skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
from my research, here is what I've found:

1- The govt insists the payments be done on their national backbone, which works on 0 markup, so companies have to find different avenues for revenue

2- The device is essentially a mobile phone with no display(newest version has a small pocket-calculator sized lcd, but most do not) and just four buttons: power, volume up, volume down, and repeat last message. It takes a SIM and has a rechargeable battery and a loud speaker.

3- This means essentially operators a renting a very specialised "dumb-phone"; one which has a simple audio output but no input (and thus access) to the actual app. They can leave this "phone" out in the public, while keeping their smartphone separate and secluded.

4- The device rent is lowered or even waived if you have a high-enough transaction volume. So for people who have a low usage, they can stick with checking their phone; for people with more frequent usage, it pays for it self.

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I see a lot of benefits for this. AFAIK, each device is keyed to the user, so stealing it not beneficial, but even if some one did, no can use it to access the app or your funds, since all it does is receive confirmation SMS.

There no training involved, and more importantly, no handover of a device anytime you to step away from a counter; anyone can take over and just listen to the confirmation message.

one benefit the article mentioned is that people would dupe the seller by showing fake screenshots of a transaction, how that was eliminated by the device; no sound message, no payment.

But the best benefit is the multi-tasking; you can use your hands and eyes to keep focused on the task at hand while using your ears to keep track of payments. Imagine a food-stall seller having to wipe their grease/sauce covered hands and fiddle with a slippery phone, anytime a customer paid, it would never work.
Both sides have their troll factories, none are good.
It's really bad. We probably want to not have monopolies like Amazon moving forward. So much so that we could probably pass laws to prevent it. Just in case we forget.
> 2. As outlined in this article, there is a strong economic motive for the swap.

Which one? We're not talking about Sogen Kato here, we're talking about Jeanne Calment.

Calment's daughter is supposed to have died in 1934, did the swap happen then? But there was no economic motive at all, the Calment family was part of the city's wealthy upper class and french social security was only introduced in 1945.

So what else, did the Calment's daughter fake her death somehow (despite her father, mother, husband, and son remaining public figures), then take over after the primary financial coup, the sale of the apartment to the notary in 1965, after what would have been the death of her husband and son both?

Not to mention the notary's strong incentive to uncover such a fraud: the flat was purchased in annuities, he ultimately paid twice the value of the flat (and waited 20 years before being able to use it, when Calment finally moved to a retirement home).
" though warming wasn't considered a big deal, the media was still coming away from warning about a coming ice age (i've never figured out what was going on there, as a kid I heard it more than once, but now few admit the scare existed)."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/that-70s-myth-did-cl...
Books are in the lowered VAT category of 10%. There's very few things in Finland that are actually VAT free.

Ebooks used to be in the general VAT category of 24% but I think they've fixed that now.
Agree, what the city does with transit, as in most areas, is in fact extraordinary. (In education, I had an elected position for a while on NYC equivalent to school boards and came to understand the DOE is an absolutely incredible institution that should be studied as a model...)

I am not saying at all to replace what we have now. The opposite. On top of the existing bulk people movers, layer on a point to point capability to utilize spare track capacity.

Lots of experimentation regarding logistics would be needed to be sure, but in principle

a) we should have the technical capability to deploy small autonomous cabs without needing technical integration with the existing signalling system

b) we should be able to make better use of the extraordinary amount of interconnected track surface we have been blessed with, especially outside of Manhattan and especially at off hours.

The reason someone in deep Brooklyn has to wait 20 minutes for a 2 or a D or an F on a weekend is that it is inefficient to run a 10 car train that can move 2000 people when only 200 are travelling.

Happy to learn of existing experiments in this vein but to my eyes we should look at supplementing the bulk system with autonomous small capacity pods.
SigOpt (YC W15, Optimization Platform) is now fully open source
OWASP Validation Regex Repository – OWASP Foundation
The Dark Side of the Moon
As I understand this article they are saying it's some interaction between the magnetic field of some exoplanet and its star. I would think there would eventually be a credibility penalty for news organizations that bait and switch like this - "ALIENS?!?!? Nope, normal phenomenon." And yet, even seeing this was from CNN, and knowing that the headline would be misleading, I still clicked and looked at their article.
How much of the advice “just open a text editor and start coding” is valid?
This advice is generally given to beginners by some people when they ask where they should start learning to program. The advice is to not read a programming book but to pick a text editor and a language and start coding. They can look up the documentation to understand the basic syntax. But how will they learn to build actual programs? More importantly, what will they build? Do they even understand functions and stuff?

Nobody tells a wannabe electronics engineer to start with a blank breadboard and start building circuits without the fundamental knowledge of the basic elements like resistor, capacitor, etc and how to form a complete circuit.
Focusing more on the outside linkage or the constrained personas?
There's probably nothing malicious about most cases of missing or strangely uniform birth dates. In many parts of the world over a century ago, people simply didn't bother with accurate records.

For example, both my grandpa and grandma had two birthdays each, in two different calendar systems, that pointed to wildly different points in time. Nobody remembered exactly when they were born. My other grandma was recorded as being four years older than she thought she actually was, and nobody knows the truth, either. My father's birth was filed with the authorities several years late, though the document itself pointed to the correct date. My family's not from some sort of jungle, either. All of this happened in a highly bureaucratized, highly literate society.

Go back a few more decades and one could easily imagine "She was born in the spring, in the year of the great flood" becoming "Let's just say she was born on April 1, and when was the flood? I mean the second one after Steve became king" when modern record-keepers demand a specific date. We're trying to see more precision in the data than anyone ever intended to record. No wonder we find artifacts.
Excel tricked me into getting a SAFe certification.
> Why won’t federal officials promote them?

Please tell me that's a rhetorical question... It's not? Ok let me lay it out for you then: the majority of the US government is made of corrupt assholes paid by the oil industry (and, you know, that other lobby, but that's not the subject) to precisely stifle that kind of initiative. You guys can't have nice things, and won't ever have nice things until you vote all those clowns out.
15W should approximate a 100W incandescent bulb - but IME it's hard to find 15W LEDs that do; I've tried several (at a variety of price points), and none were as bright as the 100W.
They're looking to catch up! They don't want to remain poor, after all.
If this truly works as the pitch describes:

> mlejva: Our editor isn't a regular coding editor. You don't actually write code with e2b.

then what licensing problems arise from its use? In theory, if you only prompt the AI to write the software, is the software even your intellectual property?

It seems like this is a public domain software printing machine if you really aren’t meant to edit the output.
> AI will most likely create jobs, but how many jobs can it create ? Please walk me through the parallelism with the Industrial Revolution.

The impact of AI on jobs is a topic of ongoing debate among experts. While some argue that AI will lead to significant job losses, others believe that it will create new opportunities and stimulate economic growth.

To understand the potential impact of AI on jobs, we can draw parallels with the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution, which began in the late 18th century, marked a period of rapid technological advancement and social change, as new machines and manufacturing processes were introduced.

Initially, the Industrial Revolution led to job losses in traditional industries, such as agriculture and textiles, as machines replaced manual labor. However, it also created new jobs in manufacturing, engineering, and other industries. Over time, as the benefits of industrialization became clear, the economy grew, and new opportunities emerged.

Similarly, AI is expected to create new jobs in industries such as robotics, data analysis, and software development. These jobs will require specialized skills and training, and may not be accessible to all workers. However, they are likely to pay well and offer opportunities for career advancement.

At the same time, AI may also lead to job losses in certain industries, particularly those that rely on routine, repetitive tasks. For example, automated manufacturing systems may replace human workers in factories, and self-driving vehicles may reduce the demand for truck drivers.

Overall, the impact of AI on jobs is difficult to predict, as it will depend on a variety of factors, such as the rate of technological progress, the availability of training and education programs, and government policies. However, history has shown us that technological advancement can both create and destroy jobs, and that the economy can adapt and evolve over time.
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My understanding is the original authors of the blue zone study didn't actually check the number of people aged 90-99. They did look at life expectancy though, which was slightly higher for the blue zones. Not sure how to square that with the new finding of fewer people living 90-99 years.
where did the extra syllable appear from? like tr -ee and -c url trurl.
What ayahuasca taught me about protecting our planet
Congrats @alexarena and team for launching 1.0! Been following this team for a while and really excited to see their launch. Curious how would you say this is different than retool? Also can you share more on where does the code actually run?
Lots of ex-management consultants do this in their 50s, writing books and getting on the paid speaking gig circuit. Any business will have significant marketing and admin work that's challenging to manage. That's true whether you're shilling a book or running a SaaS company renting Shopify plugins to dropshippers.
Why not?

Because I believe running a business is about making choices and those choices can include what to sell/offer. As long as you're not actively breaking any laws and/or discriminating, you shouldn't have to offer something you don't want to offer.

The grocery store near me doesn't have to carry vegan meats if I'm the only customer who'll buy them.
Yes. Not necessarily digital audio, but digital data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexi_disc
I was using C compilers for micros well before those upstarts like Borland and MS (or even DOS) came around. The first micro I used C on was a Cromemco System III, running CP/M. That machine was built in 1977, I think, although I was using it a few years later than that.
Don't forget Gig marketplaces
> JPMC tried to verify user data but Javice claimed they couldn't provide user personal information "due to privacy concerns".

DD guy here. This is the most plausible explanation.

When you're under LOI there is a lot of back and forth, which ultimately guide how the purchase agreement gets formulated. So if this was the case, then they would have made the trade off of "ok she's not letting us see the list, but we'll make sure the SPA is ironclad about this". Ultimately deals then get some money locked into escrow or RWI to soften the blow of the cost implication.

At the end of the day, let's say you're JPMC and the company that you acquired did exactly what Javice did. You have an SPA that binds you legally (meaning, if they caught lying post close, they'll get sued), how on earth would you think someone was dumb enough to try to get through diligence, then operate the company post close, and NOT expect to be found committing fraud.
This post is an amalgam of barely formed thoughts followed by..."but fight a class war". It's nonsense from beginning to end.

Why is critical data "populist"? Why is undamaged institutional trust your goal? Are institutions inherently trustworthy, or is it that they aren't but should be presented as such? Why are you concerned with the literacy of the audience rather than the content of the article? In your mind, why is is every author's duty to present two arguments (which is not a research mandate, the article being a research summary presented in popular article format).

Anointing "experts" is not how science works.

Again, the article being equivalent to a research abstract and research being the basis for science.

We removed science from the unquestionable "expertise" of the Church many centuries ago. At which point we placed in the hands of research and its critique.
This is something we're very excited about building. We haven't shipped it yet, but we have a pretty clear roadmap to get there. Stay tuned!
> People have become used to the thin ozone layer. In much of the world, you now can't stay outside all day without getting sunburn. There are not many reports of sunburn from 100 years ago.

So are you saying we evolved skin melanin production from UV radiation for no reason whatsoever? People that live in the desert used to (and still do) cover themselves with clothing just because of fashion standards?

Sunburn has been a problem for our species ever since we shed most of our fur.
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Show HN: Spine – Create ChatGPT-like Interfaces on multiple data types
Hey HN Community!

We're excited to introduce Spine, a tool we've been developing for the past month that aims to streamline the process of building and sharing AI-driven natural language interfaces like ChatGPT for various data formats.

With Spine, you can:

* Upload numerous data types such as websites, PDFs, docs, PowerPoints, CSVs, audio files, YouTube videos, and more

* Navigate lots of data and get in-depth referenced results with our hybrid search

* Built-in Feedback: Craft accurate, personalized & adaptive experiences -- we will update the search models and eventually your LLM with the feedback

* Easy sharing: Seamlessly share your Spines so anyone can interact with your data (currently, you can share them on our website)

Spine is currently powered by a few open-source libraries (HF, llama-index, etc.) along with OpenAI. We have designed Spine so that it should be simple to make it LLM-agnostic; we should be able to swap out GPT-3 (the default behaviour right now) for Cohere or an open-source LLM like FLAN or Bloom. We also want to make it trivial to embed Spine in any form -- and are currently working on making an API available so users can embed us on their website or slack. We also have a few known issues we are navigating through: https://sharing.clickup.com/9003104561/l/h/6-900301350489-1/...

A bit about us: we're Akshay and Ashwin, two passionate tech folks with backgrounds in AI, ML, and startups. Akshay is an AI lead at Georgian, where he helps growth-stage companies build ML products and has previously worked at two YC companies. Ashwin is a senior engineer at Instacart with previous experience at Alexa & Aurora (AWS) and NVIDIA. We studied ML together at the University of Waterloo and Nanyang Technological University on an exchange program some years ago.

We created Spine in response to the growing demand for incorporating LLM-based chat interfaces into products and services in our companies. Our goal is to make this process as easy and accessible as possible.

We're still in beta and eager to listen and gather your feedback. To facilitate this, we've prepared three demos that can be accessed without signing up (search through guides for hiring or getting hired remotely, some material from the All-in crew, and a demo on education highlighting some multi-modality). We also have a couple of loom videos if you want to see Spine in Action on the landing page!

If you sign up (fingers crossed, everything runs smoothly), you can upload, create, and share as many Spines as you'd like for free!

Please share any feedback or suggestions you may have. We're all ears!
This is quite interesting, the recent launches of AI API wrapper companies posted on HN draw my attention. I like the innovation and use of the latest AI technology, but at the same time, I see a wrapper around an external API. Yes there can be more services providing LLMs, but those services are part of huge tech cos with established software and customer/user bases. The GPT-effect on the market is good, maybe internal reorgs will focus on UX improvements to integrate AI more into existing products (at what speed/pace...can a startup steal the thunder or just show what UX is needed...)

Genuinely curious how this all pans out, it is an exciting time!
Flexi Disc
I think that interpretation is a little too narrow. Most importantly, they don't want "reality filtered", they want it bent to their desires.

Evil is just stupidity endowed with power.

In your example, the counterfactual part is being ignored out of disregard for other people's interests. A short-sighted and egoistic approach.

But of course, generally, subjective interests do not translate to common good in aggregate.
Well, either something like that happened... or she won a lottery with a 10 billion to 1 chance. My money is on the former. I've read enough stories about people assuming false identities to understand there's a number of ways to pull something like that off.
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> That's a strange question. There is very little common sense when a war is in progress.

Ukraine did not attack russia. Russia attacked Ukraine and is killing Ukrainians. This war may just be the least morally ambiguous war out there.

Ukrainians are fighting for SURVIVAL. What are russians fighting for? So their pathetic muppet can live out his delusional fantasies? And what do you get for for trying to whitewash genocide here?
"Gat" is catalan for "cat"
Changpeng Zhao is next.
Here is the data from 2015 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1350A5KGgmGI3Ed-tC7MP...

Ratio Who wants to be hired?/Who is hiring?

2015 0,20

2016 0,21

2017 0,14

2018 0,10

2019 0,32

2020 0,44

2021 0,26

2022 0,40

2023 0,83
The place where I work was an early adopter of LLM, having started working on it a year ago.

When I build stuff with GPT-3, especially in the earlier days, I get the strong impression that it's like we are doing machine learning without Numpy and Pandas.

with LangChain, many of the systems I have built can be done in just one or two lines, making life much easier for rest of us. I also believe that LangChain's Agent framework is underappreciated as it was pretty ahead of its time until the official ChatGPT plugins were released. (contributed to LangChain a bit too.)

Unfortunately, the documentation is lacking indeed. While I understand the need to move quickly, it is not good that some crucial concepts like Customized LLM have inadequate documentation. (Perhaps having some LLM builds on top of the repo would be more effective than documentation at this point.)
IMHO most games should use both. Think of the game as a 2D table, with Entities on one axis and their Components/Systems aligned on the other axis. Some operations go (densely) along the Component axis, like updating your physics simulation every frame. But many operations go (sparsely) along the orthogonal Entity axis, resolving events and other game rules involving many tiny sets of entities. These are orthogonal operations with different optimizations and I don't think there is one architecture to rule them all. However, I think an ECS like Flecs or EnTT is a good core to build off of.
No. All these answers use some extreme example. Fossil fuels are very useful, but they come with drawbacks. Let's not use them for everything just because it's currently conventient, let's make a scientific, engineering and manufacturing push to mitigate the bad effects as much as possible and use smart grids, renewable energy, nuclear and behaviour changes where possible. What a stupid answer. Don't put solar where it's covered in snow for months at a time, nobody is saying that.
Personally I don't mind some "reddit esque" (or whatever you want to call them) comments here and there. The level of those present on HN is low anyway. They could/should be less in some cases, but they don't bother much as the majority is still mostly insightful comments or interesting discussions. Imagine a completely sterile online community without any communication side-tracked, even if it's just a tiny bit, from the informational topic. That just wouldn't feel right to me. The equivalent of a "everyone got a stick up their lower half" workplace. Yuck.
This is hardly an indefensible position. John Searle, for one, has argued this point for more than 40 years:

"Imagine a native English speaker who knows no Chinese locked in a room full of boxes of Chinese symbols (a data base) together with a book of instructions for manipulating the symbols (the program). Imagine that people outside the room send in other Chinese symbols which, unknown to the person in the room, are questions in Chinese (the input). And imagine that by following the instructions in the program the man in the room is able to pass out Chinese symbols which are correct answers to the questions (the output). The program enables the person in the room to pass the Turing Test for understanding Chinese but he does not understand a word of Chinese."

Later he wrote:

"I demonstrated years ago with the so-called Chinese Room Argument that the implementation of the computer program is not by itself sufficient for consciousness or intentionality (Searle 1980). Computation is defined purely formally or syntactically, whereas minds have actual mental or semantic contents, and we cannot get from syntactical to the semantic just by having the syntactical operations and nothing else. To put this point slightly more technically, the notion “same implemented program” defines an equivalence class that is specified independently of any specific physical realization. But such a specification necessarily leaves out the biologically specific powers of the brain to cause cognitive processes. A system, me, for example, would not acquire an understanding of Chinese just by going through the steps of a computer program that simulated the behavior of a Chinese speaker."