skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One question before I spend 50k training a model: but does it work? IE, does the income yield outpace the cost of training? I'm assuming that the model needs to be retrained at some frequency, though I'm guessing some of that retraining would be model fine tuning... could all of the training be continual fine tuning? Would there be any benefit by training from scratch?
Optimistic outlook without reasonable skepticism is probably at least something you should not strive to achieve.
> She wasn’t planning to keep the lot

Yeah that person should be banned from online shops. Genuine returns? Sure. But buying just to try out? Come on.
And any time you decide to eff over anyone, you can and should expect resistance.
This feature will likely completely disappear once that part of Explorer is rewritten.
It’s people like you that are too honest that these companies make most their money from.

They are arbitraging morality. Providing a financial incentive to be shitty and dishonest.
OpenAI acquires Global Illumination
> Is it even possible to empirically validate such a thing?

I wouldn't think so because empiricism implies experience which implies time
> Most high-temp superconductors (including LK-99, he was assuming it was one, since he's not qualified to say one way or the other) are a ceramic. The ones that see use in the LHC, for instance, aren't.

Aren’t the LHC magnets niobium-titanium? Those aren’t high temperature superconductors. Though it is indeed a metal under any definition. The rule of thumb is that high-temperature superconductors can be cooled by liquid nitrogen alone. This is not the case of the LHC magnets, which also have a liquid helium cooling loop.

> They're metallic, so you can form them into the shape you need without having to manufacture it in that shape to begin with, since you'd need another superconductor to join pieces like glue, which we don't have.

The term “metallic” is unhelpful because often in material science it just means an electronic conductor (a material with a non-zero density of states at the Fermi level). Under that definition, some ceramics are metallic, and the opposite of “metallic” is “insulator”, or sometimes “semi-conductor”.

YBCO, which is probably the most used high-temperature superconductor, is an oxyde, so a ceramic, but still an electronic (super)conductor, so metallic. The fact that it’s an oxyde does not prevent its use, notably in spherical tokamaks.

So I don’t know the person you’re referencing but their background work on the subject seems less than adequate, from what you say.
# of layoffs being down doesn't necessarily indicate the job recession is over. The total # of job postings is still much much lower than late 2021: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE#
Jeez— it's almost like few people around here are physicists, consider physicists credible on their specialty, saw physicists excited by the potential, and get excited by exciting things.

What a shamefully foolish intellectual failure!
Two senators, each of which represent about 550,000 people, compared to (on the other end of the scale) California's two senators, who each represent about 20,000,000 people. That's a 36x imbalance, which is pretty disproportionate.

Every person from a state with lower population than the median is overrepresented in the Senate, every state with higher than median is underrepresented.
Yep, but ISIS used it about 1 to 2 orders more. Interesting talk by Rome historian Tom Holland on YouTube about it.
YMMV. But I live in the Seattle area and it seems like the major chains (CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid) are all doing the same and their pharmacists are quitting in droves.

Rite Aid just bought a beloved local chain and now everyone I know has switched because it’s been run into the ground.
One could, and one could counter with "then that is R&D done for the wrong reasons"

This is why we (at least used to) have things like wide-sweeping federally funded research grants aimed at advancing science and technology in areas and ways short-sighted profit-seeking R&D can seldom touch

Not discovering a thing is almost better than someone discovering it and then patenting it, imo. It's negative progress.
But you have to agree that Musk would make a good Blofeld.

https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Diamond_Satellite
How long before humanity collectively drops everything it is doing and starts working to fight this climate chaos on a war footing?
We are talking about annual collective fee in thousands of EUR for the entire building. For the fucking coaxial cable setup, at that time over ten fucking years old. Did they have to reinvent the fucking coaxial cable during the process? Were the cable guides owned by some alpha predatory rent seeker?! I'm really curious what kind of corrupted opaque deal it was because all I got in response was "THIS IS CABLE FEE PAY IT!!!".
After months of not seeing any outside ir35 contracts I've seen about 3 today
Part of the reason online shopping works and can replace the high street is that you can buy stuff, actually try it on, and return the stuff that you don’t like though. It’s not abusive in the slightest.
Pretty sure there’s a WinTweak11 or something for all of that already.
Was just looking up data sketches to link to what you all are doing.
I always wanted to implement at least FORTRAN (VI or maybe 77 with backward compatibility) for a period correct language, but there are always other things to do…

(Having said that, using a familiar language like JS may be suited better for experiencing the hassles of the process, anyway.)
Some fields are so advanced that people are expert in one single material in very specific settings. There are some really exotic things out there that are barely used/studied
Most importantly, if you make a lot of money doing it while not recording the results, then it is legitimized.
What’s wrong with wanting to try stuff out? Or buying multiple sizes in order to get a fit? That’s just common sense if you can’t try on in person.
I would like to remind/point out how many people on here were bashing on American scientists for failing to replicate this in the first few days when labs around the world were confirming replication- saying they had lost their touch, and are no longer relevant.
As soon as the incentives dictate it and no sooner
No, because one of the traditional use-cases why patents were made is so that an inventor of a novel solution can get investment to get that invention actually implemented without risking that the investors will just steal the invention; or that the inventor can contract a manufacturing company to make the prototype without risking that they will just include the invention in their own products.

So being able to secure a patent before its first implementation is made is pretty much a non-negotiable requirement.
The risk reduction of your actions might be more like putting a helmet on while driving and less like checking your straps before BASE jumping.
AI generated personalised music to help you sleep
This is a side project developed by our software team. Would love your feedback.
At college in the late 70s, the breakthru was a a new room full of terminals where you could make "virtual punch cards" (yes) for the mainframe. The name of the terminal program was Roscoe - pretty much un-PC.

These virtual punch cards sure were an improvement from the tangible punch cards. The turnaround for all that "SYSIN DD *" JCL and FORTRAN and PL/1 came down to PDQ.

It was almost like you could feel the earth move under your feet... from batch execution to almost-interactive execution.
The difficulty is most clinical diagnoses (and some with specific criteria) will be a heterogenous group of diseases. Some patients with the label CFS may well have real pathology which can be treated, but some will be mostly psychological in nature, and some will be malingerers. Of course diseases without a proper diagnostic test will attract malingerers and then make people question those with a real diagnosis. Part of the problem of uncertainty in medicine.
No, I mean if every lazy SaaS provider and every lazy customer is in us-east-1 then there won't be any latency problems.
Who on HN said that with enough confidence and credibility to do enough damage to the conversation such that it would be better had the conversation not happen at all?
He is likely an expert in many other materials too.
This was a good article, but I don't think the closing quote implies what the original speaker or the article writer think:

> “ ‘I’ll sell you a computer for the same price as the one you have now—a nice, expensive computer. But it will be twice as durable, and it will weigh half as much, and its battery will last twice as long, and it will have twice the processing power and twice the memory.’ ” The only condition, he said, would be that returns would not be allowed, for any reason.

> “This was Georgia Tech’s sustainability center, so these were super-smart engineering hippies,” he said. “There were probably forty or fifty people, all M.B.A.s.” Hogan assumed that they would all jump at the deal. But no hands went up—not one.

> “I was blown away,” he said. “It’s just astounding how embedded returns are in our behavior. When I finished my talk, I said, ‘Thank you all. I definitely picked the right industry.’ ”

To me that could also mean that these people didn't see the value in the better computer he was selling. They already have a computer that works and costs them $0 to keep. Maybe though, since the audience was MBAs, they'd expect to be able to sell their current computers for that exact price?
> SD-based models can generate child bodies just fine, based on lots of training with non-porn images.

I have not stated anything contrary.

> The generalization abilities of models are good enough in other contexts that its plausible that realistic nude children could be generated by a model with no nude children in its training data that was otherwise trained on both clothed children and nude adults. I have no plans on testing this, however.

Stable Diffusion has failed me for much simpler interpolations than the one you're describing. I don't believe this would work based on previous interpolations I have seen in Stable Diffusion. You can convince me by showing an example, but not by stating that it is possible without one.
Good band name.
Until games will start bundling some 7B models to drive NPC dialogs.
No, I'm saying that you are claimed that cancelling "conservative family-oriented religious" people (who very often oppose gay marriage, at least in the US) doesn't really happen ("It's ALWAYS something beyond").

However, after being pointed to an example of that, you actually support it. (by implying that people "taking away equal-rights from homosexuals" should be cancelled).

The article I linked to explores this phenomenon in more detail.

Also, homophobia is a charged word. Heteronormativity [1] is probably more descriptive.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronormativity
> You can't just ignore it though, since the targeted value of your RSU compensation alone will be higher than base pay in many cases.

Sure you can. You just gauge based on the base pay alone. If that's adequate, I'm good to go. If it isn't, then I'm not. That way, I'm not hurt if the stock ends up being worthless.

I may be leaving money on the table, of course, but I'm also eliminating unnecessary risk. Other people may have different risk tolerances, naturally. My main point is that counting stock as part of a compensation package is the same as buying stock -- you need to be aware that you're taking on risk.
It generally takes ~2 years to actually turn your unstable stock into a stable dollar value. As many who joined Square (Block now lol) learned - your idiot CEO can tank your money printing machine at any moment, and while your stock may have quadrupled since you started it's just one dumb move away from dropping a ridiculous amount, and all before you could actually turn any of it into a dollar.
The only reason why large corporations exist as such in the first place is because the law created the very notion of a legal corporation as an entity in its own right, a "legal person" capable of owning property etc. Without the state to enforce its property (including intellectual property) rights, those entities wouldn't have so much power to abuse in the first place.
I really like the frame work ordering experience. Despite having a lot of options, the interface is uncluttered and usable.

I guess part of it is having so few models to choose from, but maybe Dell, Lenovo, and HP don't actually need that many models in the first place...
You can always email me (jgc@) with details.
Fermilab measurements of muon particle deepen big mystery in physics
When your kid turns 13 (or maybe it was 14), Google decides they're an adult now and takes the reins away from you. We just went through this with our teen
I wonder if its mostly expressed in the negative form, because "the done thing" by itself is like an incomplete sentence and an ambiguous phrase. Kind of grammatically squishy in some fascinating way.
Yeah it's definitely not ready for modelling. It's pretty rocking for ETL though, and much easier to test and abstract than regular SQL. Granted it's a PySpark clone but our data is already in Snowflake.
I don't think most of ML papers are to be labeled science. But it's some kind of scholarship. Maybe engineering, maybe just reports of whatever people worked on in the last 6 months and here's what happened.

I don't know exactly what kind of knowledge you want. Cybernetics and AI from the 40s and 50s onwards didn't aim at learning the laws of intelligence like the laws of gravitation, they were practical goals of building a thing. Like the Manhattan project wasn't about leaning stuff but about going kaboom.

Chomsky complains the same, that ChatGPT teaches us nothing about human language at all, it's not science, it's not advancing linguistics, but sure these things are good for captioning videos for those hard of hearing or translating between languages. And I'm like dude, nobody is stoked because they think we learned something about human language or the nature of intelligence. People are stoked because the computer can talk back at them.

And again I get where you are coming from, I see the same picture but see the rabbit instead of the duck. I see it as very important and consequential that these things work so well. I'm very big on eyeballing. I don't need to measure the voltages under the hood and stare at the speedometer to tell whether a car runs or not, may it run on electricity, natural gas or petrol, the wheels are rolling and we get from A to B.

Science isn't the outermost frame of existence, and has only been here for a few centuries. Journals and professional academia rat race of the shape as today, publish and perish etc, only since like half a century. The Romans built all their infrastructure without journals and h-indexes.

I get it, the hype often goes too far. But I'm now contrarian about the contrarianism. Denying that translation or transcription or image segmentation etc don't work is an increasingly silly hill to die on. So many have moved on to say stuff like yeah it works, but it's biased, it is wasteful and has a big carbon footprint, or can fail suddenly and unexpectedly out of distribution. But denial doesn't help.

I mean, the Internet wasn't a scientific discovery but TCP/IP, Ethernet and the Web still revolutionized society. Now maybe my grandma would deny this and say she gets by just fine gossiping with the neighbors and never using the Internet (though even her soap operas are delivered via IPTV). But just because it's not science, just "building stuff" it's still impactful. Don't be distracted by whether it fits a definition of science or not, that's a separate question from whether the thing works, by the definition of whether it gets jobs done that people want to get done and will pay for.
A retailer could do what you're suggesting - and then they'll find no one will bother with them.

There's a reason every popular retailer offers hassle free returns.

The only way it could possibly work is if this place you propose were much cheaper, but returns don't cost enough to the company to possibly make up for the lost revenue - alas.
this was the deepest dive we ever did into Transformers Math 101 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35631546). we mostly cover AI Engineer/inference time things on the pod, but training knowledge is hard won and extremely valuable, and I love it when experts are wiling to distill the rules of thumb for what they have learned.

questions welcome!
Linus Tech Tips Taking Break Following Controversy
I got caught in the hype and switched to caddy. After a year I'm now back with nginx and happier than ever.

I understand that one can probably methodologically master caddy, but from the perspective of someone who has been running web servers for decades and just needs to get things done, my god, caddy has the worst documentation of any product I've ever seen, and the most confusing configuration I can possibly imagine.

Confusion over v1/v2/json/yaml formats, documentation showing tiny snippets without telling how where they fit, etc. Not even ChatGPT4 can write caddy configuration.

For a long time I thought that my caddy config was blocking all IPs except the ones I listed. Turns out that no. The shit I wrote did nothing.

TLDR: Don't fall for the hype. Nginx is excellent.
There is an Amazon center in Slovakia just to burn some returned products because it's illegal in most other countries

The best part is that they don't even operate in Slovakia
Techdirt Has Again Been Removed from Bing and (Mostly) DuckDuckGo
My car beeps loudly if it is moving and it detects weight in the seat without the corresponding seatbelt. Can very occasionally be a problem if you put very heavy items on the back seat. I thought this was a normal feature of cars.
I work with people who have basically researched amorphous silicon for decades.
Have you observed significant numbers of tech people redirected to wherever the AI boom leads? i haven't. And the article is certain not to give you any numbers for that, aside from hand-wavy, unsourced, non-quantified "newfound AI startups billions save people from layoffs"
>But there’s an incentive for insurance companies for list prices for medicines to be sky high, and given the market power of insurers as buyers, those incentives extend to manufacturers.

This does not make any sense to me. If the price for a medicine decreases, then the insurance company's costs decrease. Why would a higher "list" price benefit insurers?

Obviously, manufacturers would like prices for medicine to increase, as that would cause their revenue to increase. But that has nothing to do with insurance companies.
Or spillover happens because the map isn't the terrain and no plan survives contact with the first brittle edge condition in the existing codebase.
Imagine if we could get all the materials science experts tucked away in a lab for a year working together with a large budget...
The secondary market can be really weird too. I recall someone studying the TV secondary market and found used TV selling for awfully close to and sometimes more than the equivalent new. It made no sense ... but it was happening.

The local auction company near me too gets some wild weird bids that I see. Seems like there's an endless amount of people willing to take chance.
It's like the person in a long ice cream line who needs to ask for a dozen samples one after the other, but this then makes the ice cream store stop giving samples entirely.
> presumably what is meant here when saying ceramic

Probably not. Being crystalline and being a ceramic are completely unrelated. Standard superconductors like niobium-tin and niobium-titanium are crystalline metals (intermetallic alloys). The vast majority of metals are crystalline, to the point that when a company tried to make a metallic glass a couple of years ago (under the name Liquid Metal), it made quite a bit of noise.
Consumers were also ok with manufacturing moving overseas, as they were all buying these cheaper products, making it impossible for local manufacturing to survive.
The language of the law is what you twisted to fit your own delusion. Sorry buddy. Scrutinize all you want. It doesn't change the fact that your outrage depends on your own sad interpretations.

Just because you think there is some nefarious big bad cult coming to get you, doesn't mean there is.

I'm sorry you don't recognize that harassment very much depends on the person harassed FEELING harassed. I'm sorry you feel insecure about the word "feel". Feel free to take it to court.

I'm tired of your bad faith and personal attacks. I will not be responding again.
Why not just use the OneDrive app? I just scan directly in that app.
This was my experience of growing up and living in Europe before moving to the US.

Years ago there used to be a problem with airlines charging extra non optional fees on their prices but that was largely solved. https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2006/jul/18/travel.mone...
The concrete danger of taking brains without consent is that it upsets the family of the deceased, and the rights of bodily autonomy and respect for the deceased outweigh the rights of an unrelated person to have a specific body part in their collection.

A second danger in this particular case is that a brain may be used as evidence for a political program to restrict the rights of some population. It is totally legitimate to deny access to your body or your family's body if you don't want it to be used for this purpose. Scientists are human beings and not objective, and just calling something "research" does not magically make it objective. In this case, the research program was a political tool of no scientific value.

I'm sorry for my short reply before, I thought the article made both of these points very clear.
That's some half of all online clothes buyers who buy multiple sizes to get something that fits and return the rest. It's a normal enough flow that some stores enable it explicitly like https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
Also seeing this. Thats with 7 solid years of experience (granted, non-FAANG).

Whats really deceiving is I am actually getting tons of inmail. I respond to most with my contact info, times to talk, and my resume, and almost none progress beyond a initial phone call with the recruiter, if even that.
The only game mechanic I want to see Nintendo patent is brawl tripping. Probably not necessary as it seems other fighting games haven't seen the brilliance of such a mechanic, but may as well play it safe in case others become enlightened.
> Well I'm kinda glad I missed this whole news cycle

What negative effects would you have suffered if you had not missed this news cycle?
very cool tool!

we've had a new person come on the project who is focused on auditing PRs and getting the good ones in front of me, which helps a lot w/ getting new contributors in
It happened, but primarily in the 1950s-1980s. Thankfully, racist use of eminent domain has drastically decreased since.

Now you have more garden-variety free market development corruption, where "We buy ugly houses" companies transfer ownership en mass to enable gentrification or capture value from unannounced city infrastructure improvements.

Unfortunately, the obvious solution (strengthening property rights) effects its own drag on city improvement by empowering one-asshole-with-the-last-necessary-parcel.
But how do we communicate with an entity that understands data but not human language?
Still, it would be a fallacy to conclude that because a company makes no money, it may be the next Amazon. You need some way to consistently distinguish between unprofitable companies. That is probably pretty hard, and sure enough investors have an embarrassing track record at doing it successfully.