skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived next to a freight line, never again. The corner was in my backyard. My comment is mostly about daily life outside of the house, and in a city center. So those moments on foot when you're out of the car.

For life in the city, it's much more pleasant to be in a foot only or mixed traffic street, even with a train nearby. There's the inherent danger of fast cars operated by non-professionals that you perceive on foot as well as the noise, neither you really need to worry about for trains. In many cities trams can run through pedestrian areas with no barricades or grade separation because they are slower and predictable. You can run cars with no separation too if you slow them down enough, but more often they are set to incompatible speeds and as a pedestrian you have all the downsides of the cars as they pass through what should really be a pedestrian space in most city centers.
Wrt "just predicting the next token", take a look at this: https://thegradient.pub/othello/

As to how it ends up this way, that's an interesting question, but it kinda makes sense in a broad way that if you try to "lossily compress" a lot of interrelated data, at some point the only way to continue doing so is by inferring the underlying concepts - i.e. building an internal model of whatever the inputs describe. And, notably, we had to make the models large enough before results indicative of that manifested, regardless of the amount of text thrown at it during training.
That was an interesting natural experiment.

But… I wouldn’t pretend like that correlation is causation:

- police departments control the official crime metrics
- there were fewer officers to write the paperwork that officially tracks crimes
- when the “blue flu” happens publicly, more crime victims will avoid reporting out of frustration

I highly doubt criminals took a holiday when police decided to coordinate minimum work days.
You're thinking in terms of on-the-map coverage. Real-world coverage is affected by stuff in the way. I know plenty of people who can just barely get texts on a good day unless they go outside and wave their phone around. Phone calls are out of the question without Wi-Fi.
Maybe we should stop paying taxes since the FED can just print new money when we need it.
Great point. Though the issue still lies in human intent, not technology.

Shaking up traditional education methods, like paper writing and grading, can lead to more efficient learning and free time, as demonstrated by MOOCs and online universities. Exponentially growing online spam and disinformation might make it more obvious to people and recenter us as humanity to more credible information sources. We might need to adjust tax laws for companies that employ AI, but it could have positive effects. I think it's too early to catastrophize, even if I am sure the technology will be used with malicious intent by some.
steel scrap is around $0.05/lb and has been under $0.02 before. at that point what do you really use for fill that won't stand out?

copper is cheaper than nickel and people bring in plate and hide weights in it all the time
SVB had a ridiculously high uninsured deposits % of total liabilities, way above all of its peers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35241691
I think this is the last thing people need. Do you really expect me to listen to 36 hours of lectures before I am able to appreciate art music? Listen to the music! Then, if you hear something that clicks with you, and you want to learn more about it, do. You don't have to understand the history, theory, and technology of music to appreciate it.

An interest in learning about the music follows a love for the music.
FYI if you bought your S22 Ultra in the US, it probably isn't necessary. Only the European models were shipped with the Exynos chipset and would be vulnerable. The US version was shipped with a Qualcomm chipset, so it shouldn't be an issue.

(This is what I recall on the top of my head though, so you might want to double check this info)
AfterStep was also a nice NeXT like experience. I don’t think it’s maintained anymore. I used to run it on RH 5.0 back in the day (ca. 1999).
For those with the new Samsung Galaxy S23 series, they use a Snapdragon X70 modem and so are not impacted.
Why are housing prices going up in countries that are shrinking?
A healthy economy has ups and downs, and if you have a bigger up there needs to be a corresponding down. In 2008 we made major decisions to prevent a needed correction down, it turns out all that did was kick the can down the road, and if we kick it down the road again we're just in for another problem.
I usually hate dumping on Show HNs, but given the societal impacts of this, I feel the need to be blunt. Call me old fashioned, call me a luddite, whatever, but I hate this.

So now even our profile pictures aren't really us, but just some pseudo-reality version of who we think we are. And I know I know, people will argue that makeup/airbrushing/photoshop/facetune has been going on forever, but at some point I feel like we cross the line where it's no longer "reality with some touchups", but instead it's "complete fantasy made to mimic reality".

I just feel like AI is shooting us head first down this state where reality and fantasy are evermore difficult to differentiate, and I don't like the implications.
The Last of Us?
We’re Missing a Key Driver of Teen Anxiety
This got me wondering how I could set my macOS system cursors to something else.

https://github.com/alexzielenski/Mousecape/releases

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https://www.deviantart.com/allannyholm/art/Mousecape-Throwba...

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The 2 .zip cursor packs on here https://www.macintoshrepository.org/33199-mighty-mouse

Works on Ventura.
The US Banking system as a whole is sitting on $620B of underwater bonds.

https://fortune.com/2023/03/10/svb-collapse-fdic-takeover-ma...

I doubt anyone wants more than they already have.
Oh for sure. I even own a fretless bass so my intonation has been… I certainly won’t say great but mostly decent since day one.

I don’t know how school orchestra teachers retain any sanity.
I was lured into trying the Amazon Music app for its podcasts. It is just awful.

Apple Podcasts is less awful but not great.

Overcast is so easy to use, so quick to navigate, with so many custom options - it’s hard to use any other player.
Not that long ago, the internet didn't even exist.

Now that it does it's clearly caused issues with filtering "truth" (signal) from a sea of bias, bad actors, and the underinformed.

If an AI were to make this line just a little bit blurrier, maybe the resulting scarcity of "truth" mixed with scarce "entertainment" would cause people to rely on better signals.

That is probably wishful thinking of course. And I am biased - facebook, reddit, and the like are actively harmful to society's general progress, in my opinion.
This seems to run counter to the prevailing media narrative of dumbing-down or coddling in school. Higher stakes testing, more school work, and more exams suggests the opposite.
Thanks! I understand now
Neither Database Systems, Concurrent Programming nor Network Programming are foundational knowledge for CS. They are good knowledge to have for a specialized programming job, but not foundational computer science.

It's like asking why someone with a degree in theoretical physics cannot fix my car.

The real question is why so many people with CS degrees don't know what CS is really about.
>Banks are not overleveraged

But the people are, consumer debt is out the wazoo
Are they confusing titles UX designers with UX (software) engineers? I mean, I guess, then its just a matter of everyone calling the role something different. My wife is a UXD, but she has never been called an engineer before.
I find that international roaming is cheaper than ever. Some carriers like T-Mobile (US) and Google Fi include it for free.
Related 3blue1brown video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v68zYyaEmEA

Not very hard to train a computer to win at wordle
The issue isn’t JPMC it’s LME. LME has a strong reputation for quality of service. This calls into question that reputation, and the damage of that is far in excess the $1.3m.
Imagine you are a LLM and all you see are tokens. Your job is not only to predict the next token in a sequence, but also to create a nice embedding for the token (where two similar words sit next to each other). Given a small enough latent space, you're probably not concerning yourself too much with the "structure inside" the tokens. But given a large enough latent space, and a large enough training corpus, you will encounter certain tokens frequently enough that you will begin to see a pattern. At some point during training, you are fed:

1) An English dictionary as input.

2) List of words that start with "app" wiki page as input.

3) Other alphabetically sorted pieces of text.

4) Elementary school homeworks for spelling.

5) Papers on glyphs, diphthongs, and other phonetic concepts.

You begin to recognize that the tokens in these lists appear near each other in this strange context. You hardly ever see token 11346 ("apple") and token 99015 ("appli") this close to each other before. But you see it frequently enough that you decide to nudge these two tokens' embeddings closer to one another.

Your ability to predict the next token in a sequence has improved. You have no idea why these two tokens are close every ten millionth training example. Your word embeddings start to encode spelling information. Your word embeddings start to encode handwriting information. Your word embeddings start to encode phonic information. You've never seen or heard the actual word, "apple". But, after enough training, your embeddings contain enough information so that if you're asked, ["How do", "you", "spell", "apple"], you are confident as you proclaim ["a", "p", "p", "l", "e", "."] as the obvious answer.
> SVB had a ridiculously high uninsured deposits % of total liabilities

They focused on businesses and HNW individuals and used exclusive banking agreements as preconditions for some deals, so, this is not surprising; had it been engineered to maximize uninsured deposits, it would have been hard to do better.
I think it's "quiet" in the sense that they don't send a push notification to affected phones when they're about to go EOL, so you don't know it happens unless you go out of your way to check.
Most code that interacts with the internet is updated via other mechanisms. For example, web browsers are kept up to date via Play Store: Firefox for Android, Chrome and even the embedded WebView are all updated there.
I'm confused by why so many people are worried about disinformation at this level. Sure, it's going to be difficult to have authority and trust at the state level and that's a governmental issue, but at a personal level, all this means is that the face to face conversation is going to carry more weight. I don't really make much of people's social media profiles, it's all just nonsense.
I wonder if you could change this to allow a video input via prompts to turn your head in various angels, like registering for facial recognition. Then it might not trigger the distaste for photos AND you could get better data for face placement.
Wordle is a kind of modified hangman, there's probably lots of data on the web for anagrams and hangman-like games.
I have one of his bottles on my desk. We paid him a visit once afternoon and can confirm he's just the nicest geek you've ever met. Plus a chance to meet one of my childhood heroes in person...

I don't know if he still encourages visitors, but if he does, I highly recommend it.
Increased revenue tells nothing. What are the profits?
A lot of this guy's stuff reminds me of the white Marxist-Leonists I met in college. Except, those guys were at least somewhat serious when you talk to them.

I don't know how this guy grift his way to notoriety and influence. It seems like everywhere he is onboard on every ship of fools.
It really depends on where you live or where you commonly use your phone. In the US at least, there are huge areas all over that have little or no cell coverage. In the SF Bay Area, home of Silicon Valley, we have plenty of spots where people live where there's zero coverage. In those places, if you walk too far away from your house (and Wi-Fi) your cell phone is useless.

Where I live, I basically agree, but as far as I can tell Wi-Fi calling is much better audio quality.
The API is cheaper (up to around 330 in-depth queries per day), more powerful, easier to use, by definition not subject to the whims of history unavailability, and doesn't seem to be down when the web platform is down. I wasted half a day making a nice frontend, but it was unaffected by today's outage and got better results than when I was restricted to the web UI.
What's so special about it? Background images and textures have worked in browsers for decades.
I've been involved with several projects that do realtime voice transcription of callcenter calls to do screen pops and other agent assist functions. One of the challenges with this is to de-identify the transcripts, removing PII and cardholder data. Depending on the costs this could be used as well.
It's entirely good enough for a small-ass avatar. Also, what blob? The catch-light?
I can’t work on my laptop on a plane. The veiwing angle is atrocious. Can’t get the computer out away from me enough.
Here is an Hebrew version with a human in the loop QA (and much cheaper pipeline ;-))

https://www.metuktakim.co.il/

Here an English version to use the service:
https://www.metuktakim.co.il/upload_images-eng

or (Google translated)
https://www-metuktakim-co-il.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=iw&_x_...
Good enough for small avatars, IMO. But, it's very similar to just Lensa...
U mean the EU?
I watched the moderately controversial Buñuel movie “Tierra Sin Pan” which uses Brahms’ Symphony No. 4 as the soundtrack and honestly fell in love with the music.
It’s a control and communications style thing, some managers like to be able to walk over and task people, or observe peoples work.

I have found these people to generally be bad managers who use this to compensate for their lack of effective management skills, but that’s why.
I find it hard to worry about this. I automatically seem to think of it as this situation: https://xkcd.com/810/
Refresh a few times— there are several examples and some are better than others. I expect that part of the point of giving you a selection to choose from is that not all of them will be winners; as the final human in the loop, you can pick which ones you feel truly look like you.
As long as no more than half the words contain "e" guessing the most common letters is close to half chance.

Also, it's a trinary result in wordle. Also the information is not symmetrical.
>But I had at least one round of phone interviews with about 40 companies before I landed one.

There were anecdotes like this (and worse) even during the supposed hiring boom of 2021-2022. It was never a walk in the park as the prevailing narrative seems to portray.
Well, I doubt about that.

Reunification? Maybe welcomed by the elders, among the young people, majority prefer to be independent
I don't see much point in that from a practical standpoint, you don't really need a LLM to generate spam, and content is not the only way spam is detected.

But it may happen just because they can. Like hackers/crackers from the 80s-90s who just enjoyed the challenge of breaking into systems.
I’ve heard the same thing regarding United States of Mexico
Build an automated trading system. It doesn’t have to make you a fortune. But it should be automated, connect to other services, and risk your own money. This captures a lot of programming - consuming market data, making decisions, checking against risk levels and your stateful position, reconciling local and remote state, state machines, etc. But most importantly it puts your money at risk, so you better get it right. That’s the most important thing to learn in programming.
If you could demonstrate harm from a vulnerability, you could probably ask a court for some compensation.

Just like if your lawnmower exploded with a known flaw, you would sue the lawnmower manufacturer.
“Single” in this case refers to the polymorphism not the segment length.
So they basically extended the buffer cache to mean an entire machine and the IO just goes out to S3? Pretty neat - that way you just use the existing cache manager's heuristics, maybe tuned a little, to determine what to keep local and what stays cold.

At least, that's what I would have done, given the timeframe.
Historically, Apple didn't have cursor customization built into the OS-- cursor color customization was new in Monterey (macOS 12) and cursor size customization is only a few releases older (I can't find exactly when it was added). Classic Mac OS didn't do it, either, AFAIK (although I'm sure there were third-party options).

Windows (as of 11) still has the same custom cursor capabilities it's had since Windows 95, plus some bits (it can generate cursors with custom colors on the fly now). Applying custom cursors is pretty easy, and the 95-era properties sheet is still readily accessible (besides cursor schemes, there are other options there that haven't migrated to the modern Settings app).
That is, to put nicely, forced-obsolescence FUD. They want to scare you away with words like "unsupported" so they can keep you on their leash.

With the state of software development today, I'd be more worried about how many other holes they've added in the process of fixing something or introducing unwanted new "features"[1].

Here's some interesting statistics to look at and compare...

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/462/Microsoft-Windows-98s... - 30 RCEs in 7 years

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/739/Microsoft-Windows-Xp.... - 276 RCEs in 20 years

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/32238/Microsoft-Windows-1... - 664 RCEs in 8 years

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/102217/Microsoft-Windows-... - 157 RCEs in 2 years

More relevantly:

https://www.cvedetails.com/version-list/1224/19997/1/Google-...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28449607
Can we bring back java applets? It was unsafe back in the day, but if we can do wasm surely we can do applets? Lots of good languages and libraries for jvm.
And coincidentally, I listened to the first episode of this podcast today!

https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

Wow. Just wow. Really nuts how we got where we are.
If the amount of use is approximately the same, why is there an increase in hospitalization and death?

My original point was more about policing. Lack of Draconian policing of drugs is not the cause of the increase in hospitalizations and deaths from fentanyl, amphetamine, and opioids.
I guess I haven't had any time to actively care about this stuff for the last 2.5 years (new parent). So when my phone tells me "Your device is up to date" with the reality in small text further down the page, apparently I am able to miss this.

Sure, I have to take some responsibility for poor digital hygiene or whatever, but I don't think that negates Google's awful management of this. I shouldn't _have_ to be vigilant/proactive to stay safe in something as basic as this.

Aside: Google spams me with all kinds of noise in notifications these days; couldn't they at very least put something in there saying "by the way, your device is now EOL; buy a new one"? Ockham's razor suggests to me that a _lot_ of people are running unsupported devices still, and Google doesn't want the collective backlash of putting that uncomfortable reality in people's faces.
Doesn't any peak separated by time with another come in waves?
> Or two years ago, or three?

Because 3 years ago (2020), their average concurrent viewer count increased from 1.26 to 2.12 million and average monthly streamers grew from 3.6 to 6.9 million. Both nearly 100% growth. Then the next year they both grew by about 30%. The company, for good reason, probably thought they needed more people -- more support staff, more payments to process, more server admins, more HR people to support those other people, etc. But in 2022 growth declined, both viewers and streamers. It is still Q1 of the next year, a perfectly reasonable time to lay people off as future projections have been lowered.

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/twitch-statistics/

I know it's more fun to rant on HN and try to make corporate executives seem evil and nasty and selfish, but if you did a bit of research you'd see it is all pretty justifiable.
Yes I agree and pls share the code
I don’t know if this is what you were already thinking with the movie costume headshots but if this doesn’t work for the business industry you could probably pivot this and aim it at the casting industry so they can get a feel for what actors would look like in costume.
Amazon Layoffs Nine Thousand Including AWS and Twitch
Thanks for the feedback, I do have a new pipeline in the making that aims at improving the photorealism just tested it today with a few users (if you want to try, I can run it manually you, DM me on Twitter @_dulacp)

Out of curiosity, which part of the image makes you say that?
If you don't have the power to protect the values, what difference does it make?
They're not "banking with zero reserves"; they're just banking under a different and more complicated set of regulations on those reserves than that one simple ratio. In principle that's a better and finer-grained set of regulatory tools, though it obviously didn't work too well for the SVB.

The SVB's problem was that they were allowed to ignore the mark-to-market losses on their long-term bond-like assets when interest rates increased, because they said they were going to hold them to maturity. That let them keep gambling that their losses would reverse, instead of raising capital after they became MTM undercapitalized but before they became insolvent. I'm not an expert here, but as far as I know the reserve ratio would have accounted for those assets in the same way and had the same problem.
> I just don't see the benefit in 2023

Travel outside the country on a budget
In my experience, FAANG leetcode questions are generally pretty easy. Once in a while, one of the interviewers just tries to flex on the interviewee and just throw out a trick question that may be easy in the right mindset, but not really a good question.

I’ll call out Google specifically for this. They seemed to just make up their own questions. Difficultly ranged from basic coding to a math brain teaser with a lot of easy graph questions in between.

For context: this was last November.

Edit: lost the point in my rant - 2% approval is probably the result of flexing.
This is definitely the most stupid landing page I've ever seen.

No wonder we have designers, developers, marketers, product managers etc. Proves to show that you can have the best/most amazing product in the world BUT if you can't communicate what it does, it will always fail.
I'm well familiar with this too. It's essentially a variant of Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs."

Given how many BS jobs exist - and I've witnessed them personally - it's a bit early to declare LLMs the death of the programmer. It seems to me that the more likely outcome is that, rather than being put out of work, we programmers will become somewhat more efficient. Somebody has to babysit and evaluate the output of the robots, after all.

Does that translate to more actual productivity? Maybe in some cases, but given low expectations it might also just mean that we slack off even more. Perhaps ultimately, many more programming jobs will devolve into BS jobs.
There is absolutely no point if wifi calling is free and good enough
I hope they provide a larger display 14'-ish would be enough, then I can do coding with some syntax highlight. seven-color should be enough for most cases.
The more this crap happens, the less legitimate academia becomes.

Which is fine because intellectuals are pretty useless.