skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not accurate: SQLite works great with data that's too big to fit in memory provided you create indexes and write queries that can take advantage of them - just like any other relational database (MySQL/PostgreSQL etc).
> Most smart people don't need to "work hard" to not be any of those, it's a bare minimum and takes barely any effort.

That was exactly my point, those things doesn't take any effort. But if you put in a lot of effort to get as far away from those things as possible then you will be boring. And such people will often accuse others of being racist or sexist even when they weren't, thus forcing the entire environment to become boring.

If I didn't agree with your here I wouldn't say "depends on how strict". But of course you here is too strict, since me even talking about that made you judge me. Thankfully this website is pretty open and not very strict, so interesting opinions are allowed here, while you seem to want to shut down interesting discussions even when they aren't racist or sexist.

> It romanticizes a kneejerk contrarian misanthropy that's just as boring.

How is diversity ever more boring than monoculture? I support diversity and therefore I am against monoculture. The important part here is to not judge people. Traditional internet forums were full of feminists etc as well, they weren't mono culture, it was very rich.
Either way that would be preventing body detection not face detection.

I’m pretty sure it’s going to fine your face just fine
Do they handle harassment? Or just financial sides of HR?
Ok, I think I understand the point you were trying to make. As a statement by itself, sure, if your compensation is at least in part tied to the share price, then you have a financial interest in increasing the share price. But you don't benefit anymore from a rising share price if you get laid off and are no longer receiving any compensation, let alone share-based compensation, from the company (presumably you would sell your shares once you leave to ensure that your investment portfolio is diversified and you no longer have an insider perspective).

Put another way, imagine that you have a choice between getting $1 guaranteed, and a 50/50 chance of getting $2 or nothing. Statistically, they have the same expected value, and you would expect a random population sample to evenly split their preferences between the two options, depending on individual appetite for risk. But actually, most people will prefer the $1 guaranteed. Indeed, even when the riskier option has a much higher statistical expected value, most people still prefer the guaranteed payout. See for example https://www.quora.com/Would-you-rather-have-a-50-50-chance-a... , and there are many such examples to draw from.

So, no, I don't think employees benefit the same way from increases in stock price, as do shareholders, even when employees are also shareholders. Stability is quite simply a much stronger preference held by most employees.
> OpenAI probably can’t fund a hardware “LLM accelerator” to reduce costs. But you can bet Google, Amazon, Microsoft (who are silicon designers) are pondering just that

Aren’t TPUs/Tensor Cores/Inferentia/etc. already neural-net accelerators?
I’m trying to follow the article. So it’s not the image format specifically that is holding on to the blacked out pixels, it’s the compression method that the image format uses, or more specifically, how Google’s code is handling that work?

Is this possibly a helpful feature or is it really just a terrible hack/bug that has no practical use holding on to a sort of edit history inside a PNG?

I would love a way to track some level of history in a commonly supported image format (but of course being aware of needing to strip it when appropriate)
GPT can complete complex tasks by controlling the browser
>Seem you have a very inflated view of the programs... just how much debt are you attempting to justify?

I agree with them and I had 0 debt. Making higher education free was one of the few things I think the government back home actually didn't drop the ball on

Apparently it's done wonders for a bunch of industries
> when you design software you should have an idea under what circumstances it will run and optimize for

This philosophy is sometimes referred to as "data-oriented design"

see also: Mike Acton's CppCon 2014 talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc

Data-oriented design seems appropriate for shipping high-performance games, and shipping them on schedule and on budget. The goal is not to design and code the algorithm with the best theoretical scalability characteristics - and publish it in a paper, or invent the most mathematically general version of the algorithm to be factored out into a library for use by 100 hypothetical future projects. The goal is not to design a system using hexagonal architecture (or whatever) that can more flexibly accommodate arbitrary changes of requirements in future, at the expense of performance. The source code is not the product that the customers buy, the game is the product.

The goal is to understand the problem you actually have - processing data of a certain finite size or distribution of sizes, on some fixed finite set of target hardware platforms, and figure out how to do this in a way that hits performance targets, with a limited budget of engineering time, to keep moving forward on schedule toward shipping the product.
Or is it their desire to be slightly careful about which image formats they have to support in perpetuity? With AVIF you get to re-use a bunch of your AV1 decoding code too. And the reference JPEG-XL decoder is still on version 0.x, with no sign that they'll make a stable release any time soon.

Why everyone is all up in arms about the fact that the industry is finally standardizing on a good royalty-free image format is beyond me.
It's been used whenever there were people moving out of real need rather than convenience or adventure. There was no question that Jews fleeing Europe in the 1930s/1940s were refugees even if they were white and upper class.
Sure, let's automate the CEO. Right after we automate middle management, police, state legislatures, and Congress.
Wow, I'm surprised at the level of cynicism here. As a startup, the last thing on your mind is trying to optimize for a situation when a major bank collapses that too in a matter of days. There are many more urgent fires to put off. Sure, as a payroll company, you may wonder if this is indeed an edge case they need to take care of but the way the team, VCs harnessed in such a short period of time to delight customers is commendable. Think about all the things that needed to happen.

--> Move the primary banking provider from SVB to JPMC.

--> Get a set of engineers to have all-nighters to ensure the new payment system actually works. This is hundreds of millions of dollars worth of risk.

--> Raise $500m(?!!) in 48 hours to fund the payroll without any assurance from FDIC whether depositors are going to get the money back or not.

--> While doing all of this, respond to a massive influx of support tickets.

What this really shows is they are willing to go to a crazy extent (raise $500m in 48 hours!) to delight customers.

FWIW, I'm not affiliated with Rippling in any way but I do have a ton of respect for Parker for his ability to bounce back after the Zenefits debacle.
I have known alot of students, in many programs. On average I say students have classes 2 - 3 days a week, with 2 classes per day...

I know more than a few students attending top rated public universities.

According to one survey conducted by the National Survey of Student Engagement, most college students spend an average of 10–13 hours/week studying, or less than 2 hours/day and less than half of what is expected. Only about 11% of students spend more than 25 hours/week on schoolwork. [1]

a "Full time" course load is 15 credit hours, which is about 5 classes.. a student taking five 3-credit classes spends 15 hours each week in class..

In the past I have run college level internship programs, both for credit, and critically for this discussion not for credit (meaning no affiliation with the schools). I have had no problems scheduling students work around their course schedule, for which they normally have 2 or 3 open days for work.

[1] https://www.collegiateparent.com/academics/student-study-tim...
My millenial aged kid became an electrician. Mostly residential. Mostly remodel (vs new construction). The type of clientile that want fancy lights and legit security systems. And now early adopters of solar, batteries, and EVs.

He'll have plenty of work for decades.

It is hard on the body though. Which is why he stayed residential. So he claims; I would have guessed new construction commercial would easiest physically. Especially if you specialize (eg elevators).
Name them and why they were removed according to the extant historians.
>It also grows the intellectual souls, exposing people to far more depth of thought.

This is a thing that people say, but I've never seen it happen. To the extent that people are exposed to depth of thought or new ideas, the people interested would have found those things faster, cheaper, and more frequently if they avoided the rat race parts of university programs.

It's similar to the thought that university degrees help people economically, but that is rarely the case. We've spent many human generations trying to figure out how to move the needle and it's mostly IQ + big 5 personality + luck. The people that COULD have gotten into Harvard but chose to go elsewhere wind up with the same outcomes as the people who DO go to Harvard.
Well, when I hear people complain about PHP it's not about the routing or the idea of server-side rendering.
Most T2/3/4 North American cities (even the rust belt ones) have Economic indicators comparable to T1 cities in other European countries.

Using State+Provincial Level HDI as a proxy, entire States+Provinces [0][1] are comparable to entire Tier 1 European countries [2] on a socioeconomic basis.

When you look at purely economic indicators such as GDP/GDP Per Capita the same story holds [3][4][5]

If you're complaining about urban planning around walkability, you will need to specify which European cities you are comparing to, and which American cities as well.

It's unfair to compare a Tier 2/3 North American city like SLC or Phoenix or Vancouver to London or Paris when those cities are the Primate Cities of their entire country. Comparing cities like London/Paris/Frankfurt to NYC or Berlin to DC or Munich to the SF Bay makes more sense.

And finally, the kind of suburbanization you're complaining about is VERY common in Europe as well.

Also, here is the ranking of cities globally by influence and economic power - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization_and_World_Citi...

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_terr...

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_...

[2] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_provinces_a...

[3]- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_terr...

[4] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_provinces_a...

[5] - https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/NGDPDPC@WEO/UVK/EURO...
I'm sure taking 10 minutes out of their day to reflect and write a diary entry would increase most peoples wellbeing a lot more than trying to neurotically remember everything you come across.
That's a fair observation. My personal experience has a bias because I knew a math and computer science major who was hardworking and seemed bright at academics, and he was really into Anki.

Knowing him led to my impression that a decent number of math and physics students might have studied with spaced repetition without talking much about it, as he only mentioned it after he saw me studying with the software once. But in hindsight, I agree that it's more likely that math & physics students stick to the learning habits they developed earlier on—often through lots of practice tests and exercises.

Anki seems to be more of a natural progression for people in other fields like biology, where students might develop habits of using flashcards with software like Quizlet, where using software with better study schedules like Anki can be a natural progression.
No, but without a CEO there's no one to hold the bag if everything goes to hell.

You can't say "I was just following orders" if there's nobody to issue the orders.
Yeah. Strictly speaking, the reason why the music industry shat their pants over Napster was because someone found out a more economically efficient way to scam artists. They'd been fighting for decades to ensure that they would be the one ripping off artists, and then charging the public as if the artists were actually making a decent living.

Every time I see an artist worry about online piracy, I roll my eyes. It's not not a threat, but it is a rather weak one unless you're a best-selling author or musician. You're far more likely to either get ripped off by a "for exposure" bro[0] or music label, or just have your work languish in obscurity.

There's actually a bunch of authors that signed a letter of support for the Internet Archive in this suit, specifically because libraries are very, very good at getting mid-list authors into readers' hands. They value the author's work at the expense of the publisher's ownership, which is why publishers hate them. An author that gets a bunch of library exposure can sell people on another book tomorrow, but the publisher is out on "lost sales" today.

[0] I expect this to be replaced with GPT/SD enabled hustles eventually
I’d point out that all the people whining about being “left behind” and blaming Mexicans for it are the blue collar types who would have mocked college back in the day.
That’s great. I’m trying to figure out how it’s funded. Did they have to raise new funding? Levy new taxes? Just wondering how they are able to afford it. I feel like this is how colleges should be. The minimal possible tuition required to operate. It’s not like tuition increases have gone towards retaining professors or something.

It’s pretty insane to think 15k/year for in state tuition is “cheap.”

Edit: it seams like it’s at least partially funded by lottery tickets. Which essentially means it’s just prioritized higher than other states. Because most states find things through lottery tickets but don’t have tuition free college.
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Putting a precise point on what our intuitions about how fundamental things works has, in the past, anyway, been useful for advances in physics. For instance, the question of mereology is pretty important in quantum mechanics. In regular mechanics the observable quantities that you put into the action have a local quality to them: if the positions of particles in your action are "distant" (in terms of the speed of light) then there is a precise sense in which you can consider those different parts of the action separately. That is, "distant objects do not form wholes." In a special relativistic context, events outside of eachother's light cones cannot participate in a "part-whole" relation with one another in a little local area around themselves.

In quantum mechanics this doesn't appear to be true, at least in a naive way. Superposition means that something like a "part-whole" relation can persist even when events relating to it are outside of eachother's light cones. One way of justifying continued meditation on mereology is to suggest that maybe something about our understanding of mereology is wrong, despite what is "obvious" to us.
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Exactly. It is the only use case that makes sense as I said before [0].

Other than that, it is essentially a glorified bullshit generator and a confident sophist that still requires constant review by humans.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34999949
Seriously? What's the reasoning behind that?
Great article that makes the sensible recommendation of public banking.
> With Telegram and TikTok, we cannot do anything about it except cut the wire.

How about Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Google ? Can you do something about it ?
This is an insight I'm going to remember for a while.
It's neither a feature nor a hack, it's simply a bug related to missing the O_TRUNC flag when opening the file for modification. No deliberate attempt was made to "hold onto" any data.
who will go offline en masse to find reality once AI makes the entire Internet inauthentic.

I've been thinking about this a bit lately, albeit from a slightly different angle. I think people will begin looking for a different "reality" due to the homogenization of everything due to AI. That is to say, it's not "inauthenticity" as such that I think people will react to, but lack of originality and creativity.

I mean, when ChatGPT is writing all new books, screenplays, whitepapers, business plans, etc., etc., it seems to me that everything is going to collapse to one boring, homogeneous, "everything is the same as everything else" state. If my theory is right, the currency of the future might simply be "novelty" and human creativity.

This is, of course, all based on the idea that (current) AI's are, as Emily Bender put it, "stochastic parrots"[1]. All they can really do is spew up a somewhat randomized pastiche of human reality circa 2021 or so. So far they don't really have any innate creativity as such. That said, I don't see any reason in principle to think that AI won't also eventually be able to be creative is the same sense that we are today. What happens then is a whole other question.

[1]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922
> was merely the capital of an Italian

Arguably (considering the causes and outcomes of the Social War) it didn't even function that well in that regard. It was a city state which suddenly (in a couple generations) became a global empire.

> an emperor

Did an emperor even need to loot that much? He did not have to spend enormous amounts of money for electoral campaigns or directly compete with his peers in other ways. Arguably the interests of the emperor were inherently aligned with that of the state unlike that of elected magistrates who were ussually much more concerned about their political success and accumulating wealth (which I guess is pretty much what you're saying..)
"The staggered system of primaries does just that."

It actually causes the devaluation of the votes of later primaries. Due to the difference in concerns of different geographic areas, you would have a shitty sample based on the current line-up.

"Your optimization challenge is to identify the winner with high confidence while conducting the fewest number of tests."

If that were the case, you wouldn't even do primaries and you'd just rely on the surveys, which arguably have better sampling (primaries are biases toward the vocal minority due to the low turn outs and not necessarily the overall voter pool).
Yep.

I was thinking of something specifically designed for LLMs though. Aka massive memory pools, among other things. Right now, the I think the model has to be split up for inference, which is inefficient.
As a midwest native, I've got to say that this is my favorite kind of pizza. And honestly, there's not really any rules as to how exactly it's made or what goes on it. Get the crust thin and crisp, and put on it whatever toppings make you happy. The key is that it's meant to be delicious, not fit a standard mold.
AI will randomly fire people and take all the responsibility. We are already there.
Early in the Covid pandemic research found that infected patients with optimal vitamin D levels were less affected by the virus. https://scitechdaily.com/study-finds-vitamin-d3-important-fo...
> Rippling’s existing investors include Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Coatue Management and Founders Fund.
I personally would prefer a build and environment tool which uses the modern Linux namespaces to prepare isolated filesystems without needing to reinvent a whole bunch of wheels.

A number of problems that I would like to be fixed:
- Post-build patches to insure correct shared library paths in artifacts due to requirement to use absolute /nix/store instead of using the traditional Linux filesystem.
- Numerous wrappers around existing build tools to move dependencies into nix packages to generate stuff like Cargo.nix.
- Not so good handling of content-addressable packages due to historic cruft.
- Horrible-horrible way to compute runtime-dependencies of packages [1]. This may be okay as a heuristic to initialize a project, but in the end it must be tweakable manually.

I see a future where a package manager builds a fully-isolated environment with only and only required dependencies for my app, using CAS but not forcing it's style of the filesystem on me. Nix is a good step into that direction, but that's not a usable product in my view, just a research project.

[1]: https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/automatic-runtime-depende...

Edit:
Forgot to add, Nix the language is also not good, but I'd like not to discuss that matter. This would be solved by a more modular architecture, where we can manage package with a one tool and build packages with a different tool. Until then, I would be forced to code in Nix, and that's problematic no matter how good the package management is.
> Back in 1941, just as the Rothschild planned WWII was getting underway

And… tab closed.
2 minute papers has an episode on a Microsoft AI that can clone a voice in 3 seconds. Probably not good enough to break this (4 minutes of voice in the article), but ya voice is not a security feature any longer by any means.

https://youtu.be/F6HSsVIkqIU
The author of this article plainly hasn't heard of Michael Moorcock, who's been writing about the multiverse since the late 1960s with stories like The Dreaming City, The Eternal Champion, The Black Corridor, Behold The Man, etc.

https://www.michaelmoorcock.net/
i use naan bread for "pizza", it's decent
Those setup instructions are so frustrating: https://github.com/0x6b/libgsqlite#setup-google-cloud

Why does this have to be so hard!? I really wish Google Cloud (and likewise AWS and many other providers) didn't force users to jump through so many steps to use tools like this.
Can you make your point without a personal slight?
Sounds dubious, could you be more specific?

> A stock Ubuntu install will result in a half-working laptop

Probably just because Ubuntu is outdated, try Archlinux.
In May 1937, Associate Justice Owen Roberts, who had previously been a reliable conservative vote on the Court, voted with the liberal wing of the Court in upholding a state minimum wage law. This unexpected switch gave the Court a 5-4 majority in favor of upholding the New Deal legislation, and effectively ended Roosevelt's plans to expand the Court.

It's absolutely ludicrous to say he outmaneuvered them. Roberts conceded and FDR abandoned his plans to pack the court.
It's rare to see PNGs in-the-wild containing EXIF data, it's a feature that's only been in the spec since ~2017. I'm actually looking for one to double-check my statement about discord, but I can't find any.

Edit: I made my own. I can confirm that the exif chunk was not stripped. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/541730746805649476/10...
What is meant by finishing school in this thread? I have a feeling this is not the definition being used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finishing_school
Navy set to begin laser testing project after launch to ISS
I feel like we’re talking past each other. I’ll find my answers elsewhere. Thanks for your time!
Well like with many things. Context matters. here we are talking about the dysfunctional schooling system of the US. Other nations have different style of education that may be actual education.

There are also aspects and some intuitions in the US worth it. But they are few and far between, and becoming more rare as the institutions in the US move away from actual education, and more towards political based goals