be driven by motivation of some sort - hunger, thirst. Even when the motivation is to seek out positives - good food, good art, there is motivation. At the neural level, all thought and action are governed by action potentials and chemical feedback, driven by inputs whether immediate or stored.

Original thought might be an exception to that - sometimes I just get ideas randomly, or thoughts take random paths. Those are not motivation-based, but action on those is underpinned by motivation of some sort or the other. Admiring the beauty in the world is also not driven by motivation - the ability to recognize and appreciate that beauty is independent of motivation. Recognizing injustice - also not driven by motivation.

It seems, to me at least, that a world without original thought, beauty or justice would be an unhappy one.

Ergo, motivation is the answer for many things, but perhaps not everything. Maybe not even happiness.

> are we, humans, biologically limited by our own mind?

Indubitably. Teams do better than individuals at pretty much anything, even when physicality is not involved. Can you imagine an intelligence with greater capacity than human minds, and what it might be able to achieve? Look around us - civilization, society is proof that a superior intelligence (combined intelligence, in our case) can achieve more.
Yes, but Starlink needs a really wide/large view of the sky. Often, it's not enough to simply trim a few trees.
> outperforms traditional methods in the search for alien signals

since we have no ground truth nor have we (to our knowledge) received any alien signals to date, I don't see how you can determine performance in terms of accuracy; so maybe they mean an increase in processing speed
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The NHTSA is on record as saying FSD was "definitely" engaged during the recent Bay Bridge accident in the tunnel.

And notably, Musk did not chime in to blame the driver like he always does when the driver is at fault, which is very strong circumstantial evidence that FSD was engaged.
Do you think they pass these rules into the prompt for every session? If so, this seems like a brittle way to secure the output, as you've demonstrated.
Salaries in London != Salaries in the UK.
Not everyone shares your values, and that's OK
Fortunately the hacker was fruitless in their effort to delete the mobile site and add a permanent redirect and HPKP pinning to old.reddit.com
> The problem with this facile view of things is that it seems to be a dead end for scientific theories.

You're overreaching quite a bit here, or I think you're misinterpreting what Parent said. I interpreted what they said as: it seems the difference in how we "know" something vs how an LLM "knows" something might actually be closer than some suspect. this certainly is not an "end of science".
Artificial Intoxication.
Its almost as if all decisions have pros and cons, and there is no magic one viewpoint that captures all the consequences of such an action.
Vaguely reminds me of this: https://www.thedrive.com/news/38221/the-mctrain-the-rise-and...
Just to give you an example, I work for a tiny software firm of 40 people and my cost for the Cadillac of health insurance is 3$ a month. Each doctor's visit is 40$ but besides that everything is covered. I make 155k USD a year.
https://news.sky.com/story/deliveroo-to-cut-350-jobs-9-of-it...
Ask HN: What do you expect the future of tech to look like in the next decade?
In the past decade we had: AI, the cloud, crypto and social media. What do you think will be prevalent in the next decade?
It seems you don't know what anthropomorphizing actually means based on your over application of the word.

ChatGPT can help you with that ;]
Goodbye, Thunderbird. What options are still available that don't follow this "modern" path. Simply give me the old-fashioned interface and leave me alone.
Do I understand correctly banana pricing is that it costs $1.87 per hour, so the hour of audio with large model costs you about $1? Thats probably a bit too expensive compared to cloud providers.
What's the largest number of MySQL shards you have seen?
Heard that FB is running all on MySQL. Wondering how many shards that can be!
Contractors are taxed at a higher rate, or really, the same rate, but in an employee situation, the employer must pay half of the tax.

However, depending on what you do, people can end up paying less in taxes overall as a contractor because you have more flexibility for deductions. There are very little options for an employee to deduct any expenses in the US, whereas, a contractor could potentially deduct the cost to commute to an office, their cellphone and home internet (if used for work) and even a portion of their rent/mortgage for a home office.
The strange political history of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency
True. There is even a media query that can detect touch devices: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/poin...

So they could keep the good old HN alive for PCs.
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This leaped out at me too. Doing lossy compression on RGB is not setting yourself up for success. Of course, then you'd need two sliders in the UI; one for how much to compress the Y and one for the CbCr.

SVD also works on complex matrices. I imagine there's value in compressing the subsampled Cb/Cr channels as real/imaginary components in a complex matrix.
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