skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That said, I believe that you understand and agree with my point that scientists have adopted an implicit philosophy.

Before getting to the main body, this was precisely the point I was making in my original response. That is exactly the point. The rest of this is probably wasted electrons, but they're relatively cheap and I've spent them already.

> What exactly bothers you?

That's a good question with which I've wrestled. A couple introductory notes:

Despite the terseness of my replies, I do try to make them thoughtful. My time is limited, and I have found that less is more when writing. I have read what you wrote, but yes, I'm a bit choosy in responding because the content easily spreads well beyond the original intent of my response and my time boundaries.
Apologies to Pascal, but I'd have written you a shorter comment if I had the time.

My intent was to correct a few assumptions that you made about me based on the comment—not to convince you that my perspective is correct or to argue that the term philosopher should not be restricted to those who are educated in the field, or even that scientists should be trained in philosophy (although I think the basics of how we approach the human condition would be useful).

None of the following may apply to you personally; I don't assume that they do, and indeed given our conversation suppose that most of them don't.

So, why would it bother me that scientists profess not to be philosophers?

1. Because all people are philosophers (or theologians, or both). That this is trivially true does not mean that people recognize this fact about themselves; scientists are no exception.

2. The scientific method is not a neutral approach to acquiring knowledge; some people suppose that it is, and in so doing they're making a philosophical statement, not a scientific one.

3. The application of that knowledge is obviously not always neutral, and it can have profound consequences.

4. We should generally be more aware of our own lack of neutrality.

5. Science is gradually (or not-so-gradually) replacing our myths and today serves much the same role in answering our questions about who we are, where we came from, where we're doing, and how we're getting there. In other words, science for many people is becoming philosophy (or theology, or both).

6. When scientists fail to recognize this, they may exacerbate the problems we face trying to answer those questions. They could help avoid this, perhaps, by understanding that they are the modern equivalent of high priests (whether they will or no).

This is not to say that science has no role in answering life's big questions; indeed, it does and probably should. But we cannot go from is to ought, or at least history teaches us that doing so is not conducive to human flourishing. Neither is the transition from knowledge to wisdom immediate or obvious. I know you agree with these statements.

The difficulty I have is that many people elide these distinctions with upturned nose, not realizing that they are turning science into scientism. This might be an avoidable outcome.
probably both.
It's the biggest thing I miss from Android.
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I think this is a breakthrough, of sorts, to begin. What will beccomeOFit is a bunch of nations working together to protect a valuable resource we have, our data oCEanss!

:) Prolly would've preferRed if it happened sooner but it is NOww heppenINg.

I AM so glad!:):)
Why do prompts even work at all?
There are some pretty complex and fancy prompts in GTP land (here's a good list https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.11382.pdf). But if the model is simply trying to put the next most likely words or phrases, one after each other, why do these prompts even work at all? What's going on inside the machine?
You could probably write some JS to reimplement the better algorithm and insert the &shy; hyphenation hints
UBlock (and even AdGuard) is not preventing this website from accurately fingerprinting me.
Random question: What's the plant or tree on the cover page of the book? The one in the picture appearing on top right corner?
right to fix bugs
> because often the most accessible/obvious form of concurrency

I dunno, I reinvented message-passing concurrency with multiple processes before I knew the terminology or had any formal programming training. It came completely naturally and it was nearly a decade before I understood why people thought concurrency was difficult to get right.
Soundproofing an apartment is a pain in the ass. Are you thinking about acoustic treatment instead? Decent acoustic treatment can be done by putting absorbers, bass traps, diffusers in the room. Soundproofing is much more involved.
Any thing that doesn't impact the signal, or can be separated from the signal does not qualify as noise.

You want to quickly throw targeting systems off your scent (or get them distracted) see how sticky high value sales are for the ad's you see on line. Start looking for a new car, use the word wedding too much (god help you if your a woman) or say vacation 3 times near search engine and watch how quickly your ad experience changes.

This won't work "long term"

As an example: You get an ID as a 24 year old male, who likes his local sports ball team, drinks canned domestic beer... that's a profile that is perfect to sell you a BBQ grill and a subscription to the meat of the month club. Spend an hour or two a week pursuing sewing, the engine is going to get confused! Maybe you share a device with your wife, or she got on it...

This is the sort of noise you create, its not random its "more" and you do it by going off type for a while. Have a friend who is into something you aren't (music, art, and so on) ask them some questions and go spend a week getting more informed on their hobby and have a chat with them. Suddenly the systems will see you as MORE...
Comment section reminds me of those for VLC. No clue why people complain about free stuff no one forces them to use. Like, just pay someone to implement DNSSEC if you really need that in curl, or write it yourself.
This and the Large Language Model AI stuff reminds me of Feynman’s experience teaching in Brazil:

“After a lot of investigation, I finally figured out that the students had memorized everything, but they didn’t know what anything meant.”

—http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education

I hope curiosity, genuine understanding, and joy remain central for our species.

Thank you for your wonderful work and inspiration, Mr. Stoll!
> the market moves neither appear to be the case

A significant amount of that movement is being driven by Asian retail. How they were sold these is another question. AT1s without write-down may be a smart buy at the moment.
There are accounts out there which can function this way, often called Cash Management Accounts. Fidelity has one that works this way: https://accountopening.fidelity.com/ftgw/aong/aongapp/intere...
RFP randomizes Canvas data extraction by default, which might have something to do with it. Gitlab favicon seems normal to me when I navigate there(RFP on).
https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/gpt-4-and-professional-ben...

"GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question
OpenAI may have tested on the training data. Besides, human benchmarks are meaningless for bots."
How would knowing the architecture or safety mechanisms help you decide if it’s going to give incorrect results more than actual testing would?

I’m no LLM expert, but I don’t think you can eyeball the arch and say “that’s going to confuse veggies for fried chicken”.
Fees on buying treasuries are zero if you buy them directly from the treasury or any of the large brokers (Vanguard, Fidelity, etc).
https://github.com/Xetera/ghost-cursor
Looking at the Wikipedia entry for perturbation theory in quantum mechanics makes me sad. I used to understand these concepts. I still recognize some things like V for potential energy and bra kets, but I've forgotten how they work.

My line of work has nothing to do with physics whatsoever. But I sometimes get the urge to purchase an overpriced textbook on Amazon with a solutions manual and revisit QM, for old times sake.
On the other hand, imagine what level of services we could have if it wasn't for the tax dodgers and cash in hand payments. I reckon we could fund universal basic income just from whitening the economy, in any given country.
Why are you not mentioning the trillions of dollars printed during Trump's administration for covid relief? I'm not against a discussion on monetary policy but selectively ignoring facts to turn it into partisan bickering isn't helpful.
Image classification is still a difficult task, especially if there are only a few examples. Training a high resolution 1k multi-class imagenet on 1m+ images is a drag involving hundreds or thousands of GPU hours from scratch. You can do low-resolution classifiers more easily, but they're less accurate.

There are tricks to do it faster but they all involve using other vision models that themselves are trained for as long.
FF mobile gives be different IDs each time I run a new private session on both the JS an non-js demos (I run w/o JS usually AND have enabled the resistFingerprint setting)
I was once on an international flight which had an endless trivia game, where the questions were broadcast to every seat. You could pick a name, and there was a flight-wide leaderboard.

I think that could be a good direction: simple shared experiences that you can drop in and out of. Airlines are too cheap to spring for fast hardware, and the touch displays are chosen for durability more than responsiveness.
Show HN: Learn Languages When Watching Videos with Ease
I'd like to tell you about InterSub, a tool that I've been developing out of my pain of learning languages.

I found watching videos the best working option for me because it allows me to advance in language almost without spending extra time. I watch videos - series, TV shows, documentaries etc. not less an hour a day and switching on watching in the learned language gave me an extra hour of practice. I wasn't satisfied with solutions which I'd found on the market, and I decided to make a better one.

With InterSub, one can watch videos on your favorite platforms like YouTube, Netflix, Coursera and so on (soon), get instant translations of any unknown words or phrases in subtitles altogether with their context, have them automatically saved in a personal vocabulary and learn later in a fav mobile app. We designed InterSub to save one's time and energy, so a user can focus on mastering the language.

We'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback on how we can make the tool even better.
How funny -- to me the text seems "perfectly" justified!

Note that each line has no extra spaces, no word breaks, and never ends on whitespace. As somebody who writes a lot, I can't even imagine how long it would take to do something like this.
Why not take the good old acid instead?
How is this different / better than the other submission:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35242174
How is this different / better than the other submission:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35241212
I'm not saying don't use it, I also have it turned on. I'm saying that it has consequences, and you might not immediately realize it's related to RFP.
Not even refuting your point regarding inflation, but the COVID QE machine started up in early 2020.
How to manage tasks as a product manager
This system works for everyone who has to deal with a lot of incoming tasks/requests/messages. Combines Getting Things Done, the Eisenhower Matrix and the Leverage-Neutral-Overhead frameworks.
Interesting, despite me not using a VPN, it has me “identified” in the totally wrong location (in fact, multiple wrong locations within minutes).
Anxiety Strikes $8T Mortgage-Debt Market After SVB Collapse
Except for this whole thing called “risk” that investors and landlords undertake as part of the process.
Does it?
We have fewer and fewer death because of climate (most death of climate is because of cold)
We have a proxy war in Ukraine that has nothing to do with climate
We have a famine in Sri Lanka that was caused by the green movement

The narrative of climate is the cause of all problems isn’t reasonable anymore.
Will Chatbots Kill the Search Star?
But can't something like GPT help here? For example you show it a picture of a cat, then you say "this is a cat; cats are furry creatures with claws, etc." and then you show it another image and ask if it is also a cat.
https://archive.is/zm2i8
No, and the fact I'm not the CEO is why I can give a more accurate version of the statement.

However, if I were the CEO of Twitch I'd like to think I could produce a statement more direct and less impersonal than the one they did release.
Rendering programmers in video games industry. The problem is that any rendering programmers are immediately hoovered up by medical/automotive/research industries at ridiculous salaries that very few gaming companies can compete with, and even then there are very very few programmers who are interested in that area.

Yes, the answer to the problem is "just offer more money" but that decision is way above my paygrade - I have to hire someone though, and the choice of candidates is very small.
Same here on Linux, just slow. 20KB/s. Sometimes climbs to 200KB/s briefly. For about 10 seconds it climbed to 30MB/s. Maybe their CDN is having issues.
GPT is trained on lots of data so it can learn patterns + relationships between words. So when a prompt is given, the model looks at the words in the prompt and uses its knowledge from the data it has seen to guess what the next words or phrases might be. The key is patterns + relationships.
But Biden should have pushed the big red “Economy” button under his desk!
The overlap on this Venn diagram is significant.
I love that Fearless is one of the in-flight movies.

https://github.com/paulmand3l/delta-inflight/blob/main/src/a...
But did you allow it to record its thoughts etc before making the next guess or did you just ask it to keep making guesses?
This is nice for start. You can find colabs for that todo online here:

https://colab.research.google.com/github/TheLastBen/fast-sta...

Unfortunately, in order to get better result you need to add much more components to perform quality assurance of the photorealism.

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much more robust techniques and in-between steps.

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> Are my uploaded photos private?

> Yes. All your images are yours and we are deleting them 7 days after your processing. We are keeping them 7 days in case you lose the link to download them (contact us in that case).

It's not about whether you delete the files after processing. What is your infra? Where do you store the files? How do you transmit the files there? Do you use proper encryption? How secure are your servers? How secure are your (if) cloud-related keys?

See OpenAI prompts leaking. Good example of what can go wrong.

What guarantees my photos (or even visual model) won't get leaked into another user's account?
They might as well open a new business, no real company is going to use Zippyshare as a storage Sass.
You get more models with ChatGPT Plus.
You are conflating two separate things. Employees having pricing power in the labor market and corporations having pricing power in the market for the goods they produce are different things and can both be present at the same time. If a company has to raise its wages, but is able to increase its prices by more than that, it can both pay its employees more and make higher profits at the same time.
In Europe it's the same. It is the same companies, everywhere.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2011/10/22/the-147-c...

https://www.ted.com/talks/james_b_glattfelder_who_controls_t...
Frequency response is easy to measure but it’s only a small part of the picture. If we only cared about frequency response, we would be able to EQ out the differences between speakers. For the record, we can’t do that. Different speakers have different performance off-axis, different time domain response, and that’s not considering minor effects like distortion. The off-axis response is important because people don’t sit exactly in the “sweet spot” on-axis, and because the off-axis response is heard indirectly after it reflects off surfaces in the room.

There’s a lot of science here and on-axis frequency response is only one thing people measure when designing speaker systems.
It goes all the way back to Obama's 2008 policies and fed too. Trump threw it into overdrive with the pandemic (and mysterious August 2019 bank/market crash no one talks about). Biden has just kept the system limping along and done nothing to stop it--the fed just added 300 billion to its balance sheet last week despite swearing they were done doing that!
Can't be entirely sure but to me it looks like a Swietenia mahagoni
His "Silicon Snake Oil" was equally important to me in the mid-90s. As a computer guy who was running as fast as I could into everything Internet, it was a real eye opener. It made me look at what I was doing and flip it around. I still ask "is what I'm doing really an improvement, or am I just making a box go 'bing' in a new way?"

It's easy to forget all the nerd stuff we do is supposed to be serving the interests of society, mankind, real people, however you want to think of it. And, sometimes, the question that should be asked is not "can we do it?" but "should we do it?" Social media, for example, should probably have done a bit more introspection before turning us into click-farmers.
Yes, I remember seeing the same with the CBM64 tapes on ZZAP64! magazine. It was great, but at the same time a clear portend of the end of an era.
I don't know if this would be in a short's remit but an interesting place to look re Sacks and others who got out of SVB in the bank run is whether they had an exclusivity agreement with SVB. SVB would have protected itself, on the one hand, by requiring a contract in order to get the best deal on combinations of services. This would apply mainly to fund managers. On the other hand, SVB might be, for example, writing an especially favorable mortgage for individuals who obligate their fund and portfolio to bank at SVB.

This is why it is significant that SVB's management got canned: There isn't an incentive now to cover up who broke those agreements. The liability for breaking a contract while participating in a bank run could be significant. Let's see if the regulators are savvy enough to understand this.

This also bears on whether some people are making a virtue of compliance. For example, when Thiel says he had $50M of personal funds he didn't move out of SVB, one should ask if he was contractually obligated not to move those funds.
> "The coolest thing about being human is to learn, but you don’t learn things by looking it up; you learn by figuring it out."

Wisdom.
Is anyone trying to tie users to multiple devices, and consequently identify both fingerprints as being from one user? I.e. Let's say I visit HN on both my laptop and on my mobile phone, each will have a very different fingerprint, but not only do I visit the same site on both devices but I am unlikely to do so simultaneously across the two devices, and there are likely to be other factors such as not visiting on either device during sleeping hours, not visiting on either device before some date (i.e. when I got into HN).

Perhaps you could call this something like 'cross-device fingerprint unification', idk.
Yeah? If they don't know how to operate a computer then they shouldn't be operating one. The same I would feel if someone without a licence crashed their car.
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I get exactly the same pang of sadness. I even distinctly remember learning perturbation theory. But I use so little of what I learnt, and it's so long ago, that at lunch table discussions I can't even be the "ex-physicist that'll know the answer to that" any more. It fills me with great sadness.

It's not even that I feel that time was wasted - I like my field and I don't think I was suited for the path I didn't take. But it's such a rich and interesting field (physics, maths, chemistry, the lot) it's so fun to talk about. And with that training at least I could engage meaningfully in those discussions when I was fresh out of uni.

Now, not so much. My amateur astronomer colleague knows more about cosmology than I do at this point.
Which class you're in will be in control of the developer and they'll always choose SPA even for the presentation of static text.

And to be fair it makes a lot of sense because writing HTML templates feels super jank once you've experienced not doing it. Even for a site with static content I would still prefer to deliver it as a static JS bundle and a data payload.

I really like https://docsify.js.org. Gotta be one of the lowest touch libs out there. The whole site from git repo to page one single completely static asset.
This is easy to say, but not always true. Can you elaborate about concrete details of the "capabilities in practice"?
The common examples that you see first in classical dynamics are ones for which the ordinary perturbation theory are problematic.

The basic assumption of perturbation theory is that the frequency of the motion changes with the amplitude and as the amplitude increases the frequency shifts across resonances that change the motion.

In the case of the harmonic oscillator, the frequency doesn't change so this doesn't apply at all. Instead of working from that as the ε=0 limit, you work from an integrable system like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toda_lattice

which models the changing frequency w/ amplitude and breaks the symmetry of the system.

The case of orbital motion in three dimensions (classically the same problem for celestial mechanics and an electron in a hydrogen atom) is also problematic because the frequency of the three motions (i) around the star, (ii) in-and-out away from the star, and (iii) up-and-down out of the equatorial plane are all the same so it is a degenerate case and takes consideration of how exactly the symmetry breaks.

I'd contrast that to quantum theory where the perturbation theory "just works" for the simple cases like the harmonic oscillator and orbital motion. (That's how you develop the theory of spectral lines for the hydrogen atom, as the electromagnetic field is modeled as a perturbation.)

Note: I studied chaos theory for my PhD a long time ago. Unfortunately very few people have been trained in this field and gotten professorships since 1970 or so, so the field is stillborn and people are still learning from old textbooks. People praise V.I. Arnold's book on classical mechanics but it was written before people knew about the integrability of the Toda Lattice and circa 1995 you could make it through a graduate level class on classical dynamics and not learn the right way to think about the "perturbed harmonic oscillator".
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One of the more impressive developers of open source graphics drivers posts her youtube videos using an anime avatar and a voice changer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG9xUxIf73o).

The world changes, and your signals for someone's technical competence appear not to have been updated for a new generation.
If you happen to be holding any "worthless" Treasury bonds, I would be happy to take them off your hands for $0.10 on the dollar.
I've been using an AI generated profile image which looks maybe 90% like me for quite a while in some places. I can't think of any obvious negative impacts. I've been totally upfront about it with my friends, but nobody's ever even mentioned it otherwise.

People have made their profile pictures a "pseudo-reality version" of who they think they are since the dawn of profile pictures IMHO.