skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve worked low-paying jobs. I’m currently in a high paying career. It’s tragic that minimum wage workers pay so much tax, especially when wealthy corporations pay nothing. If there were any fairness in our system we’d reverse that.

It’s like there are two sets of rules. People low on the totem pole work hardest and get charged the most. The wealthy and powerful get a free pass and a handshake.

The highest paid people have it a lot easier. Everything is cheaper when you have money. Mortgage is cheaper than rent. Cheap cars (2-4K) are significantly more expensive to operate than something in the 5-30k range, but when you’re working hard for low pay, trying to eat, pay rent, get to work. Sometimes you can’t dig out enough to do the cheaper thing.

When you’re in a bind, fees and added charges materialize like magic. Overdraft fees are fucking insanity. Payday lending is criminal. The people who can least afford it pay the highest interest rates. Rates that would make your head spin.

My biggest takeaway from working both ends is that the system is rigged. If I hadn’t figured out a way to switch to the winning side I’d be devoting my whole life to burning the whole system to the ground. Of course when I was on the other side I was too exhausted to do much of anything so I’d probably just be working a dead end job and numbing my brain with drink or worse.

As it is the unfairness around me often makes my stomach churn. The unfairness of our economic system is just staggering to me.
Why is OpenAI making ChatGPT increasingly dumber? What's the motivation?
https://web.archive.org/web/20230801015255/http://www.petrel...
I used to barista 14 hours a day on my feet, and honestly it's less tiring than sitting in front of my computer writing code for less than 8 hours. I enjoy both, but there's something simply exhausting about the nature of code.

Also did manager+QA work from morning to night at one point and it was far less tiring than both of the above. But I hear Sam Altman used to send 1200 emails a day (about 2-3 per minute at 8 hrs??) and I could never do that level of managerial work.
Amp technician and guitarist Lyle Caldwell: Fender FAQ [video]
Not Op, but I suspect the use of "efficient" here is used more in terms of "usefulness of output" rather than pure turbine efficiency.

For example, you might have a VERY efficient turbine, but if they're constrained to be small (and therefore low-output), you then need to have a squillion of them, which is not an efficient use of money or effort expended, in terms of output power total.
The closest piece is the client router. Then a ton of switches on the way. I get in gist what is meant here, but it's really hard to define so simply.
Git files hidden in plain sight
Those numbers are astronomical

So he did not solve that Chinese block?

No follow up?
Environmental Assessment Reform
I don't think these results will replicate and it's still unclear whether the material has any useful properties. But I could be wrong. The theory sims say nothing; it's a bunch of noise right now.
which is why i prefer not to call it a tax, but a toll, or a levy.

Or extortion money, if less charitable.

I also always wonder what stops competition from encroaching on these credit card fees and reduce it.
maybe medical vs recreational? ive never seen more than 10mg rec
Sorry but most of this is wrong.

History has shown time and time again that you need the guardrails that regulation/laws provides in order to channel progress in an effective direction. Otherwise the negatives of human nature destroy progress. We have seen this recently with the rampant criminality and negative behaviours permanently crippling the crypto space.

In the AI space there is no evidence that allowing models with illegal/unethical content is going to magically translate to some boost in performance, capability or efficacy than would otherwise happen.

In fact again history has shown that the opposite is likely to happen. That having models that don't exhibit negative effects e.g. racism, sexism will result in them being used in more places and exposed to wide audiences. Thus translating to a bigger net benefit for society.
with all the tdp configuration that you have, may you please share how long does the battery last on a typical usage? thank you!
That is a fantastic book. It was very much written for magicians and gives away many of Derren Brown's famous routines so reader beware!

The aspects of showmanship and performance really stuck with me. I often remember snippets of the book even today.

One of my favourite stories is when Derren is having dinner with friends and their child says "Show me a magic trick!" So Derren asks the child to name a card. He then flips over, by pure coincidence, the card the child named. Of course, he was planning on doing a more elaborate routine but he was present enough to notice that he would not be able to top his accidental trick and put the cards away.

He talks a lot about taking risks in performance and being attentive to the energy in the room. Of course, you need some solid reliable tricks as well to back this up!
The synthesis process is not at all straightforward.
I didn't look but it would be easy to toss the top three credible claims at them.
Ah OK I follow you now. Unfortunately I think that clock on the open web has already ended, we've effectively had a closed web for at least a decade.

Google sure seems to want to hammer in that final nail, but it's been a long road to get here.

Honestly I can't help but think we'd be better of revisiting early decisions made in Http itself, especially cookies though long-lived connections are also risky. The gemini protocol is really interesting in that area, but I can't help think they rolled it back to far with odd decisions like not requiring cert verification, utf-8 encoding URLs, and only supporting GET requests.
Twitter's X taken down from rooftop
It ought to be but it's not. Plenty of sociopaths out there who think nothing of poisoning children with heavy metals in toys if it's cheaper. How many businesses neglected software system security, only to compromise the personal information of thousands, millions of people? It's not like there are consequences. As far as I know, no one was ever arrested.
Unrelated: I think we need a service that could help bypass twitter login wall.
Seems like it: https://s3.amazonaws.com/vast.ai/install
Interesting, out of curiosity is this a regional thing or a nationwide issue? What were businesses doing for the last X years to buildup qualified people to promote? Has anything changed to speed up the rate of retiring/dying or just a new limit on the rate of granting licenses?

A friend of mine moved from construction to working on a tugboat ~1.5 years ago and I spent a bunch of time talking about it this winter. Some parts of the business sound interesting but I'm not sure it is a good fit due to family health and relationships.
I used to be a Windows programmer and dealt with APIs like this all the time.

Honestly, the Event Tracing API is consistent with all of the Win32 APIs. They're pretty freaking horrible. It's like filling out a bunch of tax documents to do anything.
Despite some initial fun, I quickly got hesitant to do any more amateur “red team” experiments with ChatGPT because I was finding it useful enough that getting banned would be too big of a risk…

It was surprisingly easy to do once you internalised the word prediction foundation and thought about the corpus of writing you have ever read in a “tropes” fashion. For instance it’s really easy to get it to give you some “mills and Boone” romance novel type sentences or dialog, but when you can keep it on track it’s terrible at romantic “escalation” (the stuff where the relationship or interaction between characters is undergoing the implicit consent negotiation and furtive suggestions as they work out things will “move to the next base”) … And it’s terrible because the bulk of the available writing corpus of romance and interpersonal/intimacy is padded for page count and long sentence descriptions of small details…

It’s actually quite remarkable to see how it can be good at the bulk of the text, but simultaneously so terrible at a specific subset of that kind of writing.
> ChatGPT already has a lot of value by itself, the value added by any startup is going to be marginal at best.

This assumes that all AI startups are squarely competing with ChatGPT, or that ChatGPT is some kind of AGI that can do most machine learning tasks making AI startups redundant "thin wrappers" around ChatGPT.

How does ChatGPT make say Weights and Biases irrelevant, or a startup detecting bank transaction fraud, or say a product that detects when someone at your door is a stranger.
There was a time in my life where I was an only child, living in the boondocks with Contra as my only game. It was Contra or go walk in the woods again.

You know when you beat Contra, it restarts you at the beginning with your remaining lives. After beating the game 3 times in a loop without the Konami code, I decided I was done with it and turned it off.
A defective device in my mind would have some obviously fatal flaw - it wouldn't even start up, parts would be broken and dangling off, etc. QC immediately rejects it and it doesn't get incorporated into more complex systems.

A buggy device is much worse for any critical application - it appears to work under inspection, and even limited testing, but 1% of the time it develops some fatal data race condition that causes it to fail erratically and cause havoc, e.g. the Therac-25.

So buggy is a subset of defective but it's even worse?
Now get ChatGPT to detect transaction fraud for a bank.
You're producing a nanoscale material through macroscale processes

It's not quite like asking somebody with a hammer and chisel to produce a microchip, but depending on how many processes and sensitive variables affect your chemical processes, it ain't far off.

Maybes it's cooling rate. Maybe it's venting phosphorous gas. Maybe it's introducing ambient air. Maybe oxygen would be better. Maybe it should be faster. Maybe it should be introduced slower with faster cooling. Or slower cooling. Maybe the oven heats funny and placement matters given the distribution and the heating is the key.

Experimental chemistry can be a real pain, and it takes quite a lot to figure out what you've got.
> Unfortunately, real science makes for a pretty lousy spectator sport :-).

I’ve found this whole thing incredibly entertaining and informative.
> might be indicative of a problem.

why is it a problem, if it means that these funds are _more_ efficiently allocated?

For example, buying a starbucks gift card is money being invested by starbucks (elsewhere) and generates a profit. Had the customer not purchased such a card, would the cash have been invested in a similarly efficient manner? Or would it be in the proverbial cash-under-the-bed and not generating any returns?
Reminds me of Ron Burgundy!
I thought that this was a great idea, until I read a few of the rules:

In short, you work for them, for free. You don't win unless you check all of the beaurocratic checkboxes. If you make something good, you might win $20k, $10k, or $5k, but good luck with any further monitization, as you give them right to use it forever (not for "commercial" use, but the "educational" catch-all is pretty broad). It's non-exclusive rights, of course, but why would I pay you for it when I can get it from the LOC for free?

The game is required to be in the browser. It's pretty obvious that they plan to put this on their website, or perhaps even create a portal for these types of games to point teachers to.

I also found it interesting that they require a cheat code to allow judges to play all levels.

And, they don't like copyleft licenses, either. LOL.

"If you win, in consideration of and by accepting the prize, you hereby grant to the Library the worldwide, nonexclusive, transferable, perpetual, irrevocable, fully paid-up/royalty-free right to use the entry that I (or my team, as applicable) has submitted to the Challenge, consisting of the game itself and the description thereof (“Entry”), for noncommercial purposes in connection with the Challenge and otherwise in furtherance of the mission of the Library of Congress, including, without limitation, associated promotional and educational purposes. This right includes the right to reproduce, prepare derivative works from, distribute, perform, display, or otherwise make use of the Entry, in any form, media, or technology, now known or later developed, including television, radio, satellite, cable, and the Internet (including, without limitation, streaming, podcasting, and on websites with user-generated content, such as Facebook and YouTube). You must also allow us to use your name, brief biography, and likeness, or if you are a minor, your first name, last initial, and state, to promote the challenge."

"The game must be accessible to disabled individuals. Many people with different abilities use content and apps from the Library of Congress. We have to make sure everyone, including people with disabilities, can use anything we post."

"Where there is a choice, use the most permissive license (i.e., the one allowing the broadest unconditioned use; please avoid viral licenses such as GPL)."

"i. Be Section 508 compliant.[1] ii. Work with screen readers like Jaws, NVDA, VoiceOver, etc."
> If true, that is objectively insane.

I dunno about that. Look at it this way: we don't know how to make a room temp superconductor, we don't know how to learn what we need to learn to make one. There were some more obvious ideas, they didn't work. There were a lot of less obvious ideas, lots of people tried them, they didn't work.

At this point, one could argue that continued research specifically directed to making a room temp superconductor, absent some kind of new externally originated discovery or a constraint relaxation (like ultra high pressure), is objectively a waste of time.

So we should also expect that the discovery will either be a bit insane or will be a totally unexpected accident from unrelated work (why are my results weird? oh this drug I was testing turned out to be a superconductor!)-- and maybe a combination. Perhaps it turns out that the LK-99 sample is superconducting but due to some accidental impurity in their synthesis, for reasons totally unrelated to their expectations, perhaps one that would have been discovered before but most people making new ceramics aren't testing them for superconductivity.

The sane people are busy making discoveries that if not quite guaranteed are at least in domains where many people haven't already failed.
The issue with sets is that they don’t capture the notion of multiplicity. One would like to say sqrt(0) = {0,0}, but {0,0} is just equal to {0} as a set. The CxC/~ formalism captures the possibility of multiplicity as well as the fact that the output always has size 2.

As an aside, the notation R x R means ordered pairs of reals. So for your definition, you would instead want 2^R as the codomain (i.e. the set of subsets of R).
Until their organs start failing, then it's a rapid - but not rapid enough - cascade. I've watched a loved one die this way and it's horrific.
Hah I've known a few people to sip shots at the bar. They don't get shunned for it. It just means people don't buy them a shot.

Also most people who take shots aren't trying to get wasted. Drinking a shot the normal way every half hour to an hour alongside always having a beer to sip until done for the night is fairly standard. e.g. about 6 beers and 3 shots over the course of 2 to 4 hours.
That’s called sales
If it’s fraud, what’s the end game?
These articles are always implicitly claiming it's pathological to live the way everybody under 50 lives, by the fake standards of a 90 year old scarred by the Great Depression.

The actual Silent Generation members who lived through the Great Depression, many of them, eventually got credit cards, and cell phones, and now they're mostly gone, but their caricatures live on.

Being able to borrow money in a crisis, or being able to get disability benefits from the government in a non-temporary bad situation are both good and reasons why people don't live the same today as a century ago.

You must have an emergency fund, like the person who got a scholarship and a high paying job that took them out of poverty circa 1955. But is cash safe? Are banks safe? Maybe it's a crisis that people don't own enough gold bars. Maybe you need to be able to live off the land. Be prepared!

You can raise rabbits for food to avoid starvation. Is the number of Americans who instead buy hamburger at the supermarket cause for alarm? Or is it a good thing that the US isn't North Korea (yet)?
> That is actually completely false.

There is certainly a lot more nuance to reality than my blanket statement was meant to imply but I assumed that went without saying. But I believe the underlying gist is accurate. Fancy encoding techniques got us quite far on analog phone lines, but my point was that attempting to transmit digital information over a highly-compressed audio stream optimized within an inch of its life for a small subset of human vocal sounds is going to be MUCH slower than over the analog phone lines of yesteryear. And at the end of the day, there is no substitute for bandwidth. Take it up with Claude Shannon if you like.

> I am not sure where do you live and what kind landline phones you had but modern digital cell phone codecs are light years ahead of the sound quality we had on land lines in 80s, esp. when calling long distance.

I lived in the Midwest US (and then later the West, with frequent calls across the country) and I quite distinctly remember the audio quality of POTS being quite good overall. Of course, not EVERY call was great. Some exchanges were noisy, some people's local loop or wiring in their house had issues, and some phones themselves were just garbage. But it mostly sounded great.

I'll grant that cell phone audio is more tolerable now than it WAS but it certainly was so bad for a while that from the early 2000's to the early 2010's, I pretty much only used cell phones for emergencies and actively avoided calling people on their cell phones if I could. The resulting audio was so distorted and muddy that I often could not understand the person on the other end. If it was someone I knew, I could often infer what they were saying from their speech patterns. But if it was someone I didn't know, or if they had a thick accent, there was always a lot of, "Can you repeat that again, more slowly this time?". I only cancelled my analog phone line after POTS network providers started switching their internal systems to VoIP (or something like it), bringing along all the same disadvantages of the bandwidth-constrained cell network.

Latency was also terrible, and continues to be. The analog POTS circuit-switched network was (modulo an audio buffer or two) speed of light. Modern digital voice communications buffer like crazy and up to two seconds of latency is extremely common. Maybe I'm an outlier as most people don't seem to notice but for some reason, even a half-second of latency is enough to make a conversation extremely awkward for me.
> Once the findings are published in a peer-reviewed journal, which Kim says is in the works, he will support anyone who wants to create and test LK-99 for themselves.

https://archive.is/DhijM

Maybe he’s worried it would fuck up his research pipeline?
It's interesting to think about the ethics of AI generated porn. You obviously have the classic "AI is taking people's jobs", but then you have issues about whether sex work is evil, if jerking off to an AI generated image instead of a real person is degrading, what to do if one of the images used to train the AI was taken illegally, and so on.
> I don’t think people who make APIs really appreciate how important it is to get them right, and how much unnecessary work their mistakes can cause for hundreds, thousands, sometimes even millions of other programmers.

When I was a kid I tried to build a windows app. Getting a notepad clone even kind of close was a triumph for me, but I decided I wasn’t smart enough to be a programmer, and it set me back about 8 years at least.

I was about 19 and a jr sysadmin changing air conditioning units when I finally sorted out the vast majority of coding is vastly simpler and vastly more fun than win32. Those windows APIs cost me a lot of time!
Aeroplanes are complex, but you can bet your life there are standards for those. And cars? Wow - I'm not sure which country you live in, but there are probably as many safety standards for road vehicles as there are for planes!

To continue the analogy from earlier - standards wouldn't mean all web applications would have to be designed, programmed and work exactly the same way, but it would mean that they would need to be formally tested (to an approved test plan), and to use your example, would need to demonstrate that each of those layers of fallbacks (as dictated by the standard and covered in the test plan) operate correctly in order to be certified.

If anything, I think software has a huge advantage over physical world engineering in that testing can be replicated at virtually no cost whenever a change is made to the design. I shudder to think how many cars get trashed in order to meet vehicle safety testing requirements.
There aren't any Soviet chemists...
Yes, based on the materials and type of process, it seems like the default assumption should be, if it's real at all, it's going to be a tweaky, unreliable process at first. A more surprising result would be if the published process reliably works 100% of the time.
Not only cheaper, but local. Many chips were still made in Japan or US, depending on where you needed them. To be fair, making modern chips is a lot more challenging, so it makes sense that it has become consolidated somewhat.
I think it's the nature of being a labourer, really. Your body is the machine, energy has to move through it by way of forces. Our spines are just not that great at holding up under the forces. Sorry to hear about your wife's situation, too. If she has an office job a nice chair goes such a long way. I got a HM Embody and can say that it improved my ability to work, since there's a lot less pain now.
Same here, this was when I was a high schooler. I was a habitual card thrower for a while. I remember walking down the hall, flicked my hall pass. My enthusiasm was better than my aim and I nailed a girl in the back of the head. Whole lotta apologizing happened.
I think many people's first introduction to George Hotz was with Twitter.

Where his arrogance, ignorance and complete lack of experience with how teams and companies function effectively was on full display.

You can spout off technical terms all day long but I've worked at two of the FAANG companies and met hundreds of incredible engineers and it wasn't their grasp of the technology that made them great. It was their ability to lead, deliver, communicate, relate etc which are skills that sound far less impressive but are infinitely more important.
I can't stand not being alone with my thoughts. I can't really listen to music without getting anxious. I often am happiest just being alone and thinking. I drive in silence and just think.
And yet, what if that labor went into nuclear construction instead? How many 6 figure construction jobs is many multi-billion $ nuclear plants?
Zombies don't respond, they merely have to be wait()'d for. Which should take microseconds at most.

I've seen orphaned processes sometimes idle, sometimes busy doing god knows what.
But Zombies OTOH are rarely a problem, and should be able to be dealt with easily.

Perhaps the desire of Python to be Windows compatible mitigates against some design more suitable for Unix.
You raise a good point, that fact slipped by me in my reading of the paper. Maybe that is the problem!
"Stakeholders" is just an euphemism for "the people with the money". The "stakeholders" want it this way, "finding compromises" just means figuring out how to get everyone else to accept it.
Wow, amazing! Well they say that ultrasonic cured cancer... right?