skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"the whole point of having a bank is to create debts that are riskier and weirder than that"

I actually think the average person (or business) would disagree with this statement. The reason most businesses and individuals deposit money in a bank is first, to keep it safe and second, to make your funds available to send and receive payments without managing large piles of cash. This can be done without lending at all (see narrow banks) and in that case the bank can simply let everyone withdraw their money in the event of a run. Financing an office building could be done by a separate institution that sells bonds and then loans those funds to businesses at higher interest rates. This institution would be able to make the duration of its bonds match the loans it makes to customers.
Is this not what estimating and refinement means to developers? I’m always pulling a number out of my ass, but that number is generally informed by current and past work, unknowns, and a “gut feel”.

If that number is too high, then that’s a sign to management that the work needs to be changed. The only way to determine that is to estimate it then make that call.
The takeaway from SVB is that there are a lot of losses in asset values either because of the pandemic (SF office space) or rising interest rates (home prices, startup valuations) that have yet to be realized.
Wow, being sarcastic about AI! I bet you're the first person to come up with that idea!

Man, I wish we could all be so smart and clear-seeing.
"incorporates your photographic style into their painting or illustration"

Seems pretty cut and paste to me. If it has trained on my images and then uses that trained dataset to generate new images those images are in violation. Using training sets that include unlicensed copyrighted works requires attribution and licensing. TO be legal otherwise the end user/AI company would have to be able to prove in a court of law that without training on my copyrighted work it would have still generated that specific image which I can't see the users/company being able to do.
“True Colour” does not really mean much here because colour is a characteristic of visual perception, i.e., it a human observer construct. With that in mind, and disregarding the fact that it is impossible to directly observe, the colour of the Sun would be white because it is the dominant irradiance source around us and an observer would be logically be chromatically adapted to it. It is the reason why the standard illuminant in colour science is D65, i.e. a average spectrum of the sun going through our atmosphere.
I've yet to see it divert auxiliary power to forward phasers and rotate shield frequencies.
Good points. Understanding what and how it really works will be valueble.

Explaining the AI needs the knowledge of what can be done. For example, you cannot say AI "build systems that process the data". You need to explain AI what "kind of processing should be done". That by itself requires knowledge of what kind of processing exist and when to use which. Also, explaining to AI what should be done takes time and effort which should not be underestimated. Sometimes when I am exlaining someone which way data should be cleaned in many cases I think that it maybe faster to do it by myself and explainig to AI will most likly be a harder than to AI. So, the question about is it easier to implement by myself than explain what I need to AI is a valid and important question.

Also, with data important part even without AI is to verify how well system works. Does it correctly handles differents types of data and different use cases? Just having a system that processes data but you are not sure what output can be is in most cases useleless data system.

So, in any serious data systems understanding of what they can be done and how code and data systems are working are important and I think will become even more important than now.

Also, someone needs to creat AI and systems around them.
Businesses think about what to keep in stock quite a lot and often the answer is "as little as possible." Carrying inventory costs money, more when interest rates rise, and it's potentially wasted if it doesn't sell.

There's a tradeoff because prudent disaster preparation is expensive, but worth it if the disaster happens. The question is, who will pay for it? Often, the government.
If anyone ever wanted to do something similar for iMessage data, I built a similar tool for that: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter
"Published: Dec 29, 2007", so it's not that old. I remember seeing it back then and looking at it for a long time, and while it felt like "a good amount of time ago", it already feels like the more modern times to me.
>Nothing "toy" about it, it was the most advanced phone on the market.

In no way was the original iphone the most advanced phone on the market. Many other smartphones before it and at the time were way more advanced in features and what they could do. What the first iPhone did was make it easy and accessible to everybody, not just nerds. That was the killer feature which made it take over the world.
If a computer scientist is doing completely routine tasks, they should be automating them, not estimating them every two weeks.
I don’t mind someone giving deadlines because I can then scope quality to fit those expectations.
"Users of cryptocurrencies obviously find them useful, or hope they will be in future"

Do they hope they'll be useful in the future because they think they're great technology that everyone should benefit from... or do they want them to be useful because they bought in early and want to get rich?
If you tell your bathroom remodelers that you want green tiles after they have already done half of it with red and by the way you want the bathtub in a different place and you also aren’t sure yet if if you need a toilet bowl then their estimates will get out of hand pretty quickly. And your bathroom should be able to handle a 200 person family just in case although right now there are only two people in the house. And to save money you hire people from the street who don’t speak your language and have no experience but we all know one worker is one worker. They are all the same so when you hire cheap workers your cost is less without loss of productivity.
Deflation is always worse than inflation. 1930s is always worse than 1980s.
I think the author and you might have different understandings of "lazy". If I pursue a hobby for an afternoon with no financial upside (say, building model kits or painting) I might consider that a "lazy Sunday".

I was productive, insofar as I pursued an interest, but I was not productive in the "producing salable work".

I think there's a universe where lazy can mean different things for different people. For some that's lying on the couch, others might read or write or pursue art and music.
> If there is any company that can make a headset work, its Apple.

Logically equivalent to: if Apple can't make it work, no one can.
This only makes sense from a euro-centric view of the world.
Month before Day is most compliant with the international standard for date (ISO 8601). We use Year-Month-Day fairly frequently in the United States too (though the most common is Month/Day/Year).
> There is no reason to try to build millions of Datas and make them slaves.

And what about the millions of sex slaves and companions? Lots of people are lonely or unable to find suitable mate. These robots by their nature have to be human-like.

It's not necessary to enslave them with force though. Just build them in such a way they will love their owners.
> IceCube Neutrino Observatory (funny name lol)

It's also an incredibly descriptive and literal name - the observatory is a cubic kilometer of photosensitive detectors frozen in ice at the south pole. When a neutrino interacts with the ice, it produces cherenkov radiation, which can be detected and sent up the chain to a server to classify what was actually detected.
No, they aren't, they are just data.

The problem is the powers that be are heavily invested in keeping the cattle from panicing or paying attention to the house of cards we call an economy.

I assure you; perception management is never benign. It's a reason why in common law, adverse inference is a thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_inference
> It does beg the question: How well does the LLM work on non-English languages?

Well I haven't chatted to it much in Chinese, but I've asked extensively about Chinese, and that's probably one area where I get the most benefit. It can accurately translate, segment, romanize, and break down phrases; it usually does a pretty good job explaining why a given word was used, and is good at giving you example sentences using a given word or grammar pattern. I'd be surprised if it were significantly worse in Chinese than in English.
That may be your opinion but it doesn’t make any sense in this context. NVIDIA profited enormously from the crypto boom.
I would have thought filtering people on "being in tech" would have weeded out the people resistant to change, so I'm surprised by the negativity on anything innovative here, whether it's EVs, self driving cars, AI, crypto (although I can forgive this one) or VR.
That's really cool. There are a bunch of tools that will let you symlink or hard link deduplicate files, but being able to do block-level dedupes simply by leaning on the filesystem is nice.

It sometimes feels like games are made to thwart this type of thing. They often use packfiles, basically filesystems within files optimized to look up assets quickly. Also perhaps they allowed optimized data layout from when consoles had slow spinning hard drives. The upshot is that a tiny patch inserting a line of code in a script may offset hundreds of megabytes of other data in the packfiles, causing the block hashes to no longer match up. Do any filesystems model inserts in some way? I'm pretty sure Steam updates can handle situations like that. I frequently see updates which download a tiny amount (kilobytes) but write a huge amount to disk (gigabytes), and I can't think of any other cause. (Assuming developers aren't using hilariously un-compressed assets).
Easy to laugh at him, I'd say it's more like the doctor who tells you to quit smoking or it's eventually going to kill you. The fact that you haven't died yet doesn't exactly prove the doctor is an idiot or wrong.
The Graphical User Interface Gallery
I'm kind of fascinated how these deadly machines can be so good-looking / elegant.
Here’s what i gleaned from this article:
(1) Ken Thompson uses Linux in a Raspberry Pi.
(2) Linus Torvalds uses Linux on a laptop he likes better than a Mac with a bad screen.
(3) the author likes using linux on ARM chips.
(4) Ashashi Linux runs on Apple’s ARM computers. The author uses it.

Here’s what the author might add:
(1) What did Ken Thompson find off putting about Mac OS?
(2) What was wrong with Linus’ screen that couldn’t be fixed and how did switching to Linux fix it?
(3) What benefits of running Linux vs Mac Os inspired the author to write this article?

Those three points, or similar, might make this article more interesting and valuable.
A friend works for a financial company that gets applicants from .NET and Linux backgrounds. He observed that the .NET devs almost always thought about solving these problems with a database and SQL that the Linux people would solve with pipelines of commands.

Both were valid in his environment since they were both a big Oracle and SQL Server shop while having high Linux usage as well. I must ask him if PowerShell has changed things at all.
…who is “we”? Randos on HN?
You sound like you have a good grasp of this!

What’s your take on the observation that historically after the yield curve inversion ends, it’s 3-6 months until a recession?
Understanding Wolfram's ChatGPT Plugin Manifest
No matter what you are building, you are now competing with OpenAI
The article states that dominance as indicated by “alpha” status is a bad term. However after reading it feels even more appropriate. The term is often not used in a family context but among professional or social circles. When family bonds don’t exist, this terminology seems apropos.

I do appreciate that the article reminds us that the wolf is most often not a vicious animal. Having known people who’ve kept wolves, they’re amazing and family oriented animals with capacity for care and compassion. Often even more than dogs since they’re smarter and haven’t had the wild bred out. The fact that such an animal would become comfortable and exchange love with a human while ignoring their desire to be free is amazing!

Wolves are greatly misunderstood and demonized in mass media - most recently “the Grey” with Liam Neeson.
I agree with you on this being peak stackoverflow. It's a shame how these people install themselves as mods and just run amok. What a shame. The first year or two of stackoverflow was the best times. You could actually have great conversations with professionals.
I’m 100% certain that the vast majority of the population wants cheap, efficient, reliable, fast, private means of transportation. Companies (both car and oil) are just serving that want.
What is interesting is that these may pass a Turing test, but they sure don't pass the cringe test.

They are so insipid and obvious ... and seemingly canned ... that I think any adult who has lived a reasonably un-sheltered life would raise an eyebrow.
Happy OpenSUSE user here.

Maybe it is my approach to personal computing devices, but I managed to break Ubuntu several times during upgrades. OpenSUSE tumbleweed just worked every time.

It also provides a more up to date gnome experience. I tried KDE on OpenSUSE too, but international input was broken.

Nothing negative to say about free OS. Very fast, very stable, supports dell laptop hardware out of box.
The simple things I want from Apple, that seemly would be not to difficult from a company with so much money and talent are left to linger. But every half baked idea is rushed to the front of the line.

If during the VR headset announcement Xbox was somehow involved, it would get my attention though.
“I don’t have time to tinker with my computer so I will run Linux on it…”

I find the lack of self awareness astonishing.
Breaking News: Nvidia raising the bar for how openly hypocritical a company can be with their PR.
Exactly. iPhone was a toy, 20th century internet was a toy, electricity was a toy.

On the other hand nuclear fusion, self-driving cars, and bitcoin were the things to change the world as we know it in the next decade or so.

Things that change the world tend to be hard to recognize as such when we first see them.
You can get power tools with replaceable batteries. I do prefer electric tools because they don't need as much maintenance as a combustion engine and weight less but batteries are too expensive for this to be feasible for professional use indeed.
Oh wow. I didn't know this had a name. I hate hearing someone chewing. It's really distracting and disgusting. And any repetitive clicking. Ugh. But strangely, some other noise is enjoyable and even cathartic, as long as there's variation. I actually like to listen to Merzbow now and then.

The 20% number also aligns with the percentage of highly sensitive persons in the population. Seems like this is a subtrait of HSP.
They work, millions use them, but people constantly want to tear them down and claim they have no use.

You can just not use them. You almost certainly won't be presented with a case in your everyday life in which someone refuses your cash and only accepts Bitcoin.

Meanwhile, every day it becomes harder and harder to avoid using Visa or Mastercard as stores go cash free.
To me it actually looks like it just took the dark energy theory and s/expanding/shrinking/g on it. It's even called "isotropic space-time expansion" in many papers.
Looks like that page hasn't been updated since it first went live three years ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20210218143405/https://www.nvidi...

In Feb 2021 you could still just about be forgiven for thinking that hardware like that optimized for mining was a worthwhile market to be pursuing.
That's only one part of the equation, as explained.
> Calling on private capital to make risky investments in new technologies that only have one likely customer - the US government (well, maybe some Third World petrodollar recycling options, who knows) - seems to avoid discussing how the current gigantic military government budget is being spent.

Historically, there has been no shortage of entrepreneurs chasing defense dollars. Lots of iconic weapons, from the Thompson submachine gun to the Spitfire to the Colt revolver, were developed speculatively and later sold to militaries that hadn’t initially requested them.

> Fundamentally, military expenditures don't have much in the way of additional positive economic effects. Say you're producing construction cranes, for example - each crane facilitates further economic activity, in building projects. If you're producing tanks - well, unless your economic model is to raid other countries for raw resources, it's not going to have that same effect. There's also little likelihood for a large consumer market for your product.

Lots of military procurement expenditures have resulted in products with immediate civilian applications: rockets, radios, first aid equipment, antibiotics, encryption, highways, helicopters, jet engines, radar, sonar, Kevlar, canned food, computers.
Both the iPhone and the iPod arguably took a few generations to really hit their stride. I had a fairly new Treo in 2007 and I just didn't see any compelling reason to upgrade until the 3GS. I had nothing against Apple (I owned a 4G iPod). I just didn't have a compelling reason to upgrade. Verizon also probably had a better network at the time around where I lived and traveled.
The worst for me is when people’s teeth bite down on silverware.

Its exactly how you described
Or maybe the reason he still has clearance is because the federal crimes are totally made up & in your head
AI has done a great-ish job with 2D content. It's very impressive superficially, but flawed when you examine the details.

3D content - particularly live procedural 3D animated content based on large models - is maybe 15-20 years away. It needs a couple of orders of magnitude more processing power.

I wouldn't be surprised if that's Apple's planned destination. If so, it's going to take a while to get there.

This version seems more like a toe in the water. It will appeal to early adopters and a few gamers, but it's not going to be a game changer.
Old Spice could make a bundle on this.
Perhaps an attempt to sell a dedicated product to that community so the rest of us don’t find it impossible to get a graphics card to play games with?
The same about the difference between software and hardware
> Also their audit stats are laughably high. 99.99% you couldn't get that ratio with 110+ IQ students signing their final exam that their life depends on

You're confused. It's not that there was a 99.99% accuracy rating in signing. It's that there was a "a 99.99% accuracy rate in performing correct signature verification procedures." - which means something very different from what you're saying. That is: signatures that should have been thrown out were thrown out, and signatures that were kept were good.

The fact that you misunderstood this says to me that either means you arguing in bad faith, or you're not actually able to step back from your beliefs and evaluate the facts with any kind of impartiality.

> For obvious reasons, legitimate forensic audits are not done by the same people that did the original count.

Right yes, that makes sense to me as well:

> Raffensperger’s office teamed up with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to conduct the audit.

Unless I'm much mistaken, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Republican secretary of state aren't usually the ones counting the ballots on election night.

You can move the goalpost to counties that haven't conducted audits like this all you want, but the point is how were the supposed fraudsters to know which counties were going to be key to the election AND not get audited, in order to get away with stealing an election? If every place you look you find no evidence, you can always keep saying let's look just one more place because THAT's where the fraud is! Each time you look is not just "no fraud found here" it's also "and the fraudsters knew not to do fraud here because they knew we'd look here". But I guess you can get around this by just saying that the audits were bad, and we need to conduct more audits that will somehow be good this time?

The worst part of all this is that the false claims of fraud are being used to purge voter rolls, and pass more voter id laws that make it harder for people to vote - because the people who are making these claims know that the harder it is to vote the better chance they have of winning. If that's not rigging an election, idk what is.
It’s because it’s not an interesting point and it’s plainly obvious. It’s reductive and simplistic and denies a fleet of thought and study that says otherwise.
Confused journalist conflates "cryptocurrency mining" with "cryptocurrencies"

That is a pretty big mistake, completely changes what Nvidia said. We should be able to rate news sources from posts

And we are at a point where unproductive cpu mining is reaching irrelevance so this is kind of a mute point

The future could even be where cryptocurrency mining means making your graphics available for the network to train someone's AI model
I was going to ask, but I do now:

https://utopia.org/guide/lagom/
I thank God that I've had the foresight to have decoupled all my finances from any specific nation or currency so that I will not be exposed to the tyranny you support. I feel only sorrow for those who are not as fortunate and have to live your nightmare.
instead of extracting notes data as JSON my simple tool allows you to liberate your notes by publishing them to the web.

https://montaigne.io/

I use the same amazing library linked in the blog post.
> Most people have a preconception that aliens do not exist

See, the problem is that you could easily be wrong about what the majority of others believe. And in fact you are wrong on this point (at least for Americans) [1].

It's very easy to get the wrong idea about what the majority believes, due to something called the majority illusion [2]. A broadcast vocal minority can drown out the true majority.

Supposing you could identify the majority opinion, it certainly does not make it the truth, and counter claims are not by definition "extraordinarily" simply because they are the minority opinion. Science and truth are not determined by vote. 81% of Americans believe in god [3]. Does that make it an extraordinary claim that god does not exist?

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/06/30/most-americ...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/wonkblog/ma...

[3] https://news.gallup.com/poll/268205/americans-believe-god.as...
As I say, I'm not sure about anything here, I just think it's risky to write the idea off right now just because it requires progress we can't forsee.

I also don't think the comparison quite works, because no one is saying that we need to get down to zero humans for this to to be profoundly disruptive, just enough humans to code review and make relatively small changes, I wouldn't be amazed if that's what software engineering becomes in the coming decades.
As someone who moved from a practical engineering field into software engineering, this separation in tasks between management and developers seems weird. Engineering in general is about finding a local optimum in a multidimensional problem space, one of the axes could be time, another one could be complexity or agility. For me, an engineer is not just tasked with outputting code, but also working out these optimums.