skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
completely off topic, but funny: I misread "opencoreventures" as "opencorevultures"
Can the AI tell the difference between quality and shitty memes?
Right away I'd say — not really, as ChatGPT knows 25 jokes and you heard them all before, but I thought I could make it work another way. People have tried to use ChatGPT to generate memes (supermeme.ai), but I decided to try make AI differentiate between quality and shitty memes.

The AI will just aggregate memes and send them to users, in turn users share their reactions and help the AI learn about their preferences.

The main challenge was to build a solid RecSys. I initially tried to use Amazon Personalize but it didn’t work as expected — I got similar results just using a random. I dropped it and built my own RecSys based on matrix factorization to make a v1 of the algorithm. I packed into a telegram bot & called it Lolla (telegram.me/Lolla if you fancy see the result)

Do you think something like this has potential or trying to teach AI to detect quality memes sounds more like a load of bs?
Not exactly a blog but a bunch of essays and stuff I've been writing: https://juan.barriteau.net

Everything there is in Spanish EXCEPT for an (fictional?) idea to replace Google with a decentralized alternative: https://cipr.info
I'd love to see it (in a hypothetical sense slightly more than the real sense) just to see the "tyrannical moderation" case law that comes of it. If they wanted to add a bunch of "analytics" suddenly there's real government contention around online privacy.

In the long term, it seems like it has a lot of potential to be a Good Thing but it depends a lot on how it actually plays out.
I don't get jumping to this kind of conclusion.

"Hacking groups" have tried this tied of scam in the past where they try and hotglue some data from various sources and claim its a bigger leak.
Full disclosure: disgruntled amazon employee

It seems like lately a lot of our CEO's decisions lack backbone or conviction. It seems like he go the role of CEO by yes-maning Bezos (See brain double quote here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/technology/andy-jassy-ama...)

A lot of the decisions made by our CEO lately have been justified with "not invented here" logic. Announcements for both RTO and layoffs have been justified with "other leaders are doing it" statements. Unpopular decisions (like RTO) are made days after a public forum where our CEO could have announced it.
Ask HN: Would You Use a USPS Email Box?
If the United States Postal Service offered US citizens an email box, would you use it? Why or why not?

Many times I read on HN that people are tired of having their email scraped for advertising by Google and Yahoo, but the pain of standing up your own and domain and mail exchange is so high that many don't bother to move.

If the USPS offered every American a free email box -- universal email service, essentially -- would you take them up on the offer? Are there any limits (e.g. attachment size or retention) that would make you say no? Or are there services (e.g. certified email or digital stamps to reduce spam) that might make you say yes?

Keep in mind that this would be universal email access, so it has to be simple enough to be universal; this would probably preclude many customization options like "bring you own domain".
Unfortunately the place where I buy toilet paper from is not the first place I think of when I want to be entertained.

Unfortunately it's a culture and branding problem which I don't think Amazon can fix.
I have been extremely impressed with Bing with it's GPT integration. It's worlds better than the Free tier ChatGPT. Bing actually feels like talking to a human. My daughter uses it as a tutor for practising high school math. Whenever her textbook or teacher isn't doing enough to help her understand alien or difficult concepts, she has a long conversation with Bing where she asks it to break it down as much as possible. LLM's are truly changing education.
The author doesn't get the first thing about the education system, and complains that the elite schools are too small. That's exactly the point. They are small in order to keep them elite. If everyone got into Harvard, many would decline. They'd go to a new, more selective school instead.

Because universities are not in the business of education but the business of credentialing. It's about being different, more elite. That's what they sell.
For one thing, there is all of the material getting removed by streaming services either for controversial content or simply because it is no longer profitable for the services to host them.
Model weights are not source code, but data. Arguably because of how they are generated, they are not even copyrightable at all.
Please show how linus has made a profit over the 40 plus years. Same with apache. Or alternately, grow up and realize that profit is not required for open source to persist. Your business model is no one's problem but your own. The world will continue on even if you need a real job.
I’m expecting more BitTorrent.
"Opinionated" is how I think about it.
The air quality in several cities in the US dropped noticeably after the fireworks. Similar to the air quality after the wildfires.
Unmasking ‘Dark Foreigner’: The Artist Who Fueled a Neo-Nazi Terror Movement
IQ is not "intelligence". Low IQ closes many doors. Normal and above IQ aren't correlated with anything. For example in "Zagorsky JL. Do you have to be smart to be rich? The impact of IQ on wealth, income and financial distress. Intelligence. 2007 Sep 1;35(5):489-501." https://gwern.net/doc/iq/ses/2007-zagorsky.pdf There is no relationship between IQ and wealth. And income after an IQ of around 100 barely goes up.

About heritability, that doesn't say that if your parents had an IQ of X you will have an IQ of ~X. It says, two people with "identical" DNA will have IQs that are very similar! There's also the big caveat that many scientists think these studies have confounds that overstate the results. But even if they are real, they don't mean what you think they do.
This is purely your political opinion not some kind of fact like Ukraine war or a recent Nuclear fusion breakthrough etc.
It's a very difficult distinction to make.

Would you consider a Python program to be data rather than program just because it is text input to the python interpreter instead of machine code for the CPU?
> A major premise of cloud computing is that everything is disposable.

That norm is itself a way of coping with the hopeless state of state management, a lesson learned from running imperative/convergent configuration management systems on VMs running mutable operating systems a generation before 'cloud native' was a thing.

That whole 'best practice' is a workaround for shaky foundations.
To not get sued six ways from Sunday? If a company could sue me out of existence, I may be nicer than I have to be to them.
It’s more than an ignorance tax as most organizations (mine included) won’t install software without support. Even though the JRE doesn’t really have much support activity, (I’ve never experienced any bugs or done anything other than update in 25 years).
I meant to have a point that if you grab at tenuous connections every report would speculate to the point of uselessness, but that got lost to a cut and paste mistake while rearranging the comment.
"Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe" is the best I've read.

https://www.amazon.com/Turings-Cathedral-Origins-Digital-Uni...
I wanna know what they are doing for inference. Most chatbots are doing rather "greedy" beam inference but to do a really good job of writing you would write a first draft and then revise it. In the not-lame-paywalled accounts of geohot's revelations it is said that GPT-4 is using a 16-step process for inference but I'd like to know what they are really doing.
Beware of teammates who refactor code based on personal taste without pro (cont)
I haven't watched it as the reviews indicate it's likely not worth it, but Amazon's Citadel does seem kinda absurd in terms of money spent compared to the result. There are certainly series where you can see the money they spent, that kind of quality might not get you a mainstream audience anyway but even if it is not a commcercial success you can still understand why it was expensive.

It doesn't seem surprising that a very expensive series that doesn't look expensive and at the same time fails to attract a mainstream audience would trigger some scrutiny.
Monthly Vitamin D May Prevent Heart Attacks in Older People
Ideas That Created the Future: Classic Papers of Computer Science

Each paper is often over my head. There is an introduction to each that helps explain the paper and its context. A great journey through time.

https://www.amazon.com/Ideas-That-Created-Future-Computer/dp...
It's too much unnecessary complexity. What is a mastadon? Some kind of elephant? What is federation? What do you mean I have to choose? How do I know which one to go on? What happens when they shut down? Do I need more than one account? Where are my friends? Where are the celebs? Oh man, I dunno. I think I'll just give up.

Twitter was annoying enough just to see the slow loading embedded tweets on other websites, not to mention their confusing threading and weird multi part messages. Why would anyone want to use something even more complicated...
Today is usually the worst day of the year for air quality in Los Angeles (where I am).
I actually don’t understand the idea of privilege. Things like having two loving parents, a stable household, and good health are seen as privileged. There’s an underlying assumption that people should feel bad for having nice things because some people don’t have them. But aren’t these just things we should be trying to provide for everyone? Privilege is the dividend of running a successful society, a reflection that we aren’t in a constant state of nature.
My plex server is probably 90% things that are over 10 years old. I relatively recently finished Columbo. I don't really have much of a problem pirating something where most of the people who were involved are dead or in a nursing home.
Your example raises a question I've never found a good answer to:

Why use `JOIN` (and `INNER JOIN` and friends) at all when you can write the exact join more accurately IMO with WHERE clauses (and using "*=" operators), and then just list all the tables in the FROM clause?

My brain always hurts trying to parse complex FROM clauses with various JOINs whereas reading the equivalent equations in WHERE clauses is way more straightforward to me.
Are we more hopeful than people were in the 1960s?
They’re not data though, they’re coefficients. They are the only thing that significantly differentiates one model from another.

If I told you the economy can be accurately modelled by

GDP(x) = Ax + B

But I don’t define A And B for you because it’s proprietary, you haven’t learned anything other than what you can glean from the structure of the model itself (it’s linear, there’s only a single input etc)

If most of these models are similarly structured, I’d say the weights are the program.
> But not when you force to be bored by someone else. You are bored in a prison, you are bored during doing repetitive work, is it good for you too?

Arguably, yes. You learn to deal with discomfort, which is good for your mental health. Changing circumstances to avoid discomfort puts the power in externalities, whereas learning to deal with situations you don't like puts the power internally (you). The modern world trains us to run away from anything we don't like, and here we are.

Also, most people don't sit in a room voluntarily because they're looking to be bored (unless it's for meditation, but that's not the same thing). It's usually because of someone else.
The status quo comes from tools that do just one thing or that compose a lot of other tools. And I don’t think too many people are excited about the status quo.

Deno’s pitch to me is to take everything that makes Golang work so well, and apply it to JS/Typescript. I can’t switch yet but I sure would like to!
It's actually pretty wild that people make money making these videos. It's incredible what cheap mass access can make possible. YouTube is a masterpiece: the engineering, the BD, the partner management and monetization. Absolutely genius invention.
> The CLA does require trust that we won't relicense under a restrictive license

This is why I would never sign a CLA. I may trust the entity asking for one, but owners change over time, and I can't trust that the project or business won't be transferred to someone else in the future who may not be trustworthy on these issues.
No its not whats happening around me. Its shocking things people who want me to look at ads choose to show me from all over the world
>Nice: 5h30 by train, 5h by car

Closer to 4h30 by car, although the train does drop you off directly in Part-Dieu. Still, this doesn't take into account the need to go to the train station.

>Nantes: 4h50 by train, 6h45 by car

From personal experience, I can promise you that 6h45 is horribly optimistic.

But really, that only furthers the point: Lyon is the second biggest city in France, and it's more or less equivalent to take the car to get there, with farther places slowly winning out on time. That's _dreadful_.
> Teaching obligations

any advice for people aiming for teaching instead of all the publishing stuff?
Tuesday was world’s hottest day on record – breaking Monday’s record
>yes both are biased

I’ve never understood why we need to make these caveats. “Objective” or “just the facts” news has never existed. It’s impossible.
I’m not knocking you, I just think it’s silly you should even feel pressure to publicly acknowledge something so patently obvious, yet we both know that if you didn’t the chance is high that the first comment you’d get is a complaint about your “biased” media outlets. As if any other kind exists lol
You've written an argument about what the word "techbro" should mean, but it actually means whatever concept people think of when you say it to them. That's how words work - they're tools, shared levers that you pull to trigger a specific concept in the head of the person you're talking with.

Words spread when lots of people start using it and lots of other people successfully infer the same meaning from context as what it was intended to mean - what people intuitively interpret is incredibly culturally-specific and subjective, and thus is utterly impossible to nail down in some sort of rigorous formal logic.

I bring this up because assuming "techbro" means "tech" plus "bro" (instead of referring to a specific attitude common among FAANG employees - and if you ask why people say "Xes" instead of "people who think X", the answer is brevity) is a very naive and inaccurate approach to language.

>If this is about behavior, then why mix in aspects of gender, age, and profession? And the problem of course is that it’s very easy to see a person with the above three traits and assume they think or behave a certain way - i.e stereotyping.

What you're saying is that "techbro" is a politically incorrect term, and that anyone who uses the term is therefore stereotyping. The problem here is that people can use the term (because it's useful) without necessarily supporting the choice of words the term is made up of - as I mentioned above, when people use a word they do so because they believe other people will reliably connect it with the right concept.
No, I don't think this is true.

Because Google is similarly valuable to MIT in your scenario.

But if you worked at a random startup after college, or three in a row, it's very likely that MIT on your resume will still be the thing that gets you in the door for an interview for your next job.
Bret Victor is a programmer and programming communicator (because he makes really good videos and articles) who has, for a number of years, been working on a project involving programming using physical objects and image recognition. It's called DynamicLand. The latest demo video is linked throughout this thread. This appears to be a fairly standard progress update, but it being a photograph of paper on a table is very much in keeping with the idea of DynamicLand, which I guess is why it's been posted.
Not exactly "History" of technology, but there are sometimes various generations of components. Also the book is just amazing

https://nostarch.com/open-circuits
Hard to get documentaries, live bootlegs from the users' favorite bands, ...

The "long tail" has moved to the high seas. At least, in my case.
No, declarative programs exist. They are not instructions.

There is no real line between code and data. This is an observation that runs all the way from Turing Machines in computability theory to the Von Neumann architecture and homoiconicity in Lisp.

What we call 'data' is just code that needs a cleverer interpreter.
The Problem with AI Apps
> Some people rant all of the time and sometimes it’s about sexist, racist, whatever things. It does not imply they are mentally unfit for captaining.

Given the whole idea behind the sterile cockpit rule, I'd say this is clearly wrong. It's true that ranting about mysogynist murder fantasies is probably no worse from a safety perspective (albeit wildly more offensive) than other topics, but ranting about anything is just a no-go in the air. When you're flying the plane you're supposed to be talking about flying the plane, and nothing else.

It really seems like you and other posters here want this blog post to be some kind of woke tirade you need to rebutt. But that's not how most of us are reading it. They mysogyny is the evidence, not the crime. Really the article is pretty dry.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36601986
It's more philosophical but Mumford's Technics and Civilization is really good,
you should at least read the part about the invention of the clock that serves as the prototype for the relation between man and important technology. I'm also writing a book on philosophy of technology, so if you are interested in that I can give you some more resources ...
Can you explain more your "loss leader" comment.

What's the background on why that comment was being made?
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ has a lot of blogposts that go over low-tech solutions to problems that were otherwise lost to history. For example, solar panels in the 1910s, early industry that used rope to transport power over several kilometers, the original peat-powered industrial revolutions, etc. Extremely fascinating stuff that most history books I've seen tend to miss out on. And they've compiled their posts into books you can buy

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/offline-reading/

https://www.lulu.com/search?contributor=Kris+De+Decker&page=...
The author chooses whether to make it free or not. It’s not like medium.
Yeah 10 million regexes is huuuuge. Aho-Corasick can barely handle 10 million literals.

Future work is definitely trying to make the regex engine scale better with more patterns. Currently, it will crap out well before 10 million regexes, and I'm not sure that goal is actually attainable. But it can certainly be better than what it is today.

And of course, Hyperscan is really the gold standard here as far as multi-pattern searching goes. I'm not sure how well it will handle 10 million patterns though.
It makes sense that the best teacher-pleasers would go on to be the best executive-pleasers.
This is great until someone calls you through with a multi-threaded task runner and you've just gone and added consistency and race conditions to your code.
What if you change the weights slightly? Kaboom, not breaking the copyright anymore.
Might be the password to login to the computer itself.
When I see something like this I wonder if there are people out there who actually go chapter-by-chapter from start to finish, spending dozens of hours learning the content a random GitHub repo claimed was important.
But not "raw" data. They are derived from other data and a program. If this was a collaboration where one collaborator did the processing and one sourced the data, they would likely both claim some amount of ownership of the trained weights.

At a minimum, it would be an active area of negotiation that the attorneys would take notice of. Source: have negotiated these agreements.
We know when CME are coming but we lack any reliable ways to predict how geoeffective they will be. That's mostly a function of the magnetic handedness of the active region it comes from and if it will arrive at earth with their magnetic field in the right orientation (downwards out of the ecliptic plane, -Bz) to efficiently reconnect with the Earth's magnetic field.

There's been many a time when some large sequence of strong CME come and everyone expects intense geomagnetic activity but there's no -Bz so it just buffets things for a bit and causes auroral oval effects. Whereas other times some small lone barely CME will arrive with 7 hours of -20nT Bz and causes 45N aurora.

What I'm saying is that the people in charge of chosing to shut down parts of the grid are not ever going to get a confident assertion that damage will happen if they don't. There will be enough uncertainty that this kind of pre-emptive action days in advance will not happen.

At best we'll get a few hours of time to mitigate when the events arrive at L1 and the solar monitoring spacecraft there like ACE give actual warning.
I guess, they will come up with large enough to fill a town hall perhaps.
What's the point of constantly comparing this technology to humans?

If I said my calculator gives false numbers you wouldn't reply "humans are sometimes bad at math".
They are doing too much at once, but I think it's possible, since they are a company, and last year raised $21M.

https://deno.com/blog/series-a
Hi, thanks for you comment.

I'm William, contributor of VulcanSQL.

We're an API framework, not a database like ClickHouse. We enable data engineers to build data APIs fast on top of their data warehouse, which including ClickHouse. In fact, you can see from our issues (https://github.com/Canner/vulcan-sql/issues/138), ClickHouse users actually ask us to bring ClickHouse connector to VulcanSQL.
He was "fortifying" it !
Very much, and good spot. There are theories Reddit is replacing mods on protesting subs. Maybe they are also trying to drive the appearance of traffic. We can speculate that the members of /r/programming are more likely to be people who support the protest and so may not be returning even if the sub is open.
> among their cavalier attitude to safety, as seen with the latest starship launch and the chief twat playing it fast and loose with his security clearance

You do understand that Starship is still in development, right? SpaceX is well known for their "hardware rich" development process. That doesn't seem to affect their operational reliability.

Not sure what you mean by "fast and loose with his security clearance". He says wacky stuff on Twitter. I'm not defending what Musk writes there, but it doesn't really have an effect on SpaceX's reliability.

> The FAA can halt launches for any reason.

Not sure how this is relevant.

> His allegiance to China and Russia certainly won't help.

I don't think I've seen anyone establish any links between him and Russia. He had that one Ukraine peace plan, which was never going to work, but that isn't really a tie to Russia.

Tesla does have a plant in China. But Boeing sells tons of planes in China; I don't ever hear people asking about ULA's ties to China. Same thing with Airbus and ArianeGroup.
1440p monitors can be referred to as 2k monitors and I did clarify the resolution.

Confused, not conflated.

Same comment and question about 1440p then, please :)
Is there a tool or technique called chain of thought, or are you talking about the colloquial concept as it relates to thinking?
Why would you interview for a role at a FAANG company in the first place?
Canonical uses trademark for hostile take over of LXD container solution
Is this a problem? I would argue that this style of interviewing is much more relastic to day-to-day activities than leetcode
This is a distinction without a difference. Code is data and data is code.