skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is so much "secret sauce" that we're unconsciously relying upon. I learned a lot of secret sauces by reading through various implementations, "logbooks" [0] by various researchers, and so on. It definitely makes AI/ML feel more like an art than a science, and it makes it very difficult to re-implement in another language (e.g., Julia) or framework.

0: Such as https://github.com/facebookresearch/metaseq/blob/main/projec...
im assuming this means there will be no settlement time when i put money from my savings account in to my brokerage?
Pricing page is all but worthless... no indication what so ever about what even basic tier pricing is, or could be.
Blizzard is now prioritizing Time Played as their main KPI over active users
You might be disappointed.. It seems to have been weakly confirmed by Geohot that this sort of mixed system is already what GPT-4's 'secret sauce' is. [1] It's something I've also been speculating for months on. Ctrl+F for "220 billion in each". His phrasing, numbers, and details are suggestive of a leak unless he's just completely blowing smoke - and I don't think there's any real reason to think he is.

It looks like they were pumping the model size up, started getting diminishing returns, and so turned to a mixed model of 8 expert systems meet LLMs - to try to keep squeezing out just a bit more juice. I think Geohot offered an incredibly insightful quote, "...whenever a company is secretive, it's because they're hiding something that's not that cool. And people have this wrong idea over and over again that they think they're hiding it because it's really cool."

It also goes a long way to explain their recent, ultimately unsuccessful, gambit in congress. If they don't see any way of overcoming the diminishing returns, then they're like the guy who got a headstart in a race where distance = time ^ (1/2).

[1] - https://www.latent.space/p/geohot#details
This has been done, in a way.

Some time in 1980s Coca-Cola decided that they have enough of an iconic status, and they don't need as much advertising on expensive large surfaces. They prudently lowered such advertisement a bit, and checked. Shockingly, they noticed a decline in sales. They reverted to the old policy.
Exactly! Extra bonus points if you can avoid leaving traces or your work and manage to plausibly deny the methods you used when questioned by parents. Hint: it's not "waterboarding" if you don't use water. What other liquids might you use? What does your gas station sell?.
Go: Add range over int, range over func
Agreed, this tornado thing sounds like a made up excuse.

These companies, which are granted legal monopolies, have not safeguarded US interests.
How could it be any easier to fork Linux?
Everyone who is sufficiently against national ID must never have left the United States, then? Correlation or causation, I wonder.
Wow dude, Way to deflect political criticism in a thread about presidential candidates. Partisan much?

This is simply your side's baggage. So many stupid decrees.

Both sides are nuts, but the dems aren't even trying to justify what they say - it's a purity test to believe the right things without needing an explanation. It wouldn't be a useful shibboleth if it was something everyone else would say anyways.

Nobody explained how Fauci could know if the Wuhan lab leaked or not and even asking for details was called white supremacist. There's no rush to investigate Wuhan, or trans medicine, because they want to scream at you for not believing entirely - not to discuss the subtleties of real-world situations.
Unfortunately local news doesn’t find its place in Reuters/AFP news dispatched, and so losing local news will basically mean an epistemic black hole when it comes to the stuff physically closest to us.
Possibly so, but an instant payment system is not a CBDC, and I don't see how keeping bank account transfers slow/impossible to initiate for individuals (as seems to be the case for ACH credit transfers) would help against pervasive government surveillance.

ACH and even check clearing are already largely performed by the Fed today!
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yeah +1 for knobs.

a screen -- touch or not -- is useful for setting things up when the car isn't in motion, but touchscreens are going to get people killed.

i live in a city and don't even mess with the touch screen / volume / AC while on city streets since it requires a lot of attention and people tend to rapidly pop out of nowhere.
thank you. I read that article and the linked NEA one. Lots of info on biased roots in history, not much information on the mechanisms that create the bias or unbiased standardized tests as an alternative.

I would think there would be a lot of demand for an unbiased standardized test. All I saw for suggestions was to use GPA instead, which clearly has a lot of bias potential... is there a recommended replacement for the SAT/ACT?
People using Open Core don’t often use the term, since many of them are sleazebags who try to avoid using the term to try to hide the fact that they are using it, often prominently using the “Open Source” moniker, with various bad excuses when they are called out.
The network limit is $500,000 per transaction, although individual participants can set specific lower limit, which is defaulted to $100,000.

Furthermore any end user interface provided by the bank could have its own limit, since FedNow is just a backend service, frontends are up to each participating provider.
> Just try to imagine a currency controlled by amazon. Do you think they won't do some hyperinflation making you poor once a decade?

Do you think that the US government and the fed don't do this? You don't see it, of course, because they also report the numbers you use to decide if there is inflation.

And who says that it has to be controlled at all, in the sense that some singular entity controls it, rather than an algorithm?

> The controller of a currency has enormous power.

Yeh, and it's no less a problem when it's the government rather than Amazon.

> If the government can't handle it nobody can.

That's always been my point.
In 1961 a Gallup poll showed only 33% of Americans in favor of moon landing
Most intelligence agencies probably aren't set up to crawl and index the book content on a minecraft server.

If the server operators wanted to make that even more of a challenge they could render the books as maps.
super influential in my life in the end of 90s. If you work in the security branch, and had to stay alert on Christmas, because hackers love to hacker while Christmas, he was the main responsible by this Tradition. Fuck how thrilled I was when I watched first time some video of his telnet hacking sessions, back in the days... Resist in Peace (RIP)
There are already other options for instant payments in the US. The Zelle network and The Clearings House's RTP have been running for several years, and provide pretty good account reachability today. FedNow is the result of smaller banks and credit unions wanting an alternative to Zelle and RTP which are both owned by consortiums of the big banks. The expectation in the industry is that there will eventually be interoperability between these systems, and it will not make much difference to consumers which one their bank uses. Similar to how paper check and ACH clearing works in the US today.
Sales – Help
Hello Everyone,
I will not keep this post too long. Just was wondering if you can give me some feedback on how to improve.
I am running a website development agency. I got a large team for marketing & for service delivery. That part of the business is on a good stage and is getting improved daily.
However, the sales part of my business is still not developed properly. I am the one trying to figure it out. I don't know what software to use, how often to call them, etc.
I am profitable, I am still closing an average of 30% of the leads. It's 30% a good number? I am daily trying to learn more about sales. However, I want grow faster. I want to increase my advertising budget, handle more leads and close more sales.
My question are:
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Language is all that matters when it comes to law. It's a blatant violation of GDPR.
An especially egregious fact is that Nintendo uses open source emulators themselves and have re released & sold some older games that are just the emulator bundled with the game, in some cases inheriting emulator-only bugs.
The most recent example I can think of is that the most recent Pikmin release includes dolphin and can therefore be played on a PC with no modification.
Not the OP, but right now Wikipedia seems to have not (anymore) a page for GRsecurity.
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Advancements depend on the ability to change and often break the rules and to protest injustice.

With no privacy there’s no civil disobedience and no advancement.

Without privacy there’s no resistance to Putin’s regime, or to prohibition (of abortion, homosexuality, alcohol, drugs, …).

Privacy is essential.
I like that you say "maybe" about a janitor, because at some point a filthy office will break a product.
EXIF... If I remember correctly, EXIF uses the TIFF file structure. Am I right? Does this mean that a PNG file, with its relatively simple format, would have inside it an EXIF chunk with a potentially different byte order and absolute offsets all over the place?
To allow analytics opt-out is on the roadmap for 2023Q3
> Ehhh, when you try to solve NP-Hard (or worse) problems, it is good to have people who can identify reductions and implement the right kind of algorithms. When the complexity (hah!) of the task is so enormous that exact solutions are impossible and you need to involve exotic stuff, neither design nor architecture can compensate.

I happen to have access to the internal guidelines for being promoted to a senior developer at AWS. It mostly talks about “scope”,”impact” and “dealing with ambiguity”.

It very possible for a mid level developer to be stronger than a senior technically. But that doesn’t put you on the promotion track.
At least Meta is giving you the entire model to play with for free right now at $0. Unlike O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com running to government to stop all of it.

In this race to zero, Meta is at the finish line and is creating an ecosystem for everyone (Except those with 700M+ DAUs) to use their Llama LLM and commercialize it. No API or gated models at all.

This will only accelerate and even Llama 2 has caught up to the equivalent of GPT-3.5 already and with MLC LLM it can run on a MacBook.

Meta has a moat with a $0 free LLM which is as good as GPT 3.5. O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com cannot raise their prices and their so-called 'moat' is rapidly being eroded.
>The main restriction is so clearly obvious: you can't create a commercial competitor.

I don't see it. Commercial use there is defined as "where the Software facilitates any transaction of economic value other than on Allowed Networks". As I understand, it means financial application.
the Econonmist said something similar a few years back.

"we're entering the age of big firm consolidation, and mega-corps pose risks, esp since they have been buying back stock and acquiring things left and right"
I liked this line:

> In fact, the thrust is so gentle, it exerts about the same amount of pressure you’d feel holding three quarters in your hand.

It seems like so little, but with no atmosphere and with constant acceleration, it'll be going pretty fast after a few days/weeks of acceleration.

I believe Dawn [0] was the first spacecraft to successfully use this tech on a mission.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_(spacecraft)
> I guess probably an unpopular opinion here, but I don't see why "open source" must imply that anyone should be allowed to fork the repo and sell it.

Because that is the definition of "Open Source"[0]. As was already said, "source available" is the correct term here.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Source_Definition
In fact, this needs to be a global Compiz effect. It should apply to the entire desktop rather than just a terminal.
I know recruiters working half the year making $500k from beaches in the Caribbean.
Journalism is a lot more than just turning press releases and such into articles. In fact, making it cheaper to churn those out will free up money for real journalism — investigations, interviews, analysis, opinions.
Actually it's the MBAs at the government that want the cheapest price for every drug, and are unwilling to pay even tiny amounts for things like supply security.

For instance, if the government changed it's rules that price is a competition, and instead of the order going 100% to the "winner", it would go 70% to the winner, 20% to the second place, 10% to the third, that would help a lot.
I don't see how this is much different than the current situation. The Fed already processes ACH transactions (basically all bill-pay, most transfers to/from Paypal/Venmo etc), and all wire transfers (most high dollar money transfers)
New AMI BMC Flaws Allowing Takeover and Could Impact Millions of Devices
FTA:

> “In many countries, websites, social media and blogs are controlled by oppressive leaders. Young people, in particular, are forced to grow up in systems where their opinion is heavily manipulated by governmental disinformation campaigns. But even where almost all media is blocked or controlled, the world’s most successful computer game is still accessible. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) uses this loophole to bypass internet censorship to bring back the truth – within Minecraft.”
I wish programs included stuff like this in their demo modes. Beeps with keypresses, animations, and the like.

Back when there were trade shows this would have been great on the show floor (fun to look at and give the salesperson more time to talk). Beeps on keypresses, noises while computing, and of course cool graphics like this.

That stuff would be super annoying when actually using the software for real. Perhaps it could be enabled in the free version and suppressed when you bought the license.
They could and they did, the problem is they’re now attempting to get the same access to encrypted communications by outlawing privacy, essentially saying they need to get rid of your freedom to speak privately for our greater good.
You can say that most languages aren't designed by people, but they were definitely made by people.
And we literally have examples, right now, of Facebook handing over private messages between people talking about abortion and then those were used to convict someone.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=facebook+police+abortion

It's the first like 4 links right now
That definition of "trophy job" is one that I can agree with. However, I can't think of any tech job that I'd consider a "trophy job" by that definition. Am I weird?
maybe just a legend, who knows. Thats part of his Myth. Now it doesnt matter anymore.
Sure, but in most countries, those services are provided by banks, not the government. There is certainly something to be said for legislation like open banking regulations that encourages/forces banks to facilitate instant peer to peer payments. But that's a far cry from a service offered directly from the government (okay, technically the fed isn't the government, but it may as well be).
From my reference frame, “being discoverable” is an ideological stance.

You can have your tribal perceptions and others are allowed theirs. Social norms are immutable physics.

Other people’s content is over rated; I’ve been soaking it up for years and frankly none of it has been as moving as the effort of making my own.

Social codependency at scale is proving toxic to the species. We can intentionally “great filter” by winding down globalism. Whether or not humanity does eventually won’t be up to us; appeals to preserve our BS are appeals to some greater good. No one will owe us that after we die.
Yeah unfortunately I think this is the result of the stochasticity of sampling from the LLMs with non-zero temperature, it'll give a different answer every time and some answers might trigger the guardrails and others might not. I am curious if the greedy-sampling answer contains the guardrails or not...
Functional programming doesn’t help with multicore. The real problem with multicore programming is data dependency, of which mutability is merely a special case. functional programming doesn’t help prevent you from depending on a certain computation and forming the bottleneck of your program.
>Also tell us which other professionals are murdered by guns on American streets for doing their jobs, at this rate.

Cab drivers are #1 last time I looked. Pizza delivery close. Cops didn't even make the top 10.
Or just use private window in the browser and then close it.
We can’t air-condition our way out of America’s heat crisis
India has got pretty good payments system. UPI is miles ahead. Any reason why FedNow can't learn from India and adopt UPI?
one of the most seminal moments in hacking history: 1.8k views ;)
I think PMs get a bad rap mostly because it can be less obvious when someone is bad.

If you're a bad programmer and produce nothing, it'll (usually) quickly be discovered (though not always) even if you're good at talking. It's also easy to spot check in the interview before you hire them.

If you're a bad PM, but good at talking - it's easier to pass the interview and it can be harder to know they're bad and fire them.

Great PMs support their teams and make things better for the engineers they work with (especially by avoiding people working on stuff that doesn't matter). Bad ones make their teams miserable and add negative value. The role can also vary depending on the company (sometimes it includes product design work and sometimes it doesn't).

The best PMs I know are also really good at debugging/troubleshooting and have a technical background (I think necessary to be really great).
>> I tried to cut it and it started to bind the saw. I stopped and thought, and then did not cut anymore until I had shored up the upstairs.

This is exactly I found out that a stud was now load bearing.
You get your unicorn only if it can fly. Otherwise the Chrome team gives you a flying donkey. A non-flying unicorn happens to be not on the table.
Next year the worksheet is just the rendering equation and a list of vertices/lights/transforms
Not retro for me! I still fondly remember the ADM-3A I used at Purdue in for 3-4 years after 1995. I would buy a working one in a heartbeat but they are kind of expensive now. Kicking myself for not snagging one when they were being thrown away by the truckload.
True, but that’s not a good comparison. If we would compare this with arithmetic it would be like handing out a calculator and claiming this is way faster without “muddling around” (also known as “learning things”).

You teach programming by giving simple assignments, not by handing out “calculators”.
Trinity's nmap & lcamtuf's SSH CRC32 exploit[^1] was pretty neat in Matrix II.

[^1]: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/24249/adv_ssh1crc.txt....
Oh, you’d be surprised how much damage a janitor can do (me remembering the time the cleaning guy at my dad’s lab accidentally tipped over a whole shelf of mice)
The banks looked at the DeBeers model with the inventory of homes they foreclosed on and said, hold my beer
Automated surveillance and automated interference. If you think YouTube's algorithms for determining copyright or Facebooks algorithms for "community standards" are bad, wait until you have your bank account locked and can't buy food.
Mortgage rates drop, backing off 7%
I was a Product Manager in the 90s, a VC in the early 00s, and a founder in the 10s. Fave job was probably my 90s stint as 1st PM doing the launch and growth stage to IPO, but then the outcome was favourable, so perhaps it was that rather than the precise nature of the work.
the 2009 paper repeatedly referred to in this article: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature07767
Bias is only necessary for editorialization or conjecture regarding another's intent. Facts are facts, though omission of facts is also an issue..
Then it is the most toxic thing you can ever self-host. I will gladly pay any company to get all the liability on my behalf.

This is the "I have a friend that does it cheaper" of e-signature solutions.
The ultimate trump card
The people I know working as quants are jelous of me getting free food & working from my bed.
This is about if you have wronged someone else, not if you are wronged,

If you've wronged someone else, maybe you should live miserably if you can't possibly make up for the wrong.
Sorry if I'm misinterpreting the /s here, but:

> If only there were an objective reality to know which car was in the wrong /s

This, but sincerely! Problem is there isn't an objective reality to know which car was in the wrong. There's only each participants' recollection of the event—both flawed. She thought her inattention was the cause of the wreck, he thought his failing to yield was the cause. Who is right? Both of them? Just her? Just him? 80% him, 20% her?

There is no objective way to answer any of this. What happened during that accident only exists today in the minds of the drivers. Sure, you can look at photos of the aftermath and determine that this fender was bent, or that airbag deployed. But you can't get a similar (objective) level of understanding about the actions of the drivers leading up to the wreck.

When they met, he learned that she was not paralyzed (and that his understanding of the past was wrong in that aspect), and she learned that he blamed himself rather than blaming her. By comparing notes, they both got a better version of "the past" in their minds, but there's still room for more variances and disagreements on what exactly happened.

There may be an objective reality. But there's no way we can completely understand it. We can only know what our limited senses tell us. As time marches on, those senses get recorded in memories, and further distorted. For the tiny slice of events that get recorded in audio, video, contemporaneous notes, etc.; we have even better understanding. But those methods of capturing events still leave a lot out. You can hear the words, but not the thoughts. You can see the actions, but not the motivations. You can read the written diary, but there are no entries there for things considered irrelevant by the author.

There are untold numbers of events that occurred millennia ago that we know absolutely nothing about. But they contribute to how the world works today just the same. Long after the cause is lost to time, the effect chain keeps adding links.
Every google search I perform these days is pretty disappointing.