skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll echo a few of the comments made here. There is not much money in streaming. Bands typically have to tour and/or sell a ton of merch to make any money.

Instead of another label being created, I would love to see a service for bands (similar to a digital or marketing agency) that helps to create activations. Some of the most memorable bands out there have come up with creative ways to sell albums.

Years ago a rap group called the Get Busy Committee bought a bunch of uzi shaped thumb drives for $1 each. They unpacked them, loaded their album onto them, and sold them for like $20 each. They pocketed the profits and walked away with more than what they would have done if they did streaming alone. We need more of this style of engagement.
watch every episode of https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/210195-the-playlist this first!
I mean, you can do this today right now. The "problem" is that many people rely on frameworks. Frameworks have dependencies, so you need something to manage them. Then you need a way to make sure that you have no namespace collisions.

You probably want to optimize your your build to not include code from libraries that you aren't using.

Boom, you've recreated modern build tools.
> For your example, you need to do a post-graduate degree (law) from the Ivy+. This article is talking about the gating functions of the undergraduate admissions departments.

6 of the 9 nine current justices did undergrad at Harvard, Yale or Princeton.
Yeah, this is one reason why I think the outliers at state schools are undervalued. These heuristics are indirect and lead to inefficient selection, competition over the same scarce resources.

If you’re a startup there’s a strategic advantage in trying to look for talent where others aren’t and leveraging your own subject matter expertise to do so.

In moneyball the scouts selected on stupid stuff rather than on base percentage - if you know what to actually look for you can find stuff mispriced.
Actually, this isn't true. The loop ends as soon as i == INT_MAX. It would only be endless if the loop condition were "i <= end" and end were equal to INT_MAX.
Maybe it does help if your goal is to attend a top 3 medical or law school, and then go on to equally impressive practices after, or if you want to go into very very high level investment banking or something. It's shouldn't be a terribly controversial statement to say that if you want to be one of the top in the world in a given field you probably need to go to one of the top universities. Even then you'll find plenty of people from University of Whatever in those classes.

I worked with a guy who had a Bachelor's from Harvard and was a mid-level HR manager in a boring suburban part of a boring state for a company nobody has ever heard of. Not everyone from Harvard is killing it.
Aren't all those things the same ultimately?
MIT Scientists Successfully Demonstrate Control over Quantum Randomness
Any relation to the defunct crypto on-ramp?

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=wyre-finally-shuts-down
What is an enemy of the west and what is a friend of the west? Take a random western country like France. Do you know how many Franco-Russian 'cercles d'amitié' there are? Go search in Yandex... or Google. Many quite old with a noteworthy history of cultural exchange. No idea if that exists in the anglosphere (not my speciality). Washington, Brussels or the guy in the Élysée palace can't really transcend that.
Just thinking of the flavor of blood sausages makes me nostalgic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_sausage#Germany_and_Aust...
I don't know what the cause is but I'm breaking up with my partner because they can't control it and it's ruining our lives. I love them immensely, but I'm not climbing down into their pit with them when I know they have no intention of ever climbing out.
Posting communities will inevitably try to find false positives, and it'll be fun to see if there are any.

I'm wondering about real photos that have deliberately been shot to screw with normative standards of photo composition, like Weston's headshot of Igor Stravinsky. Another genre of photo that may be flagged are sci-fi and/or fantasy film set candid shots, such as photos featuring an actor (or actors) partially out of costume.

Come to think of it, various photography hall of fame galleries could be great testing suites.
> Is now social media.

So presumably that means more services than just Twitter? Because (at least in the US) most people don't use Twitter. That's not a recent thing, that's always been the case.
Seems like a great alternative to blip.

https://github.com/apenwarr/blip
A truly horrible take, and sadly pessimistic.

Balzac's pronouncement assumes the world is zero-sum; ie that wealth must be stolen from others. While that may have been true of many fortunes for many centuries on earth, it is not true now. The essence of Silicon Valley is the positive-sum game. Paul's at the heart of it.

Paul has done a lot of good for a lot of people, including the founders who went through YC, which is why people pay attention to his opinions.

Giving $10k out to each founding team in the first year of YC wasn't laundering luck into status. (I doubt he cares about status.) It was changing how tech investing worked in order to liberate more tech people to recombine with each other in order to work on hard problems.
That is my speculation. But the question is one of intuition. If the speculation is correct, that some problems are better solved by a single more intelligent agent, then how can I determine the appropriate approach?

What I mean to say is, if I am considering building a product based on LLMs then I may have to make a basic decision: can I use multiple cheap LLMs in a multi-agent setup or must I use a single expensive powerful LLM. Right now I don't have any intuition on what kinds of problems are solved most efficiently by either approach. Just looking at a problem description I can't intuit which approach is appropriate.
This sounds more like a problem with real estate than with people. The old Georgist schtick of a ~80% land value tax coupled with a citizen's dividend (i.e., UBI for those affected by improvements upon said land) would nip this problem in the bud, eliminating the rent-seeking that causes gentrification.

Keeping with your analogy, we might similarly eliminate rent-seeking on prestige by banning legacy admissions and making applications more quantitative (i.e., test-based) and less subjective.
the problem isn't the policy, it's that when they repealed it China was facing the same issues as Japan, Taiwan, the US, Europe, etc. which is that no one is having kids.

Like Japan never had that law and is still having serious consequences
That's a good long term historical view, and provides some hope.

However, the current court composition is what we face today, and there are members who will likely be on the court for 30 years or more.

While the historical picture is more encouraging, it doesn't negate the significance of the current makeup.
>It didn't take millions to build Linux or wikipedia, just a couple hundred to a couple thousand absurdly dedicated people.

Maybe it didn't take millions of people to build those things, but it did take millions of people to create an environment in which building those things could be considered a productive use of time.

The people who built Linux and Wikipedia didn't build it just for themselves, and indeed neither Linux nor Wikipedia would survive (in their current form) if they were not useful to millions of people.
You need to clean slate the entire world because everything is interconnected. If , for example, you want files to be more than streams of bytes then you basically have to re-invent the Internet as well.

The older I get, the more I realize that we don't need a clean slate OS. If you pick any modern OS right now, the most annoying parts are never the parts that were from 30 years ago; it's almost always the newest thing.
If your data set is too small, they memorize. If you train them well on a large dataset, they learn to generalize.
New Orleans is undeniably worse. Sea level in much of the Gulf Coast rose 8 inches from 2006 to 2018: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/04/1...
Letting employers filter employees by SAT/ACT scores without fear of disparate impact lawsuits would reduce the Ivy League premium.
Perhaps.

We raised $500k pre-seed in Europe earlier this year. Spoke to 20 VCs agreed terms with 4 and couple angels.

This was with co-founders connections.
Good ideology, wrong species
you are not
The US did nothing to suppress free speech with regards to those wars.

It was very unpopular to criticize them in the post-9/11 fervor, but there was no legal suppression of those viewpoints.
This smacks of "once my kids didn't get in I decided these schools weren't that great actually."
Modern LLMs are nowhere near the scale of the human brain however you want to slice things so terribly inefficient is very arguable. also language skills seemingly take much less data and scale when you aren't trying to have it learn the sum total of human knowledge. https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07759
The company was (lab based) biotech - zero maths needed - but management liked the way mathematicians think. Their brand / religion was maths and it beat out domain experience every time.
Tech in general is saturated.

Theres probably a billion Chinese and Indian people who are good at technology who could do all of our jobs.

I wouldnt worry so much about job security as much as what you enjoy most.
This is the usual if a hazard isn't labeled, it isn't a hazard fallacy.
Saturation? That's not how programming works.
We’re talking about pre and post op photos. Not data. Again to reiterate it’s going to be very hard to argue tiktok posts fall under an exception for the privacy rule.
I’m not saying I disagree with you re child porn, but realize that you are encoding a lot of moral judgement in what qualifies as consensual. What makes the relationship between Uber and an Uber driver consensual? Can you give consent if your alternative is starvation or homelessness?
No, no, it doesn't happen ever at all.

https://www.businessinsider.com/work-from-home-sneek-webcam-...

https://remotedesk.com/solutions/webcam-monitoring

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/remote-workers-monitoring-spywa...
It's great that you responded to the question. Is there a reason you didn't answer it, though?
Do you enjoy what you do? js front ends aren't going away any time soon (inevitably they will someday, of course).

Anyway, if you like what you're doing and are just wondering if it's safe, why not expand your skills rather than jump to a separate pond. To use metaphor: "increase size of your circle" or "learn something in an overlapping circle".

Also, I suggest expanding first in the area of fundamentals. You mentioned SQL: it has outlasted many fashionable programming languages and is likely to do so for quite a while. Or improve your on algorithms and DS skills a bit. This is because the "next language" is statistically going to last a short time, while the deeper skills will make you better with whatever the fashion of the day happens to be at some time in the future.
Well, algebra and calculus have been around for a while.

And then, Calculus took about 3 years for me to begin to scratch the surface... and realise I will never need it as numeric methods took over completely with the advent of cheap compute.
Deflation in China: Why Prices Are Falling and What Beijing Can Do
You should look into Harris Heller.

He created a record label to make copyright free music for people to stream on places like Twitch.

He distributes his music through Spotify, Apple, etc.

The key thing here is that his music is used on streams, which tend to last many hours. Imagine a bunch of streamers playing his music for hours a day (he created themed playlists/albums). He gets payed by play time.

Last I remember he was making at least 5 figures a month through that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek6p_NmYb44

In a way he was at the right place at the right time. He focused on lo-fi music and released that for a very targeted audience.
Then why not post the workaround in the first place I wonder.

Alternatively an ignorelist of domains would be nice.
When 2025 rolls around, I can see the following:

1. Foremost, HTML Modules allow importing HTML files natively, that's key. New components are more stable, more accessible, and widely supported. Web Components are more stable than ever.

2. The most popular features of Sass/Scss are added into core CSS by this point

3. With broad support of features like :has, @scope, @property, subgrid, anchor positioning, MPA view transitions, and lots more

4. Modern JS is stable, most new versions are incremental in the 2020s.
Midjourney still straight up ignores prompts. From my experiments it seems that SD XL follows my promts much better.
Does your local library provide access to the new york times?

I'm not sure a private company paying money to produce a story for paying customers quite qualifies as "censorship."
Ha I came to say the same thing and ctrl-F'd and found you. That was a fun game.
Do you have a source? I’ve never heard of this, and I would be quite surprised if anyone I know or knew well at any elite school was on this list.
> the authors are concerned about how the dataset could be or is likely to be used from now on.

The service in question wasn't introducing anything new that'd appear to justify all the recent pushback. It feels like you continue generalizing your statements, while the discussion topic is about what made Prosecraft specifically so preposterous that it warranted the outrage.

> their argument doesn't have to be a peer-reviewed journal, it suffices to say "i don't want my books in your dataset"

It's kind of a blunt statement, but why should they have a say? For example, say I create a website where I publish technical analysis of famous literary works, including basic statistics about a book and a review. Should the authors be able to just take that down? This use is legally protected (as is creating a dataset), so allowing authors to restrict this use seems as arbitrary as allowing them to say that no person can ever bring their books into the country of Moldova or that no one over the age of 50 may read it.

> it's natural for things to change e.g: the project's code, updating servers, partnerships, emergence of third-party tools/libs/services etc

And yet, in this specific situation, all of this is conjecture. Nothing about the project changed in some significant way in 2023 that would warrant this. Further proving it is that the people that are against Prosecraft don't seem to bring up any specific changes or reasons for their stance, only that it is "AI".
> Take responsibility for the results of your actions like an adult.

"your actions", give me a break. The parent commenter doesn't own Google, and you aren't forced to use the platform.

Are people on this site really convinced that an L3 Google engineer can flick the "Fix Google" switch on the search engine?
Step 1: Kidnap $target

Step 2: keep for N+1 days

Step 3: …*

Step 4: profit!

* where “…” just means “wait”
The Myopia of Learning (1993) [pdf]
A Warren Buffett Protégée Strikes Out on Her Own (2022)
Do you not keep track of current events?

Chinas activities in the South China Sea, the fact they openly say they will integrate Taiwan, by force if necessary and unemployment being 20-30% for young people are just a few red flags.
My perception is that the vast majority of employers are lacking either the will or the experience to recognize skilled developers and the value of their skill. In other words, skill depth is borderline meaningless in job-hunting, as opposed to skill breadth. Do you think that perception is exaggerated/pessimistic?
Beautifully said. The horses example is rich because there are experiences and virtues that are essential to activities, and when we relate to the activity differently, it raises the question of which aspects or facets of it were essential. With horses, the feedback in a purely animal to animal relationship was a channel to our relationship with the rest of nature, the world, and the universe or creation. Only a tiny minority of people are able to experience that today, and an even more tiny subset of those bring the virtues of that relationship into the world around them to enrich our apprehension of it. The same could be said for ditch digging, but now that nobody has to do that manually anymore, rich people do crossfit to experience the attendant physical virtue. I'd wonder what the post-AI version will be.

With AI and language models, something similar will likely occur, where like cars and engines, it creates mediation and decoupling from what was natural and real, and confines experience within material and largely narrative abstractions. I can write and create movingly sometimes because I've spent a lifetime practising it. AI (like all tech) creates economic indifference to "content," sort of the way people talking about the "alienation of labour," were on about 150 years ago. I think there are essential virtues in writing (now "content creation") that automating it to the point of economic indifference will also cause us to eschew, and we don't know them until we miss them - and maybe hire personal "reality" trainers to help us reconnect with what we feel we have lost.
Me too, I prefer function names like “assert_that_one_plus_one_is_return_always_two_and_never_five.”

All kidding aside, but I gave up on this argument because I think people either get it or don’t and aside from trying a little conversation or something with guidance it’s a “can’t fix stupid” situation.

People usually want to explain why it’s so important and that’s worse than suffering their long function name.

I think it’s better to just accept ridiculous than to try to get consensus on what’s ridiculous and a spiral of wasted time.

The upside is that it doesn’t matter any more since long function names are supported and work. And autocomplete means it’s just as easy to use as “ATOPOIRA” or whatever madness they would name it with some restrictions.
It is a reasonable bet that you can leave the country between his death and when regulations manage to enforce things.
Personally, I do heavy coding and writing in Neovim (with more extensive config, like LSP and Copilot), but I use macvim and gvim (depending on which OS I'm using) for quick edits or file viewing, because I often need to open files from Finder or Nautilus and I don't have a terminal open in that directory.
My observation from doing hundreds of interviews at career fairs was the fancy schools (Stanford) had students that were way better at basic questions. This isn’t a perfect metric, but it’s signal.

If your peers in undergrad were your friends, you were probably selecting a non-representative group (smart people you liked) and your job as a TA shows you a more random sample (or even skewed negative, poor students grubbing for grades).

At least that’s my guess (selection bias).

Of course if I’m wrong there’s an even bigger opportunity in undervalued students, but I’ve done enough interviews to believe that’s not true.
> RSS is a great, albeit forgotten, technology.

It's not that forgotten. RSS feeds are my "front page to the internet", where I get my news, etc. Even HN.

Most sites (at least in the set of the ones I care about) have RSS feeds.
“For most students” can potentially obscure an enormous difference between mean and median income.
> Thanks for the book recommendation. I'll look for an ebook or audiobook, because you know, the whole having too much stuff thing haha.

I have a whole bunch of books I'm never going to read gathering dust on my bookshelf, and I've only really noticed them now that you've said that. Thanks for the reminder!

As much as I couldn't part with the wooden train set, it's a lovely feeling sharing something you once loved. When it came to all my childhood books we found a local teacher who was more than happy to come around and take them off our hands.
Spain has a peculiar train gauge. When you cross the border with France, the train slows down and gauge change happens on the fly.
I bought a 400g can of triple concentrate thinking it was chopped tomatoes (I'm in Greece, I do not speak Greek). It is fate. Gruyère sounds good, thanks for sharing!
Comparing a few paragraphs of HN comment to the Nobel prize in literature is just bizarre. I'm not surprised people assumed it must be sarcastic. Or if you put that aside, then it seems to disparage the Nobel prize. It's just such a hyperbolic claim without any rhetorical purpose and doesn't make any sense. I'm happy the commenter was so moved though...
From my experience the best people are usually state school undergrad (e.g., Berkeley / UIUC / UNC / UW / GTech) plus selective grad school (Harvard / Stanford / MIT / CMU). At the graduate level those schools are much more meritocratic and it's usually a better indicator of ability. Plus doing well at one of those undergrads is actually really hard.
Author here. Surprised to see this website made it on to Hacker News

Glad to see some debates on the vocabs listed there:

* Yes, it is very IT oriented.

* Yes, I have been in some academic environment. (but seriously, 文本 is rarely heard in my life!)

* No, it is not supposed to be an exhaustive list of all things wrong nor _the_ correct list.

At the end of day, it is a short list of what I'd like to see it changed and thus I tracked it. We may not all agree on the translations, but I think we can agree on 1/55 is a pretty sad score to have.

--

Lastly, feel free to fork and run your copy if you'd like a different set of words / translations to be tracked!

https://github.com/itszero/hasgooglefixedityet

Thanks for my 5 mins fame on HN!
What would happen if the conjecture happened to be true, and they did their data collection/computation, and got a bunch of data (called "0%" in mathematics) consistent with the conjecture?

Would their summer research be an utter failure? Would they be unimpressive mathematicatians?

How much of math success is being lucky enough to stumble upon a tractable problem?
Mmmm… Assuming you’re referring to US high school, I’m going to say that GPT-4 is more useful than a high school graduate.

Rationale:

- Speed
- Ability to recall
- Depth and breadth of “exposure”

I can’t speak to others high school experience, but in my experience, high school does not prepare young adults to be useful in the same settings that GPT-4 could be useful.

Example prompt:
- Pose this to a high school graduate and GPT-4, somehow benchmark quality.

1. “You are an experienced business strategist. Your client has the following problem <insert problem synopsis here>. Generate an outline of brainstorming topics your client should consider to accomplish <insert goal here>.

- First, GPT-4 is going to respond in ~30sec or less
- Second, a high school grad has 0 context for these types of prompts.
https://txtify.it/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/realest...
This is a hierarchy of one stratum (birds) cooperating to dominate another stratum (fish).

If anything, this link shows that operating effectively within a hierarchy has clear advantages to survival.
Expand please. I think the initial hype is gone and we see that most implementations are not that much of a game changer just yet.
Stable Diffusion can create images but its still incredibly cumbersome to find the right seed and prompt to get the image one desires.
ControlNet, Inpainting, and Loras are helpful but have to be implemented in a useful workflow.
> I was about to say

Yet you said it twice[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37076913
And "governance structures" is exactly what FOSS maintainers can sell.