skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If you rent a car and it doesn't work, would you pay for it?

The rental car company has a fleet of cars, and they will put you in one that works. It happens, cars have many moving parts and they are known to break down - the rental company knows this and will replace the car in almost all cases. Nobody is paying for something that doesn't work, but the rental company pays to get the broken car fixed, which is part of their cost of doing business.

>If you rent an apartment and its unfit for habitation, would you pay for it?

There are laws about that, for very good reason. Nobody is forcing anyone to live in squalor, though it sometimes comes down to poor people not having money and living in bad situations. People absolutely can and have sued bad landlords, and the city steps in if the people speak up. I know I've had to get the city called out to address a situation before, and the landlord paid to make it right.

>If you go to the store to buy a product and it's not there, would you pay for it?

Come on now, this is getting ridiculous. This is a non-issue. If you pay for a product and don't receive it, then that's fraud and at worst you can sue to get your money back. Usually you just get your money back.

>Why should the employer pay for work that isn't being done?

This is much like the rental car in that the employer has to pay to keep the employees healthy. They employ people to do the work, and they need to be hired, on-boarded, trained, and gain experience in the role. People aren't like cars and can't be replaced as easily. The employer should understand this and much like the rental car company keeps a fleet of cars, the employer with more than 1 employee has them for continuity of business, and paying them while sick is part of what ensures they won't need to seek a different job that will pay them while sick. It helps retain a trained and dedicated worker. It's the cost of doing business. Or, the business can suffer and be understaffed because the employer didn't account for humans ever getting sick (which humans are known to do pretty often), so if the business wants to cut corners and not pay people, then they will end up being understaffed and their business will suffer. This is really basic business stuff.
I think this is true when examining the inherent length of a body of text -- you'll look at some generated jargon that's paragraphs long and instinctually be impressed -- but the most horrifying part of this technology (at least for me) is that with only a tiny bit of effort, you can get an output that sounds well. With the right prompts, you can get a result that isn't just impressive upon first glance, but one that holds up to a decent amount of scrutiny. The latter is what scares me the most.
It would look like everything with any modicum of scarcity is proportionately more expensive and cutting into everyones budget to be unobtainable just like today

But it would be nice if everyone was healthier
3-6w per year. Not more than 3w at a single time usually..
Anybody thinking about telnet logins is not going to have the slightest thought of using a certificate authority for authentication.

If you think otherwise, I will invite you to implement this for SimH:

https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_VMS_V1.0_on_SIMH

(Yes, I have set this up.)
This guy came out and said he misspoke. He imagined a situation where an AI might kill its handler so it could better complete the mission.

It was a thought experiment.
AKA an imagined scenario.
No real person died. No AI has gone rogue.
It doesn't imply that at all. That's like saying openai is creating a human level intelligence with chatgpt. Emulating a single function a human is able to perform really well is not the same as aiming for human level intelligence.
Fun facts, Telnet was actually the first Internet application and was also the very first killer application for the Internet.

"The first data exchange over this new network occurred between computers at UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute. On their first attempt to log into Stanford's computer by typing "log win," UCLA researchers crashed their computer when they typed the letter 'g.'" [1].

[1] ARPAnet: The World's First Internet:

https://www.thoughtco.com/arpanet-the-worlds-first-internet-...
And I meant it.

Calling it "the other side" is a false dichotomy. There's certainly advocacy groups like Sea Shepherd but they don't wear cloaks of subterfuge to try to distance themselves from their structure and purpose like say, the heartland institute which among other things, was, at the time secretly, funded by Philip Morris to deny that smoking had health impacts.

That's a different class of spin. But sure, the Brookings institution is mostly neoliberal radical centrist, fine.

They are however, vast majority, on the right side of the spectrum and all the various flavors of right https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_think_tanks_in_the_U...
It's actually any line starting with R, like Referrer: yahoo.com. Also any line starting with Q, like Quiet, will disconnect, because you obviously meant Quit.
>> Professors are asked to write letters for students all the time, and a good letter takes a long time to write.

Indeed, and that's why you let the student write it for you [1].

And then nobody reads it, or if they read it, the ignore it anyway and only look at the student's grades, if that.

To be honest I don't understand recommendation letters. The whole concept looks completely backwards to me. Like I'm a young adept joining the guild of software engineers or something, but I need to get a recommendation from the School Master of OOP Patterns to get in, or something. Next you'll tell me a magick robot owl will fly in and take the letter to the Guild.

If LLMs can get rid of this absurd practice, I'll count that as an honest to god example of beneficial use of neural nets.

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[1] This is mostly the case in post-graduate letters of recommendation. Basically, you'll ask someone for a letter of recommendation and they'll reply asking what they should put in the letter. Then you send them an "example" or "sketch" letter, or just say outright "mind if I write it for you?", depending on how well you know them. The person you ask is always a senior academic who has another ten irons in the fire and they will only feel gratitude that you took this bitter cup away from them.

I don't know if this is supposed to be kind of hush-hush, and it hasn't happened to me personally yet (some people will actually sit down and write a letter themselves, I guess as a matter of principle) but from what I understand it's really the done thing.
So we have a free hectare and we want to produce food. We decide to culture wheat in that space.

Our wheat would reach around 1m high, thus our "food 3D printer" has a volume of 100 x 100 x 1m. We could obtain 2 to 7 tons of wheat in that space

With corn our production space is 100 x 100 x 2 m and we can obtain on average 5 tons of corn (but we could obtain 7-10 tons with some extra effort).

With avocados our production volume is 100 x 100 x 25 m. We could obtain between 7 and 13 tons of Has avocados, but with a good culture practices, good rootstocks and smart planning we could produce 23 tons

With Oranges we could harvest also 10 - 22 tons of oranges

And bananas would yield 50-60 tons of food... on average

So If our goal is to feed as many people as possible, what should we culture, trees or herbs?
Yeah, it's good when your internet connection is really reliable.

As a counterpoint to this, at my last house in Melbourne (Australia) I was thinking of doing the same. We have a "National Broadband Network" (NBN) deployed that most residential customers in the country are hooked into.

Shortly after moving into the house, the NBN needed to upgrade the network in the area. So, multi-hour outage. Then the same thing happened about 2 months later.

Thus, any idea of self hosting from my house was dropped and we've kept on using Hetzner. ;)
Will it be replaced by some other office suite? As a non rhel user I don't get it
Fortunately on Windows and Linux you don't have to scale the same way as Apple does pixel doubling everything. And even Apple has shipped laptops where the default display resolution is not a integer scale of the panel resolution (e.g 12" MacBook).
The AI doesnt decode the image with a human written decoder. But it decodes with learned model parameters. So it still decodes.
Me for personal use -- yes, something like 5 bucks a month tops.
Me for company use -- definitely yes, your pricing will dictate who will be your client tho, 5 per user per month might be too much or too little depending..
I am struggling to see how the risk calculus tilts strongly against vaccination for college campuses. What are you saying?

College campuses have staff and students of all ages. They should be a safe place for people even that are unable to get vaccinated due to medical issues. The risk of myocarditis is higher with a COVID infection than the vaccine.
With the Penrose tiling, you can add features to the edges of the tiles which enforce the extra placement rules, so it was the first time a set of 2 tiles which tile the plane only aperiodically was known. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_tiling#Rhombus_tiling_...
Which is what turned to dust in my twenty year old infinitys. They were the cheaper ones but still surprised me.
Really lucky this didn't start a forest fire.
> Pediatric Emergency Medicine. All in cities large enough to have a children’s hospital, so basically minimum metro populations of 500k or so.

Interesting, pediatrics is so underfunded and poorly respected in Canada that I'm genuinely shocked (and pleasantly surprised) to read about a paediatrician not being treated like refuse.

Kudos to your wife though, that's a very challenging field and anecdotally my interactions with peds ER physicians have been overwhelmingly positive. They all seem to have a very well-developed sixth sense about when something is "off" despite many of their patients not being able to talk.

> They get so many applicants that they can afford to treat very senior people like new grads, and that attitude trickles down to most other companies.

Is it just during the interview process or do you find bias against older engineers in hiring decisions and the work environment as well?
His “defense” for using the API inefficiently is that the official app makes a similar amount requests as Apollo, ignoring whether those are actually API requests or just telemetry (as mentioned in the linked video). Apollo makes 3.5x more requests than other third party apps. That’s a lot.
give a 3 months heads up and email every month then a week before and people should be fine to arrange payment
We're talking about Reddit, not Apple. Apple has enough cash flow to fund most investments and enough stability to get a decent rate on the bonds it issues. They do not need to sell more shares for capital, although they do create shares for RSUs. Using RSUs (which are later bought back) as a part of compensation is a kind of revolving line of credit, which conveniently scales with the success of the business. That is, when the business is going through tough times and stock price falls, the stock based compensation expenses also fall.
The fundamental idea is that the employer is a corporation, and corporations exist through the laws defined by the government, which is (in theory) doing the will of the people.

So if the people, through the government, decree that an employer needs to pay for sick days, then that's how it would work.

After all, the company exists through the combined effort of citizens of the government! and the company trades in money that is issued by the government, and managed by the government through taxes.

Of course there's no reason the employer should have to pay directly. Why not have some sort of government program to cover people's illnesses? Or a new form of insurance? In the end, the public health improvement would be the same.
Hey @reptos, can you link to the author's socials so I can follow them?
The Russian army is infamous for looting toilets. Why toilets? Most likely because the referenced graph is correct. They want them and the government is more interested in war than providing basic things like water.

https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/12/06/russian-soldiers-looti...
Considering the company's apparent lack of concern over the intense backlash from moderators, I suspect that they're not just planning to kill third-party apps, they're planning to eventually kill user-managed subreddits as well, i.e. bringing ownership/moderation of the most popular / highest revenue subreddits in-house (employee mods able to use some of the internal admin tools) and making the rest some mixture of read-only and quarantined.
Yes, he has said the same elsewhere. He had more input into the 128D and liked it's keyboard holder and carrying handle. The 128DCR had neither.
I seriously doubt GP’s income is average. They did not make any claims about the average households tax burden either, only their own.
Just trying to keep up with demand could explain it alone. The strict quotas (even for Plus users), the occasional errors and long waits etc. etc. indicate that the hardware performance has clearly been a bottleneck all throughout.

And demand has exploded since, so it's plausible that they had no choice but to sacrifice quality, if they wanted to keep the service running.
> the government of which the CFPB is a part is able to regulate financial institutions, but has not

How? I’m seeing little that doesn’t require new statute.
What suggests to you it may have been?
I have been to BestBuy and tried out laptops with non-integer scaling (150% or even 300%) and observed the display artifact I mentioned previously.
I also like hckrnews.com because of chronological and the lights of the numbers.

I find that some of them are not highlighted even though the numbers seem high enough.

I'm sure it's an algorithm cut-off thing, but I'd like if the lighting scale was a little more linear.
Where can people sign-up to fight Zuckerberg? Is there a long line?
FSD has no safety record as Tesla does not release their datasets for analysis by third partys, research institutes, or government regulators. In fact, they have deliberately misclassified FSD to not be a autonomous vehicle system, despite repeatedly indicating that it is intended to be and currently is a autonomous vehicle, to avoid mandatory California DMV reporting requirements [1]. The only "safety record" available is published by Tesla themselves with no access to the underlying data which is the entity with the greatest financial conflict of interest. You might as well ask Ford how safe the Pinto was or VW how clean their diesel was. There is literally no reason to believe those safety reports, in fact, you should probably anti-believe them as this is the standard pattern of manufacturers of unsafe/inadequate systems.

[1] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-industry-services/auto...
I think it's pretty obvious MBA case studies will be based on this in future, just as with Kodak inventing but not pursuing digital cameras, Xerox being responsible for the tech behind multiple billion dollar companies they didn't pursue, etc., etc.
Every article from this domain is a work of art.
This man found love and welcomed a baby during six-year, 8,700-mile hike
I love this because it's another example of us not really knowing what's going on and using blunt instruments. What should we do next? Blast it with ultrasound!
If we cared about shipping energy, we'd just use our Nuclear-powered ships.
"Imagine a world where every employee not only had the sort of sick-cover nice white collar jobs in software get"

Most people who propose this will then get angry when the company has to double their prices and you are essentially paying double or triple the amount for everything (since there are lots of workers in the supply chain that would get this boost in healthcare and $$$).

"they could afford to put their kids through college"

You can blame the federal government for this. The fact that anyone can get a college loan and the loan follows the student virtually for life, means colleges don't really care if you learn anything or even if you have the ability to get a job. They get their money immediately and the student is on the hook for the loan.

Loans should go directly through the university and not through the federal government. They will then have to care if a student can ever pay them back because if they don't, they won't get their money.

"Imagine a world where business had to really actually compete for workers"

Most industries compete for workers. If you don't have any specialized skill and anyone with a pulse can do your job, there will be no competition and the company will have the advantage. To ignore this (or prop it up artificially) is ignoring reality.

We should be more focused on educating workers so they can provide a value and compete in the marketplace.

"Wonder what that world would look like?"

Much different than now. Most things we enjoy now would only be enjoyed by the very wealthy. The middle class would be squeezed to a sliver.
That is AlphaGo stage (before Zero). I expect that learning to think by "self-play" will come before we manage to produce enough of explicitly expressed approximations of our way of thinking.
What does it mean to “see”? Are we assuming that eyes are involved?
Upload up to 10MB file size? How does that work if the context length is only 4097?
Ask HN: Licensing for Research Papers
So I've been having a ton of fun with Tortoise-TTS [1], turning books into audio (currently on Heart Of Darkness). They sound spectacular and I'm thinking of putting up a blog with torrents to them just to share the love. Not trying to make a buck.

I also like to take my learning material and listen to it - to this end, I'm going to turn papers like Attention Is All You Need into audio for my own purposes. My question is what is ethically / legally involved in sharing them - i.e. should I. I can't see any license on the paper itself and the arxiv license only gives arxiv rights of any kind.

Anyone know where to look for this stuff? Google is less than helpful these days.

1 - https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
If it were not for the prospect of selling their shares to you (or back to Apple later), no one would have bought those shares in the first place. When a company is going through tough times, it can raise capital by issuing more shares. Apple is so successful at the moment that it does not need to do new public offerings, but it could choose to (like Nvidia recently -- not because of tough times, but because why not take free money when it's being shoveled at you).

Also, price is not based on market cap... market cap is based on share price and count. But the larger the market cap, the more money can be raised by selling shares without diluting existing shareholders too much.
I would be ok with this if it was mandatory to be accompanied with footage and the footage was provided via a device that is cryptographically guaranteed to be from the device directly without modification
>If you're seeing this message, that means JavaScript has been disabled on your browser, please enable JS to make Imgur work.

But why would I need javascript to view a JPG?
He is upset because they told him API pricing would be “fair and reasonable”. But when they announced pricing, it comes to ~$20 million per year for Apollo. He doesn’t make anything near that from Apollo.

He isn’t opposed to paying for API access, but he feels the rates they are charging are exorbitant to the point of being designed to forcel 3rd party apps out of business, not extract value from them.
Look for "ClearVision 128", version C or later (if a later version exists). There is also the "LumaFix 128".
I can confirm I was given an email about 4 weeks out before they reclaimed my idle VMs.
Self-driving just suffers from good old software project time underestimation and overpromising executives.

It's quite possible to outdo a human at keeping rolling boxes from hitting each other and the unpredictable human particles buzzing around them. (Mainly because humans suck at paying attention and don't have millisecond response times.)

It's also quite possible to put people on the moon, but budgetary appetites are always the limiting factor.

So self-driving can still die if the difficulty exceeds the money and patience of the people footing the billions. Shareholders are free to say "why are we still paying for this when we were promised success 5 years ago?" and demand the plug be pulled. I hope they don't, but I also hoped NASA would get a higher budget.
> Did you ask about that? Sometimes if you don't ask, you don't get.

I did not. I think I'm so conditioned to being treated poorly by hospitals I just assume I'm going to be taken advantage of but you're probably right and I should have asked.
Rationality does not follow.
Have it drag a massive detachable trailer that is covered in solar panels.
Isn't this really what netcat is for? I've used telnet like this before I was really aware of netcat.. I even knew how to login to and use an irc server with telnet, PING/PONG included
Models never « see » anything to begin with, it’s all matrices. And since we ditched convents, locality doesn’t even matter anymore (almost). RGB is just convenient for humans, nothing says it’s optimal for deep learning
Simple fix --- keep your company private. That does require you to actually be profitable though.
How would you charge for the API?

How would you make a better app?
> Heavy speakers is a plus when moving low frequencies. Otherwise you have to strap or bolt them down and together.

I get it.

But I would rather have that in two parts. It is not always needed, in that there is a place to put the speakers, and I could leave the heavy stuff at home
> Multiple searches are really a different world. Elijah Stone pointed out recently[0] that with searches that all have the same iteration count (sadly, not interpolation search!), several of them can be run at once just by copying the loop body

They don't need to have the same iteration count; it suffices to mask out searches as they finish (like gpus) or ensure that repeated search iterations are idempotent, and just wait until all finish. My first implementation actually did this, and the iteration count could vary by as much as 1 when the search space size was not a power of two. I changed that after henry pointed out that it can cause mispredicts.

In the case of interpolation search, a naive application might be a bad idea (since a single pathological lane slows down all the other concurrent searches). But an alternative might be to detect and 'schedule out' pathological lanes; use binary search instead of interpolation search for them, and now you have nice worst-case asymptotics again.

(Fun anecdote: I asked an nvidia employee why they don't use this strategy for gpu branches in general. The response: mumble mumble not sure, probably tradeoffs—just isn't worth it. Fair enough. Not six months later, they release new gpus which do that for sparse threadgroups. I maintain they stole the idea from me :)

Alternately, it might be possible to swap out completed lanes as soon as they finish—superscalar cpu is a mimd, after all—getting this branch free might be too much overhead, but maybe if you do the check every k iterations or something...
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