skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imho if you compensate for those benefits the 'more money' part isn't really that much more money. Most freelancers just end up with 'more money in hand' because they (sometimes unknowingly) simply take on a lot more risk (e.g. way less or no insurance for certain risks) and/or they don't consider that a nice chunk of pension savings are part of a regular job's benefits.

I'm going this route at the moment and while it's true my gross profit will probably end up close to 2x my previous gross salary... after properly compensating for all the other benefits I'd probably end up with 1.2x instead (but to be fair, I'm willing to accept certain risks so I won't insure against them and I'll probably end up with ~1.5x my previous salary.)

Imho in The Netherlands the biggest advantage is the flexibility it offers compared to being an employee.
When you read from the queue you do a "select for update",this uses up db resources (locks) . Is or isn't an issue depending on how many locks you want to take concurrently and for how long.
It absolutely FAILS for the simple problem of 1+1 in what I like to call 'bubble math'.

1+1=1

Or actually, 1+1=1 and 1+1=2, with some probability for each outcome.

Because bubbles can be put together and either merge into one, or stay as two bubbles with a shared wall.

Obviously this can be extended and formalized, but hopefully it also displays that mathematics isn't even guaranteed to provide the same answer for 1+1, since it depends on the context and rules you set up (mod, etc).

I should also mention that GPT-4 does quite astoundingly good at this type of problem wherein new rules are made up on the fly. So in-context learning is powerful, and the idea that it 'just regurgitates training data' for simple problems is quite false.
Huh. I'm in no way qualified, but as someone who used to run a flash game website back in the day I wish I was. Neat.
The process of making giant springs in a factory in Japan [video]
The scale of UPI payments is unprecedented. Perhaps the best payment system in the world by far. My friends who come from US are always awe struck by the pervasiveness and easy of use of UPI payments. They want it so bad in the West!
I think gp's referring to this meme [1] embedded in the article. I believe a charitable interpretation would be that it's satirising the various entities who have voiced opinions against large scale deep learning (from skeptics and theorists, to social activist types that want to slow or stop DL's march). No need to take it too seriously.

[1] https://horace.io/img/perf_intro/gpus_go_brrr.webp
The default calendar that comes with Mac OS sucked the last time I tried. It was always slow to load and there are no quick shortcuts to things so that prompted me to look for 3rd party ones that simply blow the stock one out of the water.
> If the game is designed so that you can go anywhere, everywhere needs to be designed so it can accommodate a player at level 1.

Only if you want to have everywhere playable by a player at "level 1".

Zelda:TOTK lets you go anywhere in Hyrule (once you've completed the initial gathering of abilities in the Sky realm) and I can verify that almost none of Hyrule is accommodating to a player at (nominal) level 1. Even the second-lowest tier of mobs can one-shot you and there are a lot of those sprinkled about.
Sure, I probably don't have a choice anyway. I'm not sure that I see the particular comment you are replying to as being very "ideological" though.

Also, can I have my downvoting, flagging, and vouching privileges back? I have a feeling that they have been disabled without any kind of explicit notification or explanatoin. Just like shadow-banning domains and accounts, that's something I don't appreciate about your site.

> regardless of what they're for or against

That may be your intention, but it doesn't seem to be what you are doing in practice. Take a look at the following left-wing accounts, all of which have quite a lot of "ideological" submissions/comments, and none of which are banned (and ideally, I don't think should be banned):

bediger4000
myshpa
cratermoon
PrimeMcFly

This last one calls most of Republican politicians "christofascists". [1] Again, I don't think they should be banned for that per se, but you seem to have banned a right-wing account for calling trans people "a blight on society" [2]. If my understanding of the situation is correct, that seems politically biased to me.

On the other hand, let's look at the political ideology of the accounts from your search query [3] (R is for right-wing, L for left-wing):

sfusato; R
salemh; R
hutzlibu; R
TeeMassive; R
dragonsh; R
door5; L
qd6pwu4; Not sure, apparently just pro-China
outis; R

I just took the first few ones in there as a representative sample, but I'm sure you understand why this may give an appearance of political bias.

Finally, based on your previous comments, I understand that you find it amusing that both left-wingers and right-wingers think moderation is biased against them. I'd like to note that this doesn't imply that HN's moderation is free of political bias.

It's like to the old relativist fallacy: just because different people have different norms and opinions doesn't mean that all norms and opinions are equally invalid. Some could be just plain wrong, and others could be right. You should look at the evidence.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37349420

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37148619

[3]: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
I saw that interview, Altman said (paraphrasing) "you won't be able to compete, there's no point trying". I didn't interpret it as directed at the example the questioner gave (a few engineers with a few million dollars), I took it to mean "we're so far ahead of you, you'll never be as good).

The arrogance was breathtaking, particularly when it's inevitable that OpenAI will be knocked down a few pegs (arguably, it's already happening).
I think mhb's point is that the size of the request content is so small, it can be compared byte-for-byte directly instead of hashing and comparing hashes. Many of us have a kind of muscle memory where we always hash everything for comparison, but for small data there is not really a point.
I think it might be the complete opposite. Now that LLMs are available for consumers, I think we'll start seeing individual troll farms sprout up and influence public opinion (it probably already started to happen, but we haven't really seen evidence of it yet). If the technology stays in SV hands, it can at least be regulated. Sadly, the source code for some of these LLMs have already been leaked, so there's no way to stop this.
Mexico isn't the USA's largest trade partner, it isn't even the largest one in NAFTA.
> As an aside and a comment on the article, I feel dismayed by the author's decision to include the 'go brrr' meme. It's connected with toxic sentiment and communities from where it's generally used, and is oftentimes used to needlessly mock a group of people.

It's just a meme. No need to read too much into it.

In this case, the meme came from https://gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis. I doubt that Gwern was making fun of any particular group, except perhaps those that disagree with the bitter lesson.
> the author's decision to include the 'go brrr' meme

I thought it meant to involuntary shiver...
I had no idea hackernews had polls
It makes you do something, but if the consumer just does .unwrap() the end result is going to be the same.
https://archive.li/Yd7zv
Another incredibly good and interactive exposition on Beziers

https://ciechanow.ski/curves-and-surfaces/

His blogs always hit the top of the front page for good reasons.
Hacking the Timex m851
There is no difference and people saying otherwise are just in denial.

Because their businesses/jobs are so tightly tied to AWS etc, they just tell themselves everything is fine. (What else can they do? Quit and be a full time open source developer?)
I rarely print out source code. Only when I want to carefully study some tricky code written by others. I use LibreOffice Writer, landscape with suitable sized font. Sometimes I leave space to the side for my scribbling, notes, lines, etc. Print on a laser printer.
Probably not everyone, I hate QR coded based payment systems but prefer Apple Pay, so the apps won’t have my camera access. Same applies when folks from China claiming Alipay or WeChat is the best payment system.
What US state takes its name from the Arabic title for a ruler?

Alabama?

Good guess, but no, it's California from Khalifa.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_California
US FedNow instant payments are live, just going to take some time to ramp volume.
My experience has been opposite of Hubermans tips.

I find dopamine spiking activities, or putting a body in a state of discomfort (eg intense work out, cold showers) make me procrastinate more.

Doing an intense work out makes me think “I’m done for the day, I have done enough, I deserve a break from whatever I’m procrastinating on”.
And I'm implying that there are situations where they cannot take the luxury of communicating by text with the extreme care required not to make the slightest typo in W3W.
That's hilarious.

The thing is, complexity & complications come from known-unknowns and unknown-unknowns.

Semantics of language use doesn't fit in there unless it's undefined behaviour. Things can be hard to read, but that's seperate from complexity.

And often the "simple, trivial code" is the slowest performance (which is a big deal in python)
Electric cars aren't ready for prime time
>Code and scripts will be released later.

At this stage I'll not believe a single claim without "code and scripts". It may be true, it may be bullshit. Who knows. Without a low effort way to replicate the experiments I consider this paper(and others like it) something written just so authors can put it in their CVs.

I've been waiting for 6+ months for other "code to be released later" papers in this(LLMs) space and there is no indication it will ever be released. Some of these papers are so brazen to even include broken links that lead to parked domains.

It's time the community started recognising this behaviour.
The most incredible thing about UPI is how it was embraced by even the poorest in the remote corners of India. One of the former finance ministers of India talked in a dismissive tone in the parliament about rural India adopting digital payments when the current government announced "Digital India" plan. Some one made a meme video out of it mocking him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCnv8gwN0ug

Another video showing the ingenuity of a road side vendor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY2156ecRDQ
Nice piece of work. Congratulations!
usually people initiate transfer using 10 digit phone number.
i really dont like QR codes too because most of the time either the QR code is not oriented for easy scanning or worn out and no longer scannable.
"Miss Universe May Be Starting to Unravel" would be an equivalently accurate headline. This is about problems with the standard model in physics, not the end of everything. Under my administration, every clickbait author will be flogged.
Also from her - The Continuity of Splines [0]. More from her site [1].

Long interactive read from Bartosz Ciechanowski [2]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvPPXbo87ds

[1] https://acegikmo.com/

[2] https://ciechanow.ski/curves-and-surfaces/
Excellent anology. LLMs are capable of many extraordinary things, and it’s a shame people dismiss them because they fail to live up to some specific test they invented.
Diversification is one option I'd considered. It's still difficult to achieve for numerous services, particularly location-based utilities (electrical, water, gas, sewerage, data/comms). For hosting services it's somewhat more tractable, though you're looking at multi-tenancy hosting with distinct providers. For a small organisation, that's going to be a challenge. (It's a challenge for many sizeable organisations.)

Self-hosting is of course another option, and for critical infrastructure probably a worthwhile consideration, though that leaves other risks (e.g., self-owned datacentre outage, personnel risks), and again is challenging for the overwhelming majority of businesses.

Even large business sectors often have very few independent systems / solutions / software providers. Banking, healthcare, and numerous other sectors often have only a small handful, and often a single core supplier of critical systems. Often affecting large organisations as well as small ones.

It's almost as if attacking the recourse rather than the diversification angle might be necessary.
Also:
>Code and scripts will be released later.

Hey, wanna team up and author a few articles like that?</sarcasm> I wonder how many it'll take before one can put a title of a "ML researcher" on top of their CV.
That's all good and well, but that still doesn't mean someone has the moral right to striking and preventing scabs from doing their jobs.

"Any argument making a different point from the one I want to make is derailing the discussion." You can't just frame a discussion the way you want it to play out and then when other people say wait, there's another aspect ofthis we want to explore, just say they're not part of the discussion. We were having a nice discussion about whether the right to strike is fundamental, moral or absolute, and you are trying to derail it by dismissing it outright, surely you can see that?
Extreme E to launch hydrogen off-road race series in 2025
FTA: "The company's name is said to have been inspired by the word "strip," a reference to the simplicity and elegance of the company's platform, which "strips away" the complexity of traditional payment systems."

the magnetic strip on a credit card is called a stripe and it rhymes with swipe. I find it extremely hard to believe the origin is not more directly that.
The fluidity of language is one of the most fascinating aspects of it! English isn't English. It's much more narrowly defined with a geographic and temporal context. Meanings of words and phrases shift over time. Idioms come and origins are forgotten, but it's all folded into cultural dialects. Each generation is able to have their own mark on language, and there's probably a story told in the evolution of the English language across time that maps out the cultural and geographic changes as well. Now I'm curious what sort of research has been done into this. Regardless, the point is language changes. No one can stop it. Raging against it just reveals that you're old and out of touch. After all, I doubt those people raged against the slang of their youth. It's always the Next Generation that is The Problem.
welllll i'm not seriously proposing this but if you had a new extension, like .ty or .datapy or something, you could put whatever syntax you wanted in there and compile it down to .py...
Thailand has a similar system - you use your banking app to scan a QR code, either the code is generated and has the amount included or it's printed static paper and you write the amount yourself, then show the receipt to the merchant or they check the notification in their phone. Started in 2017, nowadays it's everywhere, I can go to local market and pay $0.5 products with it. My 12 year old daughter opened her own account as well and didn't need my help, only installed an app and went to ATM that has a special slot for ID card to verify identity. Quite convenient as no need to carry cash anymore.
Thank you! You gave me an excuse to look at my own LinkedIn profile, which I've ignored for a few years.

I have a distinct memory from not that long ago when I was unemployed and asking people for advice on what to put on LinkedIn and on my resume.

One consistent piece of advice was "Don't list anything more than five years ago. People will think you're old!"

I thought, "Screw that, everyone already knows I'm old."

So I decided to just tell my story, all the way back to the beginning in the days of punch cards and Teletypes.

I am grateful that you appreciated that.
Care to share a GPT conversation you’ve had? I’m interested in what sorts of prompts lead you to this opinion. My experience is the opposite.
That square root estimation is new to me and freaky accurate. The error bounces and is generally decreasing. It's also always an underestimate. Here are the first six local maxima of errors.

2: 0.0809
6: 0.0495
12: 0.0355
20: 0.0277
30: 0.0227
42: 0.0192

And there's an obvious pattern there. Interesting stuff.
> but not to the degree that you put the blame for drug crime on the people trying to eradicate drug usage.

But this is exactly where the blame lies. Alcohol production and distribution related crime dropped to essentially zero once the prohibition ended.
Yeah, at this point a bunch of European countries have this setup. As long as you don’t have a complicated source-of-revenue situation (which is true for vast majority of population), you just confirm the tax return on a governmental app and you’re done.
It’s extremely convenient, after they implemented a couple of years back, the time needed for tax return each year got down to maybe 2 min if you can use a computer.
Highly unlikely. Luna 25 was build by Lavochkin Bureau.
Sure, but a developer can also write any number of other code that’s irresponsible. At that point the language has done all it can for them, and the onus is on the developer to not be lazy.

And when the crash happens, it’s obvious why
I have asked several times and got no answer.
The paper's implementation is to essentially append memory text as part of the prompt.

Why don't they use a storage/retrieval system that doesn't consume context window tokens? E.g. Storage could be to automatically categorize data with tags at insertion time (i.e. upon user prompt) and retrieval could be a query that filters using a tag guessed by the LLM (before responding to the user).

With a few initial rules like hard coded tag names/styles, my intuition is that this would produce great results.
Jiophone helped a lot
“Perhaps”? Are you suggesting that intelligence is not multi-faceted? What exactly did the user you’re replying to say that is questionable?
That sentence seems to be fairly ignorant.

For one thing, it's kind of like saying "if scientists really understood the weather, we wouldn't have tornados every few years". Or even better, "if we really understood climate change, we'd stop it". There's a big difference between understanding something and being able to do something about it.

Another thing, it's missing the nuance that financial crises could be handled better or worse, and it seems to me like it's getting better (e.g. compare the great depression to the great recession).

People like to dump on things they don't have much familiarity with, and software engineers and the HN crowd in general seems to think everything besides software is all noise full of uneducated people. (Not saying you specifically are an outsider to economics or a software engineer, but that is the general trend.)
DIY pool water level monitoring with Grafana
Then get rid of the "points" and maybe the "tickets" too.
The developers of Kindle for Mac might want to read this
It’s not just QR. Plenty of other modes of payment supported including Whatsapp and Google.

The government aggressively manages the system to prevent any single company from getting too much weight and forces them to address scams or other system occurs in almost real time by the threat of being thrown off the rails.
> Discord, meanwhile, grew out of some combination of gaming/tech IRC servers

For the record this is exactly where Slack came from as well.

From Wikipedia:

> Slack originated as an internal communication tool used within Stewart Butterfield's company, Tiny Speck, during their work on the development of Glitch, an online game. These communication tools were initially built around the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) protocol and included scripts designed to automate and organize file exchanges among their development team.

> In August 2013, Slack was launched to the public and continued to maintain compatibility with IRC, reflecting its origin. Additionally, it was also compatible with XMPP messaging protocols.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_(software)
Also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Leo...
Sorry yes I did mean application as in a deployed system rather than a specific process.
I've never seen it used in this context; it usually is used in reference to a social program (i.e. you benefitted from something and then advocate for it to be abolished).
The day after demonetisation was announced every news paper in India carried a front page ad with the PM batting for Chinese backed PayTM.

The UPI revolution happened despite Modi, not because of him in the slightest.
So you want to modify the text of a PDF by hand (2020)
Quite convenient for tracking people's consumption choices and discriminating based on them.

Hi there! We've noticed an increase of fast food purchases in the log of your account. Therefore your medical insurance premiums have risen by 200% to accomodate the change. For lessened prices, you might want to start consuming our Healthy Food(TM) lunch packs by EvilCorp, made out of bugs for the good of the environment :)
I would note that all of biology is hacks on top of hacks! Have you seen a human being? They have this useless fucking organ that tends to burst and kill them.
As per PG: “It turns out almost any word or word pair that is not an obviously bad name is a sufficiently good one, and the number of such domains is so large that you can find plenty that are cheap or even untaken. So make a list and try to buy some. That's what Stripe did. (Their search also turned up parse.com, which their friends at Parse took.)”
Pulling currency from circulation overnight also did.
Some take it even further. Inaction is considered approval. So you do not even need to confirm anything at all. You are likely to get tax return on your account automatically. Or a bill send at you. Or you can update details if needed.

Still, you have some years to ask for correction even after that, but as usual it is somewhat more complicated.
That’s … not correct. Modi’s demonetization was a huge forced driver of digital payment adoption. It’s what spurred most companies into kicking off their UPI efforts
For those curious, 9.7 g/cm^3 would roughly match the densities of Thulium (9.321), Bismuth (9.807), Moscovium (>9.807), Lutetium (9.84), or Lawrencium (>9.84). Several of those are short-lived radioactive elements, however.

Going up the scale slightly are Actinium (10.07), Molybdenum (10.22), and Silver (10.501).

My suspicion is that there's possibly a core of Lead (11.342) or Thorium (11.72) (both fairly abundant on Earth, and stable), though Mercury (13.5336) and Tungsten (19.25) give some interesting possibilities, surrounded by a crust (or ocean) of less-dense materials.

Oh, and surface temperature is ~1,200°C.

Quite a conundrum.

Elements listed by density (at standard temperature & pressure: 100 kPa & 0°C): <https://www.thoughtco.com/elements-listed-by-density-606528>
If it's about maintainability and reliability, and not so much a threat model, why does the fact that your VoIP devices are already in a separate VLAN without external access mean it's not a big deal for you?

> I want to have as few dependencies as possible, and for the code to work with minimal to no changes for the next 10 years.

Then a C program sounds like an ideal choice!
Passwordless Login Through 1Password
All countries of SEA have similar systems (even Laos and Cambodia). The one managed by Malaysia now can work in Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia too. I think in the next 3-4 years, these wallets will support inter-change across all ASEAN.
Oh No!

Good people amplifiers are domain/technical experts; Scrum Masters/Agile Coaches are neither.
Never had an issue with it.