skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Near the end of the credits

“But the plans were on display…”

“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”

“That’s the display department.”

“With a flashlight.”

“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”

“So had the stairs.”

“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”

“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The red scare ruined countless families' lives. It was an absolute atrocity and continues to undermine the interests of working Americans to this day.
Every single study shows that people spend more when using credit cards than when using cash.
What I wish for is rather than encoding the wavy imperfections in the font, they should be procedurally generated at rasterization time. This way, the graininess can stay at the same resolution regardless of the font-size. As it is now, if you have a 120pt font, the rough edges are magnified.

Is there a way to specify something like that in the font language? Or does the rasterization engine have to implement that?
> the people charged with progressing science for our species learned it in a couple lectures a week over three years or less.

I beg to differ. Even for the undergrad level this feels naïve. There's much more learning going on outside the lecture and I'd wager that's where most of it is happening. For grad school this is definitely true. You learn the most when you stop taking classes and that period is generally associated with extremely unhealthy work life balances. I'm in my 5th year of grad school and I read probably a few papers in depth and a dozen or more at lighter levels every week. This is not including all the time I'm writing code, reading other people's implementations, or reading math books and blogs on the subjects. The people I know that research that have graduated also do a lot of similar things, just not at as high of a rate, and they have a healthier (but I'm not sure I'd call healthy) work life balance.

This inane kind of thinking only promotes the absurd armchair expertise we see where people think a few YouTube videos by communicators gives them sufficient knowledge to arrogantly argue with domain experts. I'll take pretentiousness over arrogance any day. The Internet is dominated with these armchair experts who group together in their bubbles and push out any who disagree with the "obvious" answers. They commonly criticize experts for not seeing something "obvious" which the experts actually accounted for but would require reading their actual publication rather than the telephone game that is science communicators.

No one is stopping you from getting domain expertise. No degree required. PhDs demonstrate self learning every day. But if you can't walk the walk then don't talk the talk. Shits a lot more complicated than you think. You're holding us back by trivializing things. It just encourages substaceless bickering between parties who are both severely misguided, instead of problem solving and working towards actual resolution.
Yes, it's fine to do that; the videomaker just needs to disclose it.
(Edited from a short “Yes, absolutely” to a direct quote from the ftc document that basically answers this question)

Q: A year ago, I was given a free $60 video game (and
nothing else) in exchange for live streaming my
game play. I still love the game and stream it. Do
I still need to disclose that I got the game for free?

A: How long it would be reasonable for you to make
disclosures really depends on the expectations of
your fans. After some period of time, it probably
wouldn’t matter to them that you got the game for
free. If you’re choosing to play a game a year
after you got it for free, it probably means you
truly like it. The analysis would likely be
different if, instead of a $60 video game, you got
a free $50,000 car and continued to post about it
over the life of the car.”

-- https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/ftcs-endorse...
> I think, in theory, a society with much less privacy could work...

I suspect what many forget or were perhaps unaware of is the in practice society with near zero privacy existed for the vast bulk of actual human history.

Before the car and the radical change in individual human movement that came about for those parts of the world privileged enough to have a car for every family the majority of people lived within a small radius surrounded by people who effectivel knew every detail of each others lives .. if not as it happened then almost certainly by the next quarter as word spread.

Again, as I mentioned above, I like privacy .. but it remains true that the greatest expansions of modern western economies; mass production, feeding quantitively more with less land and labour, etc .. all happened without any essential dependance upon privacy to bring these changes about.

It is the upstream grandparent claim that privacy is fundemental and essential for any advancement in a society that doesn't pass the smell test and certainly hasn't yet been well argued for.

I absolutely do agree that it is desirable .. but essential (in a strict sense) for the continuation of human society .. that needs better argument to pass muster.
Man I was talking about how badly IBM fumbled the last ten years of AI between getting Watson on TV and then getting sent back to the minors by every other player. And yet here they come with a bajillion dollar government contract to keep them afloat for another 100 years. Gotta tip the cap.
Because if you don't live in a swing state, even if you are fully on board it makes very little difference if you vote or not.

And yes, you're right about the second part too. That's another reason the original post was wrong.
is that a moral objection to cutting off Kiwi Farms, because a drone strike is more moral, fair, due process etc.?

or an argument on efficiency grounds, that the payment system is an insufficiently effective form of annihilation?
… not sure if this is sarcasm…
Much love geocrasher, sorry to hear
In Oxbridge tutors are usually either PhD students or post-docs. You're an undergrad if you have a strong opinion about yours, since for them the ratio of tutor per student is quite low (usually 1:3).
Is it just me, or is this applying a very different standard to influencers compared to traditional media?

> The new guidance makes it clear reviewers and other media creators should clearly disclose when they receive free products or other perks from a company, even if they aren’t specifically asked to mention those products.

...

> The FTC says disclosures should be kept simple, such as “This is an ad for BRAND”, and should be prominent on each piece of media which contains that product.

By this standard, if a movie critic for a newspaper watches a pre-release screening of a movie for free, then their review article should state "This is an ad for Paramount Pictures"?

Free copies of games / albums / books / etc for reviewers has been a standard practice for ages as far as I know. Is the FTC challenging this generally? Or is this somehow specific to reviews done via social media?
Not being pedactic, I swear :)

Can you elaborate on the Sun comparison? I am a huge fan of Sun and what they did for computing at large - designing hardware, creating specs, their contributions to evolving unix and so on. I'm not sure how Oxide compares. Unless you're talking about "in the spirit of Sun".
Korea at least adds cheese to lots of stuff and it seems to work.
What tasks would you say LLMs are good at that are not related to language?
Gmail Changed the Way Consumers Engage with Promotional Messages (2015) [pdf]
> You could simply declare this income as regular income and forego the tax-advantage of the capital gains rate.

No, you can't do that. It's reported by the investment broker as investment income, and you must declare it as investment income and provide the specific details /whether or not there is any tax advantage/.

> There is no penalty.

Prove it. Show me where the IRS says that you can submit investment income as regular income when it was already submitted on the backend by a broker as investment income and how that will not result in a penalty for misfiling.

> more tedious than complicated

This tells me you've never done it. Depending on your broker (and sometimes you don't get to choose, for instance as part of an ESPP or for RSUs) they may not provide it to you in a nice clean way and it's rather annoying to determine, for instance, the correct cost basis. At some point "tedious" and "complicated" are the same thing.

> complete compliance with the law.

Actual tax attorneys barely know what qualifies as "complete compliance from the law". You should probably simply refrain from giving legal advice about taxes if you are not in fact a tax attorney and the reader is not in fact your client.
No. A simple google search would reveal what China intends to achieve . Speech after speech given by Xi are available to refute your point entirely. While I agree China would want a multipolar world but that is just a stepping stone to its eventual goal of being the Middle Kingdom, this really isn’t in doubt, plenty of CCP literature exists to support this argument.
My pixel took an embarrassing 30 minutes but I did it all by hand!
> Because the UK court of appeals thinks it's okay, in effect, if individuals located in other countries are forced to undertake millions of dollars in costs going to a full trial over a claim that they were violating the copyright of the file format of an MIT licensed piece of software, initiated by a person who (fraudulently, in this case) claims to be the initial author of the software.

Not that it would protect me against a fraud like Wright, but your story is the exact reason I have a lawyer working on licenses that would explicitly disclaim any legal duty that can be disclaimed.
Two decades after dumping Jabbar they want encrypted interoperability between messaging platforms? Gee, it’s funny how losing market share makes them suddenly embrace openness and interoperability. Hypocrites.
We've had something similar (OSKO/PayID) in Australia for a couple of years now. In our case it wasn't the government, but the private banks getting together to launch it themselves.

Unfortunately its a big target for scammers. Once the cash is instantly transferred, there is little to no chance of getting it back. There are no chargebacks like with credit cards and the instant nature of it means payments can't be reversed like the old bank transfers.

So its good for sending money to friends, family and trusted people, but not so great for buying anything online as your protections are basically zero.
What I have heard is that the banks that own Zelle will try to convert it into a directory service mapping identifiers like email addresses and mobile numbers to bank account information. The actual payment clearing will move off of Zelle, and all payment clearing and settlement will happen on FedNow or The Clearing House’s RTP system. That makes some sense to me.
Yes but it's a lot of hassle to set up on Android. No idea about iPhone. And if you think that's fine for you, cool. But now imagine trying to set that up for a shared knowledge system. It's just not feasible.
Stanford Law School Dean Resigns
> and that your union has either one or two members, depending on how it is used.

Ok, but the problem with this article's methodology is that it would say the union has three members.
But Hollywood is far from the only industry to have presided over such changes, which reflect a longer-term pattern: the fracturing of work into “many smaller, more degraded, poorly paid jobs,” as the labor historian Jason Resnikoff has put it.

In recent decades, the shift has affected highly trained white-collar workers as well. Large law firms have relatively fewer equity partners and more lawyers off the standard partner track, according to data from ALM, the legal media and intelligence company. Universities employ fewer tenured professors as a share of their faculty and more untenured instructors. Large tech companies hire relatively fewer engineers, while raising armies of temps and contractors to test software, label web pages and do low-level programming.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230721011041/https://www.nytim...

Article is worth a read for all white-collar jobs. I personally disagree that "low-level programming" jobs are endangered because the jobs may get smaller but the project has become larger... unlike writers' jobs whose projects are limited to 10 episodes per season
There is a better reason to "become ungoogleable": Simply make the content you want, how you want, and if it has value Google will have to adjust their index to account for it. Too long we've been slaves to the SEO wheel, spending so much time on SEO that we don't have time to make stuff.
Yeah right. From same doc.

"If you’re a prospective student interested in playing varsity sports at MIT, you should contact the coach of your sport by completing a recruitment form. Depending on your potential contribution to MIT’s varsity athletics, they may choose to advocate for you in the admissions process..."

Heavy thumb on the scale with 90% accept rate.
Perhaps not the slowest ever, but surely the most frustrating.
The elegance of this authors words makes me fathom how she could possible feel so inadequate. The entry certainly explains it, so I make no attempt to reduce or abstract. But as another commenter has mentioned, there is beauty found in more than just appearances.
Streets recognized by CMS as legitimate locale to deliver health care
Kraft singles in instant ramen is a great thing in Korea!
As some one from the Indian subcontinent, I would juat say "Maggie Maggie Maggie !!"
One additional thought, on an item FTA:

“I’d like to see Instagram offer more accurate tags/labels, as there is a literal difference between getting a cardboard box and receiving money to express an opinion, but it will do for now.”

Is it no longer customary to send back or donate a review copy of a product? When I reviewed video games many decades ago, we normally sent back the review copy we (the publication) were provided. For smaller ticket items, like music CDs, I don’t think were were ever required to send those back, but we either donated them or kept them on the publication’s shelves, but individual reviewers were definitely prohibited from keeping any of those as their personal property.

I agree that there’s a distinction between a paid endorsement and reviewing something made freely available, but if there’s any personal benefit accruing to the reviewer, I do think that should be disclosed. And that why I think the absolutely best avoidance of conflicts of interest is to not accept even a review copy that must be later be returned or given away, but to pay for the item like any other consumer, though I acknowledge this is not always practical given publication budgets these days.
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Some of the calculations are pretty big and the operation to trim LSD is easy to mess up if you forget to round.
What Comes After Chrome?
I've been wanting to try out local LLMs for a while but have always had the feeling that I would end up wasting my time. I imagined that I would have to spend a perfectly good Saturday futzing around with lots of settings and environments and trying to free up hundreds of GB of hard drive space for a model or wouldn't have the right hardware to properly run one locally. I also imagined that this probably wouldn't work out and that I'd end up giving up, so I've kept this idea on the backburner.

Ollama's promise of a simple setup was enough to get me out of that rut. Within a minute of seeing your README, I decided that this would be easy enough to experiment with, and if I didn't get it right quickly, I would give up and be no worse off.

I'm glad I gave it a shot. I now have llama2 working locally on my laptop and am already thinking about what I can do with this.

All this is to say: I hope everyone working in this area recognizes that not only is it important to make local LLMs as effective as possible, but it's also critical to make them approachable and easy to set up. By doing this, you'll get more eyes on this tech and more passion for local and open LLMs.
> Wish we could do the same for the credit card companies.

FedNow can replace credit cards for cases where chargeback or actual credit isn't necessary. So for many ordinary cashless payments.

Arguably even for many cases (small to medium amounts of money) where the possibility of chargeback seems useful FedNow could be better in expectation, because the fees are lower. The credit card companies are making money after all. Using them for chargeback is like buying insurance for things you can replace out of pocket: On average, you make a loss.
LLMs are good at a lot of things we don't have a good reason to expect them to be good at. It's very hard to come up with "theoretical reasons" it should be good at things, in "theory" they should not be nearly as capable as they are. Even NLP researchers have been shocked at how well this has worked.
I hope Sergei can pull it off. From what I can tell. Today, Bard is unusable.
Let's be fair though, that actually happening in movies has dropped dramatically. So many people I know vape now, and there is basically no way you can make vaping look cool onscreen
It's a frequently asked question but probably doesn't belong in the FAQ!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35668525
A 21st-century font in a 17th-century thesis would have been much more compelling.
not be just the U.S. but the entire free world against them

The "entire free world" (aka 'The West') is not as big in population, and has nowhere near the manufacturing capacity as China alone.

There is a meme around which shows 'The world as the West sees it" which contains just one-eighth of the World's population. Called 'The Golden Billion' by some. The other seven-eighths of the World's population has bad memories of the shit they have received from the "entire free world" over the last several hundred years. And if you look closely, you'll find that they are the ones who refuse to join the West in sanctions on Russia, and are the ones queueing up to join the BRICS, SCO, and other 'non-Western' alliances.

We're coming to the end of a very long era: The Era where Western Nations were the Masters of the World. It's lasted several centuries, but the World is about to revert to the setup before about 1600 where the two powerhouses of the world are India and China as they had been for several thousand years before then.

We in the West are going to have to get used to that.
Sorry, but Taiwan is a country.
(Spoiler)

Having seen the movie. I can confirm. It’s a relatively insignificant addition to the film though.
Conversely there is the advantage of the narrow waist. the state where everything has to fit in the same container.

The biggest example of this is the internet, where we have many types of cable to carry information, and many applications that want to talk to each other, but everything speaks IP.

see also: containerized shipping, nema motor mounts.

So true, it is hard if english is not your first language, but there is this huge advantage to having a single common language that everyone speaks. today it is english, before that french, and before that latin.
>But FedNow has been designed in such a way that it could easily be modified to support one.

Curious how this would work, it would be a pretty big inversion of asset control to make it work.

Saying "just have to" is a very big "just", considering it was aimed at only a few thousand institutions with very tight reporting requirements being the target audience instead of hundreds of millions of nontechnical users that would need something that just werks.
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It was 17 pages of mail with SSN, all my tax info, accounts, etc... Even if it were sent to someone scamming me (and I know it was sent to the IRS), I would have been sending back less info than they sent me.

The mail I was sent does match the the 1099's in irs.gov. So maybe the mail I sent back was believed and they just zeroed out everything as the only dispute left would have been around $13.

I'm sure it will play out over time. I've had a couple interactions with the IRS over the years and it's always been a fair experience. I'm sure Uber and Doordash will have a hard time providing any valid identification to the IRS.
attention is turing complete https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36332033

I'd guess it's not as efficient as a native algorithm i many cases though
BEVs are not a sustainable idea. There will come a day when nearly all carmakers will have to shift over to producing hydrogen cars. It is Tesla, not Toyota that faces the disruptive threat.
> except for some of us, the notion of "tribe" has been enlarged to include a vast number of people
By "some of us", do you mean people of European heritage? China, Russia, Israel, and most of Africa are incredibly xenophobic.
Don’t forget to end the article with “We’ve reached out to [company involved] for comment but didn’t receive a response in time.”
What are that trying? My last paragraph was intended as a call for examples, links, books, blogs, newsletters, YouTube channels, whatever! If they are trying to communicate to an amateur but interested audience, here's your chance to help them reach that audience.
I really hope they continue with the on-device approach. It will likely be less cutting edge, but keeping personal data secure, private and ideally encrypted on-device is my very strong preference.
Plaid still uses ACH just like it has always been used for years.

It is just an easier way to connect and link accounts and data alongside it.
A semantically weak language does not reduce the inherent complexity of a system, as problem complexity is constant.

What Go does is encode solution complexity implicitly throughout a code base. This is the same effect JavaScript often has.
You’re meant to disclose that you were sent samples for review or saw a movie at a pre screening or had an early game access as well.

Many do fail to do so, but it varies how much people will go after it.
Grindr employees launch union with Communication Workers of America
Grindr employees vote with supermajority to unionize with CWA. One of the first tech companies to do so!
... except for buying things from countless trusted online companies? Reminds me of

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-buying-things-from...
I think it's extremely unfair how much of an advantage us native anglophones have in the scientific realm. Doing anything interesting enough to get published is hard enough as it is, and I have to assume that it's substantially harder for people who are also fighting a language barrier as well.

A part of me wants something like Esperanto to take over this space.
There have been different language barriers in the past—most notably Latin which wasn’t used natively by pretty much any speakers after a point and then German in some fields and French in European courts.

But yeah, English has become pretty much the standard language for many purposes and if you didn’t learn it as a native it’s something you have to learn as a non-native for many purposes.
In a parallel to the hagiographical narrative where St. Catherine of Alexandria's relics were carried by angels to Mt. Sinai after her martyrdom, the Greek Orthodox monastery which now stands at that site is worth mention:

The library, founded sometime between 548 and 565, is the oldest continuously operating library in the world.[25] The monastery library preserves the second largest collection of early codices and manuscripts in the world, outnumbered only by the Vatican Library.[26] It contains Greek, Christian Palestinian Aramaic, Syriac, Georgian, Arabic, Ethiopic/Ge‘ez, Latin, Armenian, Church Slavonic, and Caucasian Albanian[27] manuscripts and books, including very rare Hebrew[28] and Coptic books.[8] (Wikipedia)