skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And why should someone without a degree be excluded from socio-economic advancement, thinking for themselves, or challenging the established order? If anything, professional success based on work instead of degrees is a challenge to the current established order. :)

They aren't excluded; education empowers people to do it much more. Professional success is almost always within the established order and supports it; I'm not sure what you mean there.

> The American Dream doesn't need to be degree examiners gatekeeping it. If you care about socioeconomic advancement, don't pull the ladder up by excluding people without degrees:

I'm not pulling up the ladder, I'm lowering it and broadening it into a grand, wide staircase. I'm not suggesting people be excluded from jobs (I don't know where you got that), but that they have the opportunity to do more.

> And to the "authoritarian-reactionaries" dig: note that the Congresswoman in this article is pursuing this as a progressive. Same with the new governor of Pennsylvania:

Right. It's not a dig; it's a serious issue. I said that the authoritarian-reactionaries have convinced others, and that includes the member of congress and the governor. Are they expanding access to college education?

I'll bet the children of both politicians are going to college.

> child of an immigrant with an 8th grade education for whom the American Dream is alive and well

The Dream isn't alive and well if you want a college education.
Well, post the source code and prompts in a GitHub repo then. Let's have a proper look at the code it output.
As conditions change that is likely to happen. Corals are broadcast spawners. The larva will settle in a hospitable environment wherever that happens to be.
And yet, I find myself struggling way more with Objective-C/Swift and Java/Kotlin deps than I do with JS ones. Dependency upgrades can be problematic, sure, but JS is no worse than any other language. I never had to change compiler flags or mutate internals of a library in npm the way I need to do with cocoapods.
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Children aged 2-6 successfully trained to acquire absolute pitch (2012)
Nice warp-back to HN pre-GPT era.
you're welcome to provide examples to prove your points.
They would all share common backdoors
Google’s DeepMind-Brain merger: tech giant regroups for AI battle
In 5 years a roll of TP would cost $1.4T, but we could just remove a few zeros every year or so, amiright?
The DAO fork never would have hit production if users had not been chosen to run it. The software update even had a switch people had to set, choosing whether to run the fork or not.

The Parity project later requested a rescue attempt for themselves and their wallet users, and the community strongly resisted the idea. Parity was run by a cofounder of Ethereum, and the issue was way more clear than someone claiming without proof that they'd lost their keys; if Parity couldn't get a rescue done, it's not likely to happen again for anyone else.

Certainly it'd be difficult to get an international community to bend to the demands of a court in one jurisdiction. Even if they forced the issue in that one jurisdiction, it'd just be a fork, probably with little value.
This jumped to mind for me too. Basically 5-10 unique elements per planet, arranged to give it an organicish feel, but the terrain sadly lacks much to explore.

The most interesting planets tend to be more forested or have extreme terrain features, but the patterns are still obvious.
Problem is your parents or anyone else in the mainstream still won't use it. There is no denomination and they don't know that it won't be hacked. There is a reason that physical assets in private vaults are fiat and precious metals... their value is self-evident and therefore completely trusted and fungible by everyone. Once you cloak the value in a card, all bets are off for mainstream adoption.
You either fret about the unknown or enjoy the ride.
Has Kiwix gotten any better? I tried to use it a few years ago, but the user experience was super rough. Fantastic idea, but there were lots of UI stalls and glitches that soured my trial.
I think you missed their point. From a cow’s perspective, they are imprisoned, enslaved, and killed for their flesh. They live a horrific existence and probably would think we are all Nazis if they had enough reasoning to realize what was happening to them and their families. It doesn’t really matter to them that a human out there is consuming them and has some higher purpose and goals (besides just eating them to survive). An AGI could have any number of goals that are not related to dominating, enslaving and slaughtering us, where it could still be easier and more convenient to do so, so they do it.

The side effects on the world caused by intelligent life with agency are unpredictable. If they become smarter than us, and have robotics, what if they decide animal life isn’t necessary anymore? Or that our pollution causes solar energy capture to be affected, and the quickest way to stop it is to kill everyone? Maybe it’s better to demolish a city for a solar farm because it’s already got so much concrete and electrical infrastructure and is cheaper/faster than building new. Who knows what their goals will be and how they’ll seek to accomplish them?

All we know is that we don’t have much consideration for the “lesser” beings on our planet, and how things are from their perspective.
Vinyl also has no low end to speak of. Hence the RIAA curves which define how the low end is stripped out before cutting, and "restored" during playback. If you ever get a chance, listen to some vinyl on gear that can have the RIAA curves defeated/disengaged.
You might not be excited about “implementing a slow version of Java in Java”, but that doesn’t make it a bad approach. (Also, second part is about implementing same interpreter in C)
Apple has a McDuck pile of gold. Mass layoffs would kill morale and hurt long term value.
I had not seen that book before. those more desirable kinds of self employment do exist too. It's hard for a person who is poor to build their skills and capital to get out of app gig work and into something better.
A fresh record on a clean needle with a good turntable will sound identical to a CD, if not slightly better, because the physical grooves will not have the same quantization as digital
> we existed at least 4/5 thousand years together and a lot of mixing and mingling has been going on.

This sounds strikingly similar to how I imagine our first encounters with advanced AI will unfold.
I didn't do much, except being insufferable during chemo. Evrybidy around me did the hea y lifting, emotionally and physically.
But they still pretend they do journalism.
Try the delicate cycle, too (in case I wasn't clear above). I wash almost all my clothes that way and they come clean.
I find the name to be misleading. By the same logic, could you describe '90s encyclopedia CD-ROMs as "the internet in a box"?

It's content that was hosted on the internet. The actual internet is infrastructural, not content.

Is a DVD box set thus "Netflix in a box"?
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The most frustrating point in the article is the footnote: https://acoup.blog/2023/04/28/collections-academic-ranks-exp...

If you don’t get into the right undergraduate program, you are likely doomed to never become a tenured professor since the whole system is stacked against you, no matter how good you are at teaching.

He also makes a good point about tenure being the only way to influence a department and introduce new courses, etc., which just seems terribly unfair.

A great teacher should be treated at the same level of prestige as a great researcher. Make influence merit based based on contribution to the university on its most important mission: teaching students. Don’t reward mediocre assistant professors with lifetime appointments.

The part about professional managers running institutions now resonated. Imagine if the tech leadership at companies was a bunch MBA’s with no experience in the field.
Sure it isn't a DeepFake™?
Great article going into the details of what it would take to get a system using an LLM for diagnosis approved: https://www.hardianhealth.com/blog/how-to-get-regulatory-app...

> [...] a roadmap for how to get a medical large language model-based system regulatory cleared to produce a differential diagnosis. It won’t be easy or for the faint-hearted, and it will take millions in capital and several years to get it built, tested and validated appropriately, but it is certainly not outside the realms of future possibility.

> [...]

> There is one big BUT in all this that we feel compelled to mention. Given the lengthy time to build, test, validate and gain regulatory approval, it is entirely possible that LLM technology will have moved on significantly by then, if the current pace of innovation is anything to go by, and this ultimately begs the question - is it even worth it if we are at risk of developing a redundant technology? Indeed, is providing a differential diagnosis to a clinician who will already have a good idea (and has available to them multiple other free resources) even a good business case?
Nobody expects the fourth declension.
Abstractions like that are meaningless. Why is the large hadron collider so expensive it’s just throwing stuff at each other and looking at what happens? Random teens could do that…

The actual process of doing blood work is often surprisingly complicated.
Problem is your parents or anyone else in the mainstream still won't use it. There is no denomination and they won't have any confidence that it won't be hacked. There is a reason that physical assets in private vaults are fiat and precious metals... their value is self-evident with the printed or forged denomination and therefore these assets are completely trusted and fungible by everyone. Once you cloak the value in a card behind proprietary tech, all bets are off for mainstream adoption.
This is a great overview! I’ve been working on a project where I’ve tried a few of these and it’s definitely a space where this data is super valuable.

I really wanted to like Banana.dev but runpod consistently outperforms them for my use case. I love the innovation in this space.

Here is my wishlist:

1. Faster cold starts. If you’re building a consumer product that has a request and response using one of these services I’m seeing at least a 20 second delay before the server begins working.

2. Much cheaper GPUs. This is an unrealistic expectation right now because supply and demand have these services completely crowded with people happy to pay. I just wish I could afford to have a few of the faster GPUs prewarmed ready to go but that would be several thousand dollars a month. Doable eventually but for my bootstrapped side project that hasn’t found product market fit it’s a little rough.

3. Ability to create custom models from the service. I’m on an Intel Mac and so making a custom model requires me to ssh into a machine. If only there was a service that let me rent a high end GPU service by the second. /sarcasm. I wasn’t able to get access to docker or install it on runpod and support confirmed it isn’t something they support.

For custom model building I found the prices and flexibility to do whatever you need on lambdalabs.com to be best. Also their prices are blowing all of these other services away. However no serverless option. The space is so crowded with consumers I’m almost afraid to even mention them because I worry I won’t have GPUs available for me. I’m seeing this mentality a lot.
Actually, you would have to tax the middle class.

The rich are not driving inflation from consumption, the middle class is. The top 1% has 40% of the wealth, but they aren't buying 40% of groceries, gas, and consumer goods.

Money sitting in a bank accounts doesn't drive inflation, consumers spending money does.
I grew up DJing with vinyl, it is as much about the wicky-wicky as it is the ritual of carefully and delicately placing a needle before going off to smoke your cigar.

Though for me its more about blending and beatmatching... the feeling of a perfectly timed double-drop or blend or whatever simply isn't the same with digital. And most new DJs can't even beatmatch by ear any more!

If you go to a party and the DJ is spinning wax and he's got two tracks going perfectly in-sync... due to vinyl's inherent instabilities, that takes some serious skill. On a modern setup you just drag the pitch fader til the BPMs are the same and hit play at the start of the phrase, and the worst you have to worry about is the bass knocking your cheaply-made faders around
First of all there are definitely a countable number of cultures... secondly ... well rolf.
Same, except that I think it's worth spelling out the purpose of the tool:

1. win friends (and influence people)

2. convince the target of my affection that I am truly super-awesome, and they should fall in love with me because of incredible mix tapes.

Cassette tapes FTW!
This is how people consume content in Cuba

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTTno8D-b2E

If you like this story, I recommend this documentary:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2442080/ (Chuck Norris vs Communism)
Well first, the original poster is making a gross generalization about Americans. Many Americans do bike places for enjoyment and necessity. Just like France, it's the exception not the norm in places with spread out amenities. Just like France, the decision to do this or not do this is based on things like free-time, safety, money, and yes, laziness.
This is such a bad take. How would you get internet to the deep Amazon or the middle of the ocean without satellite?
Assets being overvalued is a different thing from inflation. It's true that the cost of housing is up, but that's also borne out in rents. It's true that most people are homeowners, but the quantity actually included in inflation statistics is "owner's equivalent rent." House prices acquiring a premium over and above rent on comparable properties is not inflation.
Btw Traefik is an excellent proxy:

https://traefik.io/traefik

Far too few people know about it IMO
For those interested in a deeper dive, Richard Startin had a nice post on the topic https://richardstartin.github.io/posts/4k-aliasing
> travelling overseas wasn't practical before transatlantic air travel began in 1939

And there was only one British coronation since then: Elizabeth II in 1952. Calling it "a centuries-long tradition" is a bit of a stretch.
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Well, some content available through the internet is useful. That content was available on CD-ROMs in the '90s as encyclopedias.

The function provided with this project is some content available offline just like those CD-ROMs. You aren't going to be communicating with folks on the other side of the world via it. Ergo, it is not "the internet in a box".
You can feel negatively against those things without supporting ecoterrorism like degassing tires, blocking freeway traffic, and vandalizing property.
And a reason that banks have had so many withdrawals is that their deposit interest rates have not kept pace with money market rates, so a lot of people, especially if they had a lot of cash in a bank, have been moving their cash to money markets.
I don't understand how people haven't gotten over this yet. When someone says serverless, I immediately understand that to mean "we've obfuscated the underlying server hardware from the consumer of this product." It means "you don't think about servers," not "there are no servers."
But long-term Treasurys are liquid, they just lost value. Be careful not to equate the two.

And bizarrely, capital requirements don't require banks to account for duration risk, which is what screwed SVB (and is screwing a lot of other banks now).
It's not fulfilling, that's why I assumed he's looking for other work. But the person I replied to has added that this job requires a lot of study to get into - which means he would have to accept that study as a sunk cost.
There’s also OpenC1, which is an almost complete open source remake of Carmageddon. Jeff also has posted a ton of content around the internal workings and file formats etc on his dev blog - http://1amstudios.com/projects/openc1/.
I wonder if the internet will be handled in a similar mater once humanity spreads to other plants.
You don't. I almost always use termux with virtual keyboard and it feels fine for doing something quick and on the go.
Modal UIs (like vim) work better than modifier- and functional keys-heavy though.
There are plenty of fat people in every country. But if you take a flight into e.g. Chicago from anywhere else in the world, you will not even need to leave the airport to see how much fatter America is. Many, many people in America are nearly physically handicapped from obesity. The word 'fat' has an inflated meaning in America.
I disagree with that poster as well, but this is a bit of an immature response. People are welcome to have worries about this stuff and it’s better to argue for their arguments being misguided than tell them to go live in the woods if they don’t like it.
Even in the US you don't get Pharma ads in a hospital.
I mean, it's not like the citizens get to decide what is in their best interest.

Even in modern democracies laws are still mostly written, presented, and decided by lobbyists.

Doesn't seem to matter the structure of the government, the people with the money make the rules when leaders integrity can be purchased.
> None of the "AI" systems that have been making splashes in the news recently are very much like the human brain.

Why do you believe that this is relevant? Our brain is just the product of natural evolution; running on hardware that is already incredibly inferior in several critical aspects (processing speed, bandwidth and information storage density), and the only holdout--computational power/watt--exists because we have no good way to compare it.

Why would it be necessary or even helpful to COPY that biological implementation
to achieve superhuman cognitive capabilities?
Seems it's just the 2nd in command: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provost_(education)
On a recent thread about a shortage of electricians, several commenters talked about taking on electrical work themselves, in a way that passed every inspection, by working on the scale of months instead of, as the pros do, days. This tracks exactly the distinction between my garden vs. the garden, and the analogy is great for software.

I'm currently working on something, "using AI" (read: the ChatGPT API), and it's coming out perfect in a way I couldn't have done without this API, but I also couldn't have done at work; there are too many efficiencies involved when you're making software for yourself.

For one thing, the feedback loop between implementation, UI and UX is a dot instead of a loop. For another, I'm infinitely willing to sympathize with my user, and will take all of their suggestions as if they were gospel. And my budget, while not infinite or even large, is extremely generous.

I guess it's also worth mentioning people whose recent pet projects became their main project, the most salient of whom, for me, is AngeTheGreat on YouTube (https://m.youtube.com/@angethegreat).

There's something to be said for dogfooding first, then releasing something.
> Bayesian inference is a method of statistical inference in which Bayes' theorem is used to update the probability for a hypothesis as more evidence or information becomes available.

That is very clearly reasoning
Not bigotry at all. If my server gets a lot of chinese spam, and none of my users reads chinese, then it's just silly to waste bandwidth and storage on messages that aren't going to be read.
Craig Wright, the guy who brought this lawsuit, has been suing people left and right for years.

He lost a high profile case last year against a podcaster who called him a fraud. The judge ruled against Wright and found that he had "advanced a deliberately false case and put forward deliberately false evidence until days before trial".
Reduce the laundry you need to do. I only own three outfits. Hand washing a single outfit every day takes less than 10 minutes. Costs nothing. Hang dry. No folding.
“There is no failure” – Giannis Antetokounmpo
Your analysis is just dumb. You’re implying this is the only difference. You’re implying the entire outcome difference could be due to this one variable. You have shown no evidence to suggest this relationship exists at all. Like, for example looking at other countries. You’re implying that one thing has to account for the entire effect as a linear relationship by saying homicide rate being 2.5x is not important or that they’re “over performing in spite of it”. But you want one? Fine. Cops killed on duty. About 10x in the US. That settles your desire for a linear relationship on a compelling alternative story. Is that actually a sufficient analysis? No.

You get an F for intro to stats. And an F- for being confidently wrong.

There is no “excusing” reductions in education. You have not demonstrated a relationship between these two things as important.
Will it? So when this hypothetical AGI with sentience emerges, it's going to think like a human being? Why would it with so much knowledge? Most negative aspects of humanity come from a lack of knowledge.
> When discussing artificial intelligence, a popular topic is recursive self-improvement. The idea in a nutshell: once an AI figures out how to improve its own intelligence, it might be able to bootstrap itself to a god-like intellect, and become so powerful that it could wipe out humanity. (...) This is what people refer to as the fast takeoff scenario.

Recursive self-improvement is not a necessary condition for a fast takeoff. A strongly superhuman AI could emerge at training time. AlphaGo Zero went from subhuman to superhuman performance within a few hours. The same could happen with a general AI. A training run of a few weeks or even months would still be considered fast.
New York set to ban gas furnaces, stoves in new buildings
They're identity totems
Yawn, so tired of the term 'AI' at this point. It's use is just marketing and it's entirely not substantive. Call them what they are, generative models, or something else more accurate. Calling it AI is completely arbitrary.
Our cells built our bodies and brain as an AI to navigate the macro realm!
Not quite the same, but interesting:

https://www.xda-developers.com/android-13-dp1-google-pixel-6...
It’s how every country is set up, including the US. Having smaller banks doesn’t affect systemic risk much if there’s still big banks that are too big to fail, and the US has plenty of those.

Even if we lived in a world where big banks didn’t exist, the benefit to systemic risk might be smaller than you’d think, as bank failures tend to be correlated.
Who is spending "billions of dollars shaping discourse" exactly, unless you mean governments and their academics? The idea that people don't trust climatologists because they get paid not to is simply an absurd lie. It's the other way around: the budgets are all on the side of the academics.

Take it from climatologists themselves, talking about who are these skeptics who cause them so much trouble?

http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2012/01/email-4986-augsept-200...

They are mostly people who correspond on the Climate Audit blog site. They all seem to have infinite time as they are all retired.
Don’t print money endlessly for decades? Don’t run endless government debt? Do t artificially keep rates low for almost two decades?

The solution is exactly what is about to happen, a decade plus recession. But don’t worry, there is always war, which is coming.