skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finland has no private education. The rich elite have to send their kids to the same public schools as everyone else.

The rationale is the rich elite will demand that the public school system will maintain education standards. And the converse that if the rich can send their kids to private schools why would they care about the standards of public schools?
The product in a mechanics shop is labor and parts. These get tracked via inventory.

In knowledge work, the knowledge is the commodity. If you keep nothing beyond formal deliverables, you best have a system to capture the knowledge.

Most organizations are very bad at that. It requires a lot of rules, policies and people to enforce those policies. Google for a government retention schedule. It’s probably a 100 page document for a state or large city.
its trivial with a simple rate limit.
You might want to actually look at the products on that page, and then re-read my comment. Lockheed Martin sells a variety of products into the civilian commercial market including train controls, utility aircraft, satellite software, AUVs, and flight simulators. Those bring in less revenue than the military business but they are significant. It's like you guys are so eager to push your political narratives that you don't even do basic fact checking.
Google search can't be as good as it used to, because the web isn't as "clean" (pure? idealistic? honest? legitimate?) as it used to be. People making websites with the goal of appearing higher in Google's results means Google has to work on countermeasures. That sets off a game of cat-and-mouse, and means actual good results are caught in the crossfire.
I browsed a few random sites[1][2][3] from https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random - it's a nice way to preview many random things. Bookmarked. Seeing these interesting sites makes me wish I could RSS-subscribe to them (or add them on social media, ironically).

[1] https://2bit.neocities.org/ - Zoomer makes impressive faux-'90s webpage.

[2] https://annotations.lindylearn.io/ - A collaborative social layer for annotating all webpages. Something I've thought about over the years, and finally run across.

[3] https://fed.brid.gy/ - Connects a website to Mastodon/the fediverse, with two-way post flow.
But there’s almost no way to tell at scale which part of the training set is your novel, useful stuff and which is pure bullshit.
Prototyping an Open World 3D Engine on a Modern Dual-Core $1 Microcontroller [pdf]
Thesis that accompanies an open world game made for the RP2040-based Pimoroni Picosystem handheld dev console.

HN discussion of the game itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35589172
There should be a term for this : beautism. Eg usage: This lady is a victim of beautism.
How can this combo be good if Bing search still returns crap results? What about topics outside GPT-4 training data?
After misreading a section which talked of Italian rationalism and not nationalism, I went searching. An industrialist in Italy in the 1930’s would surely have had an interesting relationship with the government, especially given his seemingly socialist politics.

He did.

https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-019...

Edit: some of those houses and rooms put more recent design to shame. They look practical, light and beautiful.
The Gadget Guru’s Homepage
FastDNS
Enjoy faster and more secure internet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPl5VZrF2Mg

Quickly updates the DNS of any selected network.
Timeline of Transformer Models / Large Language Models
This is true, and what's sadly also true is that the rich have always believed they were justified in having their foot on the neck on the poor. These reasons have changed over time, from 'divine right', to 'for their own good', to more recently because 'rich people will make better use of the wealth' (e.g. effective altruism).
I don't find it strange at all. To acknowledge his contribution you have to accept that a person might not be entirely 1 dimensional, and they may be extremely accomplished in some areas yet apparently incompetent in others.
Asking me for my Stripe API key is a non-starter (regardless of what you "promise").
I shared a personal perspective, while allowing that people using and likening the service might see things differently. Your response is that you disagree and therefore your mind is better than mine.

Quite strong a judgement about another person based on a sample size of two sentences.
I said here a few weeks ago that, not ChatGPT neither GPT4, the Davinci model asked me one year ago one deep question about God trough a Bible verse. I kind of knew the answer... or MY answer, because personally I've been questioning spiritual knowledge along all my life. And the community largely ignored the issue. Really, I don't mean to incommode anyone but I really think that GPT is much, really much more than a text auto-completer.
Problem is that "human" here would mean outsourced idiot in a boiler room that isn't trained, paid or treated well enough to give a shit, so what you'll end up with will be no better than basing the ban decision on a boolean RNG.
Stable Diffusion doesn't really need powerful hardware, any graphic card will do, it will just be a bit longer. There's even ports on smartphones nowadays.
Now that my ISP bundles Netflix subscription into their internet plans, access to netflix and fast.com now practically saturate the fiber link, while before it was outright blocked. Hooray for no net neutrality I guess.

Another fun part: when netflix IPs was blocked by this ISP, it's pretty much impossible to use netflix because the only way to get around the block was to use VPN, but netflix itself blocks VPN access.
Those ideas that don't pan out don't get thrown away. They're used within SLS as we speak.
I finally moved all my domains away from GoDaddy for similar reasons -- just using the site stressed me out.
Because if this was a workaround to get better Netflix quality, then there would be 1000 blogspam articles about it. It's too good to be true ("visit fast.com to make Netflix load faster"), and the Internet loves that kind of thing.
The author addressed this: why would the model built on the hallucinating technique be able to police the main hallucinator
I hope this is a joke. It made me laugh, anyway.
Oh, man, the Lurker's Guide was just such a fantastically good site. Organized, comprehensive, solidly good look: great stuff!

I feel like it's often harder to find high-quality focuses resources like this at this point. I'm not sure whether that's because people have stopped making them, or whether they're just competing for clicks with exponentially more common (and more SEOified) junky fan-wiki sites, or what. (I still get a steady trickle of traffic to my Tolkien Meta-FAQ (http://tolkien.slimy.com/), but I gather that Google tends to de-prioritize sites that aren't being constantly updated.)
They like it. And it was a good excuse to work with new tech. Why poo poo on it?
Nothing you mentioned has any relevance to an employer firing an employee and rehiring them as a contractor, which is perfectly legal in the US.

This actually happened a lot after the ACA/Obamacare law went in effect a decade ago. Many employers were faced with the mandate to provide insurance for full-time employees and decided to fire/downsize those roles and hire independent contractors in their place (which did not need to have healthcare provided by the employer).
There are plenty of traditional art mediums that require significant financial outlays to get started: oil painting, ceramics, glass blowing etc.

There are plenty of free online tools for using all kinds of AI image generation techniques, and they don't require powerful hardware, just something that can browse websites or run Discord.
Stable Diffusion, generically.

StableTuner to fine tune the model - I can't recall the name of the model I trained on top of, but it was one of the top "broad" 1.5 based models on Civitai. Automatic1111 to do the actual generating. I used an anime line art LoRA (at a low weight) along with an offset noise LoRA for the coloring book pages as otherwise SD makes images be perfectly exposed. For something like that you obviously want a lot more white than black.

EveryDream2 would be another good tuning solution. Unfortunately that end of things is far from easy. There are a lot of parameters to change and it's all a bit of a mess. I had an almost impossible time doing it with pictures of my niece, my wife is hit or miss, her sister worked really well for some reason, and our dog was also pretty easy.
For the always-on open-source profiler we happen to work on at work we had to do similar things and it was even more involved since we base the whole thing on eBPF to lower the overhead and therefore needed to get the verifier to accept it. [1]

We really wish frame pointers were always present, but here we are.

[1] https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2022/11/29/profiling...
Another way to say this is foreign investment. So much foreign investment.

China (and other big surplus countries) put a lot of money in to keeping the cost of things in the US low, due to their own mercantilist policies, directly at the expense of their own household sector.
What form would magnetic levitation take? Could we have silently cars, floating houses, flameless rockets, etc?
I’m always surprised when some dev comes up to me to delicately ask if we can rewrite or remodel something I did my first year at the company. Oh god yes, please.

Some things you did long ago are just plain wrong, others are only eighty percent right. There’s an expectation that something better will come along, even discounting fads. You just can’t see it or have been sucked into worrying about ten other things. Someone should take that baton.

As an inventor I suspect there comes a day where you open the trade journals expecting someone to have supplanted your old inventions. You were trying to improve the state of the art and having lived with it for years or at this point decades, you start wondering where the flying cars went. Please supplant my work.
One of those things is mainline kernel support the TH1520, which it may well end up lacking, at least for a considerable length of time.
I think he might be on to something. I know this is just more anecdata, but I've had a similar experience.

I've been using DuckDuckGo as my daily driver for years. It's generally OK. It sucks, but just barely works well enough to keep me going.

I started using Perplexity and ChatGPT for some searches that DDG was having trouble with, and it blew me away with the quality

Then I started going back and trying the same searches on Google, and I was surprised to find that it was just as good as the LLM-powered results after all. I don't know if phrasing things as questions was the key or just using Google instead of DDG did the trick, though
Well, in the case of firing people, generally there is no legal requirement in the US to provide a reason. I know this story isn't about the US though. It can actually hurt you to do so if it can be construed to be an illegal reason (discrimination).
The format supports that technically (the resolution is stored in two uint32_t variables), but libavif however currently seems to have pretty small limits in this area based off attempts a few months ago to try using it for high res photos: I couldn't get it to save images of size 8192 x 5464 (native Canon R5 res). avifEncoderAddImage() just returns a generic error when the size is too big. If I reduced the size of the image a bit, it then worked.

Given I was trying to store high res panoramas of even larger dimensions, I was pretty surprised at the apparent limits, wherever they exist in the callstack.
> The largest barrier to greater adoption of languages like Coq with proof systems built-in is the formal background needed to get started.

I believe this to be a language problem and not a conceptual problem. All that you need to pragmatically formalize semantics is Hoare triples and basic predicate calculus[1]. Anyone that can understand an if statement already has the necessary conceptual machinery. The so-called “formal methods” community delights in over complicating the problem with gadgets like category theory. Which is ironic, because they’re introducing the same kind of unnecessary complexity that causes the problem that they’re trying to solve.

[1] ok that’s not utterly strictly true because arrays (or mutable functions, as I like to think of them) present some subtleties, but those are more a problem for the definers rather than the users.
I've messed about with that sort of thing before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe4UAmb2wJw.

I never got that far - I was primarily considering it as a point location definition for an image format, and I wanted a symmetrical curve.

You can actually do that, if you relax the constraint that no grid point is shared (it's not really that big a problem, you just need to base the transform on the location between pixels, and not the centres of the pixels).
A horrendously uninformed comparison. It's extremely tedious to still be reading this Pfizer/FDA copypasta at this point. It's more like if Ford wanted to release a car with some kind of completely new engine or propulsion type while having done almost no safety testing at all. And if, at the same time, they were telling you, "this is just like every other car we've ever made, what's the big deal?" it would be as good of a hint that they were hiding something as it turned out to be in the case of the mRNA vaccines.

Even in the case of traditional vaccines, it was generally expected pre-Covid that years of testing would be undergone before a rollout to the general public, so even putting aside the question of novelty, the more apt comparison would still be something like "Ford pushes out a new model car with a significant body redesign while doing a bare fraction of the usual crash safety tests."
Growth in a 2023 Market Context
Hey,

I wanted to ask and hear some different thoughts on growth in today's market. I've been speaking with different founder from a wide number of industries and can't find anything near consensus – thought maybe hearing some more people would at least organize my thoughts.

When seeking new (this being the key word here) business in a b2b environment, do you find more success with outbound or inbound? what's the target size of companies you are seeing buying the most?

Would love to hear some thoughts.
The only difference is price. The money we get from a third-party site after they take their commission comes out to the same as what we get direct, so the guest is simply paying the third-party site’s commission (usually around 10-12%). It’s that way because we set the price on their channel. The only other downside is changing your booking has to go through them instead of us, and cancellations have to abide by their policies in addition to ours. In practice this doesn’t make much difference to the end result, but it sometimes adds a bit of friction for some guests.

Room availability, staff service, everything else is identical. We have no incentive to encourage you to cut out the middleman and thus we don’t, but to my knowledge we also aren’t prohibited from doing that. Customers do sometimes ask about this stuff and I say “if you know exactly where you want to stay, might as well book direct to save a few dollars, but those sites offer a real service in helping you find a good place when you’re unfamiliar with the area”. Customers also sometimes say they can get a better rate on an OTA than what we are offering, and I always encourage them to book with whatever method gets them the best deal - “we honor all bookings and you will get the exact same room either way”. Usually that better price does not materialize, the guest realizes they were looking at a cheaper room or even a different hotel, though it does happen from time to time even with us (which I have never been able to understand; the OTA must simply be choosing to lose money on those bookings for some reason). We do not overbook, nor do we allow OTAs to overbook.

(I don’t know how representative this is of hotels in general; the owner is particularly upstanding and moral, kind of a “pillar of the community” guy, so this might be an unusually fair setup. But I’ve never heard a customer say we’re unusually fair, so I think this probably is pretty common.)

Essentially the role OTAs play in our case is they are a search engine and perhaps a more convenient booking process, nothing more. I believe this is a common way hotels use OTAs, though that’s just my impression.

The other common way hotels use OTAs is more tightly integrated, OTAs get to do variable pricing and probably other things I don’t know about since we don’t join any of those programs. I can’t speak to those arrangements but I imagine that’s what is going on when the OTA can offer you a better rate than the hotel direct, which definitely does happen with some hotels. That might also be what is going on when you ask questions about OTA rates and it feels like the staff member is under a gag order, but again, I do not know anything at all about that mode of OTA integration.
What are the potential ways for companies to make money using LLMs for search? If they start altering the LLMs output with ads, it will significantly reduce the usefulness of the search results, like watching a sponsored video on YouTube. On the other hand, if they only display banner ads related to the search, users can simply ask the LLMs for the best product based on their needs, and ignore the ads completely. Only a few users are probably likely to opt in for a monthly subscription, while the majority wouldn't.
most of the criticism I've seen is that it's all trained on uncompensated stolen artwork. Much like how copilot is trained on GPL code, disregarding its license terms.
I can only speak for myself here, but 90% of my search engine usage boils down to trying to get the answer to some kind of problem, be that a coding problem or a cooking problem or a mechanical problem etc, the other 10% of the time is some kind of research.

Call this a 90/10 split.

Of that 90, I would say about 75% of my questions can be answered by GPT* trivially. Most of this is due to the fact most of my problems are not novel.

Of that 10, the results are much more all over the place. I would say half or less.

The thing is, when you get crappy results from the LLM, they are genuine technical limitations (as long as you avoid politics and religion, if you are researching those with the LLM, good luck with that), not intentional badness put there to make someone else a few pennies off of wasting my time. There is a certain value there that is hard to quantify.

The other killer feature is being able to have a conversation about the results. This, for me, pushes the usefulness factor way above Google. The options for having conversations about technical topics with humans are comparatively god-awful.
Good, so in order to produce good AI-aided graphics the producers will have to become critics, arts experts, with the important side effect of personal elevation and the collective gain of society. "Wins" on all sides.

Update: three minutes later, it seems that somebody did not get the irony.
> As for me? ATT has provided the best service of any carrier while traveling, so I will use them.

I'm curious about your reasons to say that AT&T provides the best service "while traveling". I'm guessing it would be domestic travel, because AT&T roaming charges are the second highest among the big three (I believe Verizon is actually even more expensive).

I was a customer and an employee of AT&T for a while, and I find T-Mobile to be better in almost every aspect, except perhaps for coverage in very rural areas, which I don't mind. T-Mobile 5G coverage and speed is also significantly better.
I wonder if we end up back at paid answer sites.

That is, any question GPT is unsure or doesn't know could be pushed into some kind of StackOverflow style q&a to resolve by real humans.
Is it possible to return Google to pre-seo blackhat days? I think the golden egg has been poisoned, even if Google tried it's best
"We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents."

- Bob Ross
can we just agree that PDF sucks? Sometime's the API must operate on a spec that is unruly to begin with. I like this approach. It's about the best you can get when dealing with this without completely reinventing the storage format to support the API.
There's no need to create a new connection per role.

Simply use `SET ROLE`/`RESET ROLE`.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/sql-set-role.html
The cost has gone way down in the last couple months.

With a super-cheap T4 GPU (free in Google Colab), PyTorch 2.0, and the latest diffusers package, you can now generate batches of 9-10 images in about the same time it took to 4 images when Stable Diffusion was first released. This drastically speeds up the cherry-picking and iteration processes: https://pytorch.org/blog/accelerated-diffusers-pt-20/

Google Cloud Platform also now has preview access to L4 GPUs, which are 1.5x the cost of a T4 GPU but 3x throughput for Stable diffusion workflows (maybe more given the PyTorch 2.0 improvements for newer architectures), although I haven't tested it: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-g...
That's the exact point. Why would someone use a linked library if speed doesn't matter and they are passing text back and forth to be parsed?

That's a terrible way to use a FFI and you would still deal with all the tricky parts.

If that's what you need, you would write a separate stand alone program and call that.
Apparently Canada spends less on its Public Education System than the United States but teachers salaries are higher in Canada. US Public School System is top heavy with administrators by comparison.
In my (limited) experience, dogs seem to be easier than people for fine-tuning - especially if your end result is going to be artsy. Faces of people you know well being off in slight ways really throws you off, but with dogs there's a bit more leeway.
We already have LLM that can run on smartphones, maybe even watches. Just about every tech company will have a better chatgpt clone very soon.
Show HN: Let your body be the gamepad using a webcam
Hi HN,

I made a keyboard emulator that tracks your body pose and emits the key presses accordingly.

My main motivation was to make my kids move more on rainy days. I already made a couple of mini-games using the body pose [1-3], and those were definitely fun to make and play! However, once the kids learned the tricks, they got bored. I could only produce that much content myself, and soon realized that I lack time for churning out games.

Finally, I decided to tap into an endless pool of PC games, preferrably simple and less addictive ones like the Gameboy and DOS games.

This project has been also inspired by [4], which has been featured on HN recently.

[1]: https://github.com/mristin/pop-that-balloon-desktop

[2]: https://github.com/mristin/cactusss-desktop

[3]: https://github.com/mristin/ski-leu-desktop/

[4]: https://github.com/everythingishacked/Semaphore

Edit: clarified title; layout of references
You can contract outside IR-35 still, no? At least there were some advertised on LinkedIn last time I looked. If the contract is outside IR-35 then you can still claim expenses and pay corporate tax instead of (most) income tax.
> This is by design in a democracy.

I'm not sure I agree. It's one thing to claim that opinions changed, but an entirely different thing to feign support for topics you have no intention or expectation to act upon just because it might help you poll better. This last one is diametrically opposed to "the will of the people".