skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think "simulating" in this context means internally executing a process that is very similar to the process that generated the original material, as part of the prediction process. In general, that's the most compact way to predict and reproduce the original material.

For example, the string "1010101010"... could be the output of a function

def generate_char_random(prev_string):
x = random()
if (x > 0.5):
yield(1)
else:
yield(0)

It could also be the output of this function:

def generate_char_alternating(prev_string):
x = float(prev_string[-1])
if (x < 0.5):
yield(1)
else:
yield(0)

Even if it's not explicitly running those two functions, a model that is very good at predicting the next character of this input string might have, embedded within it, analogues of both of those two functions. The longer the output continues to follow the "101010" pattern, the higher confidence it should place on the _alternating version. On the other hand, if it encounters a "...110001..." sequence, it should switch to placing much more confidence on the _random version.

The LLM of course does not contain an infinite list of generative functions and weight their outputs. But to the extent that it works well and compactly approximates Bayesian reasoning, it should approximate a program that does.
Article is proof that rationalism without empiricism is useless. It just drives to weird dead ends for no reason.
Before theorizing for explanation of an effect check if the effect actually exist? Bah, this article is such a waste of computer memory
When I have to take a long trip, I want to be comfortable. I don't want to feel like I'm riding in a go-cart for hours.

There are compact cars that have loads of room for the passengers.

I have driven smaller sports cars, too

Yeah, they're not sports cars. What a ridiculous comparison.
Pro-recycling propaganda started within packaging industry.

Pro-animals and vegan movements have different roots. Dairy & meat industry is trying its best to discourage individual actions ... their concern with plant based alternatives and naming of stuff is a clear indicator. Even terms like almond milk (1000 years old term) is somehow a problem.

Plastics are very visible within our environment, that was the reason behind population accepting recycling.

Animals do not have the voice and the horrors of their lives are generally hidden from the consumers. If most of the population remains ignorant incl. politicians, we cannot expect that anything will change.
But the bed used to be where the people went too. Then they made that illegal. When I was a kid it was pretty common to just sit in the bed, now you have to have a cab big enough for everyone to keep from getting a ticket.
Show HN: Serverless Portrait Style Transfer
AWS Lambda is a lesser known powerhouse for machine learning. We demonstrate how you can bundle up a large generative model (8GB) into a Docker image for a serverless deployment, using parallel model loading to improve the inference time.

Its not fast, but hey it is free.
This post is carefully worded corporate messaging, but because they write for their developer audience it has an informal "oh shucks we messed up bad y'all" vibe to it. But make no mistake, this is 100% corporate messaging.

I get that growing is super hard. And maybe fly will grow up to be a good platform some day. But that's the future. Today, they're flying by the seat of their pants and I mostly feel sorry for people who were tricked into thinking this platform is ready for production use.
Make a multiplier on property tax based on number of properties owned. Make it robust against corporations spinning off one-shell-per-properly. Make it revenue neutral so the increased tax revenue from landlord-companies and airbnb superhosts subsidizes tax rates for homes that are full time primary residence.
Url changed from http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2023/03/stable-diffusion-plu..., which points to this. But where is the actual project?

Edit: ok, changed to github.com/abdullahalfaraj from https://twitter.com/LibertyRPF/status/1632382027633655810. Thanks guluarte and Wata2!
i did not allude to some great injustice, i shared an observation that gives me pause when i interact with people outside of this bubble.

i don't have a particularly high opinion of the average person, i think this community has particularly high opinions of themselves, and does not like the idea that we are not differentiated other than having interests that pay well.
FAA investigating contact between 2 United airplanes on Boston Logan (Mar/6/23)
Why do network stuff easy, when you can do it hard.
The costs seem inflated. There are no monthly charges for operating an AIS transponder, which costs about $1000 and is simple to install.

The Coast Guard collects all AIS track data, and publishes it on a 6 month delay via the NOAA Marine Cadastre program.

Maybe the requirement was for some other technology rather than AIS.
I'm getting a 404, at least for one of the images [0].

[0] https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
> Your original post is a summary without any new ideas or thoughts about the article.

You're right. I often look for a quick summary of the articles here in these comments to avoid falling for clickbaits, so contributing a summary about something I found useful.

> I don’t think the question was meant as an accusation, but it is amusing to think about whether some commenters are using an AI to generate their comments. Would we even notice?

Fair enough. The one word question was hard to read into, and it's amusing indeed. We shall never know for sure!
Dude, this guy isn't talking about some posh high end part of Seattle. I just sold my "quaint 1200sqft starter house" in a remote South Seattle neighborhood for $675,000. It's 45+ minutes by transit to downtown. You know what I paid for that just 5 years earlier? $350,000.

This is the part of town where the grocery store has security guards all over the place, and the bank has thick bulletproof glass between you and the teller, and the transit options such big time. If you want to live anywhere remotely near where the jobs are, every house is near $1m+ now.

Conclude what you want, you're completely wrong and out of touch with current housing prices in a lot cities.
Cloudflare says my access to the site is denied.
Talk to ChatGPT within Total.js Flow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K54ubAhheyA
I'm 10 years in the field.
I wouldn't say I stopped learning but it certainly made me stop and evaluate things a bit more, and slowly and carefully think about a plan b. The thing is it is so difficult to know what the job market will be like 10 years from now its pretty much impossible to come up with a solid plan b.
Show HN: I built a content site using all AI tools. Here is the result
> wouldn’t it behoove you to practice that too

I mean, sure, the more you do the merrier. But that goes back to what I was saying: if "unfair advantage" means extracurriculars in high school to get into an ivy league + the ivy league degree to get spotted by recruiters + internships in STAR format on resumes + grinding leetcode + etc etc to increase your chances as much as possible, is any of that really a clever life hack as the "grind LC" meme implies, or is it merely just going way above and beyond what everyone else is able to/willing to put up with in the traditional career path?

If anything, it sounds more like going through a non-traditional career to build up the "street smarts" is the shortcut to big tech riches, given that the alternative is to try to stand out from a sea of millions of resumes all listing C++ and python internships/roles, potentially never landing big tech at all.
ChatGPT for content, Stable Diffusion 2.1 for images, and Copilot for code.
We'd love to learn more about what types of guarantees your customers expect – it's likely we can provide many of them now and will inevitably offer even more down the line. Feel free to reach out directly to noa@vellum.ai if you'd like to discuss!

Vellum currently embeds any text you send it, but to be honest, we haven't experimented with performing semantic search across homomorphically encrypted text and can't speak to its performance. If this becomes a recurring theme from our customers, we'd be excited to dig into it deeper!
I looked for a paper about the logical model they mentioned in the article but didn't see anything.
The push to spread further out makes no sense to me. Suburban communities are already unsustainable, rural communities even worse. Economies of scale matter a whole lot here. The number of miles of road needed to service a rural community is exponentially higher than urban areas. This cost is not borne by those communities, but rather is subsidized heavily by urban workers. Rural areas also have a higher carbon footprint per-capita because of all of these different services which now have to be pushed dozens of miles out to support a handful of people. Pushing more people into areas with few opportunities just exacerbates this problem.

https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollecti...

> “What we have found is that the underlying financing mechanisms of the suburban era -- our post-World War II pattern of development -- operates like a classic Ponzi scheme, with ever-increasing rates of growth necessary to sustain long-term liabilities . . .

> “In each of these mechanisms, the local unit of government benefits from the enhanced revenues associated with new growth. But it also typically assumes the long-term liability for maintaining the new infrastructure. This exchange -- a near-term cash advantage for a long-term financial obligation -- is one element of a Ponzi scheme.

> “The other is the realization that the revenue collected does not come near to covering the costs of maintaining the infrastructure. In America, we have a ticking time bomb of unfunded liability for infrastructure maintenance . . .

> “We’ve done this because, as with any Ponzi scheme, new growth provides the illusion of prosperity. In the near term, revenue grows, while the corresponding maintenance obligations -- which are not counted on the public balance sheet -- are a generation away.”
I gave up after reloading it for the third time to see if the next chunk of invisible text would suddenly appear. (iPhone/iOS, Safari, Content Blockers off)
Crystal: https://crystal-lang.org/
Lucky: https://luckyframework.org/
Would be super cool if citizens had stories and lives, more like dwarf fortress dwarves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishmen...

Here's another:

string path = "/tmp/filename.txt";
FileInfo f = new FileInfo( path );

File.CreateText( path ).Dispose();
Assert.True( f.Exists );

f.Delete();
Assert.False( f.Exists );

Astonishingly, the test fails because the result of Exists is cached. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My expectation is that if I put two things that are identical---for all intents and purposes---into a set, only one copy is added to the set. Likewise, upon deleting a file, I expect that testing for its existence always returns false. Both of these expectations are based on my mental models for math and file systems.

I haven't tested the behaviour of caching file states in Java, but I suspect it will return false if the file is deleted. Point being, in my limited time with C#, I've found it to violate the principle of least astonishment in ways that Java does not.
This feels like it's just nagging you to install the app and hook it up to wifi. I've worked for $big_appliance_company and let me tell you... You don't want to connect your appliances to the Internet.
Added today's date to differentiate from last week's near miss at Logan:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34976206
I agree. At least 1 person in this thread got it wrong and it could have been me.
I got an error when visiting solar-staff.com/.

Error code: 1020

Ray ID: 7a3d37b6be23c44d

Country: US

Data center: ewr05

Timestamp: 2023-03-06 20:06:09 UTC
What are “USG data-collection requirements” please?
I was a big believer in Java, until I started work on the Google indexing pipeline in C++. There are cases where you really need to push both code generation and lifetime decisions from runtime to compile-time. I think there's still a good case to be made in many domains for ahead-of-time compilation combined with on-stack-replacement/dynamic re-optimization using runtime profiling information. However, mandatory garbage collection is a difficult sell.

Yes, Azul systems, etc. show that you can have nearly zero-overhead GC if you have a few spare cores on which to push the majority of the GC work, but in some systems you can't spare the cores.

Yes, developer productivity is lower when you push these decisions onto the developer. However, there are a few select cases where that productivity hit is worth it.

OS kernels, web browsers, low-latency trading, and a few other domains are such that you really don't want the several percent overhead (and, as a rule of thumb, 2x peak space overhead)/latency variance of the garbage collector. (Yes, Bacon et. al.'s concurrent reference counting collector brings down that peak size, but to get good performance, you end up batching the cycle detections.) Firms that use Java/C# for low-latency trading end up manually managing object pools to remove most of the GC overhead, but then you're essentially back to manually managing memory using compile-time lifetime decisions.

In the specific case of web browsers, Netscape/Mozilla attempted Javagator. With the number of vulnerabilities in JavaScript/DOM in browsers, it's a near certainty that very capable senior engineers at both Microsoft and Google have had long serious looks into managed languages for their JavaScript engines / DOM implementations. Maybe we've advanced enough in both JIT and GC technology that it's worth another stab at a browser written mostly in a managed language, but it's certainly still a very difficult task.

Edit: I also love PyCharm and CLion, but GC pauses in both nearly drive me nuts. Sometimes I drop back to vim to avoid the GC pauses.

Edit: I'd also love to see Microsoft able to recompile Office as Managed C++ and start writing new features and bugfixes in C#/F#/etc. I want to believe. I'm rooting for people to find competitive solutions for the last few cases where GC isn't competitive. However, evidence suggests that most of a premier browser's code is still off limits for GC. I want to be a true believe in GC/JIT again, but I need to be shown.
I can second that I‘ve seen render.com mentioned very often, maybe even more so than fly.
Great, if only there were adequate jobs in those places, so we could all own homes without needing $300K annual family income.

The dissonance comes from the fact that a lot of hackernews readers make apparently high incomes, but the cost of living in their areas keeps them squarely working class.

The best example I can give is in the Bay Area. I lucked out with $2850/month to rent a 1400 square foot house in San Leandro. Except that I worked in South San Francisco, and my commute was 45 minutes to 90 minutes each way, every day. I looked into it, even did the math with average commute times and Health and Human Services housing cost data, and found that if I wanted to cut 15 minutes off of that commute would cost me an extra $1000 a month, or I'd lose the yard and the other bedroom. With a kid, a stay-at-home spouse (a lot cheaper than child care given wages for my wife's field in the bay area) and a dog, that was just a non-starter. I knew people who drove in from Vacaville or Tracey, every day, just to keep the housing prices within their means.

Prior to that experience, I honestly thought $140K a year was the best I could ever hope for. I was top 15% of individual wage earners in the country but I was considerably more stressed out than when I was making minimum wage at an office supply store in suburban Oregon.
You know, one thing that I don't see discussed much is:

Just like more advanced programmers worry about the worst case scenario of some code you've written rather than just the average -- with these remote working policies, sometimes the question is not just, will it make everyone on average a more productive employee, but what is the worst case that might affect your team under very tolerant remote work policies?

Because if a few people's decrease in productivity is so noticeable working remotely that the team in general suffers / no longer works well, then it's a different consideration.

There is something difficult to quantify about the notion that when a few people on a team start being less responsive /interactive, it can have a real impact to how people think of the pace of what you want the team to operate at. Especially if you're doing prototyping / early stage creative work where you're not operating by tickets, but rather looking over each others' shoulders to give live feedback and trade ideas.

Not everything about work is to be designed to simply give what the employees would naturally want.
I think you'll find it really tricky to remove the idea of land as an investment.

And that's what we're really talking about when we talk about housing as an investment (the land is appreciating, the house is a pile of goods that's slowly rotting)

There are lots of houses (and lots of land) that no one wants and is dirt cheap.

There is lots of land that is very attractive because of the investment made in it (structural improvements, clearings, landscaping)

There is also lots of land that is very attractive because of the investment made in the areas surrounding it (hospitals, entertainment, jobs, infrastructure).

The problem is that at some point, people actually invested time/money/resources/energy/etc into making those areas "attractive". So now those areas are in high demand and the number of dollars seeking them out is far in excess of the amount of the space available, so prices rise.

As a side note - if people can't make land an investment through housing, it absolutely does not guarantee that folks will lower the price of houses in those areas. It may well mean that they remove the housing and make the investment something else (industrial/agricultural/power).

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So really - to remove the idea that land is an investment, you have to remove the population growth in an area. Otherwise it's unavoidable. There is a limited amount of land, and more people competing for it.

When people say things like "Housing isn't an investment in [area]" most times they really mean population is decreasing in that market (japan is a perfect example).
it does not assume that pay is or ever was correlated to how hard you work. it suggests that maybe it should be.
I never noticed the "/u/n" thing before. Although the email "hack" doesn't work with Google Sheets, at least I can now save a bit of hassle by ging straight to "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/2/" when I want to access my work related account.

It's unfathomable why, after all these years, Google still provides no way to set a default account to use when you access things like Gmail, Sheets, Drive, etc. but instead insists on defaulting to the first one you logged in with each time. It was driving me up the fecking walls as I nearly always had to switch accounts to the one I actually wanted which, for extra annoyance, opens in a new tab instead of replacing the current one.
I've watched over time as the desktop stopped being the primary computing device of choice for many people. I've grown far too accustomed to the power and flexibility of a nice keyboard and 32" monitor, and virtually endless storage and general purpose compute that I own to fall into that usage pattern, but I understand the appeal.

No Wednesday morning headaches from Microsoft, no applications breaking with the new Python revision, etc. Just apps from the app store that work (mostly).

So, the Server Farms that comprise the cloud aren't ancient, but they might as well be remote temples just like those we had in the 1960s.
Wait, so is this the oldest university then?

Because a quick Google says "The Jagiellonian University is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in continuous operation in the world. It is regarded as Poland's most prestigious academic institution."

Ugh...

ChatGPT says "The University of Bologna, located in Bologna, Italy, is considered the oldest university in the world, founded in 1088. It was initially established as a law school, but over time, it grew to include faculties of medicine, philosophy, and theology. The university played a significant role in the development of European higher education, and its model of organization and academic freedom has been emulated by other universities around the world."

This seems to be a contentious topic.
Likewise Gen Z and Alpha are not very technical. Many teens and 20 somethings have a hard time with seemingly basic tasks like finding files. As a 20 something myself, my public school did not offer any 'technical' courses beyond office programs and keyboarding.
Why did Elon even buy this thing?

He must've known of poor financials before dropping 44 billions.
We don't even have proper wheels for Alpine, let alone random xyz OS.
That seems uncontroversial.

Plus you probably can't separate the jobs on two different laptops to prevent accidental crossing of the streams--where one or more of those laptops may be managed by a company. Could someone get off with letting some side consulting work bleed into work hours? I'm sure in a lot of cases--though it would be easier at home. But I have to believe that, as in the case of relationships per upthread, working full-time in-person and remote jobs at the same time must start looking to people like something is odd here.
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Apple also used BOE OLEDs (12th and 13th I think?) and the iPhone 12 OLED displays have just some of the worst viewing angles I've ever seen out of any display, including cheap TN panels like those IBM and Lenovo liked to put into Thinkpads. Though apparently there is quite some sample variation to that... also tons of purple/green fringing but apparently that's considered normal for phone OLEDs.
Not multiple accounts on a single device, but you can group into a "family" that can share purchases, and can play simultaneously.

So my partner and I can each play Civilization VI on our own tablets at the same time, but if I were to purchase one of the add-on packs in the game, that could not be shared (as there is no store-level way to distinguish a consumable sale like a free-to-play game's fictional currency).
if you wanted to discuss it with more people, someone has now put a repost that looks like it got a lot more attention https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35042431