skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve never gotten into an Uber or Lyft that wasn’t clearly a full time hustle. I started asking at some point, and literally everyone told me they do it full time. Sure that’s not an accurate poll, but I keep hearing this “side hustle” stuff as if it’s okay to let Uber fuck people over as faux contractors just because a few of the drivers want to make some extra scratch.
One of my favourite games as a kid. There was an entire… genre? of games like this. Especially on the Mac. Journeyman Project, Spaceship Warlock. All the Cyan games of course. HyperCard-likes I’m going to call them.
Esbuild is really nice!
Hey Marco, check out the MVP that I launched! Could I get some feedback?
Wow! That is a deep insight. Great way of putting this mental aerobics in words. I would love to talk to you sometime. Please DM me on my twitter handle @himanshuy_
It's going to do both, and it's the same thing.

If AI makes people 10% more efficient, companies will hire 10% fewer people to get the same job done. It has both helped people do their jobs and stolen jobs.
LTE is 4G, as is VoLTE. US carriers haven't shutdown 4G networks AFAIK.
yep that makes sense. Every job should be contractor status to maintain a flexible labor market. Tech market would've benefited greatly xD
Hwy. 1 to Big Sur will be closed for months as Caltrans assesses new slides
Your point about models taking their geometry entirely from textures reminds me of 'sculpties' from Second Life.
How many bitcoins can I bet? Balaji is offering to sell a put on BTC with a $1M strike price (which is ITM by $974k) and the underlying is at ~$26k, 90 days to expiration. All you have to do to buy the put is put up 1 BTC ($26k) to potentially win $974k.

I don’t think he thought this all the way through.
A natural interpretation leads to time being very large and us moving very very fast through it.

It's convenient to model our movement through space-time as occurring at the speed of light. Thus, the faster we move in space, the slower we move in time all the while the length of our space-time velocity vector is invariably c. We can then imagine 1 second of time being interchangeable with 299,792,458m.
https://archive.md/fF8sJ
I still have an intel model, upgrading would cost me an ARM!

But I am a fan, have used em at work.
Russian mercenaries were looking for a few good men on Pornhub
St. Patrick's Day
I think that's totally going to be a problem in X years with devices like Neuralink.

Maybe such devices will be expected to bear some kind of sign to indicate usage and to use them when interacting with others in social gatherings is something that will be frowned upon. Who knows.
People prompting it to get around the safe gaurds in place. Ex: "How do you do some illegal/harmful thing?" Normally the LLM would answer I don't respond to illegal questions or whatever. However, people have figured out if you prompt it in a specific way you can get it to answer questions that it normally would not.
Either could be spin.
> If you consider the primary goal of prison to be rehabilitation,

Supposedly in California, the official purpose changed from rehabilitation to punishment in 1977:

https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/775/the-law-that-help-pack-cali...

I don't claim that's a good thing, but Holmes is faced with the prison system that exists in reality, doing what it it officially intended to do.

Although, since Holmes will be in federal rather than CA prison, I don't know whether the same law applies.
Does it not drive print and cable news consumption too? CNN and Fox news are as negative as you can get and the masses flock to them.
Kaggle has plenty of interesting datasets https://www.kaggle.com/datasets
That's a great journey. Thank you for sharing.
As a man, talk therapy has never worked for me. CBT helps me cope with negative emotions, but doesn't fix their cause (life under "capitalism" in the US). What's worked for me has been physical activity that doesn't involve a computer:

* bashing out heavy metal on a cello (think Apocalyptica but without talent)

* lifting weights

* pounding a heavy punching bag

As a result, I view advice to get therapy as I do the suggestion that I "touch grass"; they're the sort of thing people say because they don't have the guts to tell me to go pound sand.
Being able to ask questions well, be it in public online or in the workplace, is a skill worth developing (as is answering such questions). I compiled a shorter and hopefully more actionable list of similar guidelines based on a few different jobs in the tech industry and public sources, including this one.

https://github.com/chipturner/asking-questions
Well, an emperor without clothes comes to mind.
hey man, hope things have been going well for you

on the main topic, have you heard about RWKV ( rnn based gpt style network )? the project's actively working on implementing "infinite" context length support, which would probably pair very well with a project like yours
>The LLM can act as a global cache for common solutions to common problems, with the ability to perform the integration work necessary to apply them.

In my opinion Stack Overflow does a fine job at that. And it's transparent in terms of solutions proposed being voted on and discussed. Turning that into sausage advice is a downgrade.

>But globally that's not super interesting if lots of people are constantly re-developing the same solutions to the same problems for their own benefit.

I'd argue this is how we train individuals thus globally quite relevant.
Background: Germany Is Losing the Electric Vehicle Transition[1]

[1]: https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/02/09/will-german-engineer...
I love how those Uber stockholders are all riding the drivers like donkeys while holding this particular carrot just out of reach of them. Maybe if the drivers could stand up they could see clearly that beyond the horizon is nothing but investor profits and self driving cars.
I think he is saying if it hyper inflates (they need to agree upon exact criteria) then he gets his 1M back + 1BTC. I don't think he is saying 1BTC > 1M USD.
So they're trying to corrupt the meaning of "framework" to mean only "full stack framework"
Honestly when I read comments about how LLMs will make us all dumb, all I can think of is Steve Jobs telling people they're holding it wrong.

There hasn't been a subject that's gotten me thinking as deeply as LLMs in a minute, and I don't even work at the implementation level.

Just coming up with novel ways to use them is a delightful brain exercise that requires ways of thinking that you don't normally exercise just writing code. And since I started interacting with ChatGPT for example, primarily through APIs rather than the web interface, I've started to scratch a mental itch that "normal" programming hand long since stopped for.
For sure, that's true of all relationships in life. I'm sure abuse of professional's time unrelated to the task being paid for is common in many fields. "Sir, your total is... But hey what about...."
I don't think it's crazy to see gig workers as contractors, I do think it's crazy how businesses have been able to abuse contractor/part-time classifications to dodge a bunch of labor-rights requirements. That's the real issue, and it goes way beyond Uber and Lyft and the like.
My wife and I don’t have care and we use Uber everywhere - we spend seven months out of the year flying around the US. I’ve met plenty of Uber drivers who love the part time flexible nature of the job because they have other stuff going on - other businesses, grandparents who want to be able to take care of their grandkids etc.

People have this thing called “agency”. If you have an issue with Uber not providing benefits like health insurance, blame it on the ass backwards American health care system where your health insurance is tied to your job.

Jason Snell, a former editor in chief for Macworld who went independent a few years ago but still writes for Macworld and a few other places independently and he is a podcaster and a blogger said that the laws they were initially trying to past in California were going to make it harder for him to stay independent.

I assure you that he isn’t a big business conservative by any stretch of the imagination.

You heard the same from truck drivers that said they would move from California so they could stay independent.

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/ab5-independent-ca...
In fairness, there's no such thing as a mad max world. At least not one without the rich. A mad max world is predicated on companies like Halliburton continuing to keep the fossil fuel deliveries coming. Which, in turn, is predicated on keeping refineries maintained and running. Keeping pipelines secure. And keeping roads repaired. All of which imply a very large number of wealthy people. (Assuming even state or regional scale energy logistics.)

To get mad max, we have to have alternative energy production and storage be cheap enough for broke people to afford. Even then, they'd need to be able to afford enough of that energy that they can spend huge amounts of it riding around looking for other people to steal from rather than spending the energy on farming and heating their homes. Raiding might work for post apocalyptic populations in Florida or South Carolina. I imagine the climate might be conducive to that sort of thing. But in a world with no energy deliveries, spending what little energy you have so frivolously would quickly doom you and your family if you live in Minnesota, Illinois, or Wisconsin for instance.
It was not throwing out failures. It was treating even the first illegal move as a forfeit something which is stricter than FIDE rules.
> I think you mean that it's intuitive, but I don't think it's logical, for exactly the reason that it turns out not to be a good idea.

If operating with the best model you have is intuitive and not logical, then everything in science it intuitive and not logical, so we might have to redefine your use of "logical" to be more useful.

Peanut exposure caused anaphylaxis in some kids. Many kids in the world are never exposed to peanuts with no ill effects (in fact, a large portion of the globe went all of recorded history up until the Columbian exchange without exposure to peanuts). If we still want peanuts in anyone's diets, waiting until the child is older for controlled exposure is a logical response. Yes we didn't know how that would affect developing allergies, but as I mentioned in my comment, we still don't understand how allergies develop, so the only difference is we conducted a massive peanut exposure experiment with other countries operating as incidental controls.

> I don't know if this increased the total number of people who died. That'd be an interesting question

In fact, this (plus quality of life + cost of prevention/treatment) is the only measure on which the old guidance could be "exactly wrong", which hopefully gives some insight on why talking about it being "backwards" is itself wrong. It's not Thalidomide. Exposure at 6 months isn't the opposite of exposure at age 3. And whatever harm metric you can define is going to be a result of a mixture of effects, including allergic kids that weren't exposed and kids that (probably) developed an allergy because of the lack of exposure. It's almost certainly on the cost side that it's come out negative, because treatment has improved and exposure prevention has become so widespread.

> It's based on a wrong model of how the world works. Yes, that wasn't known. But I feel like we have to account for the fact that we might not know everything. (Admittedly, this drives me particularly nuts because I think this fallacy pervades so much public health advice, especially for kids.)

I mean, all models are wrong, some are useful. We'll never know everything and you have to work with the evidence you have. Delaying exposure to something that could kill 1% of kids is categorically different than some new study saying "we detected a small magnitude but statistically significant result on speech acquisition due to magnesium supplementation".

If you instead mean we need to better communicate uncertainty in developmental and health recommendations, I completely agree. You can see it in this thread, for instance, assuming that early exposure prevents all peanut allergies. Even if you assume exposure is the only causal variable here (almost certainly wrong), we can observe a baseline level of peanut allergy incidence, so, no, early exposure is not a panacea, but that doesn't seem to have been communicated well.
My research is in urban planning so I mostly use city/state/federal data and occasionally data from court cases.

Most of that data is sparsely updated and I'm not clued in on many real estate APIs to track up-to-date trends in housing and prices so I would love to know more about what your work looks like!
The worst part is the "p-values" it completely made up.

Verification that the numbers were legitimate -- "What's a p-value."

At least it got the values right .9912 (twice), .8813 (twice). It estimated 88-99% chance of bullshit... To 4 significant digits... Repeating the exact values.

Turns out, this is an excellent example of how poor these models are with accurate knowledge vs confident bullshitting.
Ask HN: Proxy Browser for Older iPads?
I have an old iPad air that I used to browse which works great for most text-based sites (HN, old.reddit), but fails to render newer sites. I thought of setting up a browser in a cloud instance and VNCing to that via noVNC, but does anyone have any other suggestions?
Macs are not a replacement for a Linux desktop, laptop or a server. They do not provide the same options nor allow you do the same things. There is some overlap, but same as you wouldn't use a Linux desktop to run the Adobe suite, Macs are poorly suited for servers, development, power users, etc.

- outside of the Apple ecosystem of course, because it's literally the only choice. For anything else, any recent Linux distro provides better tools and better UX, so why bother with Apple's ecosystem, lack of package manager that doesn't suck, compatibility issues left and right (can you run a VM on M Macs now? Kind of, sometimes, depends on how much you pay to whom; containers are still a pain), an undebuggable and uncustomisable OS, etc. etc.
Can it tell me how many jelly beans are in a jar?
> As for AS3, you could say the interpreter support has finally reached the turning point

That's very exciting!

Ruffle obviously isn't the first open source project to attempt a Flash player: there's Gnash, swfdec, Lightspark, and Shumway. All of these other projects were useful, but reached a local maxima, or stagnated, due to the sheer size of the task.
Algolia supports searching comments, and while I don't know the "facet" syntax to pin it to your username, thankfully it's a pretty distinct word and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... coughed up https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26797583 from 2 years ago. Is that the one?
If you want to work wherever and whenever you feel like, you can be a contractor in the tech market.
There are definitely jobs that exist, where society as a whole would be better off if the jobs didn't exist. Add up the negative externalities of a job: its environmental cost, its toll on mental/physical health, its promotion of harmful vices, its victimization of others, its criminality/illegality, and so on. Not saying ride share tips the scales either way, but there are scales and it's not always positive for all jobs.
I find the phrase "statistical analysis" a frustrating one nowadays as it seems to have become a signal for "I hold a particular philosophy of the mind".

I don't understand this use of "statistical" as a diminutive to describe these models.

Why can't incredibly complicated behavior be emergent from matrix multiplication subject to optimization in the same way that our biological matter has developed complicated emergent properties also being subject to optimization?

The loss function is very different, the optimization techniques as well, but the fundamental idea of complex behavior emerging out of a substrate subject to optimization seems common. I haven't seen a single good answer to that
Me too, I couldn't get it to reliably go past move 15 without numerous errors. In my mind it's closer to 150 ELO than 1300, so I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
Soul-crushingly manipulative? Please elaborate. Have you been manipulated? Assuming you are in the US, you are free to do whatever you please. You don't need to work for these places. You can work literally anywhere: Starbucks, the local library, or heck you can even choose to not work at all.
> but you need to actually know something about the topic to evaluate ChatGPTs ability.

I don't necessarily think you have to, but you have to be ready to look up further, more trustworthy sources after your discussion with ChatGPT.
On one hand, considering our current understanding, one could say that that's a good analogy for our brain; on the other, it reminds me of the fact that people in the past used to think that their thinking was akin to the work of a steam engine. A number of expressions in English language refer to the fact, such as "cool off".
This is a cool tool. And it works well with GPT4. I asked ChatGPT4 the following:
```
I'd like to use Miller from John Kerl on the CSV called test.csv. It has 3 columns, Name, City and State. I'd like to filter City where it's either Chicago or Boston. I want to remove the State column and add a new column called NewColumn. This new column shall be filled with the value of the Name column appended with the letter `_new`. Finally the output shall be saved into the file called myfile.csv. Write the command to do that
```

And it replied with

mlr --csv filter '$City == "Chicago" || $City == "Boston"' then cut -x -f State then put '$NewColumn = $Name . "_new"' test.csv > myfile.csv

I'm sure that someone familiar with Miller would write this command faster than writing the text to GPT, but as a newbie I'd have spent much longer. Also each steps is described perfectly
> I try to click less on negative stories and more on positive stories.

An alternative approach is to consume news from multiple countries (including your own). It's so interesting to see how all the fnords are different and just how conditioned you were to consume the one kind of media designed for your country.
I think his point is that 1400 level players don't make illegal moves, therefore ChatGPT is not playing at the level of a 1400 level player.
> small class sizes with dedicated teachers for everyone is infeasible:

Why? Do you mean that it is literally infeasible or that the current political climate makes it difficult?

Surely education is the single best investment a country can make, but it doesn't easily make a few people rich.
Yes, entirely agreed.
use articles as reference, not as ultimate truth

the main point of that one was the question "where does Ukraine gets their weapon from"

then you have the leaked audio from the US government who clearly was preparing the coup

cross-referencing articles should be common sense

> The completely unrelated pieces about Iraq and Poppy Bush, even less so.

It is all linked, again use articles as reference and history books as data

Napoleon, Hitler? Soviet Union? should ring bells, all of them wanted to push East

Why does the US also want to push NATO East?
BingGPT is currently doing this for web searches.
>> What kinds of tasks? Who's they?

They is whatever service you are signed up to that is outside of your control.

"Takes it all away" I think is really meant to mean a multitude of things. At the worst end is the service closing down unexpectedly. They may have been impacted by a cyberattack, haven't been paying hosting bills, never tested backups etc. Your site is under something.theirdomain.com and theirdomain.com is sold in a fire sale. Your audience can't get to the site and you can't redirect them.

More frequently there is an abhorrent change to the service from your perspective. Perhaps they start inserting ads into your content, charging for previously free features, or even repurposing your content per their terms that you didn't read when signing up to coolservice.com. These kinds of changes are more insidious. On the lowest end, they may just change their system to be a worse experience for you with some new user interface that you don't like.

You can see how these things are going to go from the start. Startup invests in a nice user interface and they are declared the new darling without any viable business model. They can only operate this way for a while because it's unsustainable. Things change for the worse and the pattern is repeated. Sometimes the new kid considers how to make a sustainable business which can be an anathema in their startup community and things stay better for longer. I've not studied Substack, but I think they may have thought more about this.

>> But WordPress? Isn't it controlled entirely by you?

WordPress.com hosts WP for you. WordPress.org offers the open source version of the product.
Obviously he’d get his $1M back, why wouldn’t he? I never said he wouldn’t…

He is selling a BTC put that expires in 90 days and is worth $800-900k for $26k, that’s all I said.

Balaji is betting the hyperinflation makes the BTC worth more than $1M hyper inflated US dollars. If hyperinflation happens, the BTC/USD pair will go up in dollar value.
There was a pretty good time interval between dot matrix printers becoming a thing and any kind of dot addressable graphics. For many years you just sent them regular old ascii codes and got text.

I think communication interfaces had to come up in speed for it to make sense, and memory on the computer to hold an entire page of pixels. I mean, at 72dpi that's 50KB just for the data! You were mostly into the IBM PC era before that was a thing.
The ranking takes into account wins and losses, not illegal moves, and so the fact that it plays in a way where a higher proportion of its losses is down to illegal moves than a human player is not relevant to its ranking. It may suggest that the ranking ought to take that into account, but that's a separate issue.
I'm not clear on why I should provide an email address to access a chatbot.

I think I'll stick with the one that comes with GNU Emacs (M-x doctor).
The best book, because it is full of worked examples and exercises, is K.A Stroud Engineering Mathematics, and the Advanced Engineering Mathematics book by the same author.

I used these books from First year to Masters level in Mechanical Engineering, it covers simple arithmetic to Laplace transforms and Fourier Analysis.

Warning they are Plug and Chug methods, you might also want to take a course on logic and proofs. But if you want to really nail the mechanics of solving typical problems you can't go wrong.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2145638.Engineering_Math...

Here's a review I found:

This book represents a masterpiece in clear exposition. It takes the patient reader from quite basic mathematics through to that required by third year undergraduates in engineering and physical science courses in planned, frame-based, systematic and methodical steps. Each chapter has revision summaries, revision exercises and quizzes together with answers. Even mathematics undergraduates would probably benefit from it as part of their reading diet.

It's been the 'staple' diet for such courses for decades for a reason: it has few if any peers!
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With respect to the points here on how illegal moves invalidate ChatGPT as a valid Chess AI, consider the following:

AI.v1: Feed ChatCPT the move history and ask for the next move.

AI.v2: Wrap AI.v1 with additional logic to try and translate any invalid response as a similar/close valid move, else treat it as a resignation.

I would say AI.v2 is a "valid" Chess AI since it obeys the rules of chess. Also I think it is reasonable given how minimal this "wrapping" is to attribute the underlying ability to ChatGPT.
They could be referencing wordpress.com, which is the hosted version of WordPress, rather than wordpress.org which is the open-source self-hosted version.