skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can literally set up a blockchain that says I own the Mona Lisa. Me saying so, or me putting it on a blockchain doesn't make it so.

Agreed. The parties that are interacting must agree on which blockchain to interact on first. More likely an industry, trade association, or government would say this chain is going to be the system of record of where transactions take place and then individuals and businesses are forced to abide by that. Then once that is decided, any transfer of ownership on that chain would expect to be honored by the transferring party. If not, then consequences would be enforced by the governing industry, trade association, government. etc.

> A blockchain solves the specific problem of how to track ownership of some piece of data in a decentralized fashion where multiple parties do not trust each other.

> This, however is not the hard problem when we talk about ownership databases. The hard problem is ensuring the data entered into that database represents actual real world ownership and having the database universally recognized by everybody as a representation of ownership.

> What purpose does a database like that serve, when the actual place where the rubber of ownership hits the road is somwhere else?

Yes, there is sort of a bootstrapping problem around how do you get people onboarded onto a particular blockchain. For that I think you need some novel use case(s). For Bitcoin it was being the first alternative monetary system. For Ethereum it was the ability to create on-chain programs. Zcash it was private transactions. etc. Once people are onboarded though, then you can use that system to agree on where ownership entry and change of ownership transactions take place. Then you can use the publicly auditable history to prove ownership. For a physical good, then that becomes evidence that can be presented to a third party presiding entity who settles disputes.
The US is super weird.

It's the only place I know of that doesn't have a clear, fixed-time based, permanent residency program, without quotas.

As an example, in all European countries that I know of, permanent residency works like this:

- you need to fulfill some prerequisites (usually a civics course/test, a language course/test, no criminal record, be employed or in education)

- then you need to be in the country for N years

- then you need to apply and you generally get the result in a few months, maximum

That's it. For the average person the "hard" requirements are actually: learn the local language up to the required level, spend N years.

It doesn't matter where you're from.
If even the opportunity for sporadic work is there, this may be a better option than going to your home country where either pay is much lower, or the type of work isn't available. These rules are made to avoid obtaining a reserve of foreigners who do not work, even if they're capable.

I'm not arguing whether this is good or bad, but that seems to be the intent.
... in the USA

Is missing from the title imo. Since it said "rest of the world" .org, presumably a joke regarding USA-centricity, I was expecting it was about something other than the USA. Joke's on me!
We do know how far AI can go: Full parity with human cognition.

Everything we do, ultimately, comes down to recognition.

The inflection point will be the first model that is trained to recognize trained models.
probably. they approach everyone. but if you're (really) good, you could also have o'reilly asking for you.
The article only makes a brief mention of it, but i wonder if the models struggle with foreshortening in general. Which when you consider hands are a combination of repeated pattern and lots of foreshortening.
OSCP is a certification exam that bans automation in an attempt to test that you know the fundamentals.

It has the annoying side effect of creating pentesters with a phobia of automation.
Those $500 would be $50 if they use gpt3.5-turbo, which is a magnitude cheaper than davinci-3.
Rightfully so, considering how many jobs will be replaced by AI in the upcoming years.
Once I went carnivore, my dental and gum health became perfect. The reason other carnivores don't have our dental structure is that other carnivores don't use fire, and other carnivores use their teeth to kill their prey.
Are there any Asian countries besides Japan that give out permanent residency?
Athlon Thunderbirds were notorious for reaching insane temperatures without any form of thermal throttling -- an uncooled Thunderbird will destroy itself without cooling. The Pentium 4, on the other hand, will throttle down and often keep running if you take the heat sink off.

I guess it's a matter of how efficiently you can cool the CPU with pool water. If you're able to keep the P4 below whatever limit it has for thermal throttling then I suspect it will, indeed, be a winner. If not, a Thunderbird will happily boil away the enire pool if given a chance.
Ask HN: Which is the best open-source email server?
I am currently looking for a self-hosted solution to send email newsletter and have analysis tools to check for new subscribers, read statistic and so...
Any suggestion? I am completely new to this argument
Hah! Never thought of that. Nice one
I don't see a problem with a rule or regulation that limits individual daily withdrawal limits. That would solve that specific issue as well, and anybody who needs to withdraw more than that per day clearly has enough funds to have accountants that can coordinate across multiple banks.
>from what our ancestors usually ate

Whatever they could find so not to starve.

The idea that people in the past had a diet they could keep to is completely laughable the second you start reading the accounts of the number of famines _in the 19th century_. This gets progressively worse the further back you go.
That's a big assumption. No one has built an AGI yet so we don't know whether an AGI would be capable of improving it's own code exponentially. Any exponential growth function quickly runs into hard physical limits.
When I slop a grammer error or two it's ok it shows I'm not a bot. I used to check my grammar carefully but not anymore. Authenticity and stuff.
I hope you are correct. The alternative is the space being dominated by regulation.
They should have the right to put their proposal to a vote and make their case, and the did, and they won. This was a democratic vote by the citizens of California. And if it were a democratic vote by the Uber drivers, it also would have won.
Look at MakerDAO. It's the longest running DAO in history.
The framing is kind of weird - AI isn't a specific technology to begin with, so someone can't really correctly or incorrectly "discern six ways that artificial intelligence (AI) is used around you every day".
Hoping that a nuclear power breaks apart is a nightmare. This is true for states like Pakistan but when you have a stockpile in the thousands and a nuclear logistical distribution like Russia it is nearly guarantee that we have several (terroristic) nuclear explosions over the next decades and probably half a dozen rogue states more.

And do not assume that this is a peaceful transition. Putin is very much concerned about the integrity of Russia.
Surveyed by whom and how was the question asked?
> there should never be a scenario where the show host gives you an opportunity to switch boxes unless you have already chosen the prize box

The host always gives you an opportunity to switch boxes.
None of the 2 political parties want to fix it. They don't want influx of well educated immigrants who can make informed voting decisions
While this has been a more recent development for (Ex) Yugoslavia, nations and nationalism followed a similar pattern elsewhere. You can see a lot of diversity between regions in i.e. Germany, Spain, Italy which is more or less unified by a shared history narrative.

Not arguing it's good or bad. Just saying it's about how and when you define what a nation is.

edit: And to clarify some more, the reason why divisions here are harder is due to the lack of the shared history narrative. :D
it isnt. time to make thqt cash register ring lol.
not to diminish value of sum types (those are not specific to Rust of course) but I think that product types belong to a database / config rather than being hardcoded.
At the very least, this is KZ testing waters how much they can piss of RU.
They mean that they took a 1.3B parameter model, applied the InstructGPT finetuning model and found that it worked better for their usecase than a 175B parameter model which had not gone through that process.
It does make you wonder...
Using TLS in coroutines may not make much sense, but using TLS in the runtime can be unavoidable. For example, the stack of running coroutines is per-thread. You can perhaps avoid that with a more complex API, but placing it in TLS is the obvious design.

Unfortunately, this has happened and is not hypothetical, but at least for now we're stuck in the stackful hole we dug for ourselves. :( A few years back we had similar issues on Windows.
Ask HN: Should I Get a Mac
I've been a long-time Linux user and generally locked in to the Google ecosystem. My flavors are usually Fedora and stock Pixel devices whenever available. However, lately I've become interested in this AI revolution, specifically LLMs. I'm interested in the prospect of running these inference models locally at some point.

Do you think it's necessary/worth it to make the switch to a modem MacBook/Air or should someone in my situation stick with cloud services and Dell XPS or Lenovo line of PCs?
> Stable diffusion does not default to creating black people (you have to insert black into the prompt),

honestly in order to make race an irrelevant or random factor, I believe the training data would have to be evenly divided between all known races... and possibly some blends of races? And I think that would be a good thing.

Could you synthesize such data by (ironically perhaps) using AI to change the race of a person in a given training photo?
Singapore gives them out like candy to high earners.
The longer you have worked, the move you have proved yourself.

Bayesian inference.
Thailand comes to mind
I think people need to understand what's protected. Something like "https guarantees that your are connected to the website displayed in the address bar and that no one can see the content of the communication"

It's important because for example it makes it clearer why they should still check the url in the address bar (and not get phished) or that the communication with the website itself is not hidden (only the content is), etc.
> If the host follows a deterministic set of rules (as is usually implicitly assumed in the puzzle version), the optimal strategy is pretty easy to work out.

And yet it is the subject of endless discussions. The optimum strategy is pretty easy to work out, yet not widely believed.
I suspect you meant 'Ask HN'.
Nah. The days of SV innovation were mostly a meme at this point, and the collapse of SVB simply puts a fine point on it:

Big corporate rules all, sees all, owns all.

Kinda like NYC screw-you-pay-me but with a faux niceness.
I am not a carnivore, my dental health is perfect - never had a cavity. What does that mean for our two anecdotes?

Regarding your second point - our dental structure is roughly the same as the great apes (who are NOT obligate carnivores), but with less emphasis on canine teeth (which are used for display in the apes) - so when did we develop the carnivore teeth then develop teeth that match our fellow great apes? Our dental structure is not suited for a carnivorous lifestyle, but somehow the rest of our digestive track is?

Edit: Sorry, should specify, I meant "I am not an OBLIGATE carnivore". I still eat meat.
The author blogs almost every day about the Mac on his years-old Mac-oriented blog. The author doesn't write for HN readers, nor did he submit his blog post to HN.

Why do the worst HN comments always rise to the top?
Not necessarily, much like every human does not know pharmacology, genetics, robotics or other specialties that could be used for self improvement. Including social engineering and programming.

What you're describing is a particular kind of superintelligence, recursively improving kind.
Between that and general intelligence is another gap.
Indeed, we make sure the fiction is very convincing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHnRXST5FUw
You could argue that even your country doesn't owe you anything merely for existing. You have responsibilities, not just rights.

But for the purpose of this discussion, I'm assuming a person already has a country they belong to which does give them the right to stay.

No other country owes you the right to stay. Singapore does not owe me the right to be there, let alone stay there. Each country is free to decide the rules for who it allows in and how long it allows them to stay and under what conditions.

It's not a "human right".
Some subs have karma requirements for posting or commenting.
Fixed ;) thx
> but want to make sure that those who can do it responsibly or not at all.

Mostly not at all. They write papers like "Can Language Models Be Too Big?"

I say then: can people be too afraid of the unknown?
That is the case with every market that is not (yet) fully governmental regulated. Full of scams, dirt and some people who are able to navigate these waters to get incredibly rich.
Freeware is not the same as free software. You can use the former for a bait and switch.
Conceptually this sounds compelling. How do you get around having to use heat pump manufacturers or are you beholden to them to build your product?

From a mini split perspective - where we have our heat pumps situated is for AC and when we would use them for electricity (winter) those floors are already to hot. Ie take heat away in the summer on third floor, not add heat in the winter on third floor. They are the best on the market but are completely trash interface for managing temperature - all individually controlled remotes. I could do the work to integrate them but ive heard its cumbersome and doesnt work well.(to your points).

Good luck
The reason sets are important is that they correspond to (Boolean-valued) properties. To each set, there corresponds the property of belonging to that set. To each property, there corresponds the set of all things with that property. I think this is the key reason why the relational algebra is a good foundation for a query language. When I'm writing a query, I'm thinking of some property P, such that I want the results of the query to be all records with property P. By utilizing the correspondence between properties and sets I can translate that property fairly directly into an expression in the relational algebra, and then the magic of a relational query language is that that expression is all I need to write to carry out the query. That's the sense in which relational query languages are declarative. I just write down the property of the results I want, and I get those results automatically without having to specify how to collect those results.

Having queries return multisets rather than sets "breaks" the relational algebra in the sense that it breaks this correspondence. Results of queries no longer correspond one-to-one to properties, since properties have no multiplicity. To be fair, you can identify the property being true or the element belonging to the set with having multiplicity > 0, and the property being false or the element not belonging to the set with having multiplicity 0, and by doing this you can think of SQL queries as corresponding to sets/properties most of the time. But if you're going to think of them that way, you might as well just have them be sets in the first place. The multisets are just a needless complication. Thinking about SQL queries in terms of multisets seems to only be compatible with a more imperative, non-relational approach to the language, where you still have to think algorithmically about how to assemble the collection of results that you want, rather than just directly characterizing the results in terms of a property.
I think the point is too many times developers are a penny wise and a pound foolish when it comes to build vs buy. Because they can build, and it is often fun if you haven't done it before.

Though I often don't take my own advice, I try to ask is what I'm about to build core to our ROI/product, is there an existing solution that gets us 80% there, and yes, what is the cost.

If it is not core to the business, won't drive revenue, and cost are not outrageous, which is a company by company truth, then I much prefer to spend X time building new product than recreating an existing product/tool.

One final point - don't forget to consider the maintenance costs, which in the long term often greater then the initial investment. If your CI goes down, you just blew away and savings you were planning on.
Nope, not that at all. I was replying directly to the quoted sentence of GP’s post with a clear and direct rebuttal against it.
What does this have to do with being a contractor vs employee. I negotiated my salary. Does that make me a contractor?
If your grocery doesn't have locally produced, affordable, delicious vegan junk food by now you should be pissed off at the people producing your food and demand better.
This is getting very close to actual field survey work and IMO the best app, by a mile, to carry out the scanning part in this kind of setting is Dot3D. It's basically been built for larger-scale capture and reliable loop-closure.

Here's a scan of several km (!) of length all done with Dot3D on an iPad [1]. You can also explore the point cloud on the web.

Also, digging a little deeper, here's a study comparing the accuracy and loop-closure capabilities of several 3D scanning apps. It's spot on. [2]

[1] https://twitter.com/netch87/status/1632392369143435264

[2] https://rafaels-blog.weebly.com/blog/why-loop-closure-is-cru...
> It's part of the socratic method.

But that question wasn't. It was bad faith "gotcha!" question.
Corollaries:

- People who can't "defend the country" don't get these rights: women, children, old people, people with religious exemptions, people with an unreasonable fear of being violently killed.

- People who promise to come and defend will get these rights, regardless of where they were born? Do they just make a solemn oath or do they have to do boot camp and maintain their skills?

I hope you can see this is not where your rights come from.
For some people it will feel like the best way to only have some amount of blood on their hand will be a vegan diet. Obviously not all vegan diets are the same, and foods like avocado which is popular in vegan diets are quiet bad and should be avoided. Basically anything which on the purchased packet says imported from an country that has rain forests should be avoided if one want to avoid having the blood of animals that live in rain forests.

Being a mass murder of fewer victim than some other mass murders can be an important distinction for some people.

Still I would highlight that a small scale farmer or hobbyist who raises his own animals has likely less blood on their hand than a vegan who live in a city and eat imported fresh veggies.

There is also the aspect of long term strategies. Vegan diets are not sustainable and long term we do need to change how we produce food. Shell fish and seaweed are one of the few sources of food that we could produce in very large quantities without harming the environment around us. Insect farms would be an alternative, but those seems much less likely to be effective in term of changing the world.

There is a lot of green washing in crop farming. Practically all production of artificial fertilizers uses natural gas, and leaks from those operations is one of the major contributors to global warming. We have waters as large as the Baltic ocean being turned into a desert from runoff. People may feel happy to not eat fish, but fish were killed in order to produce the food that people eat. The deaths "just" happen to be a byproduct that accumulate slowly under the surface, and slowly moves towards mass extinction.
Korea I think.
If humans were merely fully replaceable units in the machinery that is a nation (and it seems that this is the goal of many of the elite), then that would make sense. But many humans actually form communities and welcome new residents in. Some of these newcomers become part of the community and even create new members.
The one axis isn't instantaneous workload; it is queue length(work items not being handled by threads).

The PID controller is finding a reasonable number of workers that handle the peak bursts without allowing the queue to get too long, and without spamming and destroying threads unnecessarily.

The cost is that under peak load the queue does back up a little, but if the queue stayed long for too long, the PID should create new threads.
> I want it to work with a contact-closure (TT/XX) input to call for heat/cooling. Sure, if you have a fancy thermostat that works better, I'm going to read the brochure, but I'm not buying it if I find out it won't work with just a dry contact input.

> I want it to have an open interface to extract data (similar to the open interface of a dry-contact closure) about run-time, performance, etc. (I will, however, buy it without this.)

FWIW, there is a standard called OpenTherm which most off the shelf thermostats support and HVAC systems support. It's a 2-wire serial 2-way protocol, quite simple.

IIRC OpenTherm even has a fallback compatibility mode where closing the loop will enable the system at full power, though I am not sure this will work with heat pumps, as they can both heat and cool.

You could even rig up a Raspberry Pi or equivalent with an OpenTherm interface and attach it to any OpenTherm compatible heater/cooler to control it and read stats.
Some people seem to think they will be able to type "clean my data" into ChatGPT or similar and get a beautiful clean dataset. They are probably descendents of the people who said "COBOL means we don't need programmers any more".

Data cleaning requires a lot of judgement and domain knowledge. Imagine if an AI did clean your dataset. Are you just going to trust it (Hell no!)? Or are you going to spend ages trying to work out what it did, which doesn't seem much of an improvement.

I write data cleaning/ETL software and I'm confident that the need for my product is going to going up between now and when I retire.
I agree: GitHub's search is important because people build organizations with a hundred tiny repositories and you need to figure out which one actually has the library with the function being called; if I know what repository the code is in, then I would (of course) just use grep.
I can't vouch for the validity of the statistic you mention, as you didn't source it.

However, I can provide with 100% certainty that I would prefer being paid 1 trillion dollars an hour instead of my current wage. In fact, I would prefer being paid every dollar amount between my current wage and 1 trillion dollars an hour.

Labor preference does not dictate market conditions. Labor preference has an especially low impact in circumstances where the compensation is low and competition for good paying jobs is fierce. It is wrong to state that if a serious majority of ride-share drivers wanted employment Uber and Lyft wouldn't exist.
Just because there is a physics connection doesnt make this a good name for the parameter.

I do understand the benefit of not having 10 different names for the same concept under different scenarios, however. Even if that name isnt the best.

But note that, even in the physics scenario, temperature isnt really the name providing the most intuition either. You need to be aware of the connection between higher temperature -> higher excitability/mobility to begin with, for it to make sense; and temperature isnt the only way to modify this underlying excitability in the first place.