skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$500,000 is not a lot after all the inflation we had.

$100,000 in 1970 is worth almost $800,000 today.

Yes, downvote me all you want. But if you're an NLP expert thinking of working for a company that will make billions off your work, you can and should demand millions at least.
It sounds good to say "we should do something about it," but that ignores the fact that there will always be inequality.

Steve J. and Steve W. knew each other. They knew some other people. They used their social connections to found Apple. As a result of that, 20 people a year jump to their death in Taiwan alone.

Putting barriers up to prevent this sort of thing in the name of some airy-fairy equity ideology to make people "stay alive" isn't the progress some think it is.
Some women, yes. (The ones with prostates, obviously.)

What's your next question?
The “can my parents use this thing ” test
For anyone interested in the topic, I can highly recommend "Signal and Power Integrity Simplified" by Eric Bogatin.

I found this to be absolutely best resource on the topic for somebody with no formal electronics education like me.
For pretty much all the older USB-only printers, using something like a Pi (supply being the current limiting factor) is the solution to networking it. It is not that different than the "print server" built into the network-enabled models.

Bonus points for being able to update the print server SW to something NOT naked and stupid on the network.

As a downside, the trick of changing the "Ready" message on the HP printer's LCD panel by playing fun games with HPPJL isn't possible, either. Hrm. Maybe an idea - bundled Pi print servers with an LCD? Wonder if anyone makes such kits?
Not sure if this is good idea as it provided self identified data from bots to harvest
I'd be freaking the fuck out too, tbh. These days you tend to get better support from the megacorps if you tweet or post on HN, it can bypass the obligatory outsourced support layer.
So they might still get their photos back. 240,364 photos is a lot, and none are replaceable. It’s still a lot of stress.
How does the face recognition compare to https://www.photoprism.app/
> This is why I use both Amazon Photos and Google Photos simultaneously on all my devices. If one of them screws up I've always got the other one.

That's insufficient. If one of then screws up, deletions will likely propagate to the other.
> I'd argue that remixing is the fundamental force of creativity.

Yes, but. Creativity - real creativity - is in choosing the right pieces to remix out of the immense amount of what's available. And, perhaps just as important, choosing what not to put in the remix.

There's an immense difference between a meal prepared by a good chef, and throwing random ingredients in a blender. They both remix. But they are not remotely the same.
Liberal arts education will one day be back in fashion.
This is a big deal, up until now the only reasonable way of using BLOOM was with PETALS or lots of GPUs… great work!
How much do you know about the rest of the business though? Even with only 10 to 20 teams, it’s easy to not know specifics about what’s happening in the rest of the business.
As someone who currently resides in Brazil, it's mind boggling to see how little the average Brazilian cares about sustainability. I guess we've just got too much "nature" around here, and the effects of global warming aren't as pronounced here.

Really sad.
haha well they did get that cool nickname
The top word for today's puzzle is an English word.

http://norvig.com/ngrams/ says it's the 28462-most-frequent English word, slightly more frequent than pronounce, lactating, aquamarine, sedimentation and slime.
Russian ships at US drone crash site in Black Sea: 'They wasted no time'
Will you please sign this card for Richard Stallman's birthday?
Website made with GPL-licensed software.
Hmm...when the memory checker came out for Xcode, I ran it on my code-base, parts of it decades old.

I still haven't adopted ARC.

I expected mayhem.

Turns out it "found" two false positives, i.e. leaks that are mandated by the low-level Objective-C APIs. I put the required incantations around them to shut up the checker and then I was good to go.

Keeping it simple, I guess...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Oh, and back to my thesis about "safyeness"[1], I certainly felt much better about my code once those checks had passed, even though it hadn't changed.

[1] https://blog.metaobject.com/2014/06/the-safyness-of-static-t...
are you referring to precolumbian chinese contact? there was none fyi.
Multiple Language Summaries in 1 click using AI
Stadia also failed as a technical solution on various of the boring bits. Stadia did not even support the new Chromecast for at least half a year, so you were expected to get the older Chromecast Ultra until then.

I was employed at Google at the time, and within Google this was treated as a matter of fact problem that was not that important. The planning was to support this most likely in the first or second half of the next year. I found this shocking, and to me it made it clear that Stadia was unlikely to succeed if it couldn't even support its main hardware components close to launch.
I've tried this

> 19999999999999 + 100000001
> The sum of 19999999999999 and 100000001 is 20000000000000.

Which is incorrect. I guess it just returns the most likely result.
Just don't ask France about loans the USA has with them for the war...the Revolutionary War!
As a person who loves playing chess but will never be as good as an IM (let alone GMs or Magnus or engines), I've had to internalize this. It's a good feeling.
What a free-thinking medieval Muslim can teach us about animal welfare
Oh I do believe it. There will always be a market for snobs who will want to pay extra for handmade things vs AI-generated. The issue here is that it is all driven by fads and unstable. If you want to make money you will have to be flexible.
I like "just write". I visited the Posthaven website [1] recently, after a while, and I noticed they have a new landing page with exactly this h1: Just write.

[1] https://posthaven.com/
Just another form of oil made by nature.
Not sure if it has been mentioned already but photoprism added face recognition a few releases ago and it is working well for me: https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism

The quality of this software is overall extremely good. It is a solo-developer as well so you might want to consider sponsoring them if you end up using it.

I am not affiliated, just a happy user :)
Probably off topic, but is it worth the trouble to (re)write critical infra software like SSH in memory-safe languages? From the release note this seems a minor issue, but given the importance of SSH in auth, maybe it isn't too crazy to think about the possibilities?
Blog: https://crfm.stanford.edu/2023/03/13/alpaca.html

Demo: https://alpaca-ai0.ngrok.io/

Video summary: https://youtu.be/6qdzsDSduww

Text summary

Alpaca is a solution to NLP centralization proposed by Stanford researchers

Alpaca learns from GPT-3.5/ChatGPT to generate data for training

Base model: Llama (7 billion parameters)

Training cost: 3 hours on an A100 GPU*8 (< $100) Can be used with various models (sequence-to-sequence)

Usage: Primarily for academic research, commercial use prohibited

Future directions: Scaling models, properties of base models and instruction data, alternatives to supervised training on ChatGPT data
Unlocking the Power of Optionality
What prevents you to resize your browser window?

The fact you make it run within a browser don't mean you can't run it in a separate window.

The only good point I can think of is having a separate icon for the app in an alt+tab situation. But in my case I use the activities view on Gnome and usually view and recognize the window content. Also epiphany browser allows me to create "apps" with their own icon. Sadly not all of them work due to user agent nazism.
two is one and one is none
Art will continue to evolve with AI.

Another argument I keep hearing (most recently from pg), is that we'll always need non-AI training data. That, too, doesn't follow. Training new models on synthetic data does not mean we get stuck in a particular mode or style. We'll continue moving, improving, and trying wildly new things. Bootstrapping with synthetic data doesn't block evolution - it enables faster evolution, even. (I'm using synthetic data to train new models to great effect.)

People are angry that we've lowered the opportunity cost barriers and so they're expressing their frustration.

It's a good thing that life's choices no longer fence us in as much. Everyone should get a chance to learn how to express themselves through art with the new regime of tools. Despite changing economics, there will still be a top 1% that do better than the rest of us.
I like it. I like the idea of not having a war on AI-generated content, rather, simply declaring that a non-AI-generated content is what it is, while being OK with AI-generated content too (unless they abuse the badge, of course).
3.5" HDDs?

Aww, I got all excited because I read that as 3.5" FDDs, and got nostalgic for the noise... and installing Windows from like twelve of the bastards.
pip install numpy works

(though using poetry makes things less hectic in case of upgrades)
If you enable iCloud for the photo library, and even if you select store originals, I have found that Photos still offloads some pictures. It’s just not guaranteed.

I really wish Apple had a complete export button, similar to google takeout. Or at least a good CLI tool to get the original images one by one.

Fwiw my library is ~200k files and close to a TB.
> Borg at Google

Which is what Kubernetes is based on.
In case your house burns down. It happens.
You're alone not :-)
Latest release failed the tests (with some memory corruption yikes) even. Doesn't inspire a lot of confidence that it won't eat your photos.

But the v7 uses DNN from OpenCV for face detection that supposedly has 91% accuracy on CPLFW which is pretty good! So how come people here say it sucks?
sounds like you need microservices to solve your problem!
The largest contributors for plastic inputs to oceans are commercial fishing and a few rivers in Asia.[1]

I often feel powerless when a call to action is cloaked with the phrase "we must do ${something}" Some data at least gives me a concrete talking point if I ever talk to my local congress /parliament representative.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/ocean-plastics
Anyone have a good iCloud backup option? I finally "gave in" and stopped manually pulling photos off my iOS devices and subscribed to iCloud. However I'm worried I'll get screwed or mistakenly delete something.
I think lichens break down rocks. I know there are some microbes that do it.
You are speaking of millions but I have yet to encounter one.

And I would say missing one feature I am unlikely to use is a small price to pay for more control of my privacy, advertising, telemetry, hardware and OS access.
One backup is no backup. Two backups is one backup.
Scramble fighters and ask them to leave, like we do when they regularly approach the coast of Alaska
Chebyshev also has a famous inequality in probability.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev's_inequality

https://youtu.be/d5pnfFvggYk
I like measurements that are immediate and visual. Your comparison to boiler pressure was a perfect example of that (I also immediately imagined the boiler blowing up :) )
Midjourney v5 can do hands
> Based on data from the MESSENGER mission, the south pole of Mercury alone has more water than all of Mars.

That will come in handy when we deconstruct Mercury to provide the raw materials for a Dyson swarm.
The way that I think about this is that anyone who's good at skill X has put in the hours. Putting in the hours is not a sufficient condition for "getting good" or "being successful", but it is a necessary one. Each and every successful person has been obsessively devoted to their craft
[0].

So, yeah, just write. If you want to write good stuff, there's a non-zero probability that you'll get there. But if you don't write, the probability drops to zero.

[0]: https://newsletter.param.codes/p/five-beats-a-day-for-three-...
I think the same. Many artists hate because they feel threatened. I think the opposite: creating art (e.g. Drawing) was only for the ones who had drawing skills. Now, it's being democratized and everyone, regardless of being talented in drawing or not, can freely express their feelings and creativity.

I think it's a great thing.
Switzerland's neutrality is a fact of geopolitics. The geography of Switzerland means a big part of the country is essentially a natural fortress with bunkers cut directly into the mountain and firing down. There is a reason the Nazis never invaded and that wasn't neutrality (neutrality didn't do Belgium any good in WW2). Unlike other countries, Switzerland can afford neutrality and it is ultimately the most profitable option.

Neutrality though made it a good place for exchange and safe-keeping. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_gold

These days, I don't think Switzerland really fears an invasion, but it's true that the financial incentives have taken over. At the level of the population, the neutrality culture runs deep, and as Switzerland is one of the richest countries in the world, there's really no reason for the average Swiss to be upset about it.
On the other hand, reviewing raw statistical correlations can also uncover relations which theory in the field say cannot exist.
The problem exists at the managerial level. If no VP is going to be promoted for Google glass improvements then they sure as fuck don’t want to be involved. When managers are better off shifting budget to projects that can help them progress, these projects stagnate and ultimately get cancelled.
What size of ViT? I’ve tried it with both a unet and an LM and didn’t see any benefit with the default args (and got a CUDA error after 30 mins of processing trying to compile an AR generation routine with all optimization turned on).
oh, ok so prime sub is about $50/yr but you get other things and it seems popular.

And 15 Tb is the go. Can you encrypt them or do they require to be able to view your photos so not just bytes on disk?

>any complaints about Amazon losing their photos are valid.

Like crossing the road, being right doesn't help. :(
We kinda as a society and all that, expect people working in government to have some saintly features. For people who are selected and elected to positions within a government.

The power held through working in a government clearly doesn't justify their documented benefits. So, we do hope these individuals to possess monk like qualities with a self sacrificial mindset.

Even though their argument for working in social and civil reform institutes does sound reasonable at first, but I think it is controversial.

I think fundamentally progressive ideas does not win through democratic process. They are disruptive ideas that represent a minority of people. Through an incredible movement these reforms gain democratic edge. But politicians are elected to democratic process and presently compared, they often aren't the ideal persons to led a progressive movement, they have too much skin in the game and can hold back free flowing progressive and disruptive ideas.
Synology has an app which will automatically back up your photos to the NAS/server (only when on WiFi). I haven't been able to find an alternative to this on Android, have you? (photosync looks good but seems to only work for iOS last I checked).
I wonder if the unusual is what is interesting, hence air crashes and startup successes
I dont laugh, just hope you store it at different locations.
Why would they end up as trash? Buoys are desirable, somebody would take them.
Your new mission as a human is to write is such a way that nobody suspects you are an LLM. When you are done writing, ask an LLM to write on the subject you have addressed, and if the output is similar, scrap yours and start over. If you need a badge to alert people to your humanity then you have been acting like a robot, a behavioral deficiency only you can correct.
Hmm. If you want to argue that ChatGPT has half of what an AI needs, I could buy that a lot more than I buy "ChatGPT is the road to AGI".

Do inference engines have the other half? Or Cyc plus an inference engine? Can that be coupled to ChatGPT?

My own (completely uninformed) take is that such a coupled AI would be very formidable (far more than ChatGPT), but that it will be very hard to do so, because the representations are totally different. Like, really totally - there is no common ground at all.
Chargeback? Or are you hoping to resolve it and get the photos back some how?
Oh I totally agree.

I do wish I have such luck when posting on HN though, often ended up with zero upvotes and no replies.
are facebook/twitter going to be banned on Uk government phones?
How is it better that SQL for these tasks on tabular data?

That's the first question I have after reading the title. Haven't read the article.

Edited the first sentence. Originally it was "Why it is not called SQL if works on tabular data?".

My point, if one wants cat, sort, sed, join on tabular data, SOL is exactly that. Awk is too powerful, not sure about it.
AI art created by amateurs is a novelty.

AI art created by talented artists and writers is the future.
You can use privacy.apple.com to request a copy of all photos and other digital data. It will send emails with download links when bundled.
Repetition creates mastery is the saying, but that's only part of it. In truth, repetition only creates habit. To create mastery you also need to focus on technique, progressive difficulty, and have a source of high quality feedback.
I‘m sorry if you interpret here a blame. I consider repeating common knowledge actually a necessity!
To keep tech people informed and aware and also non-tech people.

PS: I should better do another backup…
But still, content creators get badges/s

I generally agree that it will become increasingly harder to distinguish non-AI generated content and authenticity will suffer a lot. Maybe the solution to this is get connected with other humans directly and provide authenticity as first hand experience.
The interview is from The Decision to Drop the Bomb (1965).
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/manhattan-project-robert-opp...
iCloud doesn’t really back up photos. It’s more of a sync. If you’ll manually delete a photo from your phone, it’ll be deleted from iCloud too.
restic backing up to B2 works very well for me, and it’s really cheap. The restores I’ve tried so far have been acceptably fast, albeit in the gigabyte rather than terabyte range.
I don't know for Stripe specifically, but I have been partner at some companies and can share some reasons from my experience:

- There are often limitations to who you can sell to, often in the form of requiring board approval before a sale. This is to ensure ownership of the company does not diverge too much from stakeholders.

- There are also often PUTs and CALLs in the shareholders agreement (e.g. the company can exercise a call on your shares if you leave, often with a discount if you're dismissed with reason, and you can exercise a put with some vesting scheme), along with a matching valuation formula. This often acts as a range for the sale of (often very illiquid) shares. Effectively, that formula is often really not interesting for pre-benefits startups, as its often some variation of "the average of the latest two previous years of dividends annualized for the next 5 years".
Yeah, nothing like CRC error nostalgia.
I’ve been happily using PhotoSync, which has been very reliabe
Not if the US was at war with Mexico and Russia was doing reconnaissance for them.
Yeah, by we I certainly don't mean you and I, but the greater collective of humanity. And we do all play a part in that, in myriad ways.
> As an underpinning technology of torch.compile, TorchInductor with Nvidia and AMD GPUs will rely on OpenAI Triton deep learning compiler to generate performant code and hide low level hardware details. OpenAI Triton-generated kernels achieve performance that’s on par with hand-written kernels and specialized cuda libraries such as cublas.
The Federal Funds Target Range chart shows how President Trump was targeted by partisan forces at the fed. Interest rates went up to slow the economy just as soon as Trump was inaugurated in 2016 so that it would appear that President Trump's economic plan was failing. Yet after suffering through two consecutive years of the destruction of the US economy under Joe Biden it is clear that President Trump's economic plan was working well, and that he was railroaded by the Fed that has been weaponized against the American people.
I Was an SVB Client. I Blame the Venture Capitalists
Are you implying that issues that don't affect the majority of the population aren't real issues?
The data is current. It has not and is not possible to build a breeder reactor for less than a water cooled reactor. And breeder reactors are more costly to operate. Nothing has changed.

Make it profitable, and you can have all the breeder reactors you want.
Maybe I can describe how I work and why sharing anything more than protoypes is hard, and then people can comment if this rings true to them.

Like many people here I have a full time job writing software. Most of the time I get home and don't really want to sit at a computer for a bunch more hours working on a side project. But a few times a year I get super inspired or have an acute need and will spend my spare time working on a game, or a small project or something like that. Inevitably I lose interest after reaching the 'alpha' phase of the project (or sometimes even failing to get there). At that point I sometimes want to share the project with others, but I won't usually continue working on it.

I think this may partially explain your experience.
Brutal terms, but they can be terms where if the company fails to IPO you aren’t in debt. It’s just a question of how much risk you want to take on vs how much upside you need to give up.

Worst case you can always exercise whatever portion of your options you can afford and accept the inherent risks for doing so.
Ask HN: How do you organize your analytics/BI SQL code?
I'm primarily asking for the following scenario, but I'm interested in other relevant situations as well.

Imagine you are an analyst in a medium-sized company. Data analytics / Business insights team you're part of has somewhere between 5 and 20 people. Daily, you get questions from other departments for custom reports, dashboards and quick answers. Some of it is part of a bigger project that takes months and results in comprehensive dashboards, some of it is ad-hoc and will never be needed again, but you usually don't know if some simple quick question will turn into a bigger thing. However, in all of these cases, most of the actual "work" is about writing, rewriting, modifying and maintaining SQL code.

My question is: how do you manage all that code? Is there a git repo where you follow some nice structure you defined? Do you build everything in DBT? Do you use fancy tools like Metabase? Do you store it in your data warehouse itself (e.g. as a stored procedure or view)? Do you just write the code and then throw it out because, the next time you need something like this, database would have changed anyway (or a completely new one will become the main source of data), so it makes no sense to even store it?

I'm intentionally not specifying the "stack" here, as I'd like to hear what actually works well, not what is just the least-bad option for a particular tech stack.

I'm especially happy to hear from people who have had bad experiences with whatever they chose to do, as I'm in the process of trying to solve this problem for my team and would really like to avoid as many mistakes as possible.
Requires authentication for me, is this intentional?
Cortes vs the Aztecs