skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To quote PHPisthebest "I think you have confused ignoring the government orders with "doing the opposite".

Are you claiming that government orders are optimal 100% of the time in 100% of situations? If not, then sometimes it is wrong, and it might be wrong for you.

>How would going out lower your risk in this case? You obviously increased your risk, if only so slightly.

Being alone miles from anyone else has zero covid risk. Covid risk doesn't kick in when you leave the door of your house. In my case, I also had roommates who worked, like me and interacted with other people.
Maybe, but I think it's better to avoid sitting in a closed space for hours with non-emissions-controlled engines running.
sounds like the typical cubicle farm office job
That's very cool, but doesn't help you run an Intel OS in a VM under Rosetta.
Except what happens when react as the vulnerability you get attacked with everybody else with zero days… security through obscurity should be incorporated into any well multilayer defense. Make it not worth their time
Treasury Designates Roman Semenov, Co-Founder of Sanctioned Mixer Tornado Cash
Misalignment of incentives is such an understatement.

> But looking back, he felt that the rigorous scrutiny of the traditional path might have forced his team to address underlying business challenges they'd later face.

This is such a politically correct way of saying “we didn’t want to be scrutinized so we took the quick cash and ran instead.”
I don’t know much about Norway, but how would you transact during a natural disaster when power or network services are down for an extended period of time?

Centralized digital payments fail here as well.
Depends what you mean by 'work.' You can definitely use them, but GPT-4 is the only model that generates good SQL without lots of training + fine-tuning (and it is very difficult/impossible to come up with Nl <> SQL training sets). So GPT-4 is the only model that works well in terms of accuracy for now.

That being said, I am pretty sure the self hosted models will get there very soon.

Are you looking to deploy a solution with a self-hosted model?
Probably wouldn’t even work. Imagine getting called up about low performance and instead of responding to it you pull up a list of what everyone else is doing.

If I was their manager, that would be a really bad look for the person.
Yeah, you all can sit here and make jokes on HN, but you’re not the man in the arena.
I wonder if we'll ever find out what his employees are doing. Aren't there tens of thousands? Just sitting around while Elon does all this stuff?

Truly incredible!
I was working on a guiding fiber optic cable, so the signals were live during implantation. The fiber is then pulled out once the electrodes are in the correct position.

We used ML to help determine where the tip of the electrodes were in the brain. The received images needed a lot of processing (Fourier domain mostly), then ML against cadaver brains and other surgeries to help determine the position. Final say included a lot of test shocks to the patient and the surgeon's call.
All snark aside it must be really tough to make a name for yourself by calling something snake oil only to have a flavor of it become massively successful...and then have to double down because you already had a book deal to fulfill.
> When did XML become human readable and writable?

1996
Nuclear Microreactor
Part of the magic of in person interactions is that it’s all off record. You can say what you really think, share things that are private.

Meanwhile MS Teams wants to put LLMs in their products to scan DMs for problematic thinking. If corporations want to record and scan everything I say, I just won’t say anything anymore.
Meanwhile, humans have hunted countless species into extinction.
Dead in plane crash: Yevgeny Prigozhin who led mutiny against Putin[video]
AAA development seems to be broken. With a few exceptions, mega publishers put a stupendous amount of manhours into delayed and ultimately mediocre games.

"AA" seems to be the sweetspot now. Big enough for economies of scale to kick in, small enough to take targeted risks and avoid scaling issues. And I think software advancements (especially gen AI) are going to make that discrepancy even more extreme, as AAAs lose the content volume edge they have over smaller studios.
Stumbled upon norvig's pytudes years ago during a leetcode grind. His elegant approach to problems always had this touch of clarity that only few possess. Python, with its expressive syntax, combined with norvig's penchant for crafting illuminating examples, has definitely provided me with numerous 'aha' moments. I recall, early in my career when learning about bayesian probabilities, that it was peter's "how to write a spell checker" that made the abstract concrete for me. it's really heartening to see such a legend continuously contributing to and enriching the programming community.
Better than doing emergency blows directly underneath a civilian vessel. Especially damning was the emergency blow wasn't even necessary and was from show boating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehime_Maru_and_USS_Greeneville...
> SPACs, in theory, democratized access to late-stage private markets

Working in finance made me extremely cynical about anything that claims to “democratize” finance. It’s a great idea, as you say, in theory; but in practice what gets branded as “democratization” is really selling retail investors on the table scraps that professionals have already picked over.
Maybe in Norway, but there absolutely is no pin check when making large purchases through at least Apple Card via Apple Pay. I made a $9800 US purchase a few months back and it was just face ID, which apparently can be fooled easily.
Democratized access is quite the silver lining. Retail investors got taken to the cleaners.
the arena is stupid and it's fair to point that out.
Bullfrog’s big hits were very much RPG adjacent too. I think it’s fair to say Syndicate is something of a tactical RPG. Populous is more of a stretch, but if you squint…

And Origin did Ultima, which is practically the PC RPG archetype.
Wow, that doesn't seem right.
The Excel VBA editor still looks like this!
Surely an ID isn't required, it's just that most have one anyway.
A friend of mine once described his submerged time on a submarine as “like prison, but without the possibility of escape.”
Ditto. Almost every recruiter will ask you at the onset if you are interviewing with other places. They ask so they have a lever to speed up your process if necessary - eg "hey hiring manager, this dude's resume looks great and I had a good convo with him, but he's already had one round with AWS. We better line up our side of things ASAP"

As I mentioned in another comment, I try to be forthcoming with companies especially in cases where the transparency doesn't hurt me and helps everyone. So if the following is the case, I would say something like "Yup, I am in a pretty active search right now, I am talking to a handful of other companies. I am definitely interested in going through the process with you as well, so if you want I will keep you abreast of how my other conversations are going throughout this process" - I've found that this both creates credibility/good vibes and the company is often able to keep pace with the process and offer timing.

Elsewhere in this thread someone was asking how you can possibly get to a place where you have multiple offers around the same timeline - it's something like this.
I kept all of my notebooks. They are a completely different insight into my work and thoughts. Travel notebooks are particularly interesting to re-read.

I went digital about two years ago with my iPad Mini. It's more convenient, especially if you keep different kinds of notes in separate sequences. However I miss flipping through the pages, and the satisfaction of finishing a notebook.
Abuses and corruption is how government is done in the US. Sure. That's a problem. As much at the federal as local levels. People can't help themselves. But would the ideal really be to remove all federal action?

In the case of Covid, as much as the top policies were messed up in places, individuals around me very much paid attention and did what they could in addition or in place of that. They still run their own testing standards for example and take anything from CDC with a grain of salt (that will take a LONG time to fix - probably for the better). For one, the massive amounts of money poured into vaccines and lab tests and home tests, IMO, made a difference that would have been much harder to achieve for locals or purely commercial efforts.
Jesus that's freaky. Talk about government overreach.
It would be like if McDonalds acknowledged that cheeseburgers are not a complete diet. It’s true and we all know it but that doesn’t reduce their value. Video calls are still going to be required for cross company and cross city communication because it’s better than nothing.
It has nothing to do with lizard brain whatsoever. If for some reason I had to take disciplinary action against one of those women and I had good and legitimate reason to do so then I would be at risk of retribution. The chances of me being believed would be negligible.

I have always been courteous to coworkers, especially women.

Your comment has just validified my point about today's politics. Decades ago no one would have thought in those terms let alone wrongly accused someone of them.

Just for clarification's sake, when I mentioned I'd be worried about accidentally saying something out of place I wasn't referring to me making sexual innuendos but rather that these days innocent comment is so easily assumed to be offensive or taken the wrong way.

It's why so many of us now simply say nothing, as it's safer to do so. Your hair-trigger assumption again proves my point.
... and The Unix Programming Environment also by Kernighan and Pike
I was under the impression that being able to transfer information by entangled photons means that "instant" (ie; breaking light speed) communication is possible. Given the article doesn't mention this at all, what am I missing?
> we're stuck with shit-tier solutions like Zelle and Venmo and PayPal.

Hopefully not for too much longer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedNow
Pretty sure GP meant in the industry, corporate positivity/negativity, not among HN commenters.
What about datasets like https://huggingface.co/datasets/b-mc2/sql-create-context? An OSS model based on StarCoder was also recently published which is roughly between GPT-3.5 and GPT-4: https://github.com/defog-ai/sqlcoder
So to sum recent developments up. UK wants to eliminate end to end encryption and the sbility to keep software zero days unpatched.

Because children, as usual. Of course if we could do the bottom line they’ll likely harm a lot more people incl. children this way, than help. But it’s hard to track as they also do the tracking.

It’s an interesting problem what one does as a vendor in this case. UK is not a small country. Recently EU voted in replaceable batteries for mobiles. And people say “you can’t abandon EU and you don’t want to do separate products for UK, so that’s basically worldwide”. UK is similar. Too big to leave. Companies can’t stop encryption and patches worldwide.
Let's see the list!
I mean, the man knew he was going to relinquish his joke privileges when he decided to try his luck in the arena. Seems like a fair tradeoff to me!
I think there’s a pretty good chance that’s not a very fair statement. OP’s friend was management, not the SPAC sponsor. He would have been subject to a lock-up on his stock following the de-SPAC transaction. There’s a very good chance that the stock price would have declined substantially during that period, so I’m not sure what cash there was for him to grab in the context of the de-SPAC transaction. To briefly be an executive of a failing public company doesn’t sound very enticing to me. At all.

It sounds to me like OP’s friend’s company was overly eager to go public but with the benefit of hindsight realized that it wasn’t the right choice for the business.
I like y'all queda!
It democratized access to losing money. Not only the VCs and PE could do it, now retail could.
If you melted the moon to turn it into GPUs, we’d still find use for that compute.

If they can hold the market and not implode for internal reasons, not sure this has any upper limit?
I'm new to the term SPAC and had to look it up. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/spac.asp

Based on the definition, is it proper to call it a "merger"? It seems more like what SPACs do is "acquire".
The AI Tools Making Images Look Better
There was much more manganese on the land back then, and manganese will do wonderful things to the body. Some soil core samples suggest as much as 17% in places. Today our best environmental exposure is not from vegetables, but bathing/surfing in coastal waters where much of it has ended up, when it would be broken down by bacteria and/or rained off the land.
this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_satellite_constellatio... does not count?
A more cynical take is that financial innovation is roughly the task of figuring out how to leave retail investors holding the bag while insiders/financial service providers make off with a kings' ransom in commissions.

In that sense a "matured understanding" is just regulation. And it seems a tall stretch to imagine SPACs reaching that when their sole existence is a loophole in regulation designed to protect retail investors from exactly these kinds of losses.
OS/2 was great! Most of the dev team went on to write Windows NT.
Oh no, no, no, I'm a rocket man
C++ not Rust. And most ML libraries being called from python or whatever are themselves C++ but of course there's always room for improvement, esp if you reimplement the entire corebase in C++ and specialize the inference program for your architecture. Specialization often leads to possibility of more efficient code. You are not running a generic neural net but you know the architecture beforehand so you can design its memory layout etc for efficiency yes.
except for the issue where Elon just on a whim decided to geofence the spaceX usage in Ukraine/Russia conflict to not allow it to work when near the border or in Russia :/ per article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-sha...
Such an honorable enterprise, fighting to secure exit liquidity from dud investments.
No matter the clothing prompt (sweater, cargo pants, and shirt), any female image I generated had a bra and shorts showing. Alongside the available poses, I think it's pretty clear what they made this for...
They were wrong and now they have to pivot, from "AI isn't effective" to "it's bad that AI is so effective."
> So, eh, awkward, but maybe this SPAC stuff destroyed more value than it created?

The money didn’t disappear and those shares created were never worth anything.
Seeking Work – Remote Worldwide – Based in Bandung, Indonesia
I'm a versatile graphic designer and project manager, specializing in crafting compelling websites, brand identities, and marketing collateral. My portfolio spans a diverse range of clients, from startups and agencies to non-profit organizations. With a keen eye for design and a knack for project management, I deliver creative solutions that elevate brands and captivate audiences.

DESIGN: Infographic, illustration, websites, mobile apps, logos, banner ads, marketing material, advertising, billboards, trade show displays, packaging, photo retouching.

PORTFOLIO: https://katmanw.notion.site/Katman-Portfolio-s-912ee61fef9d469fa6f8af4bbdccb5cc?pvs=4
LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katmanwijaya/
CONTACT: themononomad[at]gmail.com
If this happens we will just get more things done with the same amount of compute (see: Blinn's law). The demand for GPUs does not really come from algorithmic compute requirements but from social expectation of progress in the field of AI. People will use all the compute they can get doing research using the budget they are given. What matters is how this budget is set.
I don’t think there was anything wrong with the article, but maybe the fact it exposed some shady government practices that time, better cut the loose end and/or recycle it.
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming by Peter Norvig.

Often called PAIP. Uses Common Lisp to build classic symbolic AI programs, but has lots of good general advice on building big programs.
What does live up to the hype in this kind of situation? And why does every alternative to an incumbent need to be described as, or positioned as, a killer of that incumbent? It rarely, if ever, happens.
It was an arbitrary decision by the engineers who made the early GPUs, they just mapped NaN to an RGB

It was a nice way to debug tensors: render them to the screen, the green sticks out.
I mean, setting up a new publication/company is a little more involved than just idly clicking though setting up a blog on wordpress.com and shitting out a singular 5 paragraph essay if that's what you mean.
In the US, it’s quite possible your bank may not exist tomorrow. This just happened with two banks here. Plus during natural disasters you won’t be able to load up your laptop to transfer money for groceries, or NFC for that matter. These things still need cash.
Median? Who cares.

$1 bet. Roll a dice.

If you get 1,2 you get zero
Otherwise $1.3

Median return is 30% plus prinicpal.
Inverse SPAC ETF when?
windows built in zip cant handle long paths, or special characters.

7zip is a much more powerful tool
I’d like to hear
The telegram chat was far more interesting than anything ever said in slack
Distinguished comes after principal, but I can't say I did anything distinguished in my career. It was just a salary band/title.
When the man in the arena is Jordan Belfort: yes, jokes are appropriate.
AI Revolution: Paralyzed Woman 'Speaks' via Digital Avatar
> It's a shame, because it'd not have been too difficult to get there.

Like the Atari FlashBack 2, which reimplemented the original hardware design as an SoC and was designed to be modded with a cartridge port?

https://www.wired.com/2005/08/the-best-atari-yet/
> SPACs, in theory, democratized access to late-stage private markets, aiming to give retail investors an early seat at the table. but like many financial innovations, they're tools that can be wielded wisely or poorly.

This is highly misleading IMO. The democratization narrative is a complete marketing ploy — anyone that understands how the SPAC structure works would not call it “democratic” in any sense of the term. Participants in the SPAC fund and buyers of the public market equity are two completely different parties. For one the funders of the SPAC get their capital back (plus interest) if the SPAC fails to find a target. But even when they find one, the funders get many sweeteners over and above the resulting equity shares. In some cases there are minimum payouts and all kinds of other things that create a two tiered system.

The SPAC “craze” can be boiled down to a few causes — overheated stock speculation that caused retail investors to put their money all over the board, and low interest rates that made this kind of risk free betting possible (the opportunity cost was very low when T-bills paid nothing). It was a way for companies to specifically and intentionally avoid public market regulations to sell to a perceived “dumb money” retail pool. There’s absolutely nothing democratic about it. Also why many of the companies using SPACs were “retail friendly” businesses like electric car companies that were perceived to be “exciting businesses” for retail buyers.
One of the things I've learned watching the cryptocurrency saga is this:

It's hard to get money to be productive. It's hard to get a financial system to do anything other than gamble, pump and dump, scam, and make bubbles.
I have always understood the placebo effect as the belief that it makes you feel better, not an actual effect that makes you better. However believing that it makes you better, leads to lower stress, which leads to lower inflammation, which does lead many people to feel better to some degree. Anti-inflammatory tactics are exceedingly common treatment for various conditions. You may call that superficial, and only an imitation of a treatment, but… that is what the placebo effect is also all about.
The key way I try to distinguish "Snake Oil" is: Is anyone actually using this routinely, and are the problems it solves self-evident to new non-zealot users after a demo?

Take blockchain for example; people spent years and millions of dollars looking for additional usages for the technology beside coins/coin-contracts; and aside from the forementioned usages it didn't really gain routine adoption. That was why the non-coin-blockchain always struct me as a "hype train" or "snake oil" because it was a solution in search of a problem. NFTs are even worse since they haven't found any purpose to exist yet (money laundering?).

Contrast that with the "GPT" offerings (ChatGPT/Bing/Copilot/Bard/etc). Multiple of my colleagues are actively using them routinely every workday and when you demo it to another person, they understand it, and they too start utilizing it in their workflow. Heck, my mom discovered it herself on Bing's homepage and was telling me I should check it out.

That's the opposite of "snake oil" or a hype train, it is arguably a competitive threat to search engines.

PS - Small disclaimer: "AI" is a nebulous term. I'm talking specifically about LLMs. Other types of "AI" have already been here for a long time making our lives better (e.g. computer vision).
I am quite interested in building native bee "hotels".
This is a reference to https://nitter.net/chamath/status/1693992134796603477 I believe.
Is it though? Surely it could equally show progression - edging in to the next range up, so always offered the lower end (not the upper end of the range for the more junior role you've moved out of). Just a thought.
The right question to ask is: How big is the cumulative effect size of these genetic differences? The answer is — detectible but also negligible for most research purposes (bias correction). Even negligible effects can be highly “significant” based on statistical criteria when sample size is large enough.

The authors summarize the effect size in terms of standard deviation units. Here is the text, where pPGS mean “participation polygenic score” that is used to summarized the genetic scores influencing participation likelihood in UK Biobank.

“The pPGS with weights derived from the GWASs using data of the first half (pPGS1) has average value for the second half of the sibling pairs that is 0.044 s.d. higher than that of the unrelateds (P=5.0×10−6). In reverse, the first half of the sibling pairs have average pPGS2 value, weights derived from the second half, that is 0.026 s.d. higher than the unrelateds (P=8.5×10−3).”

To put this into context:
From Wikipedia: “… the average height for adult men in the United States is about 70 inches, with a standard deviation of around 3 inches.”
That means that 0.05 s.d. units is equivalent 0.15 inches or 0.38 cm.
how does it compare to midjourney