skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those that work at Coinbase would do better to run for congress, win, then insider trade securities. The SEC would leave them alone in this case because the SEC is a totally corrupt Government Bureaucracy. Brian Armstrong and staff could alternatively direct campaign contributions to the Democrats (I give to the Democrats every year) to ensure they would leave him alone.
Our of curiosity, what is GPT-4 getting wrong so often? It’s prettily wild to my own , admittedly easily impressed, mind.
Using boarding pass generator in Hong Kong
Short story, checked in online but still needed to pickup a physical boarding pass (online didn’t generate a qr/barcode code)

Security would not let me through without a barcode to scan.

I remember seeing on HN generators and decoders of boarding passes.

Searched and found the link above.

Got me through security at Hong Kong airport, otherwise I was out of pocket 100s of dollars and alot of in convenience. Brilliant.

Thanks fellow HNs
I no longer see GPT-4 on home page? Why so?
Oh thank <deity> they didn't manage to do it on time, else that shitshow might've not happened. Banking evidently needs to learn some more hard lessons and this fall is a good one.
I'm sorry, I 100% disagree. A trivial interpreter loop requires fewer lines of code with fork/exec than CreateProcess, therefore the former is more elegant? It might make sense to judge artistic works that way, but is that really the correct yardstick for judging the engineering of a system by anyone other than a CS 101 student tasked with writing a basic REPL? That's like saying adding 2 numbers with my abacus is easier than with your calculator, therefore my abacus is more elegant than your calculator.
No reason to transfer the image data in JSON, just read the response as an ArrayBuffer. Pass over that and write it into a dataURI with the needed modifications in a single go.
I just recently did some work in a much less sophisticated area of this. For folks who want to efficiently juggle image data into and out of canvas, ImageBitmap is a little known web API that does it very well. Unlike most web APIs dealing with binary data that interfaces with user interaction, you can use it synchronously, and it’s vastly more efficient than juggling base64-blobs-URLs.
Joined the wait list 1 week ago - any news on when it will open up or how fast you are taking new users?
To get it out of the way -- apparently you've never heard and you might be shocked to know that sex-offending teachers are not fired. They are routinely assigned to "rubber rooms", classrooms with no students.
https://nypost.com/2019/11/02/nyc-pays-rubber-room-teacher-s...
Only the left defends this and makes it practically impossible to fire bad teachers. This is incredibly wasteful mismanagement that educates nobody.

I couldn't agree more about how unfair school funding is and the differences in quality. This is one element of systemic racism in America completely recognized by left & right. Families in Saratoga exercise a soft racism of paid separation, and yet they lecture me and everyone else living in more diverse areas about how police are racist and jailing criminals is immoral.

California spends /almost/ the most money on schools, per pupil, and we have almost the lowest test scores. One party has exclusive control of all institutional and government power in California and there is nobody left to blame. I am willing now to try something new. Are you?

Education is essential. Sure. Food is also essential. If the government controlled all food distribution and ran a monopoly of restaurants, you could be assured we'd all be eating tree bark by now. For-profit universities exist and they work, or they go out of business. Why not high schools? Why not junior high, etc? I am in favor of charter schools which are no cost to parents.

Example: Harlem Success Academy, from wikipedia at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success_Academy_Charter_School...
"
In New York City, 47% percent of public school students passed state reading tests, and 43% passed math tests. At Success schools, corresponding percentages were 91% and 98%.[29] These scores come from a student group made up of 95% children of color, with families having a median income of $32,000.[30] No new students above the fourth grade are accepted at Success.[28]
"
No wonder the public school teachers union routinely lobbies to shut them down -- it makes them look bad.

As to the anti-free speech, yes feel free to ignore it -- I am glad the left has stopped pretending they believe in free speech and has unshackled its anti-enlightenment extremists. They know their arguments don't hold up well in debates and the anti-speech theatrics just make it obvious that their orthodoxy requires groupthink to survive. Shucks -- they've even got /you/ dissembling for them.
VW will support Android Automotive for the “lifetime” of a car–15 years
Somebody's basically got to go through and sort them all.
European style unions are not the same thing as American style ones, despite both being called unions.

I wish they had different names because they are quite different.
This has been my take as well. It's without a doubt at the point where it's useful and I'm very interested to experiment with it and see how much utility I can get out of it. At the same time, as much as I realize skill with prompting is essential, a lot of my time is spent programming automations around using those prompts. A lot of thought and care goes into it, and the failure rates of what I'm building are dramatically higher than anything I build without AI.

It's like I'm convincing AI to do a "smart" thing (which is really cool, don't get me wrong), but the AI truly has no idea what it's supposed to be doing. Sometimes even very direct, specific, concise prompting will yield totally abysmal responses.

I'm certainly not putting it down either though. It's unprecedented and it marks a genuinely important shift in the industry that this is possible at all. It just isn't all that smart when it comes to intents and actually knowing what's going on.
Basically all of them, and at 1/2 to 1/10 of the cost. Spain, Italy, the Nordic countries, and Turkey are all much more efficient at building infrastructure than the US.

Alon Levy is the most accessible source for this kind of cross-national comparision. https://transitcosts.com/ and https://pedestrianobservations.com/2023/03/03/we-gave-a-talk... is a good place to start.
The integration with Copilot doesn’t quite compete with MS, because, well, using the extension requires a functioning subscription. You’d be paying MS, regardless of whether you point it to fauxpilot or copilot.

But there are other extensions that are specifically made for fauxpilot which work well.
I understand any individual's company anti-competitive measures. OpenAI looks at Google the same way Apple looked at IBM in the 80s.

What I'm worried about is a lot of the talk about guarding models, public safety and misuse of models will end up leading every big company to pull public access of their APIs. We might look at 2022-2023 as a brief golden age when regular people could use stuff like GPT-4 before it was firewalled and available only to large corporations and those with personal relations to big tech execs.

Extrapolating from OpenAI's change of philosophy and business practices from their early days to now, it seems to be the way things are going. I only hope it doesn't go the way of that one paper which wanted to ban GPUs for sale to the public.
I mean pretty much all real engineering started with that time periods “hacking”/“tinkering” before thorough models and equations were derived.

We had 200 years of tinkering with relatively modern steam engine technology before Carnot and Watt started just barely scratching the surface of the first principles of thermodynamics and engine efficiency.

Even the eponymous Carnot cycle wasn’t rigorously defined mathematically during Carnot’s life. That being (T1−T2)/T1 as the temperature delta part of the equation, because absolute temperature hadn’t been accepted and defined by Lord Kelvin yet.

Some decade later the first law of thermodynamics was finally invented.

Hundreds of years of experimentation until the first principles. Machine learning has lots of control systems theory and information theory to help with analysis but we barely have an “engineering” in “software engineering” today, let alone in “machine learning engineering”. We’ll get there, but it’ll be awhile before there are proven design equations with rigorous derivations from first principle that allow us to design and build a precise AI model as surely as we can design and build a precise bridge or levee or distillation column.

Let the hacking continue, let’s not worry too much about the future “engineering” that will follow in its own time. Unless you want to discover it yourself or fund its discovery.
I was told by a colleague yesterday that one of the highly specialized scientific softwares they rely on is no longer available at their university because the developers are Russian.

The devs are not state assets and don't support war. They're just regular citizens and experts in their fields, like you or me.

This is the sort of high pressure, low impact isolation tactic that tends to backfire as it escalates. Already, they've contacted the developers to apologize and request temporary licenses to run on their home computers.
Well, that's the point. How much are you getting without DLSS? Upscaling is kind of counter intuitive if you want to have better visuals from ray racing at the same time.

When tray tracing will become fast enough without upscaling, then it will be a much better feature.
Except for, you know, the entire field of functional medicine which has done wonders for the lives of millions who have been failed by the mainstream medical establishment.
You have to report any foreign holdings over $10k to Department of Treasury yearly. See FBAR.
I don't understand it either, but lots of people do.

Different people make different choices and that's perfectly fine.
That was a good piece in the NY Times. I'm skeptical about what probably an expensive lower-story apartment with a view out into basically a lightwell would be like. I've had hotel rooms like that but maybe this is better done.
I love Counter-Strike. Played 1.5, 1.6, (Not Zero), Source and Global Offensive.

Of course with changes there are things that you don't like at FIRST, but you learn to get used to them.

Except for the R8 Revolver in Global Offensive. Of all the realism in this game they put in a revolver where we need to wait to cock the hammer and we cannot keep it cocked. It does NOT make sense at all. Feels like some kind of Gauss gun that needs to charge and shoot at 100%, but if you don't make it to 100% nothing happens.
Yes! Does anyone remember BlackICE?
Expected them to at least mention running Linux on it
Yep, constantly. Pretty much whenever I reload the tab.
Welcome to capitalism where competition is supposedly good
Check out https://transitcosts.com/ - it's a huge study of projects in many countries, broken out by budget line item.
The whole regulatory infrastructure from the SEC expects a security to be backed by or representative of a physical asset of some sort - be it shares of a corporation with tangible assets, gold, or in the case of futures, a commodity. Even bonds are, they're securitized debts.

Crypto has no physical manifestation or nexus, there is no fungible good backing it, nor another which it can be directly (and implicitly) exchanged for, treating it as a security makes about as much sense to me as treating lottery tickets as one.

Edit - I just learned of the Howey test, but I got the fundamentals of it correct.
Staking your crypto to make it grow - somehow? Isn't that just them taking your crypto and putting it in some unexplainable leveraged trade like ftx was doing.
They did that anyway without that via various no poaching agreements, this makes it easier to notice, not harder.

... are you one hiring people ?
Baseball cards are a bad example. The packs are lotteries with extra steps, and the manufacturers routinely face racketeering suits.
>Looks like Coinbase currently makes up 10% of Eth staking. Would this give special privileges to Coinbase over other exchanges?

No.
You're paying for someone elses profit monthly with the cloud.

It has to cost more.
Study finds 42% of Canadians support socialism in Canada
Personally, I would get a BS and continue with your interest in implementing compilers. Without a degree, I think your resume would be tossed and you'd be first on the chopping block in any downturn. IMO experience can substitute for an advanced degree to some extent, but cannot substitute for no degree, at least in the CS field. Plus school is ridiculously expensive, so IMO advanced degrees are not worth it considering lost income.
People are only trying to come here from because we've corrupted and destabilized their local governments in order to snatch their resources and impoverish them. If we weren't couping every other democratically elected government in South America there would be a lot fewer migrants.
“ We note however that there is no single definition of AGI that is broadly accepted, and we discuss other definitions in the conclusion section.”

We know it can do a lot of cool stuff, but without a pinned down definition the headline here is useless.
The problem is you get caught in a lot of red tape if you want to issue securities with no intrinsic value whatever. For good reason-- the SEC's mission is to stop scams and a valueless offering is the archetype of a scam.

Isn't crypto more like a service, rather than any of those things? You deposit some, withdraw some, and in between you get an account. Like a banking service. Which is when the banking regulators properly should shut it down.
Yeah, just follow the ftx/sbf strategy, that sure worked.
Isn't part of making it reproducible also part of ensuring correct results? Especially if we start putting these models into important systems. And if these models begin to update in an evergreen fashion, or utilize realtime data, getting verifiable or repeatable outputs will be a nightmare if we have no idea how to make these models repeatably.
Because the designer of today needs to wear the hat of yesteryear's typesetter (among many other hats)?
"The full feature set, including connection blocking, extended traffic history time ranges, advanced display and filtering options and more is available as an in-app purchase."

So this means as a company using MDM, I cannot purchase it for all my employees.

MacOS devs who see IAP and subscriptions as the only purchase paths are leaving corporate purchases on the table.

We choose software we can pay for. We are fine if it's priced fairly to support the developer and the work to get to the next version. We are fine paying for the next version too.

But IAP or subs paid for by company? Apple itself doesn't support that on Macs managed using their corp device management. (And no, the user cannot buy it and expense it either, IAP/subs are disallowed on managed Apple IDs.)

Indie MacOS devs, all you have to do is also list a full retail version. You will have buyers. $2.99/month sub also sold $79 full price and a major update each 2 years with a new full retail version number? You will still have buyers, and you'll have the cash now, instead of over the 2 years.
>It's like the cartel asking "clear guidance" from the DEA about what exactly is and is not an illegal drug that can be pushed on the street, and then complaining that they won't sit at the table and discuss the legality of fentanyl.

Fentanyl is clearly illegal to sell in the street, and this information is available and codified into law. So this is a bad example to use to argue that Coinbase don't have a point.

DEA and the law in general should (and indeed does) provide clear guidance as to what substances are illegal and which are not, and even whether a particular novel substance is legal or not.
and many crypto teams are meticulous about not doing that too

its why their discords say “no price discussion”, amongst many other communication nuances and project structuring to avoid securities issues. dont confuse celebrities and youtubers for the actual teams.

the only teams that have been sued by the SEC are ones that deviated in very predictable ways, there have been no surprises in the cases the SEC have brought, compared to the legal guidance that is given by law firms in the US

its just that the SEC then pretends as if it just hasnt gotten to other project issuers yet, and when not going after a specific project it just says “all cryptos are securities” because theyre going after an exchange, at the moment, and wont tell the exchange which ones

everything suggests the SEC’s logic is flimsy, or needs to apply even more broadly in a way that makes the SEC’s logic flimsy. The SEC is dragging this out because they understand the same thing, that all paths lead to their charter being modified even though they were just hoping that crypto went away.
It's easier to massively over provision or use the cloud than it is to get good at capacity planning. Same as how it's easier to use a GC than it is to do manual memory management.

They are all valid strategies, the key is picking the one that suits your situation.

If you need a small to medium amount of resources then the cloud is likely the cheapest option.

If you need a medium to high amount of resources then massively over provisioning can still be cheaper than using the cloud.

The cheapest option for anything medium size and above is physical servers with good capacity management.

Good capacity management requires good internal communication between business units. And making predictions based on expected/planned events not just historical data.
How so? My understanding is that Netflix offers a wide range of compensation based on individual performance. If they didn't disclose this, they'd be violating the law.
Why not both? Keep the normal highs and lows we expect from our weather stations and websites, then display the temperature variance in a view that doesn't require you to drill into the app view clicks / drags.

I don't see any defensible opinion to let the lows be during/before sunrise.
It misses the entire point of crypto. It's for entrepreneurs who have been shunned by traditional investors; who have been locked out of the mainstream funding monolith.

Big investors and VCs consistently refused to fund my startup, they refuse to talk to me. I'm nothing to them. I don't have access to that funding like some other people have. Maybe I've been blacklisted for no reason. Either way, given my excellent publicly-proven track record, I deserve an opportunity to compete in the free market just like you do.

You don't seem to understand the adversity some people are facing and how unjust and broken the system is fundamentally. It's physically impossible for me to raise funding from traditional VCs and angel investors for reasons that are both unknown to me and outside of my control. My few interactions with investors are downright weird now. It's like the whole system has conclusively locked me out and then gaslights me about it 24/7. Crypto and regular investors are my only chance.

Until you've been in this position, you can't understand. You're missing a critical piece of experience.

Now when I hear about the 'unbanked' in Africa, I hear it very differently. I can at least start to wrap my head around the incredible hardship it represents. In my case I'm not unbanked but I'm 'uninvested'; it's just one class above.
> supply is only limited by the credibility of attribution

Frankly, naughty bits are not terribly attributable. There's quite a lot less variety compared to faces.
To me it's clear that they think it's AGI, and that they think AGI is such a loaded concept that it's not worth "announcing" it.

Beliefs are changing so fast right now. The term "AGI skeptic" will soon (if not already) mean "I don't trust AGIs in positions of authority or power" rather than "I don't think the technology is capable of matching our level of cognition."
Google’s search is now so bad
It would actually be pretty poetic. 100 years ago, Detroit was one of the wealthiest cities in the world. It was perhaps the center of the US economy. The Model T was introduced in 1908 and by the 1910s and 20s, there were more than a dozen car companies forming every year, with the biggest ones being located in Detroit. The city was a manufacturing powerhouse and with the immense wealth generated, they built wonderful theaters, funded a world class symphony, and built great museums (many of these things still remain today). It became a cultural hub. If you told someone in Detroit at the time that the city would be in ruins before the turn of the century, they probably would have had a good laugh.
If you use Duckduckgo as your primary search engine, you just need to write `!hn <search terms>` in the address bar to search HN. You could also set it up manually by adding a bookmark with %s as the search term and hn as the keyword.
My apologies, but we can be just as easily produce a counter example where Poland took Moscow[1] and Russia having nothing that would resemble respect. If anything, the events that followed suggest quite the opposite.

<< this paradox is a street level wisdom

I disagree. If anything, it is street level wisdom that strength is the only thing Russian respects. And again, note that the same wisdom is applied to other nations when convenient for narrative purposes.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_occu...
They were old and the builder got them for free from someone. I'd rather have these tbh, adds character.
By your numbers that would be less than 1 per 100 people.

Could you run a 1000 person company with less than 10 people in overhead positions? (CEO, HR, facilities, legal, security, etc).

Seems pretty efficient to me.
Nobody trades lottery tickets. If they did, it might draw regulatory scrutiny too.
Wouldn't that cover market makers in commodities markets too though?
Apps can be used over Wi-Fi, so you don't pay enormous prices when you text from abroad.
I think the more, appropriate analogy is whether a gold bar sitting in my sock drawer is a security.

There are gold bars and there are gold securities.
>vaguely, something you buy with the expectation to make money from it appreciating

This isn't remotely true. A grocery store isn't selling you a security when you go buy an apple even though the store bought the apple for cheaper than it it thought it could sell to you in the future.

Anything you are able to resell can fall under this.
They already do this. The difference here is the perspective employees can now see the data too, not just the employeers.