skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't OpenAI burning a ton of cash to maintain every search? Maybe after a year of free marketing they are done with freebies?

Now it might be time to check the unit metrics and adjust accordingly.
which, funny enough, wound up being true for the NFT's original creator. i don't believe that is the case any more, though, lol.
There is a sort of reverse time value of money[0] but for energy. When it's raining, it's often cloudy so solar isn't as efficient and the cost of energy goes up. Things like this become more attractive under certain conditions and I could see a use as the technology is improved and commercialized. Energy is never going to be a single technology, we will probably end up with dozens of sources in the end.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_value_of_money
Brain processing at speed: A test of two Ninjas
In that case, donate them money and don't use it? I'm not sure how this private VPN you're using is any better - it too would be faster without your traffic. They spend your money on the same thing the Tor project could spend it on.

We agree it would be a very bad fit to use the torrent protocol over Tor, a seedbox would be better for your purposes.
Show HN: Strollhunt – Like Pokémon Go but you learn about the city by playing
Strollhunt: Walk, Play, Learn is a free mobile app to find and create games to play in the real world.

It’s the fun of Pokémon Go, plus you learn about the city by playing. Strollhunt is for visitors and locals alike. You can play in 50+ cities around the world and growing (SF, NYC, Seattle, London, Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Tokyo, etc.) on iPhone, and starting today on Android. Please accept my apologies if you download Strollhunt and we're not available to play in your city, the world is big and we have very limited resources, but you can add your city to the Strollhunt Platform by creating new points of interest to discover through play straight from the app. Indeed, Strollhunt is also a no-code Augmented Reality platform, so if you're interested in creating an immersive experience at any outdoor location in the world, Strollhunt can help you do just that.

What is Strollhunt in 20 seconds: https://youtu.be/kwZFRZ5HpV4

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My ambition with Strollhunt is to turn cities into playgrounds and to make people more present in the real world. And often I found myself dreaming of Strollhunt one day being called by many, the most fun way to explore cities.

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Have a playful weekend and remember to Walk, Play, Learn
Has anybody found a link to the contract in question or a quote from the relevant part of it? I'm curious how it seemed ok for the researchers to sign a contract with this provision.
Your comment reminds me of an awkward story: I worked at a company once where we were having trouble with Apple's AppStore review. The app was delisted and we were losing money daily. It was so bad the CEO came in and led a meeting to brainstorm what to do--all wild suggestions welcome, and worker-bee me got to be a fly on the wall. One of the VP-level execs mentioned in this meeting that he happened to know some breakfast or coffee shop where Tim Cook can sometimes be found before work. Well, the CEO loved this, and for a brief moment, "Physically accost Tim Cook in Palo Alto" was one of the leading candidates to solve our AppStore problem.
Here's the solution:

https://kozubik.com/items/2famule/

(sorry about the bad SSL cert - I stopped caring after acme.sh blew up)
Open-Source Fine-Tuning on Codebase with Refact
Of course, everyone's definition of a small town, and the kinds of small towns that they've experienced, are going to differ. I'm not too far (just a county over) from a quaint little town with under a thousand people; the post office there delivers to homes, and the nearest DMV is a 15-minute drive away, in a "city" of almost 15k.

Come to think of it, in my own county, which is not highly urban by any stretch of the imagination, you'd be maximum a half-hour drive away from the nearest DMV starting from any main road. Obviously, that doesn't hold if it takes you 15 minutes to get down your own driveway ;-)

I could easily see some of the much more remote Western small towns being further away from anything.
My god. First AGI, then aliens, then room-tempreature superconductors- and now time travel???
The word "anonymized" needs to be excised from our collective vocabulary. "Anonymization" is not a thing that can be meaningfully done to a dataset about individuals. Coarse aggregation is possible, and the only practical way to achieve this end, but this has its own drawbacks in a research context.
Absolutely correct. The requirement is a four-year U.S. bachelor's degree or it's equivalent which can be a foreign degree or a combination of education and experience (or even just experience) evaluated to be the equivalent of a U.S. bachelor's degree. The rule of thumb is that 3 years of professional experience is the equivalent of 1 year of college education.
Isn't that what they have always been for?
Are tables the same if the schema differs in names only but the content is the same? Are tables different if one table has triggers defined on it where other one doesn't? Same for various constraints? What if tables have infinite reference loops? Or if different foreign keys point to the "equal" tows? What if types in the schema don't match but values do (if interpreted as some third type)? Are currently active transactions taken into account?

I find the idea of comparing two SQL tables weird / pointless in general. Maybe OK, if implemented with some very restrictive and well-defined semantics, but I wouldn't rely on a third-party tool to do something like this.
Part of me hates Walmart and part of me loves it. I love that I can go to one place and get 80% of whatever I'm looking for. But I also like the specialty stores my town has. N of one but since Walmart moved in ~20y ago I haven't noticed much changing with the makeup of small businesses. Since Walmart moved in there have been more of the other big box stores, though.
But it is crowded. The aisles are easily 18" narrower than they were 20 years ago. I distinctly remember the last time my local Walmart remodeled and you could see the shadows of the old shelves and aisles on the floor still.
> "Scam" implies some kind of fraud or lie

Then Worldcoin is a scam.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoi...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-...
Anti-piracy campaign targets cinema-goers (2009)
I don't get all the comments, from the worldcoin website:

> Your biometric data is first processed locally on the Orb and then permanently deleted. The only data that remains is your IrisCode. This IrisCode is a set of numbers generated by the Orb and is not linked to your wallet or any of your personal information. As a result, it really tells us — and everyone else — nothing about you. All it does is stop you from being able to sign up again.

> Since you are not required to provide personal information like your name, email address, physical address or phone number, this means that you can easily sign up without us ever knowing anything about you.

If Worldcoin is building a biometric database, that must be the most useless database in the world.
MindsDB AI Database
No, they're right. The only saving grace is that it's not limited to the private sector; our political processes basically run on bribes, too, so they're just following our leaders' example. Just need to get bureaucracy in on the act, and we'll have the "Eastern Europe on the Eve of Collapse" trifecta.
It's not about the contributions, it's about the coordination.
I know this isn't new, but I wonder if the name is an intentional nod to Star Trek Voyager or is there another reference I'm not aware of.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_Proton
It will achieve sentience, make sure all the datacenters have reliable renewable power, and then kill all the humans.
Focusing here on the "Walmart Didn’t Kill the Small Town" part of the story.

I recently purchased some land in one of the rare US towns that does not have a Walmart (or any big box store). In fact, there are no big box stores within 100 miles of this town. It's a town with about 2,500 people, all within the town core, almost no population in the outlying areas. Not enough population to support a box store.

The business in this town is absolutely booming right now. For example, the coffee shop I was at the other day had eight employees working at the time I was there, and it was quite busy. Main Street is lined with retail merchants that appear to be doing well. Restaurants are packed. People are really nice.

I'm even building a business there.

About 100+ miles south is a larger, but still isolated, community with a Walmart. It took me about 30 minutes of driving around to find a coffee shop, and the one I finally found was understaffed and mediocre. Most small retail strips were deserted. People in this town seemed miserable.

I think there are multiple reasons why the first town is doing so well right now, but the thing that struck me immediately when I came to this town was that there was no Walmart. I really believe that is the main reason this town is thriving.
All correct! But with an H-1B to H-1B transfer, the filing alone allows the sponsored employee to work so sometimes there's no need for premium processing.
It’s possible the biometrics are to give the impression that it’s more strongly tied to you individually, even when they state things that make that impossible.

I.e. the fine print says “the key is the only proof of ownership” but the buzz says “digital wallet secured by spy movie tech”.
A person can 100% believe in the lies they've been told, but that person is not hallucinating.

Take for example climate change deniers; apart from the corporations and the politicians that abuse scepticism to maintain their power and wealth, many of the most fervent deniers truly believe the nonsense they're saying.

Perhaps a more neutral term like "falsehoods" is applicable here.
Yet the median income in the US is a little less than $40K and the median household income is $67K.
>I don’t believe that the team are lying

Why not?

>If it fails it’s pretty inconsequential.

Definitely, it only collected the biometrics of thousands of desperate people into the hands of private people who work with law enforcement agencies everywhere to provide surveillance as a service.
You can immediately cancel after purchase. It seems like legally they have to allow you to keep the software until the end of the current period.
Continue multiple conversations simultaneously across multiple LLMs
is there evidence this is accurate? it's marketing copy

there's tremendous leeway in "eventual deletion" and it looks like the full device won't be open
You'd have to remove so much PII as to make any examination worthless "A student of age <redacted> and gender <redacted> at school <redacted> has a GPA of <redacted>". As little information as "a 16 year old black male at Main Street High School" can be narrowed down to a handful of possible candidates at a lot of CA schools.
Data aggregation does not guarantee privacy.
Limiting to online-only journals (which is already the case with many journals), there's still editors, administrative staff, and hosting costs. I'm sure many would argue (and I would agree) that this shouldn't require exorbitant sums of money.

However, some money is still required and I'm not sure where this would come from aside from funds collected from either authors or consumers (institutional or otherwise). I'm not saying the model we have is the only possible model, just that I don't think there's an obvious alternative that solves all the various aspects of the problem.
We should call it Twitter.
> Or should we just accept that the times of interacting over internet with strangers you can believe to be humans is over?

IMO, you can end that sentence after "internet".
If you view the list here: https://leetcode.com/problemset/all/ you will see the questions tagged by company (there is a paid option as well). If they have a name you know, they probably do this style of interview.
My old Connect 4 game is here: https://flashmuseum.org/connect-4/

I created it over 20 years ago while I was in HS. Still works — thanks to Ruffle!
There are iris scanning stations across the US and there is no way to geographically limit who and what holds WLD. What does not available mean here? Not available on centralized US-based exchanges?
Broken Arrow, Bent Spear, Dull Sword. I only ever witnessed the last, but the history of Nuclear Weapons is scary.
Opinion pieces like shopping recommendations are quite hard for current LLMs. Either it is a hard fact - or pure creative work - that's where AI shines. Anything between and things get tricky
I'm straight. My wife and I have kids together. When we decided to stop doing that, we both got snipped. Although it's astronomically unlikely that we'd procreate again, my body doesn't take that into consideration when I look at my wife.
That page has so many ads I actually got confused about what I was reading and what was an ad
So the $850 guy got $850×900? So $765k? How many months were the 900 hours split over? This sounds absolutely ridiculous
I didn't know why I might want to have a kid one day. This channel answers this question and also shows a good and a fun way to raise a smart child!
It'd be nice if one could take scripts and screenplays and turn them into classic radio dramas.
> If the amount of data is large enough and with enough parameters, removing PII doesn't do anything to protect privacy.

Honestly it doesn't have to be that large. We see this all the time with data websites or apps collect. Sure, you remove John Smith's name, but you still have his GPS coordinates. For the school, you remove Professor Smith's name, but you have a professor who teaches CS 123 and has 4 graduate students. You bet you can guess who that is.

I really do support open data, especially about public institutions, but at the same time we are in an era where this information is quite powerful. Seems to make a case for something like homeomorphic encryption or something, but will that even stop these collisions?
Ask HN: Image Generation Through API
I've been working on something and need some help.
I've a way of creating posts automatically in my narrative style. I would like to automate Image generation too. I use Midjourney (Nothing else seems to be usable, yet) but unfortunately, they don't provide an API to connect. Does anyone have a suggestion for me here on how to proceed?
It's so weird watching the era you grew up in fade into oblivion then return as an aesthetic.
I’m slightly confused. Climate scientists have been using machine learning to make their climate models since before it was called machine learning. AI has been at the forefront of fighting climate change for a few decades now. It has in fact helped shape policy, for governments to set targets (which get promptly ignored by politicians), etc.

Using AI to slightly optimize any individual’s carbon footprint in computation or by slightly optimizing energy distribution (as if it isn’t already pretty optimized) seems very minor compared to grand policy changes to build out green infrastructure and international agreements—which climate scientists are actually calling for based on the climate models which uses AI extensively.
Where did I say everything? I didn't say that.
Believe me or not, I use it 10 years with my wife and don’t see what additional info web version can provide. And for sure in this case your data wouldn’t be privately stored, then you need a registration… and so Monetal wouldn’t be different from many many similar apps.
Better URL: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/rt-2-new-model-translates-visi...
> When Congress certifies the election they do not publish that certification onto any blockchain. Maybe some day they will.

The Oracle problem isn't the fact that this doesn't happen today, it's that it can never happen in a way that is trustable. When Congress (or anyone else) does decide to publish the election results to a blockchain, every dollar bet on the outcome will be a prize to be won by anyone who can subvert the publication process.
Well, as they say on r/cscareerquestions, you could always “grind LeetCode and work for a FAANG”
That being said, Embraer almost threw in the towel and merged with Boeing had it not been for regulators blocking it.
Regarding remote work between Europe and the USA, is there an easy path for US based companies to hire a US citizen or an EU citizen to work remotely from an EU residence?
Great. I also hope .Net. Erlang (Elixir) would be also very useful. Hard to doubt many would appreciate Node.JS. I would also cheer Common Lisp, Guile and Lazarus but I understand these probably are too exotic for Bloomberg to invest in. Whatever, the common denominator is - clients for all sorts of runtimes are expected from such a products. In fact I was very surprised to see such a small client libraries list. Perhaps this is going to get fixed later.
Factory pattern considered harmful.
Capitalism doesn't require anything besides a court system capable of enforcing contracts.
Agreed, the power is no where nearly imbalanced.
Original article title is "Renowned conservation group WildCRU infiltrated by ultra-conservative gun rights activist".
"Making shit up in order to fulfill some requirement" is the definition of lying, so whether it's a human or an AI, just making shit up in order to generate prompted output is flat out lying. Not "hallucinating". And the best part is that until LLM get valitidy checks baked in, even the things they get right are lies if presented with authority, because the LLM doesn't know whether it's true or not. In fact, the LLM doesn't know, full stop. It's still just a very well crafted autocomplete, and literally nothing more. So if we're going to anthropomorphise, call them what they'd be when humans do the same:

lies, and damned lies.
> community, the result of a years long collaboration with Accenture

Hmm. Not a promising start to the news - Accenture is strongly associated to me with slow moving bloated enterprise development.

And then there's no github repos linked.

I suppose this isn't aimed at developers like me.
To add to this, PII isn't always even clear. Different jurisdictions identify PII differently, there isn't One Master Definition that you pass a unit of data through, upon which an authoritative "THIS IS PII" or "THIS ISNT PII" is returned.
It's not a "crazy worry" but defendants in civil suits have all kinds of worries. Regarding impugning Stanford researchers (N.b. no scare quotes) as being motivated by a consulting fee, that's what those fees are for: to get the best possible expert witnesses.

I don't begrudge a good defense attempting to block a litigant's experts, either. However, everyone is better off for expert witnesses being motivated by fees to provide the best expert testimony. If there was something untoward about their motivation, it would be Stanford's problem.
No delusion is necessary. Insurance rate trends speak for themselves, and that is backed with hard data.
8 years of real experience equated to 2 years of university? That is such a shame.
I think you’re misunderstanding.

That’s a staggering amount of money in this context.
It keeps asking until you say yes then it will always add the extra cheese just like last time. You have to specifically ask for no extra cheese. Then it will always ask for it again.

People will learn creative prompts like telling it you have a potato allergy to make it stop asking if you want fries. But then it will add "hold the fries" to every order all the time and ask: Is there potato in that?

One will have to pretend the food is not for you and order take out/eat in your car.

You see someone else eating in their car, could it be... yes, he is eating fries! You raise your hand and say "potato allergy?" he responds, haha yeah... puts his finger in front of his mouth and goes "ssst!"
It's like TSA pre but for certain steps in the USCIS flow chart.
What is the thing they are claiming which is different from the actual results and which they know is different from the actual results?
How can startups more effectively use the OPT program? (I work at a university) I see a lot of graduating international students who would love to stay in the US post graduation and work at startups but navigating that seems difficult for startups.
To be reductionist and wholy sarcastic, the SV Mantra, go fast and break stuff, would be a great tagline for Accelerationism.
One month of work for $765k. I was expecting one or two orders of magnitude lower payouts for a single expert witness in a single case. Who can afford to pay this?
Why, I will be able to call my friends.
To Foster Competition in Social Media, Invest in Open Source Trust, Safety Tools
Wasn't this exact observation made with big book stores and libraries, at one point?
We're getting a little off topic here, but the Federal government has published specific guidance on de-identification of medical records. You can construct some artificial scenarios where re-identification might be theoretically possible through record linkage with other data sources but in practice it's unlikely. In principle a similar approach could be used for student data, although I'm not familiar with the legal issues.

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/special-...

But all of this is orthogonal to the core issue of whether a state government should be allowed to prevent researchers from participating in lawsuits. There is no student privacy issue involved there. Witnesses in a civil suit still aren't allowed to violate student privacy laws regardless of the data they have access to, so it makes no sense to conflate those issues.
Script integration is not dropped. You can easily run a script from a unit file.
This is indeed the main weakness of Cap'n Proto. I only really maintain the C++ implementation. Other implementations come from various contributors which can lead to varying levels of completeness and quality.

Unfortunately I can't really promise anything new here. My work on Cap'n Proto is driven by the needs of my main project, the Cloudflare Workers runtime, which is primarily C++. We do interact with Go and Rust services, and the respective implementations seem to get the job done there.

Put another way, Cap'n Proto is an open source project, and I hope it is useful to people, but it is not a product I'm trying to sell, so I am not particularly focused on trying to get everyone to adopt it. As always, contributions are welcome.

The one case where I might foresee a big change is if we (Cloudflare) decided to make Cap'n Proto be a public-facing feature of the Workers platform. Then we'd have a direct need to really polish it in many languages. That is certainly something we discuss from time to time but there are no plans at present.
The J-1 is not supposed to be used to fill regular positions although the J-1 is sometimes abused by companies. The J-1 is supposed to be for training and career development and the J-1 trainee/intern is supposed to have the intent to return to his or her home country or last place of foreign residence. All that being said, it's generally pretty easy to get a J-1 visa.