skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been seeing the opposite myself.

In the 90s and 00s it was almost always about the minis and tactical gameplay. DnD 3.5 was a lot more numbers heavy so it kept a lot of the story people out of the game.

Now DnD 5 the numbers have such a gentle, predictable curve with bounded accuracy and damage and stuff, you may as well ignore them because there's nothing exciting about rolling the dice anymore.

So the story is a lot heavier focus, the character journey. I never used to encounter people who got upset if their character died or groups who had the mentality that characters must always fail forward for the sake of the story.

That stuff is everywhere now.
There is a ridiculous game of telephone and this is shitty science journalism.

>The report offers a decision tree to help researchers choose whether race, ethnicity or indigeneity, geography, genetic ancestry, or genetic similarity are most appropriate for their work.

So, "We can't define 'race' so stop using it in science" is a factually incorrect description of the report and is instead click bait journalism intended incite controversy where none exists.
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Ones I got interviews for and didn't get
>Understanding that there is a blurred line between what is considered AI-generated vs human-generated, if you are a content creator, such as a writer, researcher, artist, music producer, sound designer, or filmmaker, and you estimate that at least 90% of your content is created by humans, you are eligible to add the badge into your website, blog, essay, publications, resume, or whatever your project is. The 90% can include using AI for inspiration purposes or to look for grammatical errors and typos.

This is subjective as all get out. If you write a novel and use Stable Diffusion to draw the cover, does that make the whole novel less than 100% human-generated?[0] What if they had used, say, lots of prompt engineering and inpainting runs instead of just typing in what they wanted and grabbing the first thing they saw? If, say, painting programs start using image generators as brush engines, does that lower the percentage more or less than the inpainting case?

[0] Keep in mind that most covers are designed and drawn by publishers, not the original writers. Writers making their own cover art is very much a self-publishing thing.
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You're mixing different issues. Your exact quote was "This is going to be awkward for the incentive to generate these models which are protected by the same rights".

Except right now models are being released openly, with anyone being able to download and fine-tune the weights. Yes, they have licenses, but it's not like the licenses protect some core part of their business models. Whatever incentives they had to release those weights, they would mostly have the same incentives if copyright law disappeared overnight.
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If I ever have kids, I'll have to have a stern talking-to with my surgeon about a botched vasectomy ;)
> EFF is one of those exceptions.

For me too. Though they test my patience regularly with leftist shibboleths. I’m pretty arch-conservative too, but we’re all in this together…my zeal knows no limits when it comes to defending against overbearing government.

In my mind it doesn’t matter if they’re innocent or guilty. If the government wants the privilege of treating people as guilty before due process then the legitimacy of government is automatically in disrepute. I’d rather let all the prisoners go free and let vigilante justice prevail than put up with this.
Coral reefs.

Edit: Those are homes for the animals while they're alive, of course, but after the animal dies you could view the remaining coral as a form of waste. Certainly that's how we'd view a big pile of abandoned mobile homes.
I appreciate you not diminishing my failures. Never launched still means I tried to build and failed for various reasons.
Which word was that? I encountered this particular word (sadly, I do not remember the word) doing practice rounds.
You can also do things that are not really "insurance" but reduce your interest rate risk like buying shorter-term assets (T-bills for example), laddering them, and seeking out depositors that aren't all concentrated in one industry or region. Each of these things reduces your interest rate risk and means lower returns (and therefore "costs money") but is not an insurance product and doesn't really introduce novel counterparty risk.
DuckDB is actually pretty good at this kind of thing.

Doesn't need to load anything to DB

Can be used in shell

Can read from stdin and write to stdout
Seems cool. Maybe a rainbow / alternating color per column would be nice
Neither Open nor AI
I appreciate the guess, but I think this is not right. There was a good amount of money in the account (~20k).
From an article posted here recently[0]

> Art is not what I think when I’m painting. It’s what you feel when you’re looking

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34921883
You mean your accomplishments of failing? ;)
There are still purist being born (not me tbf). And I'm glad for that.
Far from being different than startups, Google’s product development ecosystem actually mirrors the VC/startup ecosystem quite well.

The idea behind both is that you pursue a lot of varied opportunities simultaneously and then cull the ones that aren’t delivering dramatically outsized success.

A startups founding team, like a Google product team, may be committed to their product and want to pivot and keep taking fresh angles on adoption, but they can’t do that without money and the money works by different. Your favorite startups evaporate for the same reason.

That said, this approach seems to chip away at Google’s reputation and doesn’t seem to be yielding a lot of standout successes, so it might not be a great idea for them.
Yeah, but it’s like;

1) Sacrifice the entire companies long term existence to let a small number of people sell at 2.5X the share price one time during a macroeconomic peak

2) Allow almost everyone, including new employees, a longer-term path to wealth, by ignoring that bubble peak and focusing on long term value generation outside of the public markets (which notoriously destroy companies)

IMO, it’s such a base layer of internet businesses, they should keep it private forever; otherwise it’ll be PayPal in 10 years.
> The US would have never been so patient in a similar situation.

"Patience" isn't an accurate characterization of what's happening here. Of course Russia would be delighted to shoot down those drones, or any manned reconnaissance aircraft in the area as well. They refrain from doing this because there would be unwelcome consequences, not because they're carefully observing some law or principle.

You can certainly tweak your strained hypothetical in such a way that the US would be bound by similar constraints. (that's not even difficult, it's just a matter of examining the hypothetical a little more closely - imagine how much would have gone wrong for the United States military in order for it to even be in a real war with Mexico) It's just a matter of hypotheticals like this not being very useful.
I think this is a common misperception whenever a research body makes an announcement on race like this. It is not that there is no there, there. In fact there is so much there that race fails as a concept because it is (ridiculously) insufficiently granular, not because there’s no underlying differences.

If you do any kind of clustering on genetic expression data, all kinds of categories much more detailed than racial categories jump out - a good example is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:European_genetic_structur... which shows not only that there are extremely distinct genetic clusters between locations like Europe, China, and America, there are actually highly distinct genetic clusters for each individual European nation - in fact there are even moderately distinct genetic clusters for different geographical areas within a single European nation.

To use the astrology metaphor, the scientific critique would be something like “we need to do away with astrology because months don’t capture the differences - there’s actually significant differences on the level of individual days of birth, even on the level of morning/afternoon/night time of birth”. We take the wrong message from these announcements when we conclude that there’s no differences at all.
The interviews are not nearly as brutal as private industry. You'll have two technical ones, the first is a coding question on collabedit (easy string-related question). The second is more abstract and focuses on your ability to explain complex topics in easy-to-digest ways as well as evaluating trade-offs between proposed solutions / patterns / practices.

Then you'll have a behavioral one in which you'll be probed on your previous projects and experiences. These are best answered in the STAR format.

Also be sure you can pass the SF-86 without any major red flags. Checkout /r/securityclearance for more details.
That's wrong. Relative speed differences result in collisions, yes. Absolute speed causes those collisions to be fatal. Low speed collisions are much less likely to be fatal.
It's worth noting that the biggest reason it's not been a problem in the past is because most countries pay publishers/authors a royalty for loaning out library books. The US was always an outlier on this.

(Which is another reason publishers are not overjoyed that the IA doesn't really operate any geofiltering.)
It is both empowering and negative.[0]

I got the same mentoring early in life. Networking matters. And yeah the system sucks and is a poor meritocracy, if that itself is even the better state of affairs.

Regardless, we live in the system we have and we either work it to our benefit or not.

Meta:

[0] Naysayers, knowledge is power. Prior to said mentoring, I had near completely dismissed networking, believing is was unnecessary and a sign of poor skills and other such ideas. Realizing how things actually do work was literally life changing.

If impacts like that are not signs of empowerment, I do not know what is.

Meritocracy sounds nice, and perhaps is a worthy state of affairs, that is not currently the system we live in. That may be hard news. Was to me.

As always, it sure would be nice and far more productive to read a rebuttal...
I am Dutch. I don't follow the news that as a I currently am very depressed. Not by the current affairs but also issues in my household. Recently there was a television show called Lubach (Dutch rip off of John Oliver) and he addressed all the uproar of the Dutch farmers. He investigated the source. The top 10 family owned agricultural companies are behind all this. Technically most Dutch are duped. We are not talking about issues in farming but really specifically about mass production of meat. This is a really small group but the specific pr campaign set up by large hired pr company emphasized the need to call it the farmers protest not the meat industry. The companies that paid the farmers so that they could protest while not loosing income, not because they where pro farmers but against losing money. These companies are going to loose millions (maybe even billions) when the co2 reduction rules are actually in affect.
I've always loved Citymapper, it made using public transport when living in a new city a breeze. It's really sad they don't support my current city, I'd be willing to put in free work to make it happen but I've never seen any way of helping out.
No, this a straw man. The line of reasoning here, first, makes a lot of presuppositions about AI and it is overly reductionist about human intelligence. I see this comment constantly in all HN threads about AI, “humans intelligence is nothing but probabilistic sparks” or whatever just actually means.
Same. 99% of my printing is B&W stuff for business purposes; e.g. forms to print, sign, and mail, etc. Some light scanning in there, too.

The few color things that I'd like to print -- pictures, posters, etc. -- might as well go to a print shop (I'm ~4 blocks from one) and get it printed on good paper, mounted, maybe even framed.
What I haven't heard much about in the whole hubbub about this is that there's a lot that farmers can already do to reduce various nitrogen emissions. Different (less protein-rich) food and letting cattle graze outside have significant impact.

The discussion seems to have been dominated by people who just want to cut back on farming, and fans of highly industrialised farming. There are alternatives, and they're not getting enough attention.

Not all farmers support this new "farmer's" party. And big agri-adjacent industry have been big players in the protests and unrest.

I'm not denying that the government handled this extraordinarily poorly, I'm just saying the discussion is dominated by extremely polarised opinions.
> This space is frustrating with any of the cloud vendors as they originally offered a lot of storage for free, then had to resort to various strategies to claw that back after it got expensive.

Getting users to add photos and then charging (while also using them as image sets for training) was the strategy from the beginning. They didn't resort to anything. Keeping your photos stored somewhere is very sticky, particularly for non-software developers. And even so how do you even transfer them to another service without a huge bill?
What about usage levels for all other age groups?
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Or, Amazon, Uber, and Netflix have access to so much capital based on investors' judgment that they will be able to win and protect market share by effective execution, thereby creating a defensible moat.
I don't know if this is the same phenomenon, but it's a good lesson on its own. No testing or analysis tool is perfect all the time.

That said, I'm curious about the "fails open" cases. Are you using `--strict`?
The climate change agenda often doesn't really have a great sales pitch: have high costs now, still experience climate change and then in the far future things might be better. This has to change to truly get everyone on board - there have to be benefits in the now.
> They told me they didn’t want to hear any complaints unless I’d bought the product.

You have to think about the game-theoretic equilibrium of the alternative, given the same set of bad actors involved: if you could report listings you hadn't bought, then these idiots would all just be constantly reporting their product-category brand-name competitors' listings, as non-suspicious one-off actions from different dark-web-purchased pre-aged accounts, to the point that Amazon would just have to ignore "reported listings" as a signal anyway.
Agreed. All that work and website loads up fast and is very clear and concise. I did enjoy 'lessons learned' section. Frankly, the entire thing is almost inspirational.
Not me but that guy is the smartest person I have ever met
This strikes me as a good example of how nuanced language can be.

A native English speaker probably would only use "pathetic" to mean "emotional" if the emotions were specifically negative. They also would use pathetic to describe someone experiencing non-emotional suffering such as injury or poverty.

Therefore, a native English speaker probably would not use "pathetic" to mean "emotional" in everyday writing. However, I could definitely see someone using it to mean emotional when they were being more poetic. For example, I could see someone calling an essay on the emotional toll of counseling "The Pathetic Class" in order to imply that social workers are a class that society has tasked with confronting negative emotions.
Also, I just noticed that the practice rounds and the daily dadagram use different tiling.
Yes, I wrote the first part in the description above. I will definitely need a lawyer if it happens at other banks.
We will soon have to accept that we are not special.

We are meat based, the new minds are silicon based.

They have different strengths and limitations than us, will surpass us in all cognitive abilities soon.

Our hardware evolved to help us survive and reproduce but the evolution is a slow process compared to the intelligent design we do.

AI will surpass us and build itself beyond what we can reason about.

We will do art and work because we like to do it, just like playing video games, no other reason will survive.
On the one hand, a bit heart breaking.

On the other hand, I wish more people shared their failures-- otherwise all we see is survivorship bias and people selling get rich courses "I made a million dollars doing this ONE TRICK and you can too! Only 9 payments of $999.99"

I only have 4-5 failures (compared to his dozens), but then I only started 4-5 projects :)
Related https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/apr/30/cv-of-fail...
I don't think it's at all clear that upthread is exclusively talking about software.

The first use of "moat" upthread:

> Curious why even companies at the very edge of innovation are unable to build moats?
Think if the tables were turned - and you accurately modeled every LEGO brick and allowed sending to 3d printers to make custom bricks. Just how FAST would they shut that down?

LEGO brick patents have already expired years ago and there exists plenty of alternate producers of LEGO compatible bricks. but yes, LEGO is trying every trick in the book to stop alternate brands from selling their products.

i disagree however that suing for maximum damage is helpful to GPL software. it only instills fear in companies wanting to use it because it increases the risk.

i believe a good will approach to help companies with compliance is better, only suing when companies refuse to comply.
> If you write a novel and use Stable Diffusion to draw the cover, does that make the whole novel less than 100% human-generated?

I have never considered the cover art for a novel (or most books) to be a part of the novel. The thought that it might be never occurred to me. It's the packaging. So, in my view, such a novel would be 100% human generated.
I’ve been yearning to meet cool people in tech, so I started a conference!

Come hang at Outland on August 26 in Palm Springs, California :)

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You can do it in a VM just fine too.

There is usually someone who’ll point out that this probably violates licensing, and it probably does if you do it on non-Apple hardware.
Almost makes me wish I was born later.
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I co-founded Trusu in 2018. We were acquired in 2020 and that revenue came within the first year of that. I ended up providing over 100 million Facemasks around the world and South East Asia. Technically my company was 1 full time person and 1 full time contractor at the time of that revenue but obviously had a ton of help from the company that acquired us and spun out the company.
> when did innovation and creativity stop?

Or did it ever stop ?
Looks cool! It'd help to have some more full examples (including output) of what some common use-cases do in the README. After looking through this, I'm still scratching my head trying to think of what problem this could solve in my own practice, and I work with a lot of csv files daily
Yeah, that's a comparison I've been thinking about. C lowered the skill floor, and then Java/Python lowered it even more dramatically, plus the explosion of open source tooling, cloud infrastructure, and general hardware improvements. The average modern junior data scientist could build a software application in a day that would have taken a team of senior C developers months or years to build in 1990. Yet we have not seen a reduction in the number developers.
So are you like Desmond on LOST where every day, after you and your dad play, you have to run to the computer to type in the latest Dad-Word to keep the machine alive?
> My best friend who says she'll start going to the gym and never does.

My friend always calls me out on this, and now I'm being haunted by you too, a person form the internet!

But on a more serious note, I think often times people believe when they say they want to do something, but end up not doing it for various reasons. Sometimes it's lack of self-love, other times it's low energy levels or lapses in time management. Sometimes people do try, but get discouraged and shy away.

I think the person on the other side ia often just as frustrated by themselves—if not even more, but they can't tell what and where it went wrong, which is equally frustrating in itself.

I am the best person at frustrating myself and fucking my days up. Sigh I never learn.
I am and will totally see this thanks
> They didn't resort to anything.

I did spell out what one of the changes was. I used to be able to sync photos, which for me isn't a lot of space...but also NOT SYNC videos, which do use a lot of space. That option was removed, and syncing can only be turned off/on globally now.

Separately, there was also this change, which is notable:
https://support.google.com/photos/answer/10100180?hl=en

So, yes, I believe they once offered more storage and flexibility, then took that away.
The scale of things in astronomy is humbling to say the least. "Close" can be 1 light-year away... That's 9.4607e+12 km. "Slow" is Mach 30. We're nothing at that scale.
It's trivially easy and cheap to determine genetic history by dna sequenceing; it doesn't require sequencing the whole genome, just a tiny bit of it. 23&Me does it with their tiny little exome test.
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Thanks for the insight. I hope you are right of course. Unfortunately, Germany is a bit hopeless in this respect.
> If they are still smoking despite that, it's on them.

That's my point: the warnings don't lead to reasonable decisions.

"If you don't pay for it, you are the product" has to be one of the most echoed sentiments of the last few years, and people still demand everything for free, and prefer to pay with their data instead of paying for the content they consume (e.g. on newspapers).

If Amazon gave them a choice of "you're data is most most most likely fine" and "your data is most most most most likely fine, and we'll pay you $1000 if it's not but you pay twice the money each month", I doubt they'll see a lot of people switch over. They'll have some, but not many, because ultimately, people don't care enough.
I feel like this heavily requires “citation needed”. There are plenty of these “inside the studio” type interviews where an artist describes at length their inspirations and the other artists they admired and wanted to mimic in some way.
Similar issue exists for all networks that involve translation, despite the task, so classifiers, though I don’t know whether it has been resolved.

With classifiers the issue is that if you place sufficient objects in space that co-occur the model will believe that it is a class with said objects, eg a face, but the problem is the relative positioning of them plus all angles of rotation.

I think geometric deep learning has a solution for the rotation ia rotation invariant models, but I haven’t gone through that book yet.
I'm not surprised I'm saying it's bad though.

> regardless of ethics

Yes, that's the bad part.
Switzerland is primarily characterized by direct democracy, frequent referendums and its federal system that delegates a lot of power to the cantons.

Singapore is primarily characterized by... none of those things???

> So, not sure your point carries much weight.

It's not "my point", it's reality on the ground.
The acceptance of the fact is inevitable that humans are not special as the new minds, which are silicon-based, will soon surpass us in all cognitive abilities due to their different strengths and limitations. The evolution of our hardware is a slow process, while intelligent design leads to the rapid advancement of AI. AI will become so advanced that it will surpass our comprehension, and humans will continue to do art and work solely for enjoyment, similar to playing video games, with no other reason.
Even more impressive. Inspired me to get more fails under my belt.
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