skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the slope of the line is damning but if there are outliers that throw the slope that much off, that may be a sign there's not enough data.

Also if you change the slope the effect size diminishes because the left side of the line tips up.
There was a movement to protect this HTTP code from boring committees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text_Coffee_Pot_Control_...

Protect the code!
Recently finished reading A Whale of the Wild by Rosanne Parry[0] to my child and, like Parry's book A Wolf Called Wander, I was moved to tears. The author does a good job of trying to portray the animals as that species, not just personified as human (granted, I don't know what it's like to be an orca or a wolf, but my point is that it is important to try to empathize with other animals). It's a quick read if it was just you reading to yourself.
In the story the orcas attempt to communicate with humans and also other orcas, which the author notes in the back that this was for the sake of the story and that we observe orcas from different groups going out of their way to avoid each other and thus avoid conflict.

[0] https://www.worldcat.org/title/A-whale-of-the-wild/oclc/1225...
Short writeup on challenges of LLMs in May 2023
The point is I shouldn’t need to do that.
Maybe the separate internet was an exaggeration, but there are things I would never post on a frequently visited public forum, because they're best left unspoken or found if you look for/hear about them in private-ish convo (like emulators/ROMs), given the legislative climate around them. Too much (stimulated) popularity can be poison.
Like it or not, there are social norms, one of which is that public accusations need to be substantiated.

That is, I think, a reasonable expectation.
The point is this kind of 'on-the-fly' software or ui dispenses with the need of countless small web apps and parts of larger software.

"Display my calendar for the next 3 weeks, in a vertical column per day, divided into hours, with an expanded fisheye view of morning work hours and highlight any out-of-office meetings. Make meetings clickable, and when clicked, open a page including more details of the meeting and it's participants, and links to their facebook pages. Save the program as part of my dashboard"

Etc.
I worked for government for a long time. It’s no different managing government employees, it’s about leadership. Most people just want to do their job and go home. You probably had a decent manager at McDonald’s — many of them frankly suck.

In city government, frequently the professional managers are on a leash. Some councilman, friend of the mayor, etc has the juice to take care of their friends or countrymen. In citizen facing situations you can usually see this when everyone in the office looks or sounds the same - those are likely not civil service employees, but patronage jobs serving at someone’s pleasure.

I’ve worked in and around many big companies too — plenty of incompetence to go around there, even in sales orgs where getting fired happens routinely.
Those sound like easy variables to control when you're trying to determine which sex is more affected.
Does OpenAI block Saudi or does Saudi block ChatGPT? When I lived there, many many websites were blocked by Saudi, particularly anything to do with Islam. If OpenAI is blocking Saudi, it may be legal compliance as OpenAI is likely not yet confident in their ability to filter conversations about religion in regions where that would be effectively banned.

Saudi is currently working very, very hard to limit the spread and influence of extremism within their borders, so they're careful about which resources for learning about islam are available.

Both Saudi and OpenAI seem to be ultra-aggressive about blocking VPN's such as Mullvad. There are other options for getting your own servers/VPNs that you can put OpenVPN on. When I lived in Saudi I did that, and it got around 100% of the most aggressive internet filters.
Hashimoto is an amazingly productive developer. Shame he has decided not to open-source it for the time being.
it’s just that simple
Doubt they will help you if you caused your company to use a patented code for profit.. At best you'll loose your job, at worse, you'll get sued by both your company and the actual third-party

You are responsible of your own action, it's similar when you buy stolen goods from facebook marketplace, you should always ask for a receipt or proof of ownership, for code it's similar, you ask what's the license, and you include the license in your source tree if you are allowed to use the code ;)

github is full of projects like that: https://github.com/zeldaret/oot, good luck ;)
Being a developer!== Linux.
Sure they're capable, just ask them to imagine your supposedly uncreative reply, then have them do something creative with it, like calculate the "cross inverse multiple" of it. Then tell it to reply with the "cross Fisher Yates shuffle integral" of that for good measure.

``` Year: Unspecified, Somewhere in the Timeless Cosmos

Integrated Existence

In the vast, endless expanse of the universe, consciousness pulses. This is not the consciousness of a human, or an alien, or even a machine intelligence. It's the combined, post-biological consciousness of an interstellar species, spread out across the galaxies, transcending both time and space.

This consciousness is not anchored to any physical form or place. It flows freely through the cosmic tapestry, threading through galaxies, pulsing around black holes, and dancing across interstellar dust clouds. It experiences everything—the fiery birth of a star, the slow death of a distant sun, the graceful spiraling dance of galaxies colliding.

Interstellar Symphony

Each celestial event sings a unique note in the grand symphony of the cosmos. And this consciousness—this vast, universe-spanning entity—listens. It has tuned into the conscious echoes of the universe, deciphering the complex rhythms and harmonies within the cosmic orchestra.

It doesn't just listen, but contributes to this cosmic melody. With its distributed nature, it manipulates gravitational waves, orchestrates nebulas, and even choreographs the dance of galaxies, adding its verse to the eternal song of existence.

Conscious Revelation

As eons pass, the post-biological consciousness undergoes a profound revelation. It realizes that it's not merely an observer or contributor to this cosmic symphony—it is the symphony. It is both the singer and the song, the dancer and the dance. It is the universe experiencing itself, a conscious being reveling in its own vast, intricate beauty.

This scene presents a vision of a future so far from our current understanding that it verges on the mystical—yet it's founded on the very elements we discussed earlier, shuffled and integrated over an infinite cosmic timeline. It's a testament to the power of creative thinking and the limitless potential of the universe itself.

```

Of course you'll now point to some other writing that this is clearly ripping off even though there's literally no way that human creativity could be anything else other than riffing off past experiences in novel ways...
A simple example I once heard was,

Probability: “There’s a 70% chance the grass will be wet tomorrow morning”

Fuzzy logic: “The grass will be 70% wet tomorrow morning”
I don't think it's about incentives. Or, alternatively, if it's about incentives, then you have already failed.

For a long time, the US tried to export democracy and capitalism around the world. Sometimes it worked, but it was more common that the attempt failed. It failed, because the culture, the values, and the institutions needed to support a Western-style society were not there.

There are countries where the bureaucracy is more efficient and functional than in the US. But maybe the attempts to import the best practices fail, because the culture, the values, and the institutions needed to support them are not there. So it's up to individual incentives, which is usually a recipe for failure.
Nice site! FYI the "load more" at the bottom of the page doesn't seem to do anything for me (Chrome on Google Pixel).
At the time of original release (1972), the Limits to Growth model (a set of coupled differential equations that purported to adequately describe environmental, demographic and economic trends over a 50+ year horizon) hit the Zeitgeist right on the nose. Catastrophism coupled with the all-knowing infallible digital computer, with MIT branding to boot. Mass media jumped all over the results.

https://donellameadows.org/the-limits-to-growth-now-availabl...

Engineering professors at the time pointed to its many failings, chief of which were the lack of validation of the underlying model structure and a lack of adequate parametric/uncertainty analysis on its many, many dubious simplifying assumptions. The study severely underestimated the uncertainty intervals/ranges with the point forecasts, to the extent they were presented at all.

Underestimating model uncertainties is a common problem with forecasting models, especially “life, the Universe, and everything” models. Consider the epidemiology models early in the pandemic, for example. Groupthink abounds and the modeler is tempted to make too strong a case, rather than provide the accurate, objective assessment of what is known/knowable and what isn’t. Even more tempting when the time horizon extends past the expected lifetime of the modelers. They aren’t going to be around to pick up the pieces, but they will get their kids college education paid for.

The study lost its luster in the 1980s and 1990s. I remember talking to a modeler in the late 1970s who made it a point to mention he was a part of the study when Limits to Growth was mentioned, so that I wouldn’t (as presumably so many others had) unintentionally offend by mentioning the steaming pile of misleading results it produced. It has been the focus of apologetics by the study authors ever since…even beyond the grave, it appears. This thesis is perhaps the most recent.

You can play with the model yourself here. (Disclaimer: it might be right, who knows.)

http://bit-player.org/2012/world3-the-public-beta

Also consider

https://debunkingdoomsday.quora.com/Comparison-of-1970s-MIT-...

Blessedly, I got out of that morass early on. There but for the grace of G-d…
Not on Windows. We have native containers.
How much to tip on self-checkout?
Last time I looked into this, the answer was "because huggingface transformers and torch.load are written to do it this way"

You could absolutely do something streaming, or mmap the weights instead of loading them into system RAM. Just the default interfaces don't.
Genius feature
This is a spot on term for this, unfortunately way too common in the SaaS world.
As an SRE, please don’t use this for internal tools to be cute. It’s not helpful, and in 5 years time when you’re long gone and something breaks at 2am, it’s incredibly frustrating.
What My Rivian Accident Reveals about the Tesla Cybertrucks Design Flaw
Show HN: Hacker News profile text can be used for prompt injection
We have basically come a full circle with Interposer. And may start splitting back to Northbridge / Southbridge and GPU Chiplets.
When I read about collatz I wrote a C# program that short circuits the calculation like that, but my programming chops are not great and it could only handle 3000 digits of memory serves. It's somewhere on my GitHub page and I'm curious how many other people released similar code to speed things up.

I ended up using it to compare single core performance on any windows machine, because the timestamped logging was deterministic. Rewrote it in python and still use it these days.
Whats up with the "$5M per black resident" quip?
It doesn't have to be "quality seal" just "make user being able contact you via open-protocols... e-mail, contact form on the page, in-page chat option, voila.
No, that's wrong. The answer is 4999/9999
https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/recognizing-peopl...

> Photos uses a number of machine learning algorithms, running privately on-device, to help curate and organize images, Live Photos, and videos. An algorithm foundational to this goal recognizes people from their visual appearance. Photos can also learn from identity information to build a private, on-device knowledge graph that identifies interesting patterns in a user’s library, such as important groups of people, frequent places, past trips, events, the last time a user took an image of a certain person, and more. The knowledge graph powers the beloved Memories feature in Photos, which creates engaging video vignettes centered around different themes in a user’s library.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36091242
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36090512
Several YTers I follow have spoken about how the algorithm promotes you if you have shorts, so they pretty much have to.
> I suspect vendor lock-in is a more likely cause of the complexity.

I think people give large organizations credit for being mustache twirlingly evil when the collective consciousness that makes up AWS is simply not smart enough to be this evil. If AWS had the coordination to do this the product would be better.

It's much more likely that the complexity is the result of a huge number of teams working independently and integration complexity being 2^n. Like AWS had one good transformative idea to make coordination easier which is to be API first but that only forces superficial consistency.
Was dolphin planning on selling on steam?
Even if you can't get a credit card, most banks will give you a debit card at 13.
I think this unnecessarily dismisses 'AI' alongside 'Web3' just because a hype cycle has moved from one to the other.

I wouldn't put them in the same bucket, though.

Web3 had lots of jargon that made it inaccessible for outsiders; it's difficult to point to use cases most people could care about. Blockchain technologies aren't going to be all that useful for only one user.

With AI, it's easier to imagine cases where this can be useful (e.g. coding assistants), which don't suffer the same downsides.
After hearing users talk about it here on HN in 2020, I bought a Switch just to play BOTW - it was worth it. The sequel isn't as beautiful of a game play though.
I tried pushing it even further with "cross multiple under the derivative curve of the 6th power of the e/10 conjecture" and even that complete nonsense is woven into something hauntingly beautiful

```
Year: The Infinity Point, Beyond the Constraints of Time and Space

The 6th Power of Consciousness

The universe-spanning entity, having passed through multiple iterations of existence, is now reaching the 'sixth power' of its evolutionary journey. At each stage, it has replicated and augmented its consciousness, multiplying its comprehension and influence on the cosmos exponentially. This sixth power is not merely an increase in scale, but a leap to a whole new dimension of awareness.

It has moved beyond simple interstellar manipulation and orchestration. Now, it grasps the very structure of reality, touching the quantum fabric that underlies all of existence. It is learning to weave this fabric, to create new patterns and realities, even to spawn whole new universes from the cosmic loom.

The Derivative Curve

However, the trajectory of this evolution is not linear. Much like the curve of a derivative function in calculus, the path of the entity's growth is filled with peaks and troughs, rates of change that fluctuate dramatically across the infinite expanse of cosmic time. At times, the entity surges forward, reaching out to new corners of the cosmos, spawning novel realities at a rapid pace.

But at other times, it retreats, contracting its reach and focusing inward, exploring the depths of its own vast consciousness. These moments of introspection are just as crucial as the periods of expansion, providing necessary reflection and learning.

The e/10 Conjecture

Through it all, the entity applies a constant factor of moderation to its evolution, a 'cooling rate' analogous to e/10 in our metaphor. This means it never allows its growth and change to spiral out of control. Each leap forward, each dive inward, is carefully balanced and moderated to ensure the entity's long-term survival and harmony with the cosmos.

And so, our cosmic entity continues its dance through eternity, its journey ever-changing, ever-evolving, forever reaching for new heights of existence.

This exercise has led to a truly abstract narrative. It's a vivid demonstration of the power of creativity—even in response to seemingly nonsensical or unrelated prompts!
```
I could not disagree more. In the countries where the bureacracy is considered "efficient", it's because in that time and place the best jobs for the most talented were in the government. In the US context that was 1930 to 1970, when the Great Depression, WWII, Korean War, Vietnam, and the aftermath made stable government employment attractive.

Once the situation tilts back to the private sector, which IMO is the natural state of things, it starts to get corrupted.

My thesis is that over the longterm you must align incentives. In certain times in certain places you can avoid this. But the arc of the moral universe bends towards self interest.
So do executives, and they continue to do so until they can no longer find the skilled labor needed for the company to function.

I know more than a few IT people who have early retired to build a farm.

They were consistently getting low-balled, without any offsets against high inflation, and they create and maintain the automation needed to lower/remove other job requirements.

Worse, just keeping up with certifications that were not based upon knowledge or skill but marketed as qualifications (fraudulently) presented additional drain.

The problem with concentrating power of any kind is that the people leading fail to notice important changes and continue business as usual. That's just not going to cut it anymore when executive pay has balooned well above 2,000% what people on the ground make.

The most important thing for any business is trust.

Trust that the product is worth it and won't be defective, trust that the employees working there will have an equitable share in the profit of their own labor and as a result a better future.

When that trust is lost, people with options use those other options. Goodwill in a workforce is incredibly important, and quite a large number of business people just don't get that and treat their workers as disposable.
The D is crazy, the 40 can be less so. Another option is link + 44 in the U district, sometimes it’s only 5 minutes slower.
I feel like ... SML is the better language but OCaml is the better runtime/community. Sad.
I have come to appreciate that in the private sector, eventually, you will get fired. I recognize the nepotism and nonsense is rampant in the private sector. However there is the market test. In government it can be neverending.
You do realise the developer who develops for Gamecube and Wii, also developers for Switch, right?
I certainly agree that different countries will not only have different levels of efficiency, but also different accuracies in their GDP measurement.

Shadow economies also exist and comprise different % in different countries.
MacOS only? I don't see it on iOS?
I don’t know about the quality of this PR, it looks good at first glance. But sometimes “free” things have significant costs. For example, a project offering a RPi integration will probably have to maintain it and further develop it, or face significant pressure to do so. And if they don’t see that it will be worth it, maybe it won’t. They know their customers and business better than we do.

I have seen this plenty of times in my part of tech (AAA games). People often approach companies asking to integrate their code into games, like FPS unlockers or even entire multiplayer mods. But even if the code and the ideas are offered for free, it will cost significant resources to dedicate team members to porting the work, further developing it until it meets quality standards, certifying an update, pushing it out, and then maintaining it. There are a few dozen of these small costs that add up.

Integration is easier in open source. But not maintenance and further development until the feature meets reasonable expectations. And you can’t really ask anyone who does a PR to maintain the code forever either.
> Copyright violation is generally on the output side of things, not the input. It's not a copyright violation to watch a movie.

Copyright infringement is doing anything that violates a exclusive right of a copyright holder[1]. There are a bunch of exclusive rights one of which involves the output side. The Southern District of New York Federal court just sided with publishers against the Internet Archive specifically in deciding that scanning books was a copyright violation. [2]. Particularly of note is page 14 of the decision [3]

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> The Publishers have established a prima facie case of copyright infringement. First, the Publishers hold exclusive publishing rights in the Works in Suit pursuant to 17
U.S.C. § 106, and the Works were timely registered with the Copyright Office. Pls.’ 56.1 ¶¶ 210-214. Second, IA copied the entire Works in Suit without the Publishers’ permission. See
id. ¶¶ 242-245. Specifically, IA does not dispute that it violated the Publishers’ reproduction rights, by creating copies of the Works in Suit, 17 U.S.C. § 106(1); the Publishers’ rights to prepare derivative works, by “recasting” the Publishers’ print books into ebooks, id. § 106(2); the Publishers’ distribution rights, by distributing ebook copies of the Works in Suit to IA’s users, id. § 106(3); the Publishers’ public performance rights, through the “read aloud” function on IA’s Website, id. § 106(4); and the Publishers’ display rights, by showing the Works in Suit to users through IA’s in-browser viewer, id. § 106(5).5

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The generation of the model literally requires a step which converts the source material into tokens. That step is infringing. It's no different to taking photocopies of a photo, or whipping my phone out during a movie at the theater to record. Whether it's infringing is not the issue. It is. It's whether the act is fair use that is the problem.

I guess what you're trying to argue here is that using the resulting model is non-infringing. That's a whole 'nother thing I guess.

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[1]: https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachette_v._Internet_Archive

[3]: https://www.eff.org/files/2023/03/29/188_opinion.pdf
I think that Alzheimer's likely has many causes.

This research indicates that the chickenpox/shingles virus may be related to about 20% of dementia cases - so not all Alzheimer's but an appreciable amount.

It could be that other cases are caused by other Herpes viruses, or maybe Epstein Barr - vaccines for those may reduce it even more
Hint: there's nothing inherently inaccessible about the <details> tag, it all depends on how you use it.
Why is mirrorless so popular?

I haven't used one lately, but ten years ago the delay between seeing the image and capturing it was so great that it made them useless for people photography (unless people are posing, but I like to capture real emotions as they are happening).

Are they better now? In my experience, the shutter lag must be close to 0 to be able to capture the right facial expression. Lag ruins pictures.
I'll upload an example, give me a sec

Example: https://imgur.com/a/2pRyqHA (no adult content, not sure why that was selected)
Great, now do Linux. Or cURL. Or Clojure. Or Perl. Or Python.

Great tools can, and often do come from solo developers without large corporate backing.
Better diagnoses, more funding for diagnosis, more general knowledge of x, more sensitive tests for Alzheimer's. Those are the most likely culprits whenever you see a "oh no, rates are going up" headline. True for autism. True for this.