skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it were two kids from New York, would the story be “New York teenagers do x?”

The reason the framing rubs me the wrong way is because it feeds a narrative that people from New Orleans (regardless of race) are somehow novel for doing something fancy. I was born in New Orleans so I have some slight offense at the implication that the geography is somehow notable. It’s like “oh wow, even people from some Southern flyover city can do some smart stuff too.”

However what is interesting about this story is the girls go to St Mary’s which is a catholic school created for black people during the segregation era founded by an the second oldest order of American black nuns just after the Civil War. The history of the school is fascinating.

Imagine if more kids had the opportunity to go to high quality private schools but can’t due to financial constraints (St Mary’s costs about $9k per year which is a lot of money for those in Louisiana.)

These girls can write their own ticket now — I hope they end up staying in math and do something extraordinary with their lives.
YMMV but I dislike referencing through digital formats like pdf. With a hardcopy I can bookmark various pages and very easily thumb through / reference it. Searching for exact text is slow though, so I try to acquire both types if I get a hardcopy.

For my e-ink tablet/reader, I use an onyx boox and a kobo.
Smartphones, social media exposed as what they really are, Google dropping “don’t do evil” and the excesses of companies posing as tech companies, like Airbnb, Uber, WeWork.
I can assure you that the real world does in fact care about plagiarism.
https://archive.is/RiaMV
You're right, which is why kimchi refrigerators have a setting that keeps the temperature high for a few days (you can customize how high) and automatically switches to preservation mode afterward.

In the past, people made a huge amount of kimchi in the fall when cabbages are cheap, and expected it to last until the next year's first harvest of fresh vegetables. The near-freezing temperature ensures that the kimchi remains good for up to 6 months. Some kimchi can be aged for 3 years or more. So of course the preservation method is focused on stopping almost all microbial activity, including that of lactic acid bacteria. The goal is to maintain a sort of equilibrium for as long as possible. The onggi probably also helps with that.

Nowadays, many people in Korea buy pre-fermented kimchi instead of making their own. Several national brands and dozens of independent sellers with wildly different styles can all deliver kimchi to your door. In that case, you either set the fridge to preservation mode immediately, or keep it warm for another day or two if you prefer to ferment it a little more.
I'm pretty sure Russia would have absolutely loved such a pretext.
Yes, we’ve been hearing that since 2010 or so. It will be right (again) eventually, probably before we hit AGI. But it’s hard to plan around an event that could come tomorrow or 10 more years from now.
So, what's being done about them?
That seems rather limited compared to EAS in practice, since some EAS stations will relay appropriate alerts, and since EAS runs over both broadcast FM, AM, and TV stations.
It seems like a silly meme. There was an “AI Winter” with a catchy name once so everyone is always waiting for another one. It’s exactly the kind of stochastic parrot thing that makes LLMs seem so human.
Not everyone can be above average intelligence, and investments can be complex. Some things just have to be illegal or so many will be exploited it will end in pitch forks.
Also the internet isn't going to amount to anything, I don't see what the big deal is.
Such clickbait journalism. Mark focusing on AI implies they abandoned the metaverse? What a joke
I know a few people who have been hired at this facility but washed out in the training and testing program; the speed and accuracy required to work here is outstanding and evidently quite difficult to achieve.
Making a successful TCG seems to happen about once a decade. NFTs are an implementation detail in the end. One that also makes a lot of false promises that the game developers won’t want to keep. They’ll still nerf/ban overpowered cards whether they’re NFTs or not and they won’t be transferable to anything else because game devs don’t want to relinquish control of their game economies for very good reason
So at what point did immigration become unacceptable instead of part of our system with natural political consequences? Do we need to take the vote away from Irish Americans and re-examine whether the Know Nothings should have won elections and controlled the shape of America so that it might please the majority of white rural Americans? Of course not the portion that would be dragged behind pickups for seeming too queer or having a possibly black grandfather.. But the majority.
I’m not sure we have a proper definition of consciousness, so probably no.

But I suspect we’re five years from being able to create a self-directed simulation of a person that could behave in ways we consider autonomous. That is to say it will be able to fool most people observing from the outside.

I have some ideas on how I’d go about it so I imagine better minds than mine are hard at work on the problem.

I’m not sure we should be building that, but I’m sure we are.
If a CEO mismanages and goes bankrupt, they cannot start another company for 5 years; a two-year ban seems mild, but better than nothing, as the reputational damage is substantial (why would any non-criminal pick EY afterwards in good faith if there are others?).
What does the data entry look like for this job?

The article says, "Our keyers key about a thousand images an hour, so they're spending about 2 seconds on an image".

Are keyers typing whole addresses in that quickly?
> You can book your cab or order your groceries through a simple chat in whatsapp

Sure, if you want to use a terrible user interface. An app or website can provide the same thing much faster.
> How many books would exist if authors were never paid?

This sets up a logical fallacy of false dichotomy: that the existence of certain forms of lending lead to an author never getting paid. So while the answer might be that we’d have far fewer books than we have now, the premise is one that cannot be taken seriously, i.e. the reality is not one where authors never get paid.

I think an interesting question to ask is: how many authors would exist if there were never libraries?

Authors commonly grew up spending all of their time in libraries. It’s what sparked their love of books, and that spark eventually became more books. They’re often the first to tell us how much they value libraries and the role that they play.

Yes, authors should be paid for their work. But applying binary thought to the consideration of how authors should be paid and the role of libraries is guaranteed to lead to an incomplete understanding of the situation.
Can someone with a better understanding than I have comment about the relationship between these results and this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.09115, which seems to demonstrate that a longer context length has diminishing returns?
The wirecard scandal on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirecard_scandal
UPS and Schwan's, among others, use propane powered trucks.
Reminds me of that quote about going broke "It happens slowly at first and then all at once". This applies to lots of things and I would argue it applies to both the development of a society, and its downfall.
Yet even with all the cooperation they were still competing, just against meta-organisms in the form of other communities.
I mean the same argument could be made re: the publishers as gatekeepers. (And it's why I'm generally a proponent of self-publishing even if the quality control isn't there).

For example, I can't see one of the big publishers happily publishing a treatise on how they're killing innovation. One of the little ones, certainly. (Beacon probably would).

> But do we want only the voices of those with trust funds to be heard?

Do we want only the voices of those who can present their work in a palatable money making way to data analysts and C-suite types to be heard?
That’s an illustration of my point. It’s a Hollywood criticism of Beverly Hills’ departure from the “moral, unsophisticated, and minimalistic lifestyle.” When Mrs. Drysdale calls the Clampett’s “deplorables” the audience is expected to see her as the villain.
I think the biggest hurdle for VR is being able to use the device for long periods of time. We can view our phones for essentially a full day with some inconvenience, but I can barely stand VR for more than a couple hours without needing to rest my eyes.
Look, these sentences are probably more than just and even on the light sight. Handing in your auditing license is a pretty severe punishment, at least career changing. But will the risk and audit professionals at BaFin face the same penalties?
Twitter Is Blocking Likes and Retweets that Mention Substack
Audits in general are such a joke. Rubber stamping and checks done by students or graduates who barely understand what they are doing. And even if they detect something, it is considered as not material and ignored.

From business perspective the auditors are clueless.

I dont claim that audits are bad, they are very needed. But the execution in many ways is so poor.
Where I am from, it's called "chicken scratch".
As well as a €500K fine, five employees were also fined between €23,000 and €300,000. And seven others escaped punishment by handing back their auditor’s licences.

I’m not sure many reputable public companies will be queuing up to use their services in 2 years time
An aspect of fair use is that it doesn't interfere with the actual market for the thing. A movie analysis, even one that heavily uses the work its analyzing to illustrate its points, is not usable as a substitute for watching the film if one wants to get the experience of the work.

In this case one is taking art for sale, and using it as art for sale. Its possible some can view high prestige art and low prestige art as separate markets but I don't really. In my mind its more akin to taking a novel and abridging it to a novella. Same fundamental market.
Modern public libraries are mostly just public entertainment centers for the latest movies, video games, and ghostwritten novels. In many library systems, the books that were the whole foundational reason for their existence have been pulped (literally, this is a source of income for libraries.) Even very notorious classical works are frequently available only though ILL and often not even then.

I honestly don't have much sympathy for them. If the situation is that bad for classical works, the situation for works of niche technical, scientific, and local merit is even worse. The amount of works that have been irretrievably lost because they were deliberately destroyed by public librarians is enormous. They've burned through every bit of credit and faith I had for them. I do not see any value in public repositories of the latest John Grisham novels or the latest $POLITICIAN_X campaign book that will be forgotten in six months. The public should not be paying for them.
Heck, if you would take the art he ripped of and put it on a t-shirt, wouldn't be surprised if his estate would sue you for that too.
My 2 cents is that modern C++ (c++11 and greater) removes most of the memory safety problems that people historically have used as example for the language being dangerous or bad. I would actually predict that modern databases will probably continue to be built in C++ but using a modern version of the language, providing memory safety and high performance.
I'm hearing both arguments from pretty reasonable people and I can't seem to make up my mind on this issue.

Some are saying: yes it's a massive issue, and some are saying nah it's not, I can't seem to find a consistent view on this issue.
OCaml, F#, Kotlin, Ada, Swift.
It’s a “steal” if you make California wages. For Louisiana, that’s a lot of money. The median home price in New Orleans is roughly $230k — in Santa Clara county, CA, it’s $1.3 million. That makes the tuition comparable to $45k per year which is more expensive that the best private schools in Silicon Valley.

The math is sloppy, but the point is that the tutoring isn’t really a “steal.”
First time I hear about FOMO but I can totally relate!

Thanks!
I think this is because inflation in the US has two tiers.

There's the big "essential" stuff- housing, healthcare, education- which have skyrocketed in price and nowadays take a higher percentage of people's salaries. Then there's groceries, consumer goods, electronics, restaurants, which have gone up much slower. So in a way, that $12/hour was good in terms of the amount of non home cooked food you could get (or live music tickets or whatever other things you considered luxuries at the time).
It has been happening anywhere in the world, there have been reports from several countries of this. Including close neighbors of the Netherlands, such as Germany.
You do know that child game where you are told a story, and you have to pass it on to the next, who will have to tell it based on only your story, etc. It doesn’t need much to make absolutely no sense.

It is good for trivial messages (this is dangerous, etc), but not for anything more complex.
It's a dry cold. You'd be fine!
Well the Andy Warhol Supreme Court case should have a decision soon. The argument I find compelling in support of Warhol is that his painting is fair use and that it “meaningfully transformed” the source material (photo of Prince). It is an appropriation, not a copy.

In your example I’d say that Lichtenstein meaningfully transformed the source material and is fair use of a drawing in a book of drawings. But making t-shirts of either the source or the painting would not meaningfully transform it nor would it be fair use and therefore a copyright violation.
The Yanomamo were one of probably thousands of different groups that lives in the prehistoric era. One problem in the study of prehistoric human life is that only a few groups kept their way of life consistent from prehistoric times to modern. So these groups have strongly influenced our perceptions of what life was like in the prehistoric era. But this is inaccurate sampling if we want to draw conclusions about prehistoric life. More nuanced looks at the evidence, such as the dawn of everything, find more diversity, including politics among different groups in the prehistoric age.
A couple of times in recent years Neil Gaiman has criticized museums for talking about the comics Lichtenstein copied but not crediting the artists who drew them. E.g.:

https://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/1459541191310069763

> Hey @MuseumModernArt. You mention the DC comic, SECRET LOVE #83, that Lichtenstein traced his Drowning Girl from. Wouldn’t it be better if you credited the human artist who drew it? His name was Tony Abruzzo.

(MoMA updated their website shortly afterward to credit the artist.)
Doubtful at this point. We have Mariner/CBL and are committed heavily to it. Has its own development and kernel teams etc. and is being pushed internally to be the Linux all 1P systems run on for supply chain reasons.
Those are propane? Huh. Neat.
Like I mentioned in an earlier comment, their power is roughly on par with a 2012-2014 low-to-midrange smartphone, which sits somewhere between 5-15% a powerful as a modern midrange-and-up smartphone.

That would be fine if they were rendering to a 720p screen or had much more simplistic menus like the those found on most A/V receivers, but they’re usually running recent-ish Android or something similar, which has fancy graphics and animations all over the place designed for newer devices which make that hardware choke at the 4K resolution that the majority of TVs now ship with. Exacerbating this are the terrible lowest-bidder smart TV apps which are written terribly.

TV manufacturers will never ship an OS more suitable for the hardware though, because they’re concerned that it will make the TV look less modern than competing TVs. They also won’t ship better hardware because that’d cut $5 per unit off of their margins. As such, it’s best to just write off integrated “smarts” and plug in a streaming box that’s not so anemic.
Will be interesting to see if Everest moves ahead after this.
I wouldn't frame it so dire as you have.

For me, I see value in learning one systems-level language well to round out my generally higher level language focus.

I never used Go, so choosing Rust for this was easy. Go does not satisfy some tasks in the way that Rust does, but Go likely does just fine for the reasons you originally learned it.

However, I do see Rust as the best way to broaden my horizons and career opportunities. Suddenly, realms where C and C++ would be used exclusively, I can now more easily play in. Many times, Go would not qualify for these types of projects because of its garbage collector.

So from language tooling to browsers, learning Rust may help me debug issues down the stack or help me creatively solve performance issues by plugging it in, and that feels like a win to me and wholly worth the price (or is it pain?) of admission. First class WASM support doesn't hurt either.
No prob on this side C., I just took the occasion of your input for substantiveness.

(I would suggest that you mark sarcasm, e.g. with '/S' or equivalent. Once upon a time we all thought that rhetoric is immediately recognizable, then we met people who would believe ideas beyond the boundary of "anything".)
Red team has to find one exploit to win, blue team has to stop every exploit to win.
> How many books would exist if authors were never paid?

We may find out soon enough. Book consumption, book stores ... seem to be circling the drain. I'd love to be shown to be wrong though.

If the entire publishing industry too is in descent, I suspect they will only get more obnoxious trying to cling to their last profits. Of course we'll need Archive.org even more then and after.
"For doing math we might as well give the LLM a pocket calculator, why not couple it to a planner, theorem prover and similar tools?"

ChatGPT has already been hooked up to Wolfram Alpha.[1]

For hooking up other things, see HuggingGPT and TaskMatrix.AI.[2][3]

[1] - https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/03/chatgpt-gets-its...

[2] - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.17580.pdf

[3] - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.16434.pdf
I knew someone would post a comment like this. Is there any way to have a conversation about the present without prompting you to do this?
All audits should be disclosed in giant black letter on the front “PAID FOR BY THE AUDITED COMPANY”

The conflict of interest in external audit is absurd. It’s similar to securities rated rating agencies paid to rate the instruments by the issuing company.
The age of easy money - we're unlikely to ever again see a decade of 0% interest rates and money printing. MMT will be seen as a failed experiment that artificially and temporarily lifted economic well-being during the 2010s at the expense of crushing societal debt that's coming due in the 2020s and beyond.
Almost not at all.
There’s various macro extensions and plugins available including .NET but these options tend to have a long history of horrible security problems because they are general purpose languages. While possible to crash spreadsheets with simple formulas they’re not going to steal your local credentials off disk probably.
I worked on a distributed filesystem which had its administration tools written in Java. The system itself was written mostly in C, and in some weird Haskell / C++ generated templates that compiled to C source.

I've known about a bunch of "sister" storage projects which were written in a similar combo: typically the product itself would be C (or eventually, D, more recently -- Rust), but a language like Java would be inconceivable for a system like that.

Few things that these projects had in common:

* Home-made concurrency (i.e. they didn't use pthreads, instead they used some green threads designed specifically for this project).

* Home-made allocator. Again, similar to the threads, the default allocator options available to system programming aren't good for mission-critical software.

* Home-made logging. Due to high volume, speed and storage requirement it's typically a very involved system that is far more sophisticated than any Java built-in or 3rd party logging library.

* Home-made collections / containers. The reasons to have this is very similar to the reason to have custom allocators -- improved ability to deal with memory-related errors.

* Home-made drivers and IP stack, or at least partial re-implementation of IP and higher-level protocols. Again, because of memory-related concerns.

* Virtually no 3rd-party libraries. For close to 2M lines of C code for the core part of the system, we had like... some compression algorithm library as a dependency... and that was it, iirc.

I mean, these kinds of products need to rebuild something rather minimal like C almost from the ground up... just the mere thought of using Java in this kind of environment would've been laughed out of the room.

I know that databases, like relational databases are often written in Java, but in my experience, those are mostly used by Java applications and rarely leave the boundaries of the Java ecosystem. People coming from storage background rather than pure Java background wouldn't think about Java databases more than as toy projects really.
I went to my Korean friends place and thought there were ice cream in the fridge. I opened the fridge and boy did I regret it
Can you imagine arguing in a tech meeting that a reason not to use JSON is that it doesn't support unbounded recursive levels of escaping very well?
I think it's really about mobile computing. While the iPhone debuted in 2007, adoption didn't really hit a critical mass until the early 2010s with the iPhone 4. That was also the time that Android was ramping up with Verizon's initial "DROID" campaign. People may have had an iPhone or a Blackberry in the late 2000's, but they were still doing most of their computing from a desktop. By the end of the 2010's, desktop computing (for non-professional purposes) had become the exception, not the norm.

And I think that goes hand in hand with how pervasive social media was during that decade. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram - all installed on millions of personal devices and taking up a lot of attention and focus.
> Go has a whole runtime to boot up before ever getting to that point. Many, many layers of setup code. So it's not surprising at all that it has a significantly slower "cold boot"

That’s one misconception you have about Go, when it comes to Cold start uptimes Go is one of the top garbage collected language to compete the likes of C, the go runtime is a progressive runtime it runs together with your code so it’s basically a Vlang code with added C codes
If money wasn't at stake then this particular hair would never, ever get split. Nobody would care.

From thin air comes torrents of manure. Desire is truly the root of bs.
If you don't have a reason to link a thread to ChatGPT maybe don't make them up?