skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: A Playable Demo of the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, Neal Stephenson
> maybe the relevant paper? Did you consider the people doing the research aren’t dumb and look to see if maybe they thought of alternate explanations?

Martinez 2017 study has been loled to death by night time data analysts familar with the dataset and its limits. It's rudimentry methods only useful to generate clickbait headlines - it's actually that dumb. Every few years he "updates" study with new weak data but not better methods to be republished. I think latest is 3rd revision. For reference, much more sophisticated light study by NBER (by multiple FED economists on one country vs assistant prof on entire world) conducted same year concluded PRC growth was higher than PRC reported GDP, by ~10%. In line with several studies (like CSIS broken abacus) that use much more rigorous methods. But Martinez's democracy vs authoritarian narrative gets republished every few years because the alternate explanation is stupid studies that confirm western biases gets more clicks.

Again, studies using better data/methods that tried to calc PRC GDP and conclude it's been underreported bt 10-20% as of 2010s data. Which makes sense because PRC incentivized to over report population and under report gdp to stay under high income per capita to stretch development perks reserved for developing countries. That's without going into PRC's conservative GDP estimation methods (relative to developed economies) that underestimate imputed vlaues from rent to consumption that would tag on another 10-20%. This has been pattern since the beginning for PRC global integration, i.e. in 80s PRC and IMF used different surveys to negotiate per capita values to base future gdp calcs, IMF wanted $250 vs PRC wanted $150 and settled somewhere under %200. The TLDR is PRC would rather appear poorer than she is on paper.
It's quite likely that that's where I got it and then just forgot.
That's totally your choice! It worked out for me though. A few weeks of studying algorithms changed my career.
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The top 18% of income earners are in the “rich” category, lol… what are you on about. Of course.
I mean, if you’re unwilling to relocate and can’t find work remotely, at least MCD would bring some money in the door.
Agree, stay active as possible. Don’t stop moving now!
Yep - it was more the response than how bad it was (at the time many CPUs still didn't really have floating-point, especially in the wild). If they had offered to replace ANY processor for anyone who asked, some percentage would have taken them up on it but not many. As it was the "provide proof" part made it much worse.
I've always used Windows by choice, got a problem?
Harvard has a price calculator: https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/net-price-calculat...

The price (30-40k a year) is equivalent to a lot of good state schools in-state (Berkeley, UVA, UMich, etc) at about 180-200k family income.
Who says there’s no such thing as a slippery slope? I can’t tell if your serious… this is dangerous levels of ignorance.
Might check out UToronto, thanks. We are east coasters and honestly also love the vibe of Montreal. So it is a wonderful school - surprised it is not more overrun by Americans (who represent less than half the internationals here.) Drinking age of 18, cheap cost of living, and hip areas like Plateau make it an awesome choice.

Applications could NOT be easier. Send in transcript and SAT. Done. (And if you are well above the cutoffs from last year, KNOW you will be accepted. No drama.)
This funding campaign is questionable. Investors should have some access to profit and loss information before investing. I don't have a major problem with unaccredited investors jumping in and losing money, but I do think that they deserve at least minimal transparency.

I'm not far above the accredited investor line and have a few AngelList investments. They've always provided cash flow, burn rate, projected revenue goals, and how they plan to hit them. I know I can't perform due diligence and know I'll probably lose the 1-2% of my portfolio in angel investments, but I would run from any company that doesn't offer real information.

I'm a big fan of Substack and hope that I'm wrong. I just hope that trying to reach venture expectations doesn't tank what could be a fantastically lucrative SMB.
Hey, don't yuck their yum.
Wow... Another AI thing that I can't use because there's a "waitlist". GTFO, software doesn't need waitlists and you're a jerk for advertising uselessness.
Focus on making good decisions. Everything else is out of your hands. Good luck and stay off of 4chan.
The way I see it, there is also good reason why keygens are encrypting their payload. But that doesn't change the fact that getting viruses from them was extremely common until we got reputable repack site (eg. fit-girl) that tests them for us.

You also have to keep in mind that it's not just the average people who can't understand them, even the people writing and voting on them can't understand the content. The journalist reporting on them also don't understand the content.

It's like downloading an installer from a hacker on 4chan who can't remember exactly what it does, why it's so big and why it has a big encrypted payload. Would you install it on your production environment? His package will probably solve whatever problem you wanted to fix... but who knows what else is in there or if a friend that collaborated with him put a virus in there. The reason why viruses spread so much with cracked content is that the crack were actually working.
> I can imagine a lot of factors that could go into discerning customer reliability

This just makes hacking Amazon accounts a higher priority
Haha exactly! Another market well known for transparency and ethics!
> What use cases do you have for it?

Honestly, I don't know yet. Maybe it's a better version of those useless support chatbots that were ubiquitous during the last AI hype cycle?

Beyond that, you start to get into questions like "how much better is this technology than competing technology X, at benchmarks I care about?". But those questions don't capture the hive mind in quite the same way.

> I'd argue that the output is garbage <10% of the time, and it's those times you have to be a little careful for.

I don't know where the "bullshit threshold" is for a given task, but I've already seen articles claiming that programmers will be obsolete, citing GPT-generated code that was incorrect. So, you know...YMMV.

> What else explains the massive adoption if it isn't providing a decent amount of utility?

Hmmmm...I forgot the word. Begins with "H"...hyphen? Hippy? Hippo? Hyperbola?
Luck has nothing to do with this — right?
California hasn't fallen into the sea as many predicted so we have still more to look forward to
<< Find a way to be of service.

I will expand on it a little bit as it can be taken in several different ways. The easiest/quickest way to a new job is with someone's inside recommendation. There is a fair amount of people, who volunteer for a wide cross-section of companies out there. Obviously, don't do things you don't care about ( it will only make you miserable ), but I am sure some of your skill set would be valuable to someone out there.
> The article is, frankly, not very interesting. You change the inputs and get different outputs? What a surprise!

Here is what this argument amounts to:

"Humans are, frankly, not very interseting. You change the things you tell them and you get different responses? What a surprise!"

I'm not sure what your point is. I wish you'd just read the paper sigh.

Quote from the paper:

> Emergent few-shot prompted tasks are also unpredictable in the sense that these tasks are not explicitly included in pre-training, and we likely do not know the full scope of few-shot prompted tasks that language models can perform.
"Never come between a man and his meal" playing out right here
Wolverine – Give your Python scripts regenerative healing abilities
Mistakes happen, and the resulting figures are easily verifiable.

There’s no need to be so combative.
“Edge computing” arguably implies there’s a network you are connected t, that you’re on the edge of, so I wouldn’t apply the term to applications that can function completely offline. With edge computing there’s usually still a notion of having some sort of internet integration, like IoT devices.
I'm not sure your line method proves much since the countersteer could be very subtle. However I think you're still right. Countersteer makes you start to fall faster, but it clearly isn't necessary to make you fall because you do that anyway!

Next time I'm on my bike I will try it anyway.
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The Forbes Cloud 100 is a ranking of the top private saas companies (Stripe is #1 for example)

While 48% of the Forbes Cloud 100 have had layoffs since 2022, only 1 of the 5 (20%) remote companies on the list have had layoffs.

The 5 remote companies on the list:
Vercel - no layoffs (#95 on the Cloud 100)
Zapier - no layoffs (#13 on the Cloud 100)
Grafana Labs - no layoffs (#37 on the Cloud 100)
dbt Labs - no layoffs (#79 on the Cloud 100)
Attentive - 15% layoff in Jan 2023 (#10 on the Cloud 100)

Why might this be? Is it possible that remote companies are more robust to the current layoff wave?
Is this just the result of a small, non-stat-sig sample size?
The EV Transition Is Harder Than Anyone Thinks
The point is that most people don't bother to juggle cards to get the best cash back each time; they just pick one and stick with it (which is why companies PAY Costco big bucks to be their card provider).
Whoever is doing this due diligence is truly helping millions and millions of people. Good luck. There are very few among us here that could pretend the same, and I'm not one of them.
I believe the timeline is:

Nov 24 - Wednesday - Report of issue
Nov 25 - Thursday - Thanksgiving
Nov 29 - Monday - Work done
Nov 30 - Tuesday - PR submitted
(review as if nothing special)
Dec 9 - Thursday - "Is it a security vulnerability?"
Dec 10 - Friday - All hell breaks loose (Log4j 2.15.0 released)
Dec 13 - Monday - Java devs updating libraries furiously (Log4j 2.16.0 released)
Dec 18 - Saturday - Wait? there's more (Log4j 2.17.0 released)
...
Dec 27 - Monday - Enough already (Log4j 2.17.1 released)
I'm not privy to anything special here, but I do get the impression that (intuitively) it's easier to target layoffs in areas with weaker employee protection laws. In most EU countries, it's pretty hard to make these kinds of redundancies without going through a slow and expensive process, as well as paying severance.
I think “state school” refers more towards “Utah state university” instead of university of Utah etc.

Don’t think people would refer to UT or UoA as state
schools

They’re all massive state run institutions though
Exactly which republics are missing from the public education diet? Both Athens and Rome are studied to death in public school.

Sparta wasn't a republic (or anyone's idea of a model for a good, or successful society.)
Sorry to hear. I was just laid off 3 weeks ago (3rd time I've been laid off during the last 10 years). It can be very stressful.

Here's a tip from the book "How to stop worrying and start living" (Dale Carnegie): live in day-tight compartments. This means to focus on getting through one day at a time.

As others have already pointed out, you should be able to get onto your wife's insurance because you've just had a "qualifying event". In the event that you do need COBRA, you can enroll in it retroactively (just pay attention to the dates).

My current plan -- stay current on LinkedIn (indicate that you're "Open to Work", search for jobs through LinkedIn, apply to jobs, reach out to people in your network, etc.). I follow-up on emails and job search first thing each morning. Then I spend some time doing hobby software development to keep your brain fresh and maybe even pick up a new skill or 2. After that, I work outside or in my garage on other (unrelated) stuff. In my case, that's a combination of woodworking and metalworking. You need something to pass the time and ideally give yourself some exercise.

I highly encourage you to do stuff that will tire your body during the day. This will make it easier to sleep at night. You may also find that taking 5mg of melatonin may help too.

You will need to remind yourself over and over that you WILL get through it.

If you have other skills maybe try to make use of them. Did you ever do any painting or carpentry? If so, you can maybe pick up some odd jobs in your neighborhood if needed.

Good luck. Don't be too hard on yourself.
Tbh I’m not sure why the pic is funny. And I am human
Even if you don’t fear any legal consequences I guess you might still care about denial of service.
I'm liking this app generally, but man, I was listening to St. Matthew Passion (~ 3 hour piece) this afternoon and the app crashed. It relaunched immediately, but started playing at the beginning. I couldn't find a play history so I could at least start at the track I left off.

Also one little fiddly bit... when I searched for SMP it lets me view all the albums, but includes a bunch of albums that include a single track from the work, which I get why they included them, but it'd be nice to sort them to the end or something. I'm usually interested in listening to an entire work.
It should be obvious that college is over-priced and the ROI is questionable...

...yet...

...parents still send their kids to college.

In other words - we are the problem, not the colleges.

Unless your kids want to be a doctor, lawyer, management consultant, or investment banker, then the influence college will have over your kid's career will be minimal. Nowadays, many trade skills pay more than what a college grad earns after graduation.

If you think cost of college is a problem, put your money where your mouth is and encourage your kids to do something different. I know I will.
Most malware target Windows because it's the undisputed king of the personal computer market.

Were that king Linux or Mac or BSD or god damn Haiku, they would be seeing the brunt of malware attacks instead.
And one of the top 3 for emigration. Smart Russians are leaving at a never seen before pace.
Yes, I try to avoid it as much as I can.
Why does the patient need to be restrained when they're anaesthetised?
I'm lazy, so this isn't exhaustive. The first benchmark in the RWKV README is LAMBADA, where it got about 39% accuracy. SOTA is 90%, so that's about 6x more errors than SOTA. 4.5x the error rate of the first versions of GPT-3 in 2020. I didn't find LAMBADA benchmarks for GPT3.5 or GPT4, but from the GPT4 technical report, it generally makes about 2-3x fewer mistakes than GPT3.5 or prior SOTA on various benchmarks, so the difference is even more extreme. It's safe to say RWKV is not close to SOTA.

Meanwhile GPT4 still really sucks at a lot of things. So by the time open source commodity hardware models do reach GPT4 level, the SOTA will be that much further ahead.

The tech will be ubiquitous some day, but it's not right around the corner.
New typesetting systems are a dime a dozen and none of them is getting anywhere. Also in almost all cases HTML/CSS is what you want to use anyway. TeX is pretty niche but it fills that niche perfectly. A 100% compatible LaTeX that plays nicely in today's infrastructure is all I want.
Ahh, thank you for the direct link. Part of the confusion with the duped/notduped post. I don't think OP really meant "hate" with the expression "hating on" but it's still easily taken as harsh.
Millennial bingo:

2008 financial crisis

2020 pandemic (& Brexit)

2022 war start + highest winter temperatures ever recorded

2023 economic downturn and layoffs

Who knows what the future holds.
> and even the seemingly basic idea that, for a bicycle to be self-stable, it needs to turn the handlebars into the fall, has not yet been proven.

is it proven at least that "the bike needs to turn into the fall (the handlebars moving not necessarily being the cause of the bicycle turning)"?
Thank you for checking it out, and for your feedback. You can't really discourage me anymore than I already am. XD
1. I see your point, and will think on it.
2. This is a tough one. On one hand we want people to trust us, but on the other, we don't want people easily gaming the site.
3. I agree. Consistency is lacking and this is on our todo list. (How the hell did Trump make it on both lists!? Clearly lots of work to do)
See my comment above with the numbers.

2000 kcal worth of food takes somewhere in the range of 6 kg (for vegetables) to 72 kg (for beef) of CO2 emissions to farm.

If you assume a gas car needs 35000 kcal to make the same journey it's about 10 kg of CO2 emissions.

You're making a kcal-to-kcal comparison, which is apples-to-oranges in terms of climate change. Climate change doesn't care about kcal, it's greenhouse gases like CO2 that do matter.

I know internet forum people are going to come back with a retort about how drivers also eat, but the fact is that cyclists do need to eat more than drivers to make the same journey, and the math puts the answer somewhere in the middle, you need to do the interpolation.
Does this mean that form-fillers that actually work are around the corner?

Like the Lastpass form filler, but instead it would actually work?

Never ever having to fill out any webform manually ever again?!

That's a killer app right there IMO.
Yeah, I imagine it'd be like reading Latin, I even struggle with English texts written only 4 centuries ago, forget 14 centuries ago. Access is a good point too, I think Medieval and Renaissance texts tend to accumulate at Yale, Oxford, Cambridge, etc, at least in the Anglosphere.
I'm pretty much the opposite of a marxist, but I absolutely support the abolishment of the NLRB and the legalization of all otherwise legal labor negotiation tactics as freedom of association. If there are critical professions that we don't want to strike, then their employer can negotiate that as part of their contract in exchange for higher pay.
What makes you think I’m white?

In any case, apart from many Afrikaners, whites are increasingly irrelevant to the discussion about South Africa’s future-they’re dwindling as a percentage of the population because of aging, emigration, higher black birth rates and inward migration from other African counties.

The country is, objectively, deteriorating.
...but newer, larger multimodal LLMs appear to be on track to understand the photo, to find it funny, and to be able to describe why it's funny.

We live in interesting times.
It's not the temp, it's the wind. So much so that the car rental insurance has special coverage for doors being damaged and/or torn off by wind gusts.
If the concern is privacy and security, which apply to all social media platforms, then why not pass actual privacy and security laws that would apply equally to all social media platforms, regardless of who currently owns it or may own it in the future?
Unless you're planning to personally oversee every transaction in cash, gold, diamonds, sea shells.

It's a false equivalency.

Major banks have been found to actively facilitate all those things.

So why not have a convenient currency in crypto and just use law enforcement to enforce the law!
Even if we don't read the screeds or have to worry about it.
> "Jails are systems that impose censorship on application programs." Not sure if I'm interpreting this next quote from the GNU.org site (https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html) correctly, but it seems like this is exactly their definition of a "Free GNU/Linux distribution" is meant to do: "They will reject nonfree applications, nonfree programming platforms, nonfree drivers, nonfree firmware "blobs," nonfree games, and any other nonfree software, as well as nonfree manuals or documentation."

It's not; first (as referred in article) is preventing user from using the machine as they see fit.

Second one is not accepting software into distribution that tries to take user's freedom to modify it; they don't stop you installing non-free software in free distribution, they are just not shipping the non-free software. It's a stance on not promoting (by including and making installing trivial) the non-free software but you are still free to install on your own.

Going by tired

> "They will reject" seems an awful like "won't run on my distribution", and not because it's not compatible because of runtime or kernel differences, but because of its 'being nonfree'.

Nope, it explicitly means "will not distribute, with their distribution, for free". Software actively stopping you from running other software would actually be nonfree, as the whole deal with OSS is "do with sofware what you want" and GNU deal being "and pass same priviledge forward"
Luckily the article explains it right below the caption ;-)
he's stepping on the scale making the guy seem heavier than he is
Dropping your cynical take, and for reasons other than buying illegal services, bitcoin plus strong privacy tools provides a path towards eventually separating money payments from identity.

Money is a form of speech, in that it communicates values. Sometimes freedom of speech requires strong anonymity. I see no reason money shouldn't have the same characteristics. The alternative---that governments and other entities get to surveil all our monetary speech/actions---will only have further chilling effects on freedom and civil society.

We need monetary privacy to preserve ordered freedom in society, not to buy criminal services.

I'm glad police are trying to reduce DDoS crimes.
On the other hand, we balance health hazards to the public against economic activity.

"Minimal risk while still permitting economic growth / treating disease" vs "no risk"

It's fair to apply the same standards to internet companies. A hyper efficient Amazon has social benefits.

(That said, I agree that the optimal point for Amazon and most internet companies is a lot stricter than how our current laws are enforced)
Another example[1]. We were looking for a dolphin stuffed toy under $20. My 5 years old kid saw the photo and got so excited. Correct dimensions are in the title but I didn't pay attention, unfortunately. We ordered it.

He was so disappointed when he opened the box.

1: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09FJLQ866
Because Iceland is part of Schengen, and you need a job in Schengen for long stays.

I don't think in US it would be different.