skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. Like downranking Iraqi websites in a hypothetical 2003 when they said "We dont have WMDs". So much better.
finite state machines can't process irrational numbers. there's nothing we can google that will change that.
Removing the ability to effectively service non-performing debt would simply drive up the cost of borrowing for people that need it. Debt collectors are a necessary evil...

> This debt doesn't come from people like you and me. They come from people who literally don't understand what debt is and have been fooled into a life of poverty. That's who's being targeted here.

Exactly - the problem isn't debt collectors, its predatory lending.
So no more NYT?
This is the excuse hospitals used to send nurses into covid units with no or insufficient PPE when they got caught flat-footed having no stored supply. (and it was BS)
I libgenned those within 20 seconds of reading your reply. Thank you very much.

Either good scifi is getting harder to find or I'm turning into a right snob.
Hashing does not have to be random, it just has to compress the domain. Modulo number is a perfectly valid hash for some use cases.

Edit: just looked it up, doesn't even have to compress the domain, identity hash is a thing.
Did not the current wildfires in Alberta, Canada start with an attempted "controlled burn" gone awry?
RANDOM THOUGHT:

i wonder when we are getting docker for llm ... a Modelfile ?

FROM "PAAMA/16b"

APPLY "MNO/DATASET"

each layer could be lora adapter like thing maybe.

maybe when AI chips are finally here.
I still have to use !g daily.
Anyone want to exchange a Tesla Model 3 for an Ioniq?

Only if I'm dead, my hands are cold, and you brought a pry bar. We love our Ioniq 5.

As to the topic at hand, meh, Musk ran his mouth about a lot things during that interview, including a few topics that bear more reporting than this flame bait does. About the only analysis I have on his discussion of WFH is that the CEO doth protest too much, methinks. Like he's really concerned about the inequality of it all. What's that Upton Sinclar quote? Hey, if I'm WFH, I guess I don't need a Tesla to drive to work. :-)
Ask HN: Would you hire a smart VA for $12/hr?
Hi, I'm a HN lurker from Latin America. I'd like to land a job in a startup, or any IT company.

My desired compensation is 12$/hr but I could start with as little as 6$/hr to prove my value.

I am currently employed in a US traditional company via Upwork, but I'd like to work in Tech and thought this place would be good for it.

My English is near native. I have Project Management knowledge and consider myself a tech-savvy fast learner with out-of-the-box thinking skills. I also have college education.

What would really impress you? I usually send a presentation listing my knowledge and skills to job openings, offering a 'free consultation'.

I'd appreciate any advice, thanks.
I had the same reaction as the OP. I’m not a data scientist by trade or title, but I would personally be a little offended. If you designed the Porsche 911, would you not be offended by the shade tree mechanic who simply knows how to change the oil calling himself a Porsche designer/engineer?
We don’t have that kind of government
The world is not a meritocracy nor has it ever been. This take is absolutely delusional. It doesn't matter how cheap or easy anything is if people make less and have next to no time off which is most people.
I appreciate the explanation, but I don't know what junior-dev would understand most of this. I may be just a web developer, but I couldn't understand most of this. I'd still have to read for 30m to grok it all.
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The myth of the $600 hammer (1998)
Yes but then you have shipping constraints that results in refrigeration and pesticide practices which destroy the underlying nutrient content and flavor of the produce. Whereas with local vertical farms, you have Byzantine machinery that employs a lot of people and produces maximally-nutritious and flavorful produce that is always in season because it's grown locally and drone-deliverable via smartphone request.

You could order a basket of fresh fruits and vegetables and have it get shipped to your backyard or window by drone.
Even when you're in free fall, it takes a bit to pick up speed due to air resistance. But eventually you fall.
Focus on trying to take over other people's jobs using AI.
>Lots of sending out letters and making phone calls.

Can you elaborate? Who are these letters to? What do they contain? What happens if someone doesn't pay after you serve notice? What's the whole process like?
you’re a rat
As a new parent, this quote takes on a whole new meaning…
More green space less street capacity, harvest would at best be a proxy for calculating/retaining a coverage requirement.

Less cars on the same streets are speed deaths, replacement with traditional buildings are depression related deaths. I think continuous public green roof parks/paths or something would be more practical than actual harvestable plants.
Sounds interesting, but I can't find the github link...
> sometimes your job as a BDFL may be to say "no" to your most ardent supporters. This also happens a lot for staff level platform work.

You hit the nail on the head. You've heard of a "yesman" (i recognize the sexism in that phrase, but it is the colloquial term), people that simply say yes to everything. I always joke that I am a "no-man". My job is literally to say "no" to probably 12-15 people a day. I say "yes" maybe once a week. It is actually exhausting and frustrating to be in this position.

I can't talk too much about what I do, but I am a staff level platform engineer and run a platform that no one has heard of, and no one has used directly, but it affects most people reading this. Because of how important the security and infrastructure is, my job is to field requests all day long, say "no" to almost all of them, and accept 1-3 things a month that our team actually works on.

Saying "no" so often and being "the bad guy" that no one wants to give ideas to is frustrating and difficult. It is the hardest part of the job, far more than the technical component. I actually discuss it with my therapist nearly weekly, it takes that significant of a toll on me. I enjoy the core of the work, but these externalities of the job wear me thin and I often fantasize of going back to the time when I just showed up in a daily standup, took a ticket, and went away to work on it. Essentially what I am saying is "the grass is always greener", remember that.
A weakly structured stem for human origins in Africa
Could you ELI5 (or maybe 15, with high-school maths) this concept? Particularly how it may relate to how our brains might work? Most interested.
Ok, I had you confused with the person who made the original comment, but you're not really answering the question...
Right. But what if you've been told that wall is in ten feet, but you go eleven feet and hit nothing. Then you're told, no just three more feet and you'll hit the wall and you go four and hit nothing.

Then your told, well it's less of a wall and more of a curb and it's in five feet. You go ten feet and still hit nothing.

I guess some people will always be Charle Brown.
Yes but the truly immoral part is designing cities and infrastructure such that attempting to move around them using non-polluting (and fitness enhancing!) modes of transport is unsafe or unrealistic for so many.
In Julia with multiple dispatch there is no problem to adding more things to the global namespace. But it does not work for Python, so it’s developers must be very conservative with global names.
OS Scheduling: Better scheduling policies for modern computing systems
This would be relevant if the user base and site content were the same as the ones in the dates of the links you've cited, the most recent being thirteen years old!

However, it's another obsolete BS etiquette HN has came up with so its userbase feels intellectually superior to Redditors, even though they both have been found to converge as is evident from observations by others similar to the ones expressed at the OP.
Haven't watched that for a decade - anything special about thison?

Good surprise though: not only this episode is available for free, its also dubbed in my local language? https://www.southparkstudios.com.br/episodios/8byci4/south-p...
What exactly do you mean, and why do you think that? As originally posted, your comment strikes me as vague and unpersuasive.
I just want her in prison where she belongs. There should be a warrant for her arrest which should drag her off to prison where she belongs.
My understanding is that Microsoft gets exclusive licensing to (just) the "GPT" family of technologies. This is why Sam Altman has been hoping to get away from transformers and attention-based methods.

In any case, I'm confident that their researchers could come up with something else if Microsoft truly decided to "take them over". Furthermore, it seems like it's still a mutually beneficial arrangement.
Genuinely asking: your family is not willing to use WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Teams, Discord, ..., to have your sister be included?
I tend to write facades for many libraries/APIs I use and use the facades, not the actual APIs throughout the project. The facades, aside from being simpler to replace in case I need to switch dependencies, also use a simpler mental model suitable for the project (and me).
The Ancient Romans used a sponge on a stick for washing themselves after defecating. I always wondered who was responsible for cleaning and replacing those sponges in public latrines.
Nope, let's not reward them with money. Lobby to get this idiotic TLD shut down. Otherwise someone will grab .pdf and .png soon.
They didn’t practically, they did. There was a specific exchange between Sam and members of the hearing in which a sitting US Senator asked him if he wanted the job. Sam replied no, he likes his job, but suggested they could recommend people. The Senator appeared happy with this.
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It's a little nuanced. We know about some aspects of the average Roman citizen's life: the details of their class and labor statuses, their political enfranchisement, the effects of the Roman economy on their livelihood, urbanization trends through the Republic and Empire, etc. We also know a decent amount about what they ate, what they wore, etc.

We know many of these things either because they're discussed in comparison to an actual subject, or via inference with described subjects (i.e. descriptions of the lives of political candidates, bureaucrats, soldiers, slaves, and lesser sides of noble families).
I think the effect of boiling is negligible because air dissolves back into the water as the water cools. I don't understand your radial pattern argument. When I look closely at the lineations in the ice I see that the streaks are composed of individual spheroid voids. Not sure how fracture could do that.
War is a constant within the history of the United States continuing until today. While for a lot of folks it's indeed many time zones away, for those unfortunate enough to be in those areas or sent to those areas that's no comfort. As resources grow more scarce over the next handful of decades that far off time zone will get closer and closer to home.

I mean look at COVID and toilet paper. Now imagine that's the only clean water and nutritious food and you'll have an idea of what this will look like.
It won’t require tabletop space, but can show you any number of screens, presumably can track where you’re looking for context, and theoretically can use less energy to power its display than 1 large laptop display and certainly less than 2 (laptop + external monitor) - you can always carry a powerbank and/or charger in your backpack, which you’re used to if you lug around a laptop or gaming device. You can also use an AR device while mobile, unlike a laptop.

This is just talking of the “panoramic monitor” capability, without getting into more AR-native features which will become increasingly important and be more impactful.
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Any evidence or sources for that? I just don't know how that would be knowable to any of us.

Yuval Noah Harari gave a great talk the other day on the potential threat to democracy from the current state of the technology - https://youtu.be/LWiM-LuRe6w
Agreed. I do think we will end up at a higher plateau of remote work than we had pre-pandemic but all signs point towards the vast majority of workers returning to an office daily. I do truly believe office work is more productive than remote for most workers. I also truly believe that the executives leading the charge to return to offices overstate that impact.
Sites should not be enabling draft specifications. That's just poor site design.

But of course, nowadays, anything Chrome does becomes a de-facto standard.
What I'd love to do is use OCR on a bunch of these and be able to freely use the pieces by rendering them with MIDI. There are pieces I want to use in my short films or whatever, but all the recordings are copyrighted even if the music is now public-domain.
Not quite ELI5 and there's a few partially overlapping answers around already but here goes.

The key part is the attention mechanism, as title of the paper may have spoiled. It works moreless like this:

- Start with an input sequence X1, X2 ... Xn. These are all vectors.

- Map the input sequence X into 3 new sequences of vectors: query (Q), key (K), and value(V), all of the same length as the input X. This is done using learnable mappings for each of the sequences (so one for X->Q, another for X->K and one for X->V).

- Compare similarity of every query with every key. This gives you a weight for each query/key pair. Call them W(Q1, V2) and so forth.

- Compute output Z as sum of every _value_ weighted by the weight for the respective query/key pair (so Z1 = V1W(Q1,K1) + V2W(Q1,K2) + ... + VnW(Q1,Kn), Z2 = V1W(Q2,K1) + V2*W(Q2,K2)...)

- and that's about it!

As throwawaymaths mentions, this is quite similar to a learnable hash table with the notable difference that the value fetched is also changed, so that it doesn't fetch "input at an index like i" but "whatever is important at an index like i".

Now a few implementation details on top of this:

- The description is for a single "attention head". Normally several, each with their own mappings for Q/K/V, are used, so the transformer can look at different "things" simultaneously. 8 attention heads seems pretty common.

- The description doesn't take the position in the sequence into account (W(Q1,K1) and W(Q1,Kn) are treated perfectly equally). To account for ordering, "positional encoding" is normally used. Usually this is just adding a bunch of scaled sine/cosine waves to the input. Works surprisingly well.

- The transformer architecture has a number of these "attention layers" stacked one after the other and also 2 different stacks (encoder, decoder). The paper is about machine translation, so the encoder is for the input text and the decoder for the output. Attention layers work just fine in other configurations as well.

The rest of the architecture is fairly standard stuff
Google is on their knees praying to any of the thousands of deities to answer their wishes and begging for Apple to implement RCS in iMessage.

Do you, dear HN reader, think they will?
Take a look at Kagi Search [1] where you pay with money instead of your data. Have been using it for over a year now and must say that the search engine is surprisingly good. The only time I ever use !g bangs is when I want live updates of sports events or so.

[1] https://kagi.com/
It is known that vertical farms are very cost efficient, or can be. They can outproduce traditional farms in terms of yield given inputs. If that can be increased further, they should be built as open source technologies as much as possible so humanity always remembers how to rebuild pipelines for optimal nutrition and the lowest cost.

You also have year round fresh produce that isn't treated with pesticides or refrigerated, so its taste and nutrition profile are intact. Vertical farms with drone delivery are locally maintainable pipelines for giving humans optimal nutrition at the lowest possible cost and the lowest current possible shipping friction.
Orientation in JSON documents with Emacs and Tree-sitter
Pre-colonial ceramics from the US Virgin Islands: outline for revised chronology
Correct, in some states it's a strict liability crime, but it's not without controversy: should a 25 year old who had sex with someone he met a bar, who entered with a fake ID indicating she was 21, be charged with rape of a child? Even if it doesn't matter in the eyes of the law, it's still a very important factor.
A city is, of course, more than the kinds of things that are taken to appeal to single young people today (though studies show that the young are increasingly becoming socially isolated).

Cities are more compact than suburbs. Kids are entirely dependent on their parents and adults to drive them everywhere, so in many poorly planned suburbs and bedroom communities, they're generally stuck at home. Similarly, the elderly can become isolated from family and friends that are scattered about with no easy way to visit them, or kept from participating in the social life of their town because either there is no social life due to hostile urban planning, or because they cannot get there as driving has become more difficult with age. The benefit of living in walkable cities and towns with good public transportation is especially obvious for these age groups.
So?
Just because a process sometimes fails does not mean the solution is to change the process, and if you do, it doesn't mean the result will end up better overall.

Expected value and all that.
While I agree with the people around Epstein need to come clean, I'm also going to point out that most of us don't check whether any of the people we hang out with are felons or sex offenders.

Even moreso, if you hang out with rock musicians, it's probably guaranteed that you know people in both categories... (I seem to remember some North American rock event that had to leave almost 25% of the bands at the US border because they weren't allowed to enter Canada due to various legal convictions.)

In addition, one would naturally assume that someone guilty of all the crap Epstein was wouldn't be walking around free. The fact that Epstein was free was almost certainly because he was an intelligence asset.
btw it is literally just bing. The only reason they can afford it is bing gives them free API access. Would be impossible for DDG to afford the usual API fees without something like a $5/month subscription for normal usage. If they didn't give it away for free to DDG, bing itself would lose double digit usage numbers, since they report DDG usage as their own usage. Source: worked for a competitor.
Well, a lot of traditional unionized blue collar union jobs went overseas. So the employers didn't have a lot of control over that.

A lot of jobs also shifted to smaller companies in areas like tech and employees wanted to take advantage of higher salaries being offered by those firms.

I'm not sure it's a simple case of employers suddenly locking employees in. There were a lot of market forces that made staying at the same single employee forever less attractive from a salary perspective. Sort of a re-enforcing cycle. I'm sure economists have more data.
So what's the end goal with all the personal info they seem to collect? Does it lead to other types of scams higher up in the organization? I can see how some of it is useful to the people running the virtuals so they can keep up with the conversation more easily, and I get the point about making the virtuals seem more realistic for the area they're targeting, but it seems like they collect a whole lot more than that. I've gotta believe there's something bigger at play here. And usually when there's one type of organized crime going on at an organization, there's more, right?
Oh it’s a willful disconnect. Have you ever asked a job if they’d be willing to pay relocation expenses? They know how expensive/difficult it is.
It's also important to note here that even if you believe that all these ML models are not even close to "AI", that doesn't stop your naive boss from buying their hype and replacing you with it. There's good reason to talk about how society should handle that even if ChatGPT is all hot air.
Sorry to piggyback on this. I applied for a Director role at DDG about a month ago. Had the autoreply which said DDG would follow up whether it was a yes, let's talk! or a nope, sorry. But nothing at all which was a bit disappointing. The role has been taken down for a few weeks now. I wasn't looking for a new position at all but the description strongly appealed and it was DDG, a company I'd admired for years (and fully remote!).
Either this will be tremendously funny, niche were it doesn't matter or a very very weird future.

And yes the imagination of suddenly people sitting with not just some vr glasses from anyone but apple ones on a couch isolated from reality oh boy.
Existential threat is a really hard thing to grapple with. You can't wait for real-world evidence of danger to deal with it.

If there's a possibility of an asteroid coming that will wipe out life on earth, waiting until our telescopes can see it to start taking action may not give us enough time to react. We have to plan for the theoretical possibility.

Maybe we'll never be able to create artificial superintelligence. Maybe artificial superintelligence will be much easier to align than we thing. Maybe it'll be hard, but manageable, possibly because we have more time to work on the problem than we think.

All of those are possibilities, but the fact that if you ask 100 people about it, you'll get 100 different opinions, means that we have very little idea how things will go. Given that, I don't like the approach of wing it / hope for the best. If we end up stifling AI innovation unnecessarily, that may mean that our techno-utopia is delayed for a few years, but we get there in the end. On the other hand, if we under-react and things turn out really bad, we may not get another try. Scenarios where AGI kills a billion people are really bad, but scenarios where we create it and end up permanently disempowered or dead are worse.

I wonder sometimes if people are just really dissatisfied with their lives, that they react with such vitriol to the idea of AI progress being delayed. I know we have a lot of problems, but how many of them are technological vs. having poor human institutions and incentive structures? AI probably won't help much with that.
I used OCR on a screenshot of the email. That's probably the reason of the mixup.
India's 'draconian' IT laws draw ire from civil society
You could say that about almost any advancement in any field. I think your definition of "latest technology" is severely limited if something has to be completely brand new like a horse vs a car
I would not answer for others, but, for my needs, I would want to see your github repo with code you wrote.That's not necessarily what you had in mind, but thought I'd give you one view. Best of luck!
The Titanic had 840 staterooms. Maybe these were a tiny subset of super-special ones or something. Or whoever put those captions on there was confused.
The article touches on this: the people working the accounts are required to take detailed notes into the system about the victim, notes that are made available to future responding workers.
Similarly, some people can't handle the truth, but that is not the search engine's job to correct, is it?
I use ddg as my daily driver for about 3 years as well. I do find that searching things like exact error messages from programs are a bit better with !g, but almost all other searches are comparable or better.
> It's not been good unless you're at the upper end of the attention accumulation pyramid.

Very subjective and ignores all the great strides these technologies have made. React has made it infinitely easier for everyone to build scalable websites and web apps so I don't think I agree with your upper end statement.
Impossible Algorithm: Computing income tax in constant time