skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When you realise the girl on the other side has an abundance of men blowing up her phone with first messages, you realise it's hopeless.

The reality of online dating for women is that all you have to do is show up.

yes, you will get a TON of messages. You'll have to sort through them. we know this.

it's an entirely opposite experience for men. online dating is still geared towards separating them from money.

I hope to never have to deal with it again, honestly. it's depressing.
I'm trying to see how this put anything "in perspective." :(

I could as easily say they are on strike because the economy is contracting, and they are the least shielded from the contraction. No need to add SV into the mix. Studios have always been on the lookout for ways to not pay them, such that the latest attempt being streaming seems a bit of a non story item.

Again, consider if we had never moved to streaming and instead they were trying to get their payouts from the movies that are checked out from redbox. They would be seeing as much of a dropout in residuals as they are seeing, as the dip is in syndication residuals.
It's just wild to me how fast they turned this around! Llama 2 was released 3 days ago, and we're already seeing fine-tuned variants.
Try https://craftcms.com
When P(fraud|request from browser) increases and P(fraud|request from mobile app) decreases and P(customer has mobile device) approaches 1 it starts making less and less sense to support running a web interface.
I get that
> the public supports of the strike amounts to ... wanting new TV shows and movies

Nobody in my social circle has taken any notice of it, because movies and TV has become so bad that none of us watch them anymore. Dune was the last Hollywood movie I watched, Oppenheimer and the next Dune are the only movies I’m looking forward to watching. There’s nothing on TV that I watch. I’m somewhat looking forward to the 3 Body Problem adaptation, but I’m expecting it will be bad.

As far as I’m concerned they can stay on strike forever. Let somebody who can do a better job replace them.
I downvoted you specifically for the "risk the downvotes" line. I'm on HN a fair amount and there's never been anything like a strong sentiment that parent should expose their to social media as much as possible. Stop the posturing.
To each their own; I didn't make it through the series but it felt much more fantastical vs "depressingly real" as it were.
> What I want to understand is why people have such a low opinion of the intelligence of the people around them.

We're literally commenting on a thread about a teacher being fired because parents are too stupid to understand that deepfakes aren't real.

> People believe it because it is harder to do now.
Define harder.

Here's how to make a deepfake using stable diffusion (9 month old tutorial): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJEHJXiwGVU

and here's how to train the model to make whoever you want given you have about 8 pictures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Nu5tUl2zQw

You don't even need your own gpu if you use Google Collabs, really. Hell, it requires such low grade hardware that you can do it with Collabs' free tier.
The meeting in question may have been with their therapist, based on the context.
Why do you think they'll put ads on Premium? The whole point of premium is to avoid ads. I would think they'll lose tons of subscribers if they do that.
Musk's best idea for stopping spambots is making you pay for extra Twitter DMs
I sort of see where you're coming from but I would somewhat disagree, I think that software is just an expression of device ownership and modification rights more broadly. Maybe that is kind of what you're getting at, that right to repair is a higher-level concept on top of a more universal human right? It's software-specific in the sense that software makes it harder to use those rights, but I also think I should have the freedom to take apart my toaster or to modify a shovel that I buy. But...

I don't know, I don't want to argue too much, and I don't want to give you a pedantic reply when we seem to be in agreement that privacy, agency, repair are all important and whether you or I would stick them in a specific category probably doesn't change much about that or necessarily mean that we actually disagree on anything practical related to those concepts.

I think it's bad that Apple isn't willing to fight for right to repair or user agency, but it is good that Apple is willing to fight for privacy regardless of its motivations. I don't think Apple is a universal advocate for human rights and I don't like deifying the company and I don't think its positions on privacy excuse its positions on repair or agency. But it's pretty objectively good for Apple to make a statement that it will pull these products out of the UK rather than comply, and it would be silly for anyone to say that the statement is meaningless just because Apple has bad positions on other freedoms. Apple's positions on right to repair do not make it any less good for Apple to have issued that statement about encryption.
Good luck with pushing that narrative. In my entire career, no company has been able to do that. My last company had 30 hours of meetings per week.
There is at least 6 orders of magnitude difference in computation cost of computing a token (pass through a multi-B model) and doing a single step of a program. Even if your validation is really naive, it's hard to beat 6 orders of magnitude.

So no, you're not generating tokens fast enough.
Agreed, definitely. And several more times which I won't say aloud.
It is caused by tech and by tech quite exclusively by Netflix, for sure. But nothing recent or magical thinking is to blame here. In the past people were dumbly forced to pay hundreds of dollars for a cable package they never truly utilized fully. They bought CDs for 10-15 bucks a piece. They bought DVDs in Walmart for movies they never would have paid any money for otherwise except maybe because it’s now in the discount bin.

One could argue that the per capita entertainment expenditure in the US might have been in the hundred+ dollar range in the nineties.

But now due to Netflix and Spotify that’s not true. Even with all the subscription services it’s a small fraction once you divide family sharing. Thus we are making more movies and shows and music with less money for the total pie. Something’s gotta break. Realistically half the studios or folk making these things just have to stop making them. The industry cannot survive on the smaller pie with so many people eating chunks of it (I mean studios and tech companies not workers). It’ll be interesting to see how this actually ends up working out.
Why gloss cooking smoke as "water vapor and oil droplets"? It's quite a bit worse: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4029104/
I have a very similar story. Come from a stable loving family and initially did well. Only after leaving home did I come up against the wall of ADHD. On reflection, my parents and teachers were providing a huge amount of support. Outside of that supportive environment things fell apart: lost many jobs, couldn't keep up with basic life tasks. If I hadn't been so lucky I could've easily been homeless.

I finally got diagnosed at 30 and the doctor was similarly surprised.
There are no actual footnote marks that connect any statements in the post to the footnotes, so there are no specific claims referenced. But if you read the actual text of the page, they say it compares favorably to 3.5 for some tasks. Which means it falls short of 3.5 for the rest and GPT-4 for all of them, or else they surely would have mentioned that as well.
Does ChatGPT for iOS have Whisper as part of its tools? If so, that would be great to have ready on Android.
A first-party account was submitted a while back at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36296250

I'm right there with everyone else who wants to raise a pitchfork and hop on the Amazon-critical bandwagon.

But, I felt it worth pointing out back then and again here that the seemingly bizarre choice of doorbell response "Excuse me, can I help you?" left me unsurprised that the delivery driver "misheard" it and set off this round of media hoopla.
OTOH, AFAIK when running a model locally Guidance does something really similar to what OP is doing.
Moderating on a subreddit where people are definitely trying to spam their way in with LLMs, that's becoming on of my big tells. At least the way they are tuned now they are really prone to wordy and pointless intros and outros. (At least in my personal opinion, while intros and outros are fine they should do something more than just summarise again, especially the outro, even if it's just trying to end on a joke.) I recognise there's no reason to believe that is fundamental to the tech, but right now it's a tell. (Though "subtle errors of the type humans don't make" is both a stronger signal and more relevant one.)
Does it matter? The union wants it banned, so if there are no plans for it, the executives should have no problem agreeing to it.
My impression was that Netflix came along with up-front pay packages because taking a residual-heavy deal was not attractive back when streaming was unknown.

No mustache-twirling required, just a business model that made sense then and is no longer equitable.

The other point is that extras are getting full-body 3D scanned for a day’s pay, licensed in perpetuity. That is an existential threat to the profession; no actor could ever become a high-paid superstar if a bunch of producers own the rights to their likeness from back before they were famous. That’s the Marvel movies, not Netflix.

As you say, it seems Hollywood has a long storied history of abusing their labor pool at whatever opportunity they get. This is not something they learned from SV.
I don't know about the banks but some credit union accounts have a fee for it.
Why Functional Programming Matters is super readable and interesting.

https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/whyfp90.p...
Ah, well as long as we're all very rational actors who also have zero dubious intentions.
Shopify is trying:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/12/tech/shopify-meeting-cost-cal...

But yes, after we were bought by $veryLargeCo my meeting load roughly tripled.
When did P.F. Changs become a FAANG?
Not sure who "Hollywood" is in your statement, but "Hollywood" is mostly the studio scumbags who are trying to make actors and writers obsolete; so yes they're trying to harness Silicon Valley technology to do it... but it's still asshole CEOs across the board.

What few articles point out is that these companies have been riding the gravy train for years on the backs of writers and actors, whose union agreed to an absurd and abusive contract LAST time. That's when the same C-suite trash finagled them out of their royalties by whining that streaming was "new media," when everyone the least bit savvy knew that it was NOT "new media" but in fact the new NORMAL.

So now we have people who don't even get benefits, and scrape by on multiple jobs, finally demanding fair pay a decade later... and the studio/network trash are trying to render them homeless. If you think these guys aren't assholes to the core, look at this: Universal Studios vandalized taxpayer-owned trees to DENY PICKETERS SHADE: https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/19/business/sag-aftra-strike-uni...
They have 30-40 years worth of content. I agree, majority is bad. But there is still plenty of stuff to watch. Plus, rewatching some old great show often is more rewarding than consuming all this new drek.
Change my mind: bilberries aka European blueberries (small, dark red/purple flesh) are superior to the American version (large, blue skin, but white and tasteless on the inside).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilberry
The threat model is different. An apt analogy is the difference between compromising a network by through software exploits, vs compromising a network via social engineering.
Amazon is getting ready to launch a lot of broadband satellites
> Our users may or may not work here

What's the point of that section?
Did apple ever have eGPU support? and even if they did, they had a nasty fallout with nvidia some time ago.
> Yet only around 4.6-6% of total post harvest grain was lost due to storage reasons

This only accounts for the loss after the grain is procured and not the loss between harvest and procurement. Given the practical challenges of measuring this, I doubt there's any quality data. I can only speak anecdotally but news reports about losses from poor makeshift storage arrangements while waiting for procurement are frustratingly common.
> at the same time the contracts weren't particularly well thought out

I think they were plenty thought out: Netflix set more or less fixed residuals, which is quite different from “more popularity = more money” for other distribution models.

People were mostly fine with it because most shows were not super popular. But if everything is on it suddenly there is no “high end”. And streamers pulling shows means your “low end” revenue disappears. No mountain to cover valleys, and valleys are getting deeper.
No offense to anyone living in Dublin, CA but that seems an odd place for an IMAX theater. But I guess if you're going to watch a movie about nuclear weapons, one near Livermore would be particularly appropriate.
Given that the story is about Australia, it's reasonable to assume it's an Australian dollar, which is about the width of a US quarter.
I use etags mostly for allowing concurrent updates and a way for clients to check for updates without pulling the whole entity.

Caching has a much broader scope for performance gains.
In the Netherlands employers pay part of the union contribution and members get some money from the union during the strike. Plenty of people are still not members
It sounds like Netflix discovered a superior business model to the film studios and outcompeted them with a vertically integrated product that started from distribution and then moved to production, while the legacy studios did the inverse.
It's another helpful one.

I like to play my own challenges now for minimal leveling; not formal ones for speedrunning purposes, just running more often and not grabbing all the resources. Due to the exponential nature of the game, generally if I do throw in the towel and level, by definition, the best place to grind is the latest possible place. Numerically you actually aren't missing out on much by trying to speed through the game and stopping only when necessary in most games.
I've recently been introduced to this as part of an agile dev process. The scrum master is using "the Monte Carlo method" to estimate how many tasks we'll get done in a sprint by generationally sampling 10,000 times, based on just 5(!) sprints so far.

I personally think it's a load of BS until we start having sprints in at least in the high 20s because the equivalent bounding area will vary over time, based on staff availability, overtime, skill set required, complexity, and tech debt etc etc which can only be accurately estimated using many actual samples.

With a high number of sprints the stats can effectively be collapsed into a bounded "box and whisker" average and confidence intervals anyway.

This means there is no need for Monte Carlo in this field since it too only approximates using probability.

The non technical scrum master is unable to explain to me how this works as it's black magic to them and all they do is fill in fields in a Jira plugin, and doesn't understand it at all (or my attempt to find how it's lack of data for the min/max - the bounding box - is somehow magically offset by 10,000 simulations) whilst he's trying to sing it's virtues to us. :shrug:

I'd be interested to hear if anybody else can tell me why it would be any better if all it's doing is basing it's artificially generated "within area" values against the probability determined using only a small set of real samples (sprints).
Building Android app from scratch without gradle
If people want to get aroused by looking at plain old rocks and then act that out on the rocks, well, I’ll take that deal.
Maybe the lack of superconductive scientists is the reason why we haven't unlocked room-temperature superconductivity.
Or, that they cannot deliver the required product to make Pro VR a thing without burning billions more in capital.

Apple controls the full stack. Processor, operating system, optical system and user facing software.

Meta doesn’t really control much. They’re bound by Qualcomm so can’t optimize the firmware and signal handling, wasting CPU cycles on things that Apple can offload to custom silicon.

They’re bound by Android which doesn’t have a progressive app system like Apple does. So apps are bespoke at the moment or run in a window with hacks. You can’t really do a hybrid app.

They don’t have the ecosystem of apps that keep a user in the headset once the game session is over.

So even though Apple is newer to the field, they can leapfrog metas capabilities for a pro device.

The other aspect is that this market segment has fewer cost considerations. So they’re fighting an uphill battle for a segment that doesn’t care about the only thing they really win on: cost.
> (large, blue skin, but white and tasteless on the inside).

That's just farmed blueberries. Wild blueberries are smaller, with blue and much more flavourful insides. It's an unfortunate reality with grocery stores that since people buy based on looks, farms will optimize for what looks good rather than what tastes good.
Not yet, update soon on that. Just had to change tack with LLaMA 2, we trained and released OpenLLaMA 13b in the meantime.
Many people enjoy working with it, it's perfectly fine for almost everything and it's fast enough? I mean, why not?

Other apps bundle entire runtimes for other languages, I don't see how PHP would be any different
I have a 2020 Intel Mac Mini where it works reasonably well with a Razer Core X and some midrange 2018 era AMD card. Nvidia cards were never supported but AMD got to the point where they were reasonably plug and play for awhile. It isn’t without its warts but I even got it working with Bootcamp to the point that I was playing Windows games natively on Mac with eGPU. Not enough juice to run Cyberpunk on full settings but it can run 2016-2018 games that take a decent amount of power pretty well. No Man’s Sky is an example. I find it especially helpful for running CAD software

Support has always been somewhere in between the hacking required to get a hackintosh to work and the “it just works” of native Mac stuff. Usually just requires a specific sequence of keyboard presses, clicks, or events to get it working
Healthcare Moves Forward in the Cloud
Hollywood has just as awful economics, b.s. accounting, and snake-oil salesmen as Silicon Valley.

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It beats GPT 3.5 in some benchmarks, the first open model to do so I believe.

Versions being worked on now will do much better.

GPT 4 is far better and will likely not be beaten by any current open models and approaches but maybe an ensemble of them.
I still think Baldur’s Gate:Dark Alliance is the best of those old dungeon crawlers, way more replayable.
@wredue, the trick is to dictate the direction of communications and mute after work comms. Also, if they make a real effort to reach out to you, make sure you are absolutely unavailable 90% of that time. "Hi uh, can you help us fix X problem", "unfortunately, I'm an hour away from home and don't have my laptop. I will be back around 10:00pm, if you still need help please reach out."
"Seems like vaporware right now"

That's the kind of thinking that these unions fell for LAST time, when they agreed to contracts that treated streaming as some kind of "new, unproven" media... which it obviously wasn't even then.

So the studios have been screwing these people for years, and now they're whining that they're being asked to pay up from here on out. This is like the banks bitching that Obama put a stop to a bunch of their shit after they screwed us for decades. And we're going to hear all that and more if Congress finally acts to rein in another scumbag industry: airlines.
It outperforms chat tuned LLaMA handily

https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderb...
I've eaten both and have no clear preference, love either. Blueberries are far from tasteless but yes the taste of bilberry is different and stronger.
This is not possible in my opinion, even if they are knowledgeable, skeptical, ask every right question. Everyone including journalists are career oriented and if you want to progress in career you need to write articles a certain way which will include bias
DOJ merges cyber, cryptocurrency units to go after ransomware attacks
> Saipan and Okinawa invasions were humanitarian disasters, despite US forces best efforts.

How is that the Japanese's fault? The US invaded.

Americans always justify the genocide by saying "we had to bomb them otherwise we would have killed more of them by conventional means"... Well maybe don't kill them?

Japan knew it was beaten, but Roosevelt insisted on unconditional surrender. A negotiated peace would have been better for everyone especially since the Americans kept the emperor, which was the principal condition the Japanese wanted.
Neumann was a human calculator + encyclopedia in one. If there was ever intellectual olympics track and field, he would dominate the single sprint event.

What Einstein had was a deep curiosity, damn near super-human persistence, and some measure of an inventor's creativity. Even in mundane interactions, his curiosity stood out.
The product could exist in the future, and the studios could give themselves permission to use their library to train AI models in the contracts. Even if they don't do it this year or the next, actors want assurances that their facial structure won't be ripped off.

Separately, writers don't want to read the trash that contemporary LLMs spew, and readers/listeners/watchers don't want it either, even if a human edited it.
Stolen Azure AD key offered widespread access to Microsoft cloud services
NetScaler RCE bug abused to pilfer critical infrastructure Active Directory data
I would be ok with certain queries leaving the device if it meant a bit more flexibility and accuracy. otherwise, yes, I would also prefer the on-device approach.

sometimes I just need some cooking tips, though.
It's worth noting most of this article is spelled out by Adam Conover, the ex-CollegeHumor star of Adam Ruins Everything. Generally speaking, the man does his research.
I commented similarly elsewhere (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36815276) but shoutout to all the people during the Web Video DRM debate who said that DRM wasn't going to be proposed for HTML or Javascript.
Humor, I believe (:

Poking fun at similar sites that plaster tech company logos on their splash pages to make it seem like they're important, when any real affiliation may be tenuous at best.
Barbie;Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer;Barbie
Barbie;Oppenheimer;Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer;Barbie;Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer;Oppenheimer;Barbie
Barbie;Barbie;Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer;Barbie;Barbie
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I don't think it's _enough_ heavier than air to stay in there too long, it will diffuse out probably within only a couple of hours.
Say more… I read the link, and it seems to be advocating for replacing specific business logic with a generic code interpreter?
Inspired by the Quake plot?

"The Strogg are cybernetic constructs of unclear origin, which reproduce by taking biological components and fusing them with advanced technology in the brutal surgical process of Stroggification that enslaves their minds and enhances their bodies for war.

The Strogg's need to harvest biological components for their own augmentation, and the flesh of slain enemies for the creation of stroyent, is their primary motivation, since it's necessary for their survival. This motivation led the Strogg to Earth, which they promptly invaded, slaughtering millions of humans just to harvest their corpses."

https://quake.fandom.com/wiki/Strogg
Anyone try putting their number in? Did you actually get a call?
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