skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bet we won't get far enough that we stop killing each other on a regular basis for not very good reasons.

Science is fantastic in the physical world, but it seems to have not very much utility in the metaphysical world. Shame it's almost the only tool that most everyone (right thinking people anyways) places their faith in.
I did a podcast with Bryan and SJVN debating this topic. https://bitmason.blogspot.com/2020/04/podcast-if-linux-didnt...

Bryan was basically of the opinion that if Linus hadn't written Linux, BSD would have come to the fore somehow in spite of its baggage.

(I also cut that discussion into a longer series: http://bitmason.blogspot.com/2020/05/podcast-was-open-source...)
Common Rifles Firing Same Ammo to Arm Finnish, Swedish Forces
An archaeological rediscovery offers clues about distant human past
There are already a million ways to run LLaMA. This doesn't change the issue at all, which is that the weights aren't commercially licensed.
> Honestly am impressed at how wasteful such articles are in how little content they actually contain.

The Economist isn't a tech publication. A lot of the context around tech layoffs is more familiar to HN than the average reader.

The article seems to be 100% content and context to me. No waste at all. You personally just happen to know a lot of the context already. But that doesn't make it "waste".
RAM. GPT-3 is over 600GB, ie just the max RAM of 8xA100s, because that's all the hardware can fit.

StableDiffusion plus a whole chain of imagenets can make any visual imagery imaginable in 2GB of RAM. Meanwhile 2GB of RAM barely runs a basic tiny text completion NN that can't do anything intelligent. Text requires a lot more parameters (and more memory/RAM) than images.
Or threatening enough to give you a panic attack if you close by, but if you are not you feel like you can ignore them.
It's wild how much pricing variation there can be with different routes to the same or a nearby destination.
Conversely I also think dark modes shouldn't be plain black; it should be a dark shade of gray.
Iceland is in Schengen. Effectively the whole of Europe could move here tomorrow if they wanted. This is not due to immigration control.
You just have to look at how initiatives like "the Quad" have failed completely.
Happy Pycharm user here.
SBF paid $40M bribe to unfreeze crypto trading accounts in China, US charges
If you spend more than 4 hours a day writing Python or you have more than 4 months of experience with Python, PyCharm. Otherwise notepad or pico or vim or emacs or whatever. It is not a good first editor as it is for professional users who need powerful tools.
Abstractions emerge naturally in neural networks trained to do multiple tasks
Thanks Seth! I appreciate your response here. Fair point that the "no business is safe" comment might be a little far reaching.

My point more broadly is that no business out there can just ignore AI entirely: it has to be a thoughtful part of your strategy.

I 100% agree with you point on owning the data. I wrote a similar post recently on the importance of data moats, and why I think they're the most important part of defensibility in the age of AI here:

https://ryanshannon.substack.com/p/what-even-is-a-moat-anywa...
Custom webgl, I believe. You can check the page source.
Most people who consciously prefer 'desktop Linux' do so not because it's based on the Linux kernel. They do so because it feels better to use than alternatives. And the reason a Linux desktop feels better to use goes understated because it seems 'political' and the people who have explicitly advocated for it most visibly have been smeared as extremists, ideologues, etc. But it's clear: using a system comprised as far as practicable of free software is refreshing, because it provides respite from the artifice, malice, and opacity of big tech products. It's a lost treasure from a forgotten world.

Chromebooks are so thoroughly productized that they have very little to do with what most 'Linux' advocates really like about Linux. We should wake up and recognize ourselves as advocates of software freedom, user choice, community-driven development, and a particular free software ecosystem, instead of getting into nonsense arguments about 'what is really Linux'. The same goes double for similar discussions that crop up around Android, which is as productized as ChromeOS but additionally much more locked down, further alienating it from the actual virtues that make good Linux experiences good.
How Is AI Changing the Way We Write and Create?
I wonder if there's an opportunity here for comparison shopping showcase stores. They carry no inventory, only samples that you can get your hands on. Scan to find the best price, and tap to add to your cart from the site and seller with that price. Gets delivered. You'd make money via a membership fee, referral sales, and a tiny bit from direct sale of the display items once it's time to swap them out.

The up front cost and rapid turnover of supplier inventory would probably make this a no-go. Not to mention that there are so many /things/ available, even a costco-sized warehouse packed for maximum number of display items would require extreme selectivity (and associated costs for research, etc)
An effective and flexible Quantile-Based Balanced Sampling algorithm for addressing class imbalance in datasets while preserving the underlying data distribution, improving model performance across various machine learning applications.
If you don’t have time to read it, why do you have time to comment on it?
I'm pretty sure any of a million simpler edit distances could tell you if a product listing was substantially changed.
Steal CC info from person A.

Buy item from using junk email address and shipping address of person B.

On delivery day, wait near person B's home, and grab the package when UPS delivers it. If person B manages to get to the package first, scammer is only out some time.

Junk email and 3rd party mailing address - harder to track scammer. Of course, this ignores IP address and similar - smart scammer would also use Tor and other tools to obfuscate the online transactions.
ChatGPT robs students of motivation to write and think for themselves
Porkbun is very transparent and up front about every DNS transfer operation. Performant, free NS records (cough, looking at you Cloudflare), and priced well
Well, yeah, the chatbots of today are qualitatively different from the chatbots of yore. That doesn't turn them into secretaries, no matter how much they can mislead you to think they are.

> Interesting, such as what?

Factory robots, terrain traveling, object recognition, speech recognition, voice syntesis... On the symbolic side, have you looked at modern compilers and linters?

Language models should have a huge impact on search. And yes, search is a very impactful thing. But that too requires something a bit different from a chatbot. Not a complete new technology, but different applications.
> How is someone making a positive difference supposed to navigate an environment where everyone assumes they are bad actors?

By increasing transparency and accountability.
The Breakthrough Starshot initiative plans to travel at 20% of the speed of light, so that could shorten the time necessary to get there.

https://www.space.com/laser-sail-centering-breakthrough-star...
Diving into Submarine Cables: The Undersea Lifelines of Internet Connectivity
Surprised that the reason the frame is hollow is for structural reason rather than to just save weight.
Keep in mind that people out there pay a monthly fee for feature flags as a service. There’s definitely a market for OP’s product.
Ahh I found it: http://messymatters.com/tagtime/

The idea is that it's fully manual and only precise across weeks.
It’s a licensing issue. There are a whole bunch of albums missing in one language but available in another. All the latest ones are decently organised. Then there’s the nightmare where a single song is uploaded with its own album title (From XYZ…). It’s unusable. I think it’s there to tick a box.
You mean like a blockchain? I jest, but only a little.
> I'll link to it below, but to summarize: the schwa isn't a letter because

Doesn't matter. You claimed English is so much better at representing sounds than other languages. And yet, it cannot represent the most common one. And of course, shwa is just one of them. As I mentioned before, English has significantly more sounds than letters, and of course cannot represent most of them even if those exist when you "soeak slowly".

More over, its so poor in expressing these sounds that it re-uses and repurposes completely different letter combinations for the same sound. Or the same letter for completely different sounds.

Because of course get/gist and use/you and fashion/mission/faction show us not the poor expressiveness of the language but how wonderfully rich it is in representing the different sounds.
Add in some pretty basic filters & I think I'd be game to try. Is the complaint from someone >X years active? Is the complaint from someone with >$Y dollars spent?

I can imagine a lot of factors that could go into discerning customer reliability, but there's some pretty blunt force ways to cut out a ton of noise really quick.

And... Amazon should have some pretty clear smoking gun evidence in these cases of updating product listings, with pretty heavily revised listings that should show the issue. If people are mis-reporting, I feel like that too would be kind of hard to hide.
> I'm surprised Amazon allows these kinds of bribes.

I reported one of these attempts to Amazon customer support once and the response I got back was basically "if we catch you accepting payment for positive reviews, we'll ban your account and you'll lose all of your digital purchases." No questions about the seller or the item, just a veiled threat.
Farm subsidies are generally stupid, but in the US at least most of those subsidies and price supports have been reduced or eliminated. Today the majority of farms receive zero subsidies. You're not going to get subsidized if you want to grow, let's say, pears or catfish.

I don't expect schools to turn a profit. It's fine for them to be a bit disconnected from the real world. The point is that we shouldn't take ivory-tower academics seriously when they speak outside their narrow fields of expertise.

The oldest universities tend to be the least subject to market forces. They obtain most of their revenue from grants, donations, and investment (endowment) gains. Relatively little comes from student tuition, and even that is mostly "other people's money". That's not necessarily a bad thing, but when a professor who has always worked in academia gives advice on urban planning I'm going to be highly skeptical.
I would love to see the source code of this application, but even if you can't or don't want to open-source it, it's a fun application.
Yes and tech was so path breaking and innovative that the company sold its 49% share for 10 billion dollar /s. Sam Altman is extremely experienced in the VC world and could have easily raised billions for potential value. He wouldn't have sold half of his company within 6 months of releasing chatGPT if there was any thing remotely defensible in the product
Say what you want about 'booter' services, but a DDoS of a particular web presence has been a long standing weapon of dissidents/activists who want certain services taken down, even if only briefly. It's the only means of online protest we have, short of simply sending an e-mail to a hosting service asking for certain content to be taken down, or DMCA'ing them.

Edit: The real pros don't use Booter-as-a-Service sites, they infect a bunch of IoT devices using tools they made themselves and hammer a specific IP or range of IPs.
The cat is out of the bag,The genie is out of the bottle,The confetti has left the cannon,The ship has sailed,The horse has bolted,The toothpaste is out of the tube,The beans have been spilled,The train has left the station,The die is cast,The bell has been run.
Expensive ~= effortful, meaning that it would take a lot of human labor, which would otherwise be contributing differently in the economy, at Amazon or elsewhere.

Every hour spent manually reviewing product pages could instead be spent growing food, producing shoes, building homes, providing accounting services, etc.

This doesn't mean it is or needs to be determined centrally - just that it is an economic truth that will bear out regardless. Amazon might hire 1,000 workers for this, pulling them implicitly from all of the other jobs they would otherwise have taken.

Maybe it would be a net-win, and maybe not. But from society's standpoint it really doesn't matter whether it is profitable for Amazon or not. We'd be trading less fraud on Amazon for less of everything else.
You are correct but you can join it

South Africa wasn’t a part of it initially

Argentina wants to join it I think

But honestly, there isn’t much value in joining it. BRICS is basically china, take china out and it is a minuscule thing. And there isn’t even much cooperation between BRICS countries, it’s just a bloc to make china look bigger than it actually is
Censorship is censorship and it's abhorrent regardless of who is doing it or why.

Dressing it up in terms like "protest" is a smokescreen.
"[A]bstract representations of sensory and cognitive variables may emerge from the multiple behaviors that animals exhibit in the natural world, and, as a consequence, could be pervasive in high-level brain regions."

Absolutely fascinating. If this is true then there should be some kind of cross-training approach one could take on AI to reliably generate novel abstractions.
Just "disable" ? At what point do they toss your data in the trash ?
I happen to have my stack of receipts from my Iceland trip in front of me (was cleaning out some stuff), and my "bearnaise burger & fries" from the "N1" gas station was 1770 ISK or about $17.50 CAD, $13USD. Let's see what else I have here.. Tenderloin steak from Strikið in Akureyri was 5990 ISK or $59CAD, $44USD, Creme Brulee was 1990 ISK so $20 CAD or $14.50 USD. (btw Strikið was absolutely delicious, 100% recommended).. Indeed Iceland is pretty expensive, though not too bad IMO. I'm surprised how ultra-high the requirement is to be granted this VISA, though.
The Future Is a Dead Mall – Decentraland and the Metaverse [video]
I heard GoDaddy does this too. When I want to see if a name is available I go to who is
PyCharm!
It's tightly logical but you are failing to follow.

Credit card integration obviously generates more tipping, otherwise we wouldn't be talking about it.

This is because once they see the prompt, many people think of the tip as mandatory (vs may not have thought about it) - or they don't have cash but now can tip. A good thing. I always tip well.

Now coffee becomes a thing you tip for, for these people. Totally voluntary.

For those people, this raises the effective price of a cup of coffee.

Getting Starbucks now becomes a costlier habit. At the margins this can drive someone to go elsewhere, skip, etc (basic supply and demand.)

This may not apply to some given individual but across millions of customers over a long time price including tip obviously affects quantity demanded.
I generally turn things off when I'm not using them. Don't you?
> language models can't make GPU chips

Not yet. I'm sure somebody is taking a hard look already.
> Newsflash: it's 2023. We still drive.

...but self-driving is still making incredible progress

lots of techies seem stuck in a mindset of "it doesn't work today, so it never will!"
> Mike Judge did Silicon Valley already.

I've seen Silicon Valley episodes, it is not at all in the same spirit as Office Space. Office Space spoke to the absurdity playing out in offices throughout the nation. Silicon Valley speaks to the VC-fueled privileged absurdity playing out in ... SV.

> Mike Judge's current work is a soon-to-be reboot of King of the Hill.

That's really unfortunate, King of the Hill was such a mediocre/milquetoast message, at least from what little I saw.
I would pay millions for an uncensored AI if I were super wealthy.
Return of the Beatles' Apple Corps v Apple Computer lawsuit?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
Also, was M from Male or the initial of another name?
> It's literally a scaled up Eliza

It's literally a Chinese Room. (Unless you speak Mandarin?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
Any expectation that we're going to see mass unemployment, or entire career paths made obsolete, is based on extremely inflated expectations of what LLMs could maybe do in the future.

It has a very similar feeling to the mid-2010s claims that Blockchain would displace bank settlements/SWIFT, completely change the supply chain, and make governments change how land/property ownership was tracked.
Capitalism taking the credit for undoing a tiny fraction of the damage caused by colonialism.
Although in many cases the album experience is annoying, eg a violin concerto followed by a couple of short pieces to fill time. I don’t usually want to listen to all of them and end up making playlists to separate them again.
> And it would also be nice to have things like "show most popular recordings of Beethoven's 5th".

This app has that. You can browse composer's works and view popular/all recordings.
In some equipment, like the Teletype Model 33[1], you had left arrow and up arrow instead of _ and ^. This was part of the 1963 draft of ASCII, but was changed in the final version. In the early 1980s there was still a lot of equipment by DEC and Xerox stuck with the original version, which was what the creators of Smalltalk-80 were familiar with.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit-paired_keyboard
Better to link straight to the paper: https://wrv.github.io/h26forge.pdf
Most countries allow you to do some remote work on a tourist visa. Banning people from checking work email is simply untenable if you want tourism.

UK for example has a fairly explicit line: “The applicant must not receive payment from a UK source for any activities undertaken in the UK.”

The idea of someone working fully remotely gets tricky as for example the US wants you to pay US taxes if you’ve made more than 3k/year while working in the US.
Show HN: Unleash Edge – Fast, lightweight, resilient feature flagging
You can already do what you are aiming for, without the transcription part (removing fillers with word-based filters does not give great results compared to removing with voice-based filters).

You can use Descript, CleanVoice, and other tools to achieve exactly what you just said, in a few minutes, from just the original recording.
I usually find that "interesting" architectures scale even worse, at least for the 99% of projects and organizations that'd never actually outgrow the "boring" solution. All the pain of the big fancy solution, but without the actual need that makes it truly better than the alternative.

... of course, the best-paying jobs are at the places that really do need that scale, so of course we all want an excuse to play with those tools, even when it's not the right business choice. And it's not as if software folks are the only ones with a principal-agent problem, in business. Oh well.
I am certainly not at risk of being used as luxury good buyer. But a meet over a free (for her) meal can be fine and not at all awkward IMO, this way it doesn't feel like I am wasting someone's time if it turns out I am not interested (and if she's not interested well I got a conversation out of it).
This is actually really important from my perspective. It looks like
an end user can work backwards from available inference hardware, or interference budget, required speed, then figure out a viable model size. Bring their own data and then fine tune or train from scratch.

This is getting so real so fast.
imo, our data is getting harvested regardless, and if we were to have a say, I'd choose whichever country that does not have a tendency towards violence and let's be honest, between the options on the table, which one has a longer track record of waging wars? I don't want that country.
You probably should care if you integrate the inference code in other software packages that aren’t GPL licensed.
I worked on a project for Sony Music called "Ariama" a little over ten years ago that addressed this very problem w/ metadata, and organizing classical music differently than the artist/album/track way. I worked on the search piece! We also offered FLAC downloads.

Looks like we were just ahead of our time. :-/
Should have also said that I agree with your overarching point and thought the post was great!
There’s likely an expiry on any limit they have since they are probably more interested in people who keep coming back to look for new domains. Just set a long schedule of a month plus some randomness and do a burst of searches. Slow going but with enough accounts…
Or edit them to "update for modern audiences".
Gah.
If you wave away any reality then no problem is with cryptocurrency.

And yet, for some reason reality exists and intervenes every single time.
BBC Documentary: Tetris – From Russia with Love
A new movie about Tetris is out this weekend, as such I wanted to find this old BBC doc about the rights battle for the game. Worth a watch.
Not OP, but I'm almost 40, and also have very little savings. Not everyone has the super high TCs that you often see here or on Blind

I've only been working in tech for 9 years, much of that was paid pretty low. And I live in a very HCOL city. Unfortunately living with parents is not an option, but I live in a house with 9 other people and have been cooking rice and beans and saving as much as possible, so if I get laid off, between low rent (for my city) and my savings and RRSP I can get by for a little over a year if I absolutely have to. I'd have to start withdrawing from my RRSP (Canadian version of 401K) at around the 10 month mark.

I actually really want to quit my job and try starting my own business, but I feel like it's a terrible time for it. If I get laid off I at least get some benefits from the govt, which I think will extend my cushion by a month or 2.
>why would I ever interrupt my flow?

Because watching streams live is better than watching a vod.
With the caveat that you should fully expect catbox.moe to be added to your organization's blacklist if it hasn't been already. It's kind of the premier service for sharing content that falls into the "legally grey but no big service will ever let you keep it on their site" content like mass shooting videos, etc. Just don't get used to relying on it at work is all I'm saying.
Myers-Briggs is astrology. If you find that sort of thing fun, then great.

Run away from any company demanding you take such a test as part of their interviewing process. It's as useful to the company as informing them of your astrological sign. Outside of entertainment it serves no purpose and using it outside of entertainment is detrimental to all involved. Any company using Myers-Briggs to evaluate their employees or future employees is likely to be using other snake oil methodologies as well and is best to be avoided.
Oh wow, before this I haven't used old System versions than 6.0.8 or so and it's just super amazing how ready and well thought even the System 1.0 feels usability-wise! Compare to any Windows before Windows 95, which finally caught on enough of the System/Mac OS classic desktop metaphor and made things feel not too clunky.

I've probably said it before and I say it once again: the old Mac OS windowing and spatial Finder feels even today better and more usable than any of the current DEs, macOS included. They managed to cram bunch of windows and widgets in the paltry 512x384 resolution when nowadays we manage to have max 2 windows in one screen or one window per display. (and yes, there are tiling WMs etc but that's a different story...)
Fascinating read. Historical documents have a way of throwing you back into the times to see the world as the authors saw it. There's so much to wonder about this text, dated 25th Feb 1945, in light of the hopelessness of the German situation.

I'm not sure where to begin.