skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making Python (near infinitely) faster by using it as a glue language, and running all the computation outside Python :-P
I'm sure you're aware that realistically most people would just plead guilty and accept some kind of deal rather than go through the court system.
The only thing I don't like about this is that we are in an industry with the highest pays for these "incompetent but nice" people.

Coming from a poor family, with a background of financial struggles, it always upsets me how kind we all are with nice and incompetent people while they are earning their 100k+$ for no value they deliver.

They most probably both are privileged and get paid more, than 90% of world population. They are just utterly lazy.
So why do they deserve the $$$$?

I unfortunately fall in the category of "brilliant asshole", based on the feedbacks. And this is mostly coming from the bitterness that is triggered by the "incompetent but nice". The other "brilliants" and "the bests" like to work with me and I also love them.

At my current job, I'm asked to work on myself on a daily basis because of this. But deep down I feel I won't ever be "cured" from it; I'll be kind to the "incompetent but nice" but will always loathe their laziness.
Coming out of China..what a surprise. Just wall off that country and the world would be a whole lot safer.
As natural numbers get huge, they become gradually harder to use. Though no, I wouldn't require a number to represent some physical quantity, as long as the number itself fits in some kind of moderate physical boundary.

But real numbers are wonky right from the start. Picking a single random real out of a range is infeasible.
If it’s not classified it shouldn’t be exempt from FOIA, period. The government works for us, not the other way around.
Carefully.

These issues pretty much all come down to implicit conversions, which you quickly learn to avoid as it’s usually unhelpful (likely a reason for typescript’s popularity).
I have to ask. Why is it "white"-board vs. "chalk"-board? Back in elementary school, I learned to call the former "black"-board.
I don't think it's correct as stated in the article.

Looking at the paper, it basically says: the orbit starting with N dips to f(N) for "most" N, where f is a function that goes to infinity.

So, you can't pick f(N) = 200, but you can at least pick an f(N) that goes to infinity really slowly--a lot more slowly than previous results (f(N) = ~N^0.7924 is mentioned as a previous result).
This is such good writing: it's thoughtful, incisive, and revealing. Before long, AI will probably be able to produce something similar, but meantime, I'm savoring that special feeling you get as a reader when a writer's words resonate deeply with you.
Antarctic ocean currents heading for collapse- report
> They might as well just write “We are the executive branch, we can do anything we want, rule of law does not apply to us”.

The best part is that it's the legislative branch handing over this much control to the executive branch. It cedes so much authority from the legislative branch that the executive branch can basically run the show without intervention.

Anything that can be remotely construed as bypassing a mitigation measure (i.e., telling someone how to download TikTok, or, hypothetically, any future social network or platform or service) could be turned into a violation without any further oversight.
Does this mean there's a location in space where – on the side of the earth opposite to the sun – the sun's light is focused into a point of extremely high intensity due to the earth's atmosphere acting like a magnifying glass?

If so, that could make for either a very unfortunate surprise (i.e. a spacecraft passing through that point suddenly melting to a crisp) or an interesting source of energy if it could be harnessed.
is this how it's gonna be now ? no more model release but instead "request our api"
Requiring tests to pass before a commit is allowed can be a negative experience as well. For instance if you're handing off a branch to someone else to take over work in progress because you're going on vacation.

Or if you just have the (good) habit of checking in your work in progress code frequently, or daily.

Or if you have several workstations you want to share code on.

Point is that commits should be frequent and requiring tests to pass before you can commit is guaranteed to make sure that commits are infrequent.

I prefer to put "tests must pass before PR can be merged", rather than before commits can be made.

It solves all of those issues.
Python and Rust. Apple has some job openings in distributed systems for people fluent in both.
I made the claim, the burden is on you if you wish to refute it. Look it up if you care so much. I already know this is all true.
"prepare the children for the road, not the road for the children."
>the bill isn't really pointed towards VPNs

Funny how the laws always give the government absolute power, and then everyone has to just hope that no government from here into the future in perpetuity will ever use the rest of the overbroad authority.

They could have easily narrowed the scope of the language if they wanted. It didn't have to be written to be so broad.
"Cheaping out" is not the best description. Apple has riddled the space with a ton of patents. https://insights.greyb.com/apple-facial-recognition-patents/
It's blatantly self-serving for you to decide that "if someone really believed X, they would do Y". All it does is justify your belief that no one actually believes X. You should really avoid these kinds of unfalsifiable thought patterns that only serve to reenforce your pre-existing beliefs.
No, but those are physical objects. Your certified original jpeg (nft) is not worth anything really if everyone else can just find the jpeg on the internet. NFTs are just silly, another reason being that they are separate from copyright ownership of the image.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is opposed to the TikTok ban. About 5 days ago, she posted a video on TikTok explaining her thinking here:

https://www.tiktok.com/@aocinthehouse/video/7214318917135830...

The summary is: this would be a pretty unprecedented move to effectively ban a social media company. In this case, TikTok isn't even doing anything illegal as far as we know, because the United States has basically no data privacy laws that would be relevant here in the first place. The solution to that problem isn't to ban TikTok, it's to create a regulatory framework where companies are obligated to follow certain rules.

Also, with these sorts of issues Congress usually receives a classified briefing where they're told the nature of the allegations against a specific party. Congress, however, has not been briefed on what TikTok is doing, which is odd. And besides, those allegations should probably be shared publicly in this case because the effects of any potential legislation are so significant. As she says, "this doesn't feel right." It seems like Congress isn't following its normal procedures.

She doesn't talk about the language of any particular bill or how it doesn't mention TikTok at all; I'm not sure if the version referred to by the original video was available to AOC when she made her video.
That's an arbitrary path-dependent place to put the line. Realistically if you spend infinite time and effort doing the kind of dodge/burn that every photography competition allows then you can make the photo look like anything you want.
>violating some anti-terror legislation

Like the Patriot act?
What about some actual liberal policies, like some healthcare, some education and somewhere to live and work?

Even if drug laws have been liberalised (which they seem not to have been in much of the US), it's been done without the other necessary components.

If you want to try going full Philippines on it, it might pay to look at the results, they don't seem good.
Well, he’s right about one thing:

> On Feb. 7, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, publicly gloated that the new Bing would make Google “come out and show that they can dance.” “I want people to know that we made them dance,” he said.

> This is not how the CEO of Microsoft talks in a sane world.

Certainly this is not the kind of childish priorities the leader of a company as powerful as Microsoft should have.
That is correct, default values are initialised at compilation time and stored in the function object.
The most annoying things about generative pre-trained transformers is that everyone has some opinion on it, which they think is special or profound in some way.

I am sick of having to filter out internet e-celebrity number 48320's opinion on it from my front page on every single website.
Oh, Azure's speech recognition API beats it handily on English language. Both in accuracy and speed.

Another is Deepgram. Even this obscure vendor seems to be able to handle the samples I tried better than Whisper: https://picovoice.ai/platform/cat/

But yeah, go with Azure as your starting point. It is good and the price is likely acceptable unless you're transcribing all of youtube.
Hmm, I guess I could be wrong, I read that in a story about the purchase.
Nope. Didn't even click it.

Prosecutors use the arduous court system to force their victims to accept pleas.
I susspect there is something different at play which resulted in tears. Let me guess: deep down there, they were crying because an AI wrote that emotional poem, and not the parent themselves... But thats an insight nobody really wants to know I guess.
You can't have real people marring the image of a perfect wedding.
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>The government works for us, not the other way around.

Part of "government works for us" involves not having them give up information in response to FOIA requests. I want the government to work for me by not allowing my tax returns to be disclosed via FOIA, for instance.
> Clicking this lead me to a page about a wild garlic festival in Germany.

And you learned a little something that you didn't know before. It cost you nothing. You got a little drawing of garlic in your search bar. That cost you nothing too.

I personally enjoy the little search bar illustrations and the rotating login screen background with the "did you know" style button. It's nice. Not everything has to be all serious all the time.
You mean the iris unlock? Turned out all those videos were fake. By eiter pressing the fingerprint sensor on the back. Or using a store demo unit.
> Of course it doesn't contain the word TikTok. Legislation can't single out an individual company or person

But sanctions can, and they don’t even need legislation. If the goal was to ban TikTok, Biden could do that all by himself by sanctioning away their access to app stores, ad revenue, and probably a lot of the rest of their supply chain as well. That’s what Trump originally said he was going to do when he announced he was going to ban TikTok.
Even beyond Women in the USA, amongst my friends in Canada, where to me at least the status quo on abortion seems quite safe, they very clearly feel extremely on edge about it.

Existing in the state of being where you're constantly feeling under pressure and attack that your rights may be taken away at any moment, I dunno, maybe that's stressful! If I can sense this tension from my Canadian women friends who are stressed just being adjacent to USA news, I'm not at all surprised that American women would be feeling even more stressed and depressed about the situation.
> As someone who grew up in that era, I can say all the family photos have not been edited, nor would the majority of people who owned a camera back then spend the time or money to do so.

Whoever developed your photos would've adjusted the brightness and white balance based on what looked right to them if nothing else. Send the same negatives into two shops and you'd get different-looking pictures back.
Sadly the core team decided to not learn from that mistake, and did the exact same thing with the dict merge operator.
You've broken the site guidelines egregiously here, and have unfortunately been doing that a bunch elsewhere. We've warned you multiple times before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34429933 (Jan 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30858404 (March 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29085513 (Nov 2021)

If you keep this up we're going to have to ban you. I don't want to ban you. Therefore could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules? Including, but not limited to: not being snarky, not calling names, not making personal attacks, not posting flamewar comments, and not using HN primarily for political battle.
> I disagree. Gun deaths are.

I'm not convinced these things are mutually exclusive. When you break down the statistics, 61 kids between the ages of 0-11 were killed so far in 2023 by gun violence (just typing that makes my stomach hurt...). In comparison, 355 teenagers (ages 12-17) were killed. (1) That's 6x the amount of death in an age bracket half the size.

The huge spike in death rate is largely linked to gang violence. Gangs often start recruiting around the age kids hit puberty. Take a look at the Gun Violence Archive's incident reports on mass shootings, and you find a huge percentage are tagged as "gang violence" and resulted in dead or injured teenagers. (2)

When you hear about "school shootings" happening in America, very few are Columbine style events. Most are gang related, and impact the most vulnerable and poverty-stricken student populations who have the least resources to deal with the resulting trauma. There is a reason poor, inner-city schools are usually the ones with metal detectors at their doors.

Gangs are still fueled by drug sales. Drugs and gun violence go hand in hand. I don't think we can solve one without solving the other.

We desperately need resources and reforms poured into both issues. But I think if we treat them as unrelated problems, we're doomed to fail.

1) https://www.gunviolencearchive.org
2) https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/mass-shooting
I am curious how big tech will stand on this issue: they lobbied for it hard because they wanted to get rid of a competitor under allegedly illegitimate state control; as a result of their effort, they will all be forced under more or less legitimate state control.
I can already see the copyright monopolists lobbying the government to classify infringement as intellectual terrorism or something.
That part of the argument can easily be substituted with something less controversial, like sanctions or wire fraud laws.
Fortunately Sam Altman, not Musk is running point at OpenAI. imho Sam is the perfect person for the job. If anyone can manage the risks of something like AGI while also optimizing for the benefits, it’s Sam.
Well, you killed it, obviously. :-)
"The technology that enables Face ID is some of the most advanced hardware and software that we’ve ever created. The TrueDepth camera captures accurate face data by projecting and analyzing thousands of invisible dots to create a depth map of your face and also captures an infrared image of your face. "

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208108
So if I will create SSH tunnel using AWS EC2 to view tiktok, can AWS ban me?
Not an explantion, but I do remember when they first arrived (there was one the year I began high school -- new physics teacher got to set it up how he wanted) and no new ones when I left. I also saw then appear at MIT, again, mainly new construction/renovation.

Chalk boards came in black or green. That name is lost in history, to me. Whiteboards were kind of a shock by comparison -- bright rather than dark -- so it did seem natural. "Marker board" sounds funny now, though it makes sense ("not chalk") but I suppose had it caught on it would be normal. I've only seen "dry erase" used on packages so I assume it's a branding issue.

While the one at my HS was the first one I'd seen (and, seemingly the first any of my classmates had seen, as it was a minor topic of dicussion) I think we'd at least heard of them. This was 1978.
Efficiency = fire half the SREs ?

Nice one Urs.

One of the only things Google has going for it is reliability of major services. Probably not the thing you want to risk.

Maybe instead you can kill Google WiFi, Google Fi, Google Pay, and countless other cost centers. There’s probably also a lot of front end designers you should fire.
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How much jet fuel does it take to melt steel beams?
I recently witnessed a speech in Indonesia for Nyepi, the Balinese New Year. I was trying to use Google Translate's live conversation feature to get an idea of what was being said. I still couldn't make out much more than "he's saying something about the importance of the holiday and being pure".

I pasted the auto-translation into ChatGPT and asked it to summarize:

> The speaker seems to be discussing the importance of Nyepi, a Balinese Day of Silence. They mention that happiness, peace, and prosperity can be achieved by being in harmony with space and time. The speaker also references ogoh-ogoh, which are statues symbolizing negative influences, and the Panca Maha Bhuta, or the five elements of life. They suggest that negative emotions and behaviors can lead to a "darkness of the mind."

> The speaker emphasizes the importance of self-control and using the Nyepi celebration as a milestone for personal growth. They mention the parading of the ogoh-ogoh, which represents negative behaviors being confronted and released. Following the Nyepi celebration, people should aim for a new and better life, leaving behind their past negative behaviors and emotions.

I'm not convinced of the accuracy, but I'd definitely say it's useful.
Did you not see the n = 1000000001, e = 10439860591, o = 6586818670 example in my earlier post? (I edited it in a while after initially posting it.)
Editing -> retouching.
> I’m not familiar with Google here, but Apple is quite loquacious in its descriptions of how it approaches computational photography, with extensive use of bracketing and sensor fusion – and nothing at all about generative embellishments.

They put very obvious fake bokeh in their photos, and their users seem happy about it. I don't know what you mean by "generative" and how you'd draw a line between "generative" and not, but they're absolutely not giving you the straight-up picture you took.
It cost an incredibly valuable reource: his attention.
That might be true, but it still doesn't change the fact that you're unlikely to get 20 years for accessing tiktok over VPN. You might get some sort of prison sentence (or none, too lazy to look up the exact guidelines), but saying 20 years is pure hyperbole.
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/29/1068696336/hong-kong-police-r...
The stories the cartel guys told in federal prison about what they made people do to get their supply still makes my skin crawl. If you support keeping drugs illegal you support teenagers (that society has decided aren't responsible enough to buy alcohol) being subjected to the worst things cartel guys can up with to be 'entertained'. Period. If you want to keep this garbage illegal you support and are OK with a level of abuse that you can not shake once you hear about it.
Fake and dumb example. That’s already excluded under existing law and you’re a pedantic troll for suggesting that was what I meant.
Yeah, Lua is super common.

Not exactly sure why, but it really is.
begrudgingly agree on all points. the gamestop/amc stock manipulation in 2021 demonstrated how vulnerable western society is to a social media campaign that, at first glance, appears benign. even if china wasnt involved with that incident - which began on chinese-owned reddit - it demonstrated that governments are at risk to any social media company with diverging goals.
Nestor’s guide to doing a large project
Hopefully they repeal these laws because they're bad for blacks and bad for employers.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/705880
> Using nixos as a daily driver doesn't make sense to me

Many Nix enthusiasts use NixOS as a daily driver, and are very pleased with it.

I'd say some of the advantages are: the same 'elegance' from being able to declare how a package gets built carries over to being able to configure a system. -- e.g. for niche things like "setup Yubikey with PAM", I don't have to worry about what config settings to manually change, I can just update my config with that. (And my config is in a git repo; whereas "what changes I made" is not).

There are certainly significant drawbacks, sure; but I think the main decider between whether it makes sense is how appealing "take the time to write a config with changes" is vs "just run the command / edit the system file" is.
LOL, just yesterday people were telling me I should be taking this guy more seriously. Top-shelf attention grifting though.
Yeah. It will probably fracture into many regional or national networks as governments impose their laws on it. Sad.
Checkout https://exemplary.ai - we incorporate a similar approach with our transcript editor.
I promise you I'm not moderating even a hair differently from how I always do (seriously). I've been at this a long time and it's extremely repetitive.

The difference is just that it sucks when it gets directed at you—I know that and I'm sorry. If I knew how to express this better, I would.
Most enterprises will spend more than $299 a year just discussing whether they should renew this subscription.
Whisper democratises high-quality transcription of the languages I personally care about, whether using a CPU or a GPU. It's FOSS, self-hostable, and very easy to use.

That's a big deal for someone who wants to build something using speech recognition (voice assistant, transcription of audio or video) without resorting to APIs.
I agree that there's a ton of incompetent managers. The standard failure model for managers is not contributing anything of value. But I think you're way off base to say that management is the only factor that decides whether an engineer (we're talking about software, right?) is productive or not. Explain why a team has 5 awesome engineers who get a ton done, 8 who do just fine, and the one who everyone likes but everyone also knows they're not contributing much -- and they're all under the same manager.

I find the total lack of personal responsibility in discussions like this to be downright shocking. Again, I don't disagree that a manager can be useless, and even do active harm to a team and individuals (seen this many many times). But the notion that an individual who isn't pulling their weight, it's 100% the manager's fault... I fail to see how that could be remotely true as a general rule.
Explanations, sure. My point was that yes, ChatGPT is indeed an entity which cannot interact with the world except through reading and writing text. This would be a lot more comforting if people were not rushing to build ways to turn its text output into actions in the physical world as fast as possible.

Imagine a mob boss whose spine was severed in an unfortunate mob-related accident. The mob boss cannot move his arms or legs, and can only communicate through speech. Said mob boss has it out for you. How worried are you? After all, this mob boss cannot do things. They create speech in response to prompts. And that's it!

I actually don't agree with Eliezer that the primary threat model is a single consequentialist agent recursively bootstrapping its way to uncontested godhood. But there is a related threat model, that of "better technology allows you to make bigger mistakes faster and more vigorously, and in the case of sufficiently powerful AGI, autonomously".

In terms of proof that it's possible to destroy the world and kill all humans, I will not provide that. No matter how poetic of an ending it would be for humanity if it ended because someone was wrong on the internet, and someone else felt the need to prove that they were wrong.